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by mirkules 15y ago
Using pattern recognition to guess words based on occurrence frequency is not a new concept, but the way they applied it is awesome. I saw something similar in Defcon 17 where the researchers recorded sound from a keyboard (using lasers as
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by mirkules 15y ago
"From the picture in the article, the 4x4 with a bottom 4x1 fixed row is clearly a rip of" Didn't we do this dance over two decades ago? Wasn't it decided back then that you can't patent look-and-feel? I don't really understand how this is
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by mirkules 15y ago
Presumably because he was connected to the 3G (or other data) network. Unless he can run tcpdump on the iPhone itself or become a man in the middle between the iPhone and the data network, he couldn't capture traffic. An interesting test wo
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by mirkules 15y ago
My former manager told me once: "When my employees do a good job, it is their success. When my employees do a bad job, it's my failure."
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by mirkules 15y ago
Your comment forced me to think harder about what makes an "inferior" product. Yes, Betamax was the first example that came to mind. But, as you say, it was superior only to engineers since picture quality mattered most to them. In the same
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by mirkules 15y ago
As much as I agree with the ideology behind your statement, history has shown us that inferior products sometimes do win just because of better marketing.
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by mirkules 15y ago
Just as an aside, Carl's Jr. was involved in a campaign against McDonald's Chicken McNuggets ("Exactly what part of the chicken is the nugget? Eat Carl's Jr. all-white chicken breast"), which, I think, worked fairly well for them. The point
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by mirkules 15y ago
Can these fans be controlled by SMC Fan Control? ( http://homepage.mac.com/holtmann/eidac/software/software.htm... ) I realize this is an intermediary solution, and a dangerous one at that. The other thing is, I don't fully understand why f
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by mirkules 15y ago
Actually, I had a major problem with that as well, especially this sentence: "He concluded that one of Skype's key assets -- its peer-to-peer technology -- was a mismatch for Google, which worked on the newer paradigm of cloud computing." I
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by mirkules 15y ago
iChat works well for that.
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by mirkules 15y ago
Loyalty cards at VONS are opt-in. Which means you, the consumer, have to sign up for the card, and then choose to use it when you make a purchase. This law is targeted against the equivalent of walking into a store, someone putting a tag on
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by mirkules 16y ago
I was recently looking up some guidelines on storing credit card information, and according to section 3.2 of the official PCI guidelines ( https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/PCI%20SSC%20Q... ), CCV is not allowed to be stored,
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by mirkules 16y ago
Why it survives in a world of alternatives? There are no alternatives if you want to distribute on the most popular mobile platform. Personally, I really dislike Obj-C, but since I want to create apps on the iPhone I have no choice. Unfor
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by mirkules 16y ago
I would like to see the wording of "Companies that distribute software cannot bring a legal claim against the software users" changed to a non-negative, "Companies that distribute software CAN bring a legal claim against the software users.
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by mirkules 16y ago
Didn't DT get appointed as adviser to some government agency two years ago? I remember they made a big deal about it at Defcon 17, what came of that? Anyway, this is a pretty good gig, and I'm happy for him.
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by mirkules 16y ago
"it’s just too difficult of a market to succeed in ... it’s extremely competitive, with established TV networks and big-name services taking most of it, and a lot of smaller developers fighting over the rest." These two sentences pretty mu
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by mirkules 16y ago
Clearly, PHP is a better language than both: int rand($min, $max) ducks All joking aside, I'm just pointing out the absurdity of comparing one language to another based on how easy it is to shoot oneself in the foot.
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by mirkules 16y ago
Funny, I had to go to a location without internet access, but where I periodically have to "mark" where I am so I can reference it later. I was about to write my own app for this purpose when I saw this post. To boot, I had my iPhone on me
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by mirkules 16y ago
My post was somewhat tongue-in-cheek, and was kind of a lighthearted commentary on DRM and the state of content. Nonetheless, your argument (correct me if I'm wrong) is essentially that The Internet will automagically preserve all content,
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by mirkules 16y ago
Interestingly, I find old books charming, especially ones with signs of wear and age. Kind of like a sturdy old table with nicks and bruises or a skillet with scrapes and scratches. I think eBooks are fine for "on-the-go," but hard copies c
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by mirkules 16y ago
It certainly makes you wonder about how this civilization is going to be viewed in the future. How are we going to leave traces of our civilization for future civilizations to find and decode? I suspect that the riddles of Egyptian hierogly
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by mirkules 16y ago
...and that they tested it enough to even have an average number.
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by mirkules 16y ago
I really like it. It actually makes me participate more. It's always interesting though to see how many points someone got that commented on your comment, so perhaps after a certain "sleep" period we could be able to see the score?
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by mirkules 16y ago
I wish there was a way to do these (like you can in windows), maybe someone knows a way? - Right click a file, "Send To". The nice thing about it is you can add items to the Send To folder so you can have a customized list of apps you can o
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by mirkules 16y ago
I'm not sure what you're talking about - dragging files onto icons always worked for me. What was maddening for me though in Leopard (10.5) is that you couldn't drag a file to an already-open application, like you could in the Windows taskb
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by mirkules 16y ago
This has been one of my main sticking points of OS X window management for a very long time. At least there's a workaround, thanks!
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by mirkules 16y ago
I see this kind of comment frequently, and I must admit sometimes I feel that way too. But if you notice the status bar on the iPhone screen shots, you will see "TELIA" which seems to be a Swedish cell provider. This means that English is
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by mirkules 16y ago
I was always under the impression that voting is not to be used for agreeing or disagreeing, but rather to reward a good contribution to the discussion (and punish a bad one). I have on numerous occasions upvoted a comment even though I dis
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by mirkules 16y ago
As a graduate we were forced to learn CLIPS, a rule-based programming language. Not only is it a very different language to master and program well in, but any sort of Google search for CLIPS results in millions of video clips with no menti
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by mirkules 16y ago
I don't think Microsoft's lack of innovation has anything to do with moving fast. The article nailed it by saying Ballmer and Co are in denial about their competitors. I remember an article here on HN about how he mocked the single iPad use

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