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Runkeeper cuts Windows Phone & Symbian Support(blog.runkeeper.com)
3 points by jen_h 14y ago|0 comments
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by jen_h 14y ago
Agreed. In my experience, there are so many points of change/breakage that fragmentation is absolutely a problem if you're doing anything remotely complicated. We do voice and use SSL - both get broken from time to time on a subset of devic
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by jen_h 14y ago
Thank you, this cannot be said enough. About AppData, ComScore, Compete, or any other public traffic estimator. I love AppData to pieces, it's fantastically useful and I hit it pretty much every day--but it doesn't actually even match Faceb
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by jen_h 14y ago
Shyness is NOT "ultimately a symptom of you being uncomfortable with who you are." What an offensive statement to make! Sure, shyness is easily surmountable--just start talking. It's like jumping off the high dive 'cause everyone behind you
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by jen_h 14y ago
I think your gut is right-on; the issues you describe aren't just endemic to BigCo, you'll find them anywhere and everywhere...but...if you have the financial risk tolerance to work at a startup, why not start your own company instead? Thes
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by jen_h 14y ago
TechCrunch is a really neat cap-feather, but it mostly just pulls in a lot of non-real-user inbound interest in my experience (VCs, potential partners) - and if you're not close to ready or even interested in funding/partnerships, all that
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by jen_h 14y ago
Great advice. I know better now, but I often wonder how much time we would have saved our first few years if I auto-deleted anything that included the text "jump on a call."
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by jen_h 14y ago
Ray Wenderlich's tutorials are really great: http://www.raywenderlich.com/tutorials Here's one specifically for High School students: http://www.raywenderlich.com/5600/ios-for-high-school-studen... And another, creating a text adventure
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by jen_h 14y ago
Have abused tc in the past to simulate high-latency remote dial-in connections while testing network equipment (netem delay ftw), but didn't realize that you could restrict by IP, thereby still being able to use the system for something oth
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by jen_h 14y ago
Is it a privacy risk at all, though? Instagram starts uploading after you click the green check mark, which presumably says, "Hey, upload this for me," and continues uploading while you dilly-dally over the photo metadata sheet. I'm a compl
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by jen_h 14y ago
One thing I didn't see mentioned was searchability - it's so much easier to gauge sentiment and help folks out if you can pick your name out of the crowd. Useful for Twitter/Facebook/G+ searches, Web searches, and not getting overwhelmed wi
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by jen_h 15y ago
Yeah. I always have trouble linking to these folks (even though they're on-target a lot of the time) just because folks dismiss it out of hand. Here's the source: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c112:3:./temp/~c112n8J... :
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by jen_h 15y ago
This is definitely happening (the Temple Run clones on the Market come to mind here), but in this case, the malware's not on the Market, I don't believe - it's being distributed on other sites. So I'm not sure the walled garden stuff matche
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by jen_h 15y ago
I was originally going to link to the Mims memo, but I noticed that it had a few inaccuracies at the time of posting, so I opted for the Verge's recap - looks like the original's been updated ( http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits
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Company backed by James Cameron & Google founders may mine asteroids(theverge.com)
198 points by jen_h 15y ago|115 comments
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by jen_h 15y ago
One thing I haven't seen anyone mention is that, depending on the stock vs. cash split (I guess we'll see in the S-1 eventually), the acquisition not only knocks out a potentual competitor/keeps bigger competitors away from Instagram, gains
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Heads up to Android devs: c2dm tokens to periodically expire from here on out(android-developers.blogspot.com)
3 points by jen_h 15y ago|0 comments
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by jen_h 15y ago
My big burning question, the thing that keeps me up at night: How do the heck do we get users to read and care about these things? Can we put virtual cotton candy in the middle? And if we do, won't we be the only honest developers doing so
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by jen_h 15y ago
Lots of mentions of fail2ban here - would like to add a quick plug for OSSEC ( http://ossec.net ). You can configure it to block brute-forcers, scanners, and other rapscallions, but it also provides a bit more power - rootkit checking, conf
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by jen_h 15y ago
Well, since 3+ years is already untimely... Have had 3434 and scads of other major issues starred since forever. :/ Every once in awhile, a comment will come in on one of them and I'll get excited...only to find that it's another "Me, too!
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by jen_h 15y ago
Journal editors who accept LaTeX source from authors, desktop publishers/layout specialists who may know their field of expertise and are familiar with Word/DTP software, but not LaTeX syntax - it's more efficient to quickly fix a small i
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by jen_h 15y ago
While showing which permissions are used is great, it's not a cure-all because they're all or nothing permissions. My background is in network security, I consider myself a security-conscious person, but I am continually guilty of tapping
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by jen_h 15y ago
There's a package, wasysym, which gives you \permil, but I always just cheated with \%_o. Doesn't look very pretty, though. :)
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by jen_h 15y ago
So. Awesome. And it works on my phone -- very sweet. My only quibble is that I couldn't get it to hack me up a per mille (this was the #1 question I used to get working as LaTeX support for a journal publisher years back).
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by jen_h 15y ago
It appears that this failure was not due to bandwidth itself, but to a burst in the sheer number of app-level phone-homes. NTT employs pretty sophisticated traffic classification and routing and my guess is that the actual number of "contro
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by jen_h 15y ago
I think we all need to step up to this ridiculous legislation (that's likely to get passed, $_ help us), however: - If everyone on a site is aware of SOPA (and who isn't?), disappearing completely for the day doesn't help anything, really.
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by jen_h 15y ago
Dear Congress, it may be okay to not know how the Internet works. "Math is hard!" and all that. However, your oath of office dictates that you uphold the Constitution, including and especially the Fifth Amendment.
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by jen_h 15y ago
I wrote my Congressman about my objections to this the bill, and his auto-responder gave me some bs about understanding my concerns about "Internet Privacy," not "Piracy." Our tax dollars at work!
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by jen_h 15y ago
Good info here, too, on the money trail: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h3261/money
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by jen_h 15y ago
Agreed - likely low effect, but we should all do this anyway if we haven't already begun (I've blackholed a few of them already in /etc/hosts just because their sites do things like auto-play video that you can't stop). Here's a list of sup

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