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by novum 16y ago
The original was a fake; this followup is grossly unnecessary. http://boingboing.net/2010/08/10/hopa-girl-is-obvious.html
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by novum 16y ago
The new iOS 4 jailbreak doesn't require any of that. You don't even need a computer; everything happens in userland on the device. Curious to see if this affects jailbreaking numbers.
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by novum 16y ago
I usually include some extra details about each entity to imply that each should be its own table.
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by novum 16y ago
I do a lot of interviews for software developers, and I ask a very simple database normalization question that close to half of the candidates miss completely. Something like: "You're tracking doctors, hospitals, and patients. Doctors can s
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5 Big Questions About Twitter's Move to Multimedia(readwriteweb.com)
1 points by novum 16y ago|0 comments
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by novum 16y ago
SJ in a tux at the Academy Awards in March. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/08/steve-jobs-oscar-ca...
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by novum 16y ago
I think a large-scale recall is unlikely. True, in places where reception is already bad, touching the no-zone makes things worse. But overall call reliability and data throughput (especially 3G HSPA upload rates), even in poor reception ar
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by novum 16y ago
I didn't quit, but I stopped reading the Facebook feed. That was a major step for me, as I was somewhat north of Facebook's average of 55 minutes per user per day on the site. This has really helped cut that down to < 10.
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by novum 16y ago
The iPhone 4 featured next to the caption "Humans have two ears" is wrong: the volume buttons and silence toggle are on the wrong side.
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by novum 16y ago
The social networking site only picked up 320,800 new users in the U.S. in June, according to Inside Facebook. That might sound like a lot -- until you compare it with the number of new U.S. users the site grabbed in May: 7.8 million. Wow
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Are we burning out on Facebook?(computerworld.com)
17 points by novum 16y ago|24 comments
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by novum 16y ago
Poe's Law is a staple in just about every religion/philosophy forum I've ever visited, especially when a new poster comes along. It's easy to come across as suspiciously Poe-like on the Internet. Double credit to Colbert for pulling it off
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by novum 16y ago
I try not to smoke joints; the water bong is much friendlier on your lungs and throat. I probably average 1-2 joints' worth per day. I think a lot about whether pot has been a net positive in my life, and honestly I'm still unsure. Certainl
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by novum 16y ago
I'd call myself a high-functioning pot smoker. Didn't touch the stuff for my entire life until I moved to SF. Certainly didn't expect to become a regular. By day I'm a software developer. I smoke most nights, and I still get good work done
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by novum 16y ago
Why not allow users to delete/deactivate their own accounts, especially on a dating site? Why should that require an email to you directly?
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by novum 16y ago
Again, can you be more specific? Which API: Visualforce, Apex, web services, chatter, ... ? What about it needs improvement?
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by novum 16y ago
Can you be more specific? [Disclaimer: I work for salesforce.]
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by novum 16y ago
> Novum may not have respected the author's link title, but he did help popularize his content. Pardon? Anyway, it occurs to me that there are also other ways of respecting the author's link, like using the author's original short url
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by novum 16y ago
Honestly, editorializing link titles is just... tacky . The least you can do for content creators is to link them accurately.
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by novum 16y ago
...find a companion with whom I will spend the rest of my life.
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by novum 16y ago
Advance notice of another enabled-by-default option to disable in privacy settings. Edit: To clarify, I signed up for facebook in 2004 because it offered simple social planning and sharing. Today, I think FB's photo and event apps are very
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by novum 16y ago
Ours is the greatest industry of all, in part because there is no way to predict that far into the future.
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by novum 16y ago
Lost my jailbreak when I messed up an OS update a few weeks back and bricked the phone - I was forced to go to legit 3.1.3. Spirit worked; it's good to be back.
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by novum 16y ago
As someone who's just removed all my pages, likes, and interests from Facebook -- I just don't think they have my best interests in mind -- a network like this is, of course, a wet dream. But there is a tradeoff between privacy and network
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by novum 16y ago
None of the buildings in this video -- save the Ferry Building whose tower you can see directly ahead -- are standing today. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/nca/1906/18april/index.p...
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by novum 17y ago
We're building an iPad web app and this is exactly what we need. I hope Apple releases docs for it; failing that, I sure hope someone reverse engineers it.
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by novum 17y ago
This viewpoint is a little developer-centric. Good design should enable users to do what they want to do as well as what you want them to do. Certainly, what users want to do is influenced heavily by what you want them to do. Good design se
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by novum 17y ago
On a related note: Chat Roulette Piano Improv is fantastic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32vpgNiAH60
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by novum 17y ago
Maybe the W3C? Tim Berners-Lee deserves it.
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by novum 17y ago
There's always an opportunity cost. Traditionally you see opportunity cost expressed in dollars; I haven't really thought to view it in time. But time is the most valuable resource there is. Money comes and goes, but would that week of time

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