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by micampe 14y ago
iOS does delta OTA updates since 5.0, released in October 2011. 6.1.2 was 12.8MB: http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/02/ios612-100...
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by micampe 14y ago
> Besides, the fact that the article's on a website called "Macgasm" doesn't lend much credence to the opinions expressed in it. This shows your bias as much as it does the website's. Also, opinions are not to be believed, you agree o
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by micampe 14y ago
If you are on OS X and use Terminal.app “Alt-.” won’t work because Alt is used for alternate characters. You have two options: enable “use option as meta” in the app settings (but you lose the extra characters) or use “Esc-.” instead. Yes,
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by micampe 14y ago
You didn't answer my question here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5246603 Also, OS X can run multiple sessions, install a browser with no root access and Java is not installed by default. But I see you are one of those users that dr
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by micampe 14y ago
The United Kingdom is technically not a country either http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_of_the_United_Kingdom Localization is hard.
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by micampe 14y ago
You are unnecessarily harsh but I’ll help you anyway: http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names
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by micampe 14y ago
You don’t need a separate version, you can check for available features at runtime: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/devel... http://www.cocoawithlove.com/2009/09/building-for-earlier-os...
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by micampe 14y ago
use this https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer/
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by micampe 14y ago
The linked commit describes it as "Data Compression Proxy, Reduce data consumption by loading optimized web pages via Google proxy servers".
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by micampe 14y ago
> creating a new user account that gives me less confidence, not more.
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by micampe 14y ago
Companies have been doing it for decades for personal computers, servers, cars and all kind of equipement. If it’s stuff that ages quickly (either because technology advances or because it wears out) it makes a lot of sense. You pay a fee a
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by micampe 14y ago
HN dislikes everything, just like the rest of the internet. Every day someone comments saying that HN is biased against their team (see your sibiling “MS astroturfers” comment), and it’s always a different team, often opposites. Yes, it’s a
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by micampe 14y ago
Hacker News: * { font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 125% !important; } .subtext { font-size: 0.8em !important; } code { font-size: 1.2em !important; } body { width: 900px;
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by micampe 14y ago
The Play Store says the app has 10,000 - 50,000 installs.
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by micampe 14y ago
Very nice. It would be useful to have light and dark background themes indicated somehow in the list, possibly with some way to filter them, or even just splitting the list in two sections.
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by micampe 14y ago
I think shutup.css is more effective at making the Internet suck less http://stevenf.com/shutup-css/
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by micampe 14y ago
it's easy to do it yourself if you really care: make your script reject assets missing a license, forcing you to verify it and adding it to the file.
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by micampe 14y ago
I don’t mean to take away from your feeling good, but why is iptables ok on Linux and ipfw is too hard on OS X? uid user Match all TCP or UDP packets sent by or received for a user. A user may be matched
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by micampe 14y ago
People don't always just work for money.
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by micampe 14y ago
You may find this little app useful http://willmore.eu/software/isolator/
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by micampe 14y ago
I don’t understand this complaint. Pull to refresh didn’t exist on iOS either. Twitter introduced it, people liked it, it spread to other apps and it eventually became API. This is how evolution happens, why would you want to prevent it?
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by micampe 14y ago
git checkout -b bugFix creates the branch and puts you on that branch, git branch bugFix creates the branch and leaves you where you are, so in your first example you are committing on the branch and then merging to master, in the secon
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by micampe 14y ago
Obviously, except the phone won't talk over USB unless it's unlocked. Unless of course you really want that data and take it apart and read the NAND directly. As always, security is not binary, you decide how much you need. If you are tha
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by micampe 14y ago
http://helpdesk.bradley.edu/howto/images/iOS/erase.jpg also, if you need it you can enable passwords of any length and with more than just digits.
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by micampe 14y ago
If you are on OS X, check out http://www.grandtotal.biz/CheatSheet/ to see shortcuts for any application, not just ST2.
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by micampe 14y ago
yes, and HN is especially bad on mobile because the bad antiquated html code prevents mobile browsers from optimizing it a bit.
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by micampe 14y ago
Sure, and give away prototypes to test the software.
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by micampe 14y ago
Humans fail too. If the software is not perfect but still safer than a person, you still come out ahead.
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by micampe 14y ago
That sounds like what Microsoft did (and got slammed for) with their Shared Source license.
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by micampe 14y ago
I also find it irritating when people call everything "blog spam". Many blogs are fluff, but either we go with the votes or we don't. If a link to a blog article is posted and someone thinks it's "blog spam", they should post another link t

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