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by rufo 17y ago
From their point of view, he'd repeatedly ignored three separate requests to clean up his CPU usage. After he refused to do anything about it, they took care of the problem. Would it have been better if they disabled his account entirely?
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by rufo 17y ago
An hour, really? I don't use Outlook, so I don't know if that's right - but I suppose that's why the various Outlook search plugins are so popular. I haven't had a problem with Gmail search as described, but I would not classify it as fast.
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by rufo 17y ago
This might be the first tech book I'll appreciate more from reading online than from a printed page.
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by rufo 17y ago
You can hold out for an AT&T microcell - basically an IP to GSM converter: http://www.engadgetmobile.com/tag/microcell/ Alternately, you can switch your calls to Google Voice or another call-routing service and pick up your calls via
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by rufo 17y ago
It would be pretty neat to be part of a roaming band of hackers traveling around the country visiting different cities. But maybe that's just my restless side showing. :-)
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Be a roaming hacker this fall: JetBlue offers all-you-can-fly pass for $599(jetblue.com)
146 points by rufo 17y ago|79 comments
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by rufo 17y ago
For me it's the blenders that drive me insane. I don't mind some background chatter and often listen to music anyway, but those damn blenders cut through earpieces and drive me a bit mad. Still, I do enjoy it from time to time as a change o
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by rufo 17y ago
Just down the road from you - Rochester, NY here.
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by rufo 17y ago
HTML5 apps on the iPhone can: - cache HTML, javascript and images for use offline - use HTML5 SQL data storage for offline data storage - use 2D and 3D GPU-accelerated CSS transitions for fast iPhone-style animation - hide Safari's UI wh
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by rufo 17y ago
I've gradually been going more and more often to our local coworking space - no worries about taking up table space, unlimited coffee, other freelancers to bounce ideas and news off of, and it's no big deal if you want to leave your equipme
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The Gravest Pain of an iPhone Developer (Musings on Customer Communication)(blog.danilocampos.com)
1 points by rufo 17y ago|0 comments
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by rufo 17y ago
I think they might just be talking about using it for mass-outbound messages from an app, not for actual human-to human messages. (Never had a problem with Gmail for my personal/work e-mail, anyway.)
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by rufo 17y ago
Not if I keep checking it every two minutes to see if it's back up. (I don't have a problem - I can quit any time I want!)
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by rufo 17y ago
While Apple would deny warranty service if they discovered the phone is or was jailbroken, a full restore from iTunes completely reverses a jailbreak, so as long as your phone is either dead or restorable, there are no warranty issues.
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Apple Yanks The Cord On GV Mobile, other Google Voice integration apps(techcrunch.com)
79 points by rufo 17y ago|22 comments
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by rufo 17y ago
He cited statistics that showed how much people are willing to pay for media content: $5 an hour to watch movies, 75 cents an hour reading books, magazines, and newspapers and 25 cents for every hour of Internet use. There's an awfully bi
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by rufo 17y ago
Just like they do every year...? EDIT: Also, if you went to WWDC, you already get free access.
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by rufo 17y ago
There's been a third-party GrandCentral/Google Voice app I've been really happy with on the iPhone: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftwa... I'm interested to see Google's app and will likely wind up using it, but I
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by rufo 17y ago
Can someone explain to me how the whole half-price sale made sense? The general tone of Windows 7 seems to be "Vista done right." As a similar example, Apple's tact with 10.6 is "Leopard, but better," and has decided to price Snow Leopard a
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Introducing Get Satisfaction 2.0(blog.getsatisfaction.com)
8 points by rufo 17y ago|2 comments
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by rufo 17y ago
I realize that on the whole, broadband connections are getting faster, but 3.3MB for the full font set seems like it might be a little much: http://imgur.com/Y3SHZ.png
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Typewriters live on in New York police department(cnn.com)
15 points by rufo 17y ago|14 comments
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by rufo 17y ago
Nice work! I don't remember which CL/Google Maps scraper I was looking at earlier in the week, but this is far better, and quite a few popular ones don't seem to scrape Rochester. Since I'm currently scoping out a new place, this'll come in
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by rufo 17y ago
Sort of reminds me of Apple's Cocoa (no, not the Objective-C toolkit). It allowed you to create games by demonstrating what you wanted to happen in certain situations; it came with an icon editor for graphics, basic variable support, and tr
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by rufo 17y ago
Seriously - I don't have anything currently running on GAE, and I found it incredibly interesting reading.
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by rufo 17y ago
Micro-optimizations aren't bad for users, but they can be bad when you're debugging. The source code you wrote is not necessarily the source code that Firefox displays to you.
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by rufo 17y ago
Mike Rowe (yes, the Dirty Jobs Mike Rowe) has been talking about this for a while - he has a pretty interesting TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/mike_rowe_celebrates_dirty_jobs.htm...
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by rufo 17y ago
Is it just me, or is the warping sort of noticeable? It feels like there's some sort of other-worldly quality... I think it's parts of the mesh moving around out-of-sync with other, but it's really hard to get a sense as it's one of those t
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by rufo 17y ago
Most people don't need a flashy new UI every year to stave off boredom - they want something easy to use and reliable. After two years navigating and interacting with the interface, it becomes second-nature. This isn't to say refinements an
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by rufo 17y ago
The article mentions that they've changed the wording, and I'd assume the new wording is what's in the screenshot.

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