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by jcurbo 15y ago
It's in the article. He says it includes OS X header files that he couldn't include in the other package.
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by jcurbo 15y ago
The iTunes Store only supports 720p right now anyway, so in the Apple ecosystem it doesn't make sense to worry about 1080p. I imagine this will change soon though. (A5 based AppleTV + iTunes Store upgrades)
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And now, a different kind of Apple book(kensegall.com)
4 points by jcurbo 15y ago|0 comments
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by jcurbo 15y ago
I'm not a big fan of gestures _purely_ to control or input to an app - gestures are not discoverable at all by new users. Looking at this page I see that a lot of things are only (?) controllable by a big list of gestures I have to remembe
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by jcurbo 15y ago
As a working professional AND a grad student, agreed. The page says you should expect to devote 10 hrs per week to the course. Sounds awesome but I just don't have that kind of time. I think this is a great program they have going though
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by jcurbo 15y ago
I love FlightAware, thanks for making it awesome.
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Shattering pyrex to Show a Massive Weakness in Trademark Law(techdirt.com)
1 points by jcurbo 15y ago|0 comments
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by jcurbo 15y ago
I like Homebrew but I wish there was something like porticus for it (a way to browse and install available packages) - unless I am just missing something.
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by jcurbo 15y ago
I've fiddled with xmonad on the mac, and as someone else said it only tiles X11 apps. This is not totally useless as I primarily like xmonad for controlling terminal windows, so I set it up to manage urxvt instances. I used xmonad.layout.
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by jcurbo 15y ago
Squirrelmail is indeed ancient looking. Years ago when I last ran my own mail stack (postfix + cyrus) I wondered why there wasn't a gmail-clone mail webapp. Perhaps there is now?
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by jcurbo 15y ago
I have used pobox.com for years for email. They have excellent spam filtering. They also have excellent remediation for the few false positives I've had over the years. I can also only remember a couple of times they've actually been down
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by jcurbo 15y ago
I already am one, kind of.. I work for these guys: www.mitre.org My day job is broad enough that I get to sate most of my professional desires in one way or another. Now I have grad school to explore some topics in depth and expand my educ
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by jcurbo 15y ago
Any distribution is going to form it's own 'way' though. It's a natural side effect of having a packaging system in the first place - you have to start standardizing some things. Take filesystem organization for instance - after many dist
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by jcurbo 15y ago
Basically my experience with Debian long ago as well. I have always thought the Debian packaging system was far superior to rpm and was glad to see Ubuntu take the Debian experience and bring it to the masses (although I still prefer strai
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by jcurbo 15y ago
You could see if updated versions are in the Debian backports collection. You can pick and choose your updates via apt pinning.
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by jcurbo 15y ago
The US follows the Hague Convention and other 'rules of war' regardless of if the other side does or not.
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by jcurbo 15y ago
I have similar issues. For most of my adult life I've had so many interests that it is just impossible to keep up with all of them to the level I want. Even within computing as a field I am overloaded. I read a lot of stuff on HN and els
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by jcurbo 15y ago
Annoying hideaway thing = site preview I believe, that pops out when you hover over the right edge of the search result. I find it incredibly annoying.
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by jcurbo 15y ago
Yesterday the HN circle was in the 600's, today it's in the 800's, I guess it's catching on because of this story.
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by jcurbo 15y ago
This was discussed a bit in the Issacson book, both the NeXT factory being overdone and Jobs talking to President Obama about business in the US.
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by jcurbo 15y ago
Several of the PIN-activated access control systems I've used have a similar concept, usually called a duress code or such. Your normal PIN would be 1234 but if you are being forced to enter under duress you put in 1235, and a silent alarm
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by jcurbo 15y ago
As a former military NOC watch officer I agree. We hardly ever used the video wall, it was mostly for higher-ups that came in and would glance at it. Everything else was on my desktop or was alerted to me by other people that had stuff on
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by jcurbo 15y ago
Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_gruber ) says he has a BS in compsci and worked at Bare Bones Software and Joyent before he started doing Daring Fireball and writing as a full time thing, so it looks like he has at least some
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by jcurbo 15y ago
I don't use Arch personally, but I have found that every time I've looked for documentation on something lately (like setting up xmonad), I would be directed to the Arch wiki and forums quite a bit. They seem to have a good community going
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by jcurbo 15y ago
Looks interesting. I use foobar on Windows and have been wanting something lightweight and simple on the Mac. Importing my >100 GB collection right now, no chokes yet. Will this be on the Mac App Store? Price?
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by jcurbo 15y ago
To everyone mentioning redshift/flux; they are great (I use flux on every computer I have) but they do not solve the issue being raised here. Bias lighting keeps the light levels behind your screen (or whatever you are looking at) higher,
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by jcurbo 15y ago
This is amazing, thanks for putting it together. Really fuels my already-intense Wikipedia addiction - I was one of those kids that read encyclopedias for fun and still get into Wikipedia reading sessions with dozens of tabs open.
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by jcurbo 15y ago
Speaking of that photo, the documentary it's from (Objectified) is very good and is on Netflix Instant Queue. (Might be available other ways but that's how I watched it)
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by jcurbo 15y ago
The location based reminders use cell phone tower-based location, not GPS. Since your phone is constantly polling cell phone towers anyway, it shouldn't use more battery than usual, unless it forces the phone to poll towers more frequently
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by jcurbo 15y ago
This would also break the code signing for Finder, I believe. (also bad)

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