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by makira 14y ago
Also note the output of %a can be used in C99 source code.
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by makira 14y ago
You can block many ads on SSL pages just by denying any DNS resolving to hostnames associated with ads. But that won't catch everything.
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by makira 14y ago
and this is why you don't implement your own mutexes and use the ones provided by the OS.
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by makira 14y ago
Linux kernel to be more specific. The Mac OS X/iOS kernel (xnu) doesn't share the address space with the user process, so many of those techniques (I haven't read the whole paper) do not apply.
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by makira 14y ago
sudo apachectl start/stop It doesn't seem much of an issue to me. If you can program web pages, surely you can do this.
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Show HN: Souvenir, a nicer way to look at photos on your iPad.
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by makira 15y ago
"Error establishing a database connection" Any mirror ?
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by makira 15y ago
In one paragraph he says he has four gigabytes of memory, and after switching to LInux, he says he has eight. It seems he's misunderstanding inactive memory, which can be either filesystem caching (since it's already backed on disk, can be
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by makira 15y ago
Whenever I push a new version of an app, I always do it in the morning after having slept a good night. It's very important to be alert and able to react in case something goes very wrong. Launching after being up 20 hours is taking risks f
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by makira 15y ago
Could you give a breakdown of the expenses for BCC ? Congrats on the 3 words!
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by makira 15y ago
Thanks
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by makira 15y ago
From the page summary on Google: LDoS = low rate denial of service (I didn't know, did you?). Now the article doesn't load, anyone has the text?
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by makira 15y ago
For one of our app, which was selling well, we eventually doubled the price. Revenues started growing, month after month, and stabilized after about 6 months. Conclusion: revenues more than doubled, units sold slightly increased.
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by makira 15y ago
It means the _normal.mp4 file was encoded in an absurdly high bitrate for no reason except to make their claim of 90% compression.
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by makira 15y ago
Anyone has information regarding the actual vulnerability ? That would be very interesting. Thanks.
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by makira 15y ago
Regarding the Apple Remote: it works fine using a 3rd party wrapper: http://www.martinkahr.com/2007/07/26/remote-control-wrapper-... However, the needed IOKit functions to talk to the driver are refused to sandboxed apps.
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by makira 15y ago
The problem with the current sandboxing is the missing entitlements, for simple things like: - Using the burning framework (cd & dvd burning) - Interfacing with Apple Remotes - Having a shared container between a main app and a helper a
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by makira 15y ago
Montreal, Canada. We need a full time MacOS developer. If you're good in cocoa, and know macos x internals, contact me. http://jobs.startupnorth.ca/job/programmer-montreal-qc-canad...
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by makira 15y ago
Hi epi0Bauqu! Congrats! That being said, is it possible to see the actual six slides deck ? Thanks!
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by makira 15y ago
I don't know about spending countless hours in NetHack, but... wow! great site! Designer: http://www.ryanbaudoin.com/
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by makira 15y ago
Customer acquisition ?
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by makira 15y ago
Where's the original page ? Only the 3 variations are presented...
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by makira 15y ago
I find it incredible that it is possible to raise $1 million for something with no revenues, little barrier to entry, and that can be written by a very good hacker or two in a few months... Maybe I'm missing something. Anyway, congrats to t
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by makira 15y ago
We do something similar in one of our app, although we also permit the user to block connections it doesn't want to. http://www.metakine.com/products/handsoff/
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by makira 15y ago
What about Canada ? Should be much easier...
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by makira 15y ago
Canada +1
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by makira 15y ago
Hmm, are you aware you can install Windows on a MacBook ? see BootCamp..
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by makira 15y ago
Why not just delay the manual save until the auto-save is done ? That'd take just a few hours to implement and test...
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by makira 16y ago
Thanks for the correction. I guess I got confused by the similar names, especially since http://forrst.me redirects to http://forrst.com . I can't be the only one confused by this dual use of the same trademark...
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by makira 16y ago
Question for you: According to the article, 10% of users pay 9$/month: 9$/month-user * 12 months/year * 10% * 23000 users = 248400$/year 200k$ seems like a small sum compared to your yearly revenues. What did you gave up for 200k$ ? Why not

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