m_eiman

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by m_eiman 14y ago
I didn't say that they were dumb, I said that they were incompetent fools. Incompetent for not managing to cause more destruction, fools for not escaping when they had the chance. It's quite likely that I would be a bad terrorist too, but I
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by m_eiman 14y ago
I suppose we should be glad that most of these "terrorists" are incompetent fools, that means that the competent people of even the die-hard radicals have decided that there are better things to do than blow people up; hopefully something a
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by m_eiman 14y ago
What he wrote in the email wasn't that he wanted to show the iPad, he wanted to show her photos on the iPad.
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by m_eiman 14y ago
It is a very well understood concept by everyone. Yet the first thing anyone does when they're looking for something is to Google it, not go to Yahoo's front page, look for the relevant category, find a suitable sub-category, ad nauseam.
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by m_eiman 14y ago
256 chars of message, but things can be attached to the message in addition to that. See http://developers.app.net/docs/resources/post/ and http://developers.app.net/docs/meta/annotations/
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by m_eiman 14y ago
Yes, it does its work in one go so it doesn't play well with hard realtime and variable sized/large work units (unless you've got an OS that handles task swapping as needed, of course). We selected it for our embedded devices based on its s
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by m_eiman 14y ago
An alternative is LZJB, used in ZFS and CDDL licensed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZJB The code is less than 100 lines for both compressor and decompressor, and it compresses fairly well considering the code size.
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by m_eiman 14y ago
I'm sending via a non-Google SMTP server, and there's no bounce message or anything - it's just dropped. I'd argue that silently dropping any message from a known source, regardless of the contents, is wrong. I'd be ok with the -attachment-
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by m_eiman 14y ago
GMail silently drops any emails containing zipped .exe files that I send to my boss. That's despite me being one of his most common correspondents, part of the same GApps domain and whatnot. The problem is the same: spam filtering gone wron
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by m_eiman 14y ago
minus the social spam Somehow I find that hilarious.
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by m_eiman 14y ago
Yes, but that doesn't mean the recipient actually read it - it means that iMessage is/has been the active application on at least one of the recipient's devices.
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by m_eiman 14y ago
The problem hasn't got anything to do with delivery notifications or auto-responders: if you need an answer right away you must use a synchronous form of communication, e.g. voice call. iMessage, SMS, email et al are async by design. Until
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by m_eiman 14y ago
At least that's the KRAV rules, but that's mostly a Swedish organisation/set of rules. They explicitly forbid pre-emptive use of medication (but require swift treatment of ill animals).
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by m_eiman 14y ago
That's one of the reasons I prefer organic meat, where such behavior isn't allowed.
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by m_eiman 14y ago
It's not every protocol that must handle arbitrary messages, that doesn't make them useless. Having a 9600 baud half duplex connection for messaging that requires low latency is quite different from 1Gbps Ethernet, and that makes every byte
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by m_eiman 14y ago
if ( msg.total_length > MAX_ALLOWED_SIZE ) { reset_parser(); }? Should take care of any resource depletion issues, and do it way faster than eating data waiting for an end of field marker would.
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by m_eiman 14y ago
for example in the North of Spain they would be used to alert from Viking Invasions from sea, it will alert the "Castros". We are talking centuries before the Romans. ... except the Vikings were well after the end of the Roman empire.
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by m_eiman 14y ago
Checked it again now, without changing any settings, and now it seems to include the full posts.
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by m_eiman 14y ago
I've tried using it, but with limited success. First of all I had problem with logging in, probably because I block third party cookies in Firefox. Then I switched to Safari, and got a bit further. I did get logged out when I added a blog U
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by m_eiman 14y ago
What is wrong with gender stereotypes? The problem with any stereotype is that it limits choice ("I'm a boy so I -must- play with guns instead of dolls"), which leads to inefficient use of the potential of the next generation. To miss out
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by m_eiman 14y ago
They credit OSM, so at least some of their data is from there.
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by m_eiman 14y ago
You have a list of your registered devices on iCloud.com, but I don't know what effect removing a device there has on the device's connections to various Apple services.
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by m_eiman 14y ago
It's already replaced the "last few feet" of most Internet connections already, though! Fiber solves "the last mile", but wireless is handy that last little bit of the way. I think that today's "wired to the home, wireless devices" will rem
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by m_eiman 14y ago
Apparently Apple doesn't require DRM in their iBook store either, it's up to the publisher: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/52245/are-all-ebook...
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by m_eiman 14y ago
Yes, and someone who knows what he's doing will pay attention to that. Then there's the Darwin award candidate who thinks that those warnings are just Toshiba's way of tricking you to pay a hundred bucks for a new battery when all you have
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by m_eiman 14y ago
1. “We are concerned that by providing the manuals to unqualified person [sic] you may be endangering their well-being”. […] I have personally never been injured or visibly endangered by working on any kind of computer system, much less a
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by m_eiman 14y ago
Lossy compressions would probably be very annoying, imagine having slow-motion MPEG defects around everything that's updated :P
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by m_eiman 14y ago
Most likely they wanted to use the same scheme everywhere in the webapp, and for some reason decided that encrypted data proxied through the user was the best choice. Assuming that the concept in general is sane, then it makes sense to not
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by m_eiman 14y ago
Some software companies do this on the App Store, e.g. Toca Boca. They name all their apps "Toca <something>", and they're all in the same genre (kids' games with emphasis on free play - no goals or missions etc). Their games cost $
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by m_eiman 14y ago
Agreed, but for some reason that's not allowed by current Swedish law.

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