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by jbrennan 16y ago
Sounds a lot like Apple right before they bought NeXT.
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by jbrennan 16y ago
Exactly. I remember a few years back there was a bit of an outrage at Apple for "doing" the same thing. But really, if somebody messes around with their own hardware, do they really expect Nintendo/Apple/etc to have tested against that? Of
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by jbrennan 16y ago
They don't advertise the available memory of any of the iOS devices, not even to their Developers. The community finds out on their own (usually after teardowns or writing test apps).
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by jbrennan 16y ago
No, the GP said "Double tap the home button", which brings up the Multitasking tray. If you go into jiggle mode there, you can terminate the app. You'll see a red icon instead of the X used for uninstall.
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by jbrennan 16y ago
The same could be said for someone who says "I read books all the time." You could look at it as someone being unproductive (hey if you're reading a book, you're probably not working!) or you could look at it as someone educating themselves
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by jbrennan 16y ago
You're right, HTML itself isn't printer friendly, but it's really only a semantic document. It's up to you to style it with a print stylesheet. And of course, I wouldn't use CSS to colour everything and add gradients and all that junk. The
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by jbrennan 16y ago
What I'd like to know is why not just do up the resumé in HTML and style with CSS? I'm not a web designer by any means, but getting a simple style up and running is no big stretch (especially if you're capable of LaTeX markup). To be fair,
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by jbrennan 16y ago
In the blog post they say it will be "Open". What do they mean by that? Open source? Open for everyone in the world? From what I can tell in the post, it's only available in some countries, and it's also only available with Google Checkout.
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by jbrennan 16y ago
Well that settles it. I'm buying a spool tonight. Thanks!
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by jbrennan 16y ago
Which city are you in? I'm in downtown Ottawa and with a store-bought HDTV antenna I get only 2 stations. Maybe I'll have to go buy a spool of wire!
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by jbrennan 16y ago
Imagine heading to your Applications directory, selecting all, and pressing CMD+O to open them all. Even if you're a typical user, and your apps are mostly just run-of-the-mill light Cocoa apps, having 50 running concurrently will take it
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Why Apple's In-App Subscriptions Are Great(nearthespeedoflight.com)
1 points by jbrennan 16y ago|0 comments
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by jbrennan 16y ago
"LATEST BUZZ Of all the different bug trackers out there, this is definitely one of them." Is that actually saying anything substantial? Maybe it's in jest, in which case I do find it humourous, but if not, it's not necessarily a compliment
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by jbrennan 16y ago
On average, I'd say all Earth's women are very lovely.
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Blaze Mobile: Measure Mobile Web Performance(blaze.io)
11 points by jbrennan 16y ago|10 comments
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by jbrennan 16y ago
I don't think that's true. It might have been what they said , but it's February now and we haven't seen any glimpses of iPhone 5 (or whatever) from the FCC, and I'd be willing to bet it launches less than six months from now.
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by jbrennan 16y ago
An existing product of their own would constitute competition. So it's not inaccurate what he's said. But I agree, it could have been explained more clearly.
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by jbrennan 16y ago
They probably used up all their bandwidth for the month.
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by jbrennan 16y ago
It was probably the Canadian launch (late September).
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by jbrennan 16y ago
True. But my metadata needs exceed simply who wrote the article, I also have things like tags, pubdate, update, etc. My system actually allows for the metadata to be embedded in the main article file, but it ended up being simpler for me to
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by jbrennan 16y ago
It could be better now. I seem to recall using it around the Snow Leopard launch and experiencing lots of crashes. But like I said, it could be better now.
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by jbrennan 16y ago
Last time I checked, GrandPerspective was pretty busted on Snow Leopard.
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by jbrennan 16y ago
This is basically how I run my publishing engine (you can read more about it at the "Colophon" part of this article: http://nearthespeedoflight.com/article/about_the_redesign ). I wanted to teach myself Ruby and I figured this was a great
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by jbrennan 16y ago
The book Adam's Tongue by Derek Bickerton chronicles one view of how language evolved in humans and in doing so, evolved humans along with it. It's pretty fascinating. The book explains how our brains wouldn't really have the "thoughts" y
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by jbrennan 16y ago
I wonder what kind of disturbance just the helicopter (or whatever method was used to capture the footage) caused on the tribe. Obviously the tribe was aware of it, but if they've never been contacted, would they be able to even fathom what
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by jbrennan 16y ago
Or they're actually being productive this afternoon.
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by jbrennan 16y ago
Haha. I think the smartest thing I've learned so far in my "career" is to know I'm capable of learning just about anything, so long as I actually pay attention enough to those who already know. It's working well.
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by jbrennan 16y ago
I'm 22 and I read HN purely to learn from the "older" ones. I've got brains, but they've got brains+experience. That's what I find so fascinating about HN, it's like one collective hacker who's seen it all.
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by jbrennan 16y ago
Yes we CAN.
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by jbrennan 16y ago
I'd definitely recommend checking out the app "Movist". It's what I use instead of VLC or MPlayer when Qucktime (+Perian) doesn't cut it. I think it's based of MPlayer anyway, but it works very well on the Mac when VLC falters (or is just t

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