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by rufo 17y ago
I leave my iPhone in my pocket with a headphone jack for hours at a time while walking/running/etc., and am ridiculously clumsy - I get the cable caught on doorknobs, go to sleep with earbuds on and have the headphone cable tugged out at od
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by rufo 17y ago
Why? By designing their reader the way Square has, it drastically minimizes cost and opens the design so it works with most smartphones and even many laptops. I hope that screenshot isn't representative of their software, either... it looks
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by rufo 17y ago
This seems like a poorly reasoned article to me. I don't think anybody argues the point that AT&T has the fastest 3G network. You can have the fastest network. It can have slightly more signal bars. It can also be the one that drops cal
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by rufo 17y ago
Indeed. I'm really impressed and intrigued, but I'm a bit wary about doing much of anything serious since I don't know what the terms are, what licensing might be like, etc. Even though it says in the EULA I retain rights of code/assets/etc
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by rufo 17y ago
The AspireRevo nettop I picked up for $200 has an Atom 230 and a NVidia Ion chipset in it, and has zero problems playing back 1080p video in XBMC for Linux... Honestly, I'd be more surprised if it didn't playback 1080p. EDIT: I will say b
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by rufo 17y ago
Between all major desktop operating systems offloading more and more desktop graphics via OpenGL, and the increasing availability and those same desktop operating systems adding GPGPU APIs, the GPU really does directly affect desktop perfor
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by rufo 17y ago
Your home adapter probably uses the old FireWire power pins, which the iPhone 3G can no longer charge from. There is also a handshake, but that's separate and (as of the 3GS) only displays a "product not designed for iPhone" warning - even
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by rufo 17y ago
EtherPad had colored background for each collaborator, as well as a timeline slider and saved revisions so you could see who did what at each point.
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by rufo 17y ago
iPhone 3.0 devices can cache minified jQuery just fine - I've done some testing with an HTML5 offline app and they appear to have greatly increased the limits. The jQtouch guys have been experimenting with this as well and have reported suc
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by rufo 17y ago
EDIT: Zed just addressed this with some basic plans: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=974744 Overall it looks nice. The most interesting/controversial bit to me is the following (taken from librelist.com): Nobody Can Be Taken Off The
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by rufo 17y ago
I'm guessing some of that is wrapped up in here - they seem to be doing much more than just a simple redesign: http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page EDIT: Just noticed you can actually turn on their improvements by clicking the "T
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by rufo 17y ago
These have been fixed for quite a while now - the iPhone web app I put together supports rotation and touch events in application mode.
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by rufo 17y ago
I already jailbreak and install software on my iPhone, so the answer is yes, absolutely.
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by rufo 17y ago
Whoops, you're right. I hadn't really read in-depth when I ran into this several months ago, and I was rather peeved at the time regardless. It doesn't really matter though - the point is, they still have a long way to go before they can ea
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by rufo 17y ago
No mention on if they actually, truly, really support transparent PNGs this time around, either. (If you think they fixed that in IE7, try setting opacity on a transparent PNG....)
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by rufo 17y ago
Indeed. I have a Rails app running with some fairly complex object relationships, along with several notifications that potentially need to be sent out if any one of the objects is updated. Considering the how many entry points could trigge
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Palm Releases webOS 1.3.1, iTunes Media Sync Missing(macrumors.com)
2 points by rufo 17y ago|0 comments
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DHH: Think of emails as views delivered through SMTP(loudthinking.com)
36 points by rufo 17y ago|7 comments
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by rufo 17y ago
There's an interesting point made, but I'm not sure that I really like the direction Leah went in. To me, the fields stand out far more than the radio buttons, I stop reading the header after "Log in..." (what more do I need to know, it's a
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by rufo 17y ago
I guess I got that sense from this excerpt from the transcript: I really hated that the comparison to Twitter. I think, if I were to do a new start up or a different company, I would pick it in an area where there wasn’t such good competit
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by rufo 17y ago
(Warning: personal interpretation ahead.) Didn't watch the video, but she seems to be complaining about the competition. Competition is good. Competition keeps you on your toes and validates your ideas. She can complain all she wants that P
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by rufo 17y ago
If you haven't seen ClickToFlash yet, it can transparently replace the YouTube flash player with an HTML5 <video> element in Safari: http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/
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by rufo 17y ago
Just out of curiosity... have you tried turning off 3G?
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by rufo 17y ago
The call quality on the iPhone seems much better than on previous smartphones I've used (almost exclusively Treos), and callers complain about my voice quality far less then they used to. I can't compare to Blackberries since I haven't owne
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by rufo 17y ago
As a counterpoint, I've noticed no difference in support or stability since the Rackspace merger - if anything I'd say there's been less downtime for my slices since then. (EDIT: My slices are located in STL2, in case that's relevant.)
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by rufo 17y ago
Does Wave allow for the same separation between protocol and client as e-mail? E.g., could Mozilla/Apple/Microsoft/GNOME each write a Wave client that can use Google's Wave server (or any Wave server for that matter)? (Apologies if this is
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by rufo 17y ago
Exactly. Even as an owner of an Atom-based Hackintosh netbook, I can't fault Apple for not maintaining support for hardware they never supported in the first place. EDIT: Also: it seems to me that if Apple really intended to put a dent in t
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Gemcutter to become default gem host(update.gemcutter.org)
59 points by rufo 17y ago|14 comments
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by rufo 17y ago
Ah - I'd always used the browser launch version, I wasn't aware they had .exe downloads. I still think it's invaluable - rather than setting up three separate VMs, I can just have one on IE6, and launch 7/8 as needed (I usually just save-st
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by rufo 17y ago
Yeah, I used it way back when it first got posted on the App Store. I reinstalled it based on your post and used it in Starbucks earlier, where it definitely worked better than Shazam. Still can't recognize my humming, but that might be my

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