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by phillco 15y ago
With, critically, one important difference: it now has two cellular antennas. This way if one loses signal, say, due to being accidentally bridged, the phone switches to the other. This is why the gaps in the metal band are different betwee
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by phillco 15y ago
There's not really much different between the two quotes. People were pissed because Job's response wasn't an adequate answer to their problem. Apple talks a lot about how "well-engineered" their products are, and yes, the 4 was cool, but
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by phillco 15y ago
Just to play devil's advocate, but I like this practice. Convention over configuration. Just place the favicon in the root directory of the site, give it an explicit URL if you need one. Of course, many people end up putting an explicit ref
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by phillco 15y ago
It's a little sad, because there was definitely a sense, a few years ago, that Reddit was pretty much user-centered and therefore fully unrestricted, content-wise. You can choose what subreddits you belong to, or make new ones for whatever
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by phillco 15y ago
Oops, forgot Skype video was encrypted. Duh. In that case it'd do fine.
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by phillco 15y ago
What, you don't love charts and graphs fresh from Excel 95? With text so crisp, it could have gone through a brand new fax machine? Edit: Apologies, that wasn't meant to be so snarky.
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by phillco 15y ago
What's been frustrating for me, historically, is that the dropdown list is different for different parts of Google. For example, compare it at google.com and at gmail.com. I think they're trying to improve it -- looks like in Gmail it l
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by phillco 15y ago
> This gets very meta very quickly. You're thinking legality, but I'm thinking efficiency. So we can now distribute 1.5 million torrents (of a total of several thousand TBs, no doubt) in a file 90MB big, in a torrent which itself has
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by phillco 15y ago
That was my best guess too, and Skype is also ubiquitous and would be extremely difficult (popularity wise) to censor. But I doubt video data is truly random -- it probably has some structure to it.
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by phillco 15y ago
I would bold it if I were them. It's a nicely written message, but it reads like a lot of other PR apologies and it's easy to skim over it, deep in its position in the 5th paragraph. Sometimes you need to make actions speak louder than wo
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by phillco 15y ago
Interesting. Has there been any success in disguising encrypted BitTorrent traffic as another protocol? I guess it'd have to be a protocol whose packets contain a large amount of random data and a large number of connections with different
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by phillco 15y ago
What I like about using GET (and, to some extent, POST) is that it makes it trivial to test your API in a browser while developing it. Just paste in the URL and you get the raw response, fetch time analysis, and everything else the Chrome d
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by phillco 15y ago
Yup. Its ratio of power / effort is really, really high.
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by phillco 15y ago
> ebook: $31.99 > print: $29.99 The fact the ebook costs more than the print book is just laughable. It reminds me of Ticketmaster's "delivery fee" that they charge when you print tickets at home.
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by phillco 15y ago
Damn, their VPS packages cost less then I'm paying for shared hosting at Dreamhost. Unfortunately, a cursory search shows mixed reviews. Have you used them personally?
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by phillco 15y ago
> They can improve the software. But not their first impressions. I've heard this argument before (hell, even The Lean Startup advocates shipping a broken, backwards v1.0), but it's usually paired with meekness: grow slowly, so that
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by phillco 15y ago
The GitHub example used to be better designed in that the "edit" link would appear right next to the text. So, you'd the see the repository title, move your mouse over it, and hey! see how to change it. With the button all the way to the ri
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by phillco 15y ago
Good catch, I didn't know about that.
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by phillco 15y ago
I just noticed that Stripe's payment fee (2.9% + $0.30) is the exact same as PayPal's. Definitely not a coincidence.
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by phillco 15y ago
For me, web development seems like the exact opposite of desktop development. In desktop development, you learn the underlying foundations first (the programming language, files, networking, graphics, GUIs, etc), then weave them together to
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by phillco 15y ago
> As soon as campus IT departments catch wind of this strategy, they will fight in every-way to make it as amazingly inconvenient as possible to go this route. Is there really a university IT department out there that's going to prevent
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by phillco 15y ago
Hell, I've been on shared hosting and handled getting frontpaged by HN and Reddit just fine. <3 WP Supercache.
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by phillco 15y ago
Mine is: "C++ is to C as lung cancer is to lung".
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by phillco 15y ago
What if he died peacefully? return 0;
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by phillco 15y ago
Apple actually tried, unsuccessfully, to rename the Macintosh to 'Bicycle' during development. [1] [1] http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
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by phillco 15y ago
"Open the developer tools and paste this into the JavaScript Console" is far less effective as "paste this into your address bar" as far as phishing schemes go. At least, in my experience. YMMV.
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by phillco 15y ago
I like the idea of teaching a chat bot to run various commands for you. Not only is it faster (one place to go), it probably makes it easier to teach new people the ropes. ("How do we do x?" "Tell Hubot to do it.")
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by phillco 15y ago
As someone who's used FogBugz and Kiln for some time, and has just played around with Trello, I'd say this: FogBugz definitely suffers from what you describe. Despite what Fog Creek might say about it being easy, it feels clunky and indir
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by phillco 15y ago
Too bad XP users will still be stuck with IE8 ;)
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by phillco 15y ago
Yes, but now he has an incentive to fix that problem :)

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