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lylejohnson
16y ago
Yes, the Subversion app that still doesn't provide a merge capability despite users' requests for it year after year. Kaleidoscope does look beautiful (not unlike Versions), but given Sofa's track record I wouldn't hold out much hope for
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lylejohnson
16y ago
4. The plural of "fireman" is "firemen" (or, even better, "firefighters").
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lylejohnson
17y ago
As noted elsewhere, there is (currently) one tiny screenshot on that page, and nothing else.
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lylejohnson
17y ago
As others have pointed out, a front-facing camera sounds like a good idea until you think about how you'd have to hold the iPad "just so," so that you'd get the right angle for the picture. It certainly wouldn't work well if you were trying
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lylejohnson
17y ago
It's similar to the story that Clay Shirky uses in the opening of Here Comes Everybody , although the phone in that story wasn't an iPhone, and the emphasis was more on how the victim "crowdsourced" the phone's recovery.
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lylejohnson
17y ago
How fortunate we are that the author has pinpointed the problem with American education? It's the teachers! What would be most helpful, given this discovery, would be for him to take, say, a month off from his job and go teach in a public s
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lylejohnson
17y ago
You're kidding, right? Tell me you're kidding.
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lylejohnson
17y ago
According to the story, Apple wasn't keeping tabs on it. They only took action when an independent third party pointed out the problem to them.
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lylejohnson
17y ago
I chatted with head Gemcutter Nick Quaranto (qrush) on IRC a week or so ago about this and it appears to be a bot or what-have-you that is mirroring all of the Win32 binary gems for FXRuby--even versions that are years old! So no, these sta
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lylejohnson
17y ago
The blog is sort of a light grey on black background, but your point is well-taken. ;) I think that Ben realized in the middle of his presentation that the text he was showing up was illegible, even to those of us who were sitting up close.
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lylejohnson
17y ago
It was presumably the hosting company (listed in the WHOIS records as "Layered Technologies"). I wouldn't expect them to provide you with any information about him.
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lylejohnson
17y ago
Please see the information posted by "burke", a couple of posts up from here. There was a Jonathan Gillette who graduated from Parkland High School in Allentown, PA, then went on to Kutztown University (also in PA). All of this around the t
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lylejohnson
17y ago
The person that Zed is linking to is an art professor who was at Union University in Jackson, TN, now apparently a visiting professor at Lipscomb University in Nashville. You can see that Jonathan Gillette's photo in some faculty photos f
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lylejohnson
17y ago
Ditto. Unless _why goes by multiple names in real life (which I suppose is possible), that's not him.