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by jgeorge 14y ago
DeSalvo's source comments have always been an entertaining read. :)
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by jgeorge 14y ago
Depends I guess on just how much liquid we're talking about here, and if damage is guaranteed or just unknown at this point. The air keyboard is reasonably spill-resistant, my girlfriend has had some accidental spills on her 11" Air without
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by jgeorge 14y ago
I'm no TSA apologist, and anyone who knows me knows my dislike for not only the TSA but the bizarre and fluid rules and policies that they inconsistently enforce. But everyone knows the TSA exists and their collective lack of sensibility is
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by jgeorge 14y ago
It does have limited usability... for now. One review of the Lytro commented that using one was "beta testing the future of photography" and that's really how I view it. I bought one not for what the current camera could do at the time, but
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by jgeorge 14y ago
The camera's raw format is indeed an entire light field (I've used nrp's tools, they're great). The camera import software creates a layered JPEG out of the raw data for uploading and sharing, since the size and the amount of math involved
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by jgeorge 14y ago
Man, tough crowd. I have a Lytro, and I love it. I'm quite a fan of the technology. It's not perfect, and it's uses are (for now) somewhat limited, but I feel your criticism of it may be a little overly harsh. First off, the current Lytro m
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by jgeorge 14y ago
Pretty sure they're html5, they display and refocus properly on iOS devices so there's definitely not a flash requirement.
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by jgeorge 14y ago
Tazo teas don't have the reputation of being high-end enough to fetch the prices teavana teas do. I drink some of them, but boy, they ain't cheap. I mean Teavana, but in hindsight that same comment applies to Starbucks as well.
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by jgeorge 14y ago
I'm really bothered by this one line: "One said that computer engineers view coding as both an art and a science. A lot of them were pissed off at having somebody else dictate their art to them." Well, yeah. Software is inarguably a combina
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by jgeorge 14y ago
You don't tell Steve what Steve doesn't want to know. And he doesn't want to know the general populace's opinion of Windows branded products. As an executive at MSFT, your career can be largely made or destroyed on how well you protect the
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by jgeorge 14y ago
BCrypt 19s are <40s to encrypt here, using Java and not even native code. Certainly not outside the realm of usability for something you don't authenticate against all the time. I wouldn't want that for my screenlock password, but I can
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by jgeorge 14y ago
Congrats! I've been waiting on mine for a while now, looking forward to getting it! Also looking forward to commodity pricing on them after a while, the problem with having one device is that I already see needs for 5 or 6...
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Ask HN: "key derivation function" vs. "password hashing algorithm"
1 points by jgeorge 14y ago|0 comments
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by jgeorge 14y ago
Delay in followup, but a followup nontheless! No, there's no single 3rd party app that I trust as much as Facebook. I don't know who most of these these 3rd party developers are most of the time, and that unknown makes me distrust by defaul
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by jgeorge 14y ago
...what the /hell/ did I just read?
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by jgeorge 14y ago
I would /never/ use an app that requested this functionality through Facebook.
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by jgeorge 14y ago
I too ran Slackware in the Way Back When days, and I think it's simplicity helped admins to understand how Linux works, on a more general scale, than user-friendlier distros nowadays might not. There's a time and a place for both. Simple up
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by jgeorge 14y ago
"so-called drivers"? I've already ranted once today on the declining quality of tech news, so I'm just going to go sit in a corner and weep softly to myself this time.
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by jgeorge 14y ago
The only people I see acting like children here are Apple fanboys, Google fanboys, and tech blog writers. Not Apple themselves, nor Google, except where one of the three groups above starts putting words in their mouth. Full disclosure: I a
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by jgeorge 14y ago
The point isn't that "Google hiked their prices," the point is that there are more than a few possibilities for legitimate Google-driven business reasons for the maps change instead of just assuming Apple hates their users and wants them to
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by jgeorge 14y ago
Spoken like a true CEO. Everyone reading into this "it must be Apple's fault because Google said they're innocent", congratulations, you've been trolled by corporate politics. Of course Google thinks it would have been better if Apple kept
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by jgeorge 14y ago
This is a sad state of tech "reporting" nowadays. One guy posts one thing on twitter, and this is at least the 4th or 5th "news" report about it, with nothing more to go on other than one tweet. I don't doubt it can be done, and I don't dou
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by jgeorge 14y ago
Pin 5 (the unconnected pin) is programming voltage input, used only when writing identity information to the SIM. These chips are preprogrammed when manufactured, and the programming voltage pin is left unconnected when placed in the carrie
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by jgeorge 14y ago
Seconded. The concept of "leaking" information outside of your NDA pretty much defines that there's no "proper" way to do it.
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by jgeorge 14y ago
I've had very good results with iOS 6 so far (and I've been running it for far longer than 2 days). Even the maps app isn't "buggy", just missing a lot of data. However, since map data is on the back end it can be updated without having to
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by jgeorge 14y ago
From the context I understand, it was 90% of iPad iOS apps are downloaded every month. There are far fewer iPad specific apps than overall.
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by jgeorge 14y ago
Im unable to duplicate this, but I'm trying because this is pretty bozotic behavior if true. When you say "add a person's phone number" you mean as a new contact in your regular phone book (since it seems that you can't add contacts to the
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by jgeorge 14y ago
He's got a much better copy of it than I do, I have a photocopy of an older edition (I want to say 1935 but it's not at hand to check). Useless bit of trivia: the original OS/2 release included several MIDI sample files in a "media" directo
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by jgeorge 14y ago
Go big or go home, I like it.
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Ask HN: Anyone have any contact info at MSFT for developer.xboxlive.com access?
5 points by jgeorge 14y ago|2 comments

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