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by nickm12 14y ago
I recall PCMCIA cards that had slide-out ethernet ports. They definitely would have worked with the Air, though they would probably feel "cheap" compared to the rest of the build quality. Dongles always feel cheap somehow, though.
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by nickm12 14y ago
"Apple should..." Ha! Apple, as a whole, doesn't care one whit about the way people used to buy Mac software. The App Store, both iOS and Mac, doesn't allow for any sort of nuanced models like timed trials, paid upgrades, package discounts
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by nickm12 14y ago
Personally, this seems like a waste of time. The problem has a number of obvious non-technical solutions.
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by nickm12 14y ago
> What is the client supposed to do about it? Um...send a proper request? This seems like a perfectly fine code to me. Suppose you have an HTTP request that takes two parameters and the client only sends one of them. Which of the othe
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by nickm12 14y ago
Ethical behavior is not a zero-sum game. Yes, people should have secured their sensitive data, but they didn't. It doesn't make it ethical to record it, any more than it would be ethical to go into someone's unlocked house and sit on thei
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by nickm12 15y ago
IF they got permission, well, it makes it a whole lot easier. The hard part would be covertly entering every room of a building and leaving your control system and hoping not to get caught.
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by nickm12 15y ago
I'd have thought the top regret of the dying would be, "I wish I wasn't dying."
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by nickm12 15y ago
I was a student at MIT in the early 90s and Tetris on the Green Building was considered the "holy grail of hacks" back then. Definitely a major accomplishment, particularly with color and also lots of props to Brown for getting there first
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by nickm12 15y ago
I've worked in both a startup environment and a tech giant. It's true that you get to write more new code at the startup, but beyond that I think this post is bunk. "Maintaining old code" at a tech giant is not about keeping some ancient sy
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by nickm12 15y ago
You are right that the decline is social, but it's not because "they" want anything. RSS was never a technology that managed to catch on outside the uber-geek crowd. I use "uber-geek" intentionally because it seems to me that most tech-savv
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by nickm12 15y ago
Now if only there were some 501 designers to make that page easier on the eyes.
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by nickm12 15y ago
This post seems to take the attitude that "documentation will always suck, so just go right to the source". I think this attitude can impede software projects with changing code (that is, all of them). The problem is that the source can on
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by nickm12 15y ago
I avoid using Google services, but for the ones I do use, I have a separate account for each.
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by nickm12 15y ago
Could they make a living at it, though?
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by nickm12 15y ago
I think a reasonable default for IP law is to assume something isn't protected unless you can convince yourself that the protection is necessary as an incentive to create. Computer programmers have demonstrated, time and again, that they ne
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by nickm12 15y ago
Sorry, this is not at all what I want. When I'm editing code in a language with curly braces, there is exactly one correct place for a line of code to be indented. In emacs, pressing tab puts my line of code in the right place. In BBEdit
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by nickm12 15y ago
So.. I think BBEdit is very extensible. The trouble is that there isn't a community building and publishing good extensions. One thing I do like is features like "codeless syntax modules". I've built syntax coloring for various obscure l
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by nickm12 15y ago
I love BBEdit, primarily because there is an actual user interface (and good documentation) for most of the features I use. I know that, in principle, anything is possible with emacs but in practice I always have trouble finding functional
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by nickm12 15y ago
> If you have ever searched Amazon.com, you've already used the technology that underlies CloudSearch. I don't see what is "weasely and unnecessary" about this. It's vague, sure, because "technology" is a vague word. But it seems a bi
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by nickm12 15y ago
The A9 website says "Developed by A9, Amazon CloudSearch is built with the same innovative technology that powers search for Amazon.com."
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by nickm12 15y ago
If you want to sort by anything other than the number of hits in every facet, then there is information about the facets that only the search engine really knows. For instance, which facet holds the most relevant results?
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by nickm12 15y ago
Well, you'll be glad to know that it changed over a year ago. See for example: http://www.amazon.com/Stand-Mixers-Small-Appliances-Kitchen/...
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by nickm12 15y ago
Lots of people seem to be missing the fact that Amazon changed their algorithm years ago to account for the number of review. For example see: http://www.amazon.com/Stand-Mixers-Small-Appliances-Kitchen/...