m_eiman

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841.
by m_eiman 16y ago
I'm not sure that spending your time on HN instead is much of an improvement.
842.
by m_eiman 16y ago
While this was going on, their copy of Bingo Card Creator has been relentlessly polling the server: “Has she bought it yet? Has she bought it yet? Has she bought it yet?” It does this by passing the same random ID to a web service runni
843.
by m_eiman 16y ago
Nope, Ytterboe isn't swedish. "Person living in Ytterby" is "Ytterbybo", which is close but not quite the same.
844.
by m_eiman 16y ago
There are also several other places named "Ytterby", translated the name means something like "outer village". (I happen to live in one of the other ones :)) Pointless map of Ytterbys in Sweden: http://kartor.eniro.se/m/pBGRL
845.
by m_eiman 16y ago
Anyway, those who care enough about fashion will remove the case and only put it on when they need a little extra reception. Or use the headset and put the phone away in your pocket, the way God intended phone calls to be made.
846.
by m_eiman 16y ago
It's not bad that they're white - it's bad if they're three identical clones.
847.
by m_eiman 16y ago
I've seen the last case on my "what are people Liking" page which consists of a bunch of iframes served by Facebook. Good to know it only affects FF.
848.
by m_eiman 16y ago
The default tilt angle make the controls seem weird, until I tilted down a bit. Might want to make the default angle lower?
849.
by m_eiman 16y ago
If you depend on it to pay your rent, you're going to need lots of people to click those buttons - and when lots of people do it you care less about how much each one gives and more about the averages. Flattr should publish "average pay per
850.
by m_eiman 16y ago
As an aside, the SSD firmwares -could- detect pages filled with ones or zeros and use that knowledge to transparently do a "TRIM light", at the cost of doubling the size of the "block in use" bitmap (to track 'free', 'in use', 'all zeroes',
851.
by m_eiman 16y ago
Maybe an effect of SEO madness and the enormous hype surrounding everything iPhone?
852.
by m_eiman 16y ago
Not only that, he explicitly filled the drive with zeroes using Disk Utility. He probably should have run HDDerase (or a similar utility from Samsung, if available) from a bootable USB stick to clear it instead.
853.
by m_eiman 16y ago
Does the SSD really treat overwriting everything with zeroes as a low level format? I'm guessing "no", and that the entire test was performed on dirty disks.
854.
by m_eiman 16y ago
duplicating it across the hierarchy Do the data stores do de-duplication internally to make this less expensive storage-wise?
855.
by m_eiman 16y ago
They don't write their own firmware though, they buy it from one of a few places that hopefully know what they're doing.
856.
by m_eiman 16y ago
Why would there be crashes? The running apps will keep their already loaded binary until they're restarted. Maybe there'll be some bugs in handling shared on-disk resources (cache, and maybe something else?), but I doubt that those parts ch
857.
by m_eiman 16y ago
It shouldn't be very to hard to generate a list of running apps that link against the updated libs and ask the user for permission to restart them... Or let the user ignore it at own peril.
858.
by m_eiman 16y ago
Don't use an external domain, just forward jobapplication@employer.com to incoming@applicantfilter.com and have it forward only the approved applications to hr@employer.com. Fully automated and transparent. Store the rejected applicants and
859.
by m_eiman 16y ago
Normal 3G video chat has one disadvantage: the video quality is so bad it makes puppies weep. Most of the time you can't really see who you're talking to unless you already know who it is. It's probably mostly due to bad encoders, and partl
860.
by m_eiman 16y ago
Public transport + 3g + laptop. Use an hour each way for work and cut down on the time in the office - more free time in the evening or morning.
861.
by m_eiman 16y ago
You could set up a Twilio number for the US, get a local New Zealand number that forwards to the US number, then forward the US number to a "ring on X phones until one of them picks up" twimlet. The per-minute cost for a call to the New Zea
862.
by m_eiman 16y ago
It would be useful to have an API that'll provide device optimal settings given a set of minimum requirements. It wouldn't help with the bug based problems, of course, but it's a start.
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MasterCard Wants Programmers to Use Its Payment Technology(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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864.
by m_eiman 16y ago
The last one will never happen, since it's the government that defines "just".
865.
by m_eiman 16y ago
It should be pretty easy: keep track of the ancestry of each object and kill off any family tree that's expanding too quickly if the server gets overloaded.
866.
by m_eiman 16y ago
Mail.app actually has a conversation view these days, someone told me earlier this week!
867.
by m_eiman 16y ago
Downloading the initial sync over 3g isn't something I'd do if I could avoid it, but incremental syncs would be just fine. Even adding an album or two wouldn't take -that- long, and if the network can't handle a few downloads now and then i
868.
by m_eiman 16y ago
Agreed, I can't think of any good reason not to allow sync over wifi (or over 3g for that matter, if I'm on a flatrate plan).
869.
by m_eiman 16y ago
It'd better be an N Wifi if I'm going to sync 16GB of music to a new device, and even that's going to take quite a while. Of course, USB 2.0 isn't really up to the task either - but at least it's faster by a significant factor.
870.
by m_eiman 16y ago
Thanks!

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