sil3ntmac

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by sil3ntmac 14y ago
Have they fixed the back button? I had a wp7 phone for a while and this userflow breaks the back button: 1. Open IE and browse the web a little 2. Press the home button, read your text messages or some bullshit 3. Press the home button agai
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by sil3ntmac 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raster_graphics
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by sil3ntmac 14y ago
To me the most impressive thing is that Sencha Touch can run at any reasonable performance level. Has anyone used the framework? iirc there's >1mb debug JS, randomly-generated element IDs, a mess in general. The thing would hang my chro
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by sil3ntmac 14y ago
Perhaps his goal was to bring attention to the EXIF issue. Not enough people realize that their location is transparently embedded in the photos they take. This should be an opt-in feature that the user has to work for to enable. It shoul
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by sil3ntmac 14y ago
No, but I like to use e.g. joe+SERVICE_NAME@gmail.com and a lot of places flag this as an invalid address. There are use cases.
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by sil3ntmac 14y ago
Very worthwhile and well-designed writeup! I do wish that he had expanded the last argument to show what/how he fixed the performance problem. Also, does anyone know why eval is faster than just defining the function? I mean wtf, why does
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by sil3ntmac 14y ago
You tell me? https://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:AAPL There were plenty of disasters while Jobs was present... anyone remember the iPhone4 antenna disaster? Apple will reiterate and fix and all will be well again. I doub
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by sil3ntmac 14y ago
It's certainly not obvious to a normal user, and that's fine. But if you even somewhat understand security this should not come as a surprise.
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by sil3ntmac 14y ago
Keychain uses AES256 so it's about as reasonably secure of a single-password solution as you can get (given you use it correctly). I would assume 1Password is equivalently secure.
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by sil3ntmac 14y ago
Ugh, the people I work with (I work for a security firm) consider this a "hack" as well. This is expected behavior! How do you expect your passwords to autofill across browsers? It is called the login keychain for a reason. If someone has a
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by sil3ntmac 14y ago
Cool. I assume you guys are using an Isolate with multiple contexts/threads to deal with infinite loops and sandboxing restrictions without the overhead of additional processes? We (clay.io) are working on a very similar problem in the game
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by sil3ntmac 14y ago
Yes, yes, a million times yes. Facebook is very resource intensive (in terms of data+media loading over the wire) but there are certainly ways to work around this. Yahoo mail's mobile site (at least on my iPhone 4 with ios5) is a good examp
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by sil3ntmac 14y ago
Don't generalize. The reality is that for certain apps (esp. simple, data-driven ones a la ebooks), web is certainly not overcomplicated, and in many times can be nearly indistinguishable from a native app. And it is -- albeit slowly -- g
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by sil3ntmac 14y ago
That seems excessive, perhaps just upgrade to a more progressive font-smoothing algorithm? ClearType is built for lo-res displays (it snaps pixels to a grid rather than smoothing), so as you'd expect it looks like utter crap on a nice monit
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by sil3ntmac 14y ago
This seems silly, to me the only benefit of using tabs is so that users can view it with their own default tab size. In which case space-aligned lines would look out-of-place and probably be hard to read
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by sil3ntmac 14y ago
Even if I'm using two-space indentation, I will still use as many spaces as necessary for alignment or to make my code more aesthetically pleasing.
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by sil3ntmac 14y ago
My review (of wifiprotector.com): dude, this looks like a virus. Spruce up the page! Give me some screenshots! Please, let me trust you!
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by sil3ntmac 14y ago
What software are you talking about? CloudCracker?
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by sil3ntmac 14y ago
Amazon Instant Video is great though... except that you must use a browser to purchase videos. You can then access them in your "Instant Video Library" on console.
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by sil3ntmac 14y ago
Trust me when I say this, you don't want the kind of customer that pays $12.50 an hour for writing code . There is a large chance they will turn out to be an idiot.
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by sil3ntmac 14y ago
Knowing CSS's selector algorithm is useful as it helps rule out possibilities for CSS override situations. Edit: punctuation
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by sil3ntmac 14y ago
Not a bug, probably just CSS's ridiculous selector algorithm. IIRC, the algorithm looks something like (100xid's) + (10xclasses) ...
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by sil3ntmac 14y ago
Haha, our definitions of "darn fast" are a little different I think. Has anyone told this guy that NBC's Olympics are not in "near realtime" ?
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by sil3ntmac 14y ago
Is it the syntax? You should look into coffeescript. ...and a spell checker ;)
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by sil3ntmac 14y ago
Did not know that, +1 for google
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by sil3ntmac 14y ago
They were bought by Google, why would Google do that..?
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by sil3ntmac 14y ago
https://github.com/stephank/orona/
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by sil3ntmac 14y ago
Only problem I have with AppStore is that it requires my password for free downloads. Paid download? Hell yes , require my password if I haven't typed it in for 15 minutes.
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by sil3ntmac 14y ago
The 'glue' in retina displays (based on my experience with the iphone 4's lcd) fuses the front glass to the LCD screen. Usually you can separate the protective glass and the LCD screen, but not on a retina display. That is why if you crack
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by sil3ntmac 14y ago
My first thought (before clicking): Why would they redesign their site? Their site, and all their related apps, look really wonderful. After clicking: Still looks great, although now the landing page looks like grooveshark :)

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