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by silencio 17y ago
This is just my personal experience with their Mandarin Chinese software (disclosure: offered free through my college language lab, otherwise I never would have touched it): I hated it. I understand the idea of immersion behind the software
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by silencio 17y ago
Although I went to WWDC, I'm also a student, and if I wanted the videos because I thought I would learn from them, I would happily pay $300 for them. Just like how I've purchased a fair number of iPhone programming books, just like how I'm
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by silencio 17y ago
the labs. the people. the other attendees. the fact that you can actually go up to an engineer who worked on something that has been bothering you for weeks and at least leave with a workaround, if not a full on fix for it. that alone to me
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by silencio 17y ago
> They do. They're just not moving fast enough to please everybody.... Problems with adhoc and provisioning in general were somewhat understandable and are (sorta) being fixed and documented all over the place, which is not what I have
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by silencio 17y ago
Unfortunately the browser isn't the only place to access user-generated content. Take for example a Twitter client, just by nature of being a Twitter client and theoretically having access to the public timeline with mature content is eno
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by silencio 17y ago
If that was the label that went on the 17+ apps that are 17+ for third party content that would be fine - like for apps that would get a rating like 4+ otherwise. But it's not. Check out http://itunes.com/app/downloader for an example.
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by silencio 17y ago
Wow, he hits the nail on every major sore spot, although I think I would have mentioned the iPhone Developer program portal as a huge issue as well, especially the 100 device/membership/year limitation and the way it was implemented. It's q
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by silencio 17y ago
You forgot the critical part right after: Maybe Chrome OS will change all that, but Linux-based netbooks are usually running some wonky, kiosk-oriented installation, making them nigh-on unusable. I got an HP Mini 1000 a few months ago wit
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by silencio 17y ago
Heh, thanks again. I had no idea that was actually the case with regard to legislation... a commercial Redfin was just one of my random ideas where I was wondering why nobody was doing anything given the kind of interest there might be in s
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by silencio 17y ago
Thanks for the interesting response. Most of the changes were not really about wording, more about the timeline on which certain contingencies were supposed to be met and which boxes should have been checked, which were just mostly blanks o
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by silencio 17y ago
I wish I could ignore him and deal with someone else but there's a whole culture of exclusivity that seems to exist around these things. Not to mention it's hard to find anyone better in the first place, since they all seem to be the same
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by silencio 17y ago
I might just be dealing with a particularly bad commercial broker right now, but he is all about covering his behind and refusing to do anything beyond his bare minimum, that is to say, the only thing he's ever told me about phase 1 ESAs is
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by silencio 17y ago
Jailbreak isn't necessary for unofficial tethering. There's iPhone mobile configuration profiles floating around to enable that in 3.x. Of course, you do run the risk of AT&T charging you for tethering without a plan. Sigh, I despise AT
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by silencio 17y ago
On a random sidenote, I remember being at WWDC last year where someone on stage was trying to demo an iPhone app that needed a login...except the login was an Apple ID and well, the password was going to be shown one character at a time to
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by silencio 17y ago
Honestly, I have no idea. However, since I actually do like mac/iphone dev, I would like to stay in Apple's good graces by not saying anything about the content of NDA'd material unless noted otherwise ;) I have heard from Apple engineers t
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by silencio 17y ago
just assume that everything minus the keynote is under nda no matter what it is, including the lunchtime sessions. always has been, will likely not change.
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by silencio 17y ago
I don't disagree, but I can only assume Allan reached a point where maybe all the features/fixes to-be-implemented warranted a near-total rewrite as opposed to individually fixing or implementing them. Plus, the CJK fixes in particular he's
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by silencio 17y ago
because sometimes you realize that in the beginning you thought that what you coded would suffice, but then users started coming up with feature requests/bug reports wanting more and you just can't do it without a rewrite, however big. lik
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by silencio 17y ago
I don't like the idea of abortions based on gender either, but changing societal beliefs of gender differences/inferiority/discrimination in the long term will be more helpful than the knee-jerk "no abortions!"/"no abortions by gender!" rea
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by silencio 17y ago
People don't tend to discount condoms as a method of birth control given perfect and typical use rates the way they do withdrawal even though the typical use failure rates of both methods are very close to each other. I daresay the same goe
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by silencio 17y ago
A bunch of people did that last year on Twitter if I'm not mistaken. You could just start following a bunch of wwdc attendees. (edit: live-tweeting the keynote, not the nda'd sessions, that is...) That being said, I am going to be attending
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by silencio 17y ago
My apologies if I was misinterpreting your replies as needless repetition. I don't disagree with you, and it must be said I question the need for such a service...but given the state of waiting at emergency departments today, I could see ho
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by silencio 17y ago
While you have a valid point, I think you're still missing the main issue: sometimes these clinics aren't open when you need them most. Emergencies big and small happen at any time during the day. Not many clinics and urgent care centers
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by silencio 17y ago
As one of the colloquy devs, I must step in with the more useful nightlies link: http://colloquy.info/downloads/nightlies/ :)
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by silencio 17y ago
Just wait until you make ice cream for other people. I've had friends ask why my mint, pistachio, and strawberry ice creams (among other flavors) were nearly white except for the pistachio and strawberry bits they found, because they were p
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by silencio 17y ago
Oatmeal is so delicious! I made a habit of keeping a container of oatmeal (bought in large bags from costco - no steel cut, but good enough) soaked in soy/cow milk in the refrigerator overnight. Serve cold the next morning with dried or fre
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by silencio 17y ago
I love ben and jerry's, but I'm also a huge fan of making my own ice cream. compared to ben and jerry's/haagen dazs/other "premium" ice cream brands, it's not much different in price, and homemade ice cream (and quiescently frozen confectio
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by silencio 17y ago
> As the original blog post says I am a bootstrapper and I think its really hard for bootstrappers to sponsor event. Yeah, I had that in mind when I was writing that sentence, and wasn't sure how to approach it because "sponsor" usually
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by silencio 17y ago
The BarCamp Los Angeles mailing list just had a long post-event conversation about talks and scheduling. I believe the consensus was that if disclosed and something that people are truly interested in discussing and listening to, that marke
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by silencio 17y ago
Yay, yet more hurdles for low vision/blind users while being of minimal benefit to everyone else....if they update. And keep that setting enabled. I've always been curious as to why users aren't forced to create a non-default login to a rou

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