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by silencio 18y ago
Oh, that would make a lot more sense. I live in LA proper and don't really venture out to meetups outside of the city. There's plenty of game companies here (the significant other works at one), but I suppose I meant more along the lines of
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by silencio 18y ago
Los Angeles is a tech city? I've lived in LA forever, but just now started to really notice an actual tech community..I never really felt the same vibe here as I do in the bay. And of course it annoys me to no end that half the tech events
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by silencio 18y ago
Try Help > Colloquy Chat Room. I'm there as 'jane', and maybe I'm not there all the time, but I can try to help when I am :) Also you might want to try building from svn, I've got some builds up on http://janeylicious.com/colloquy/ if
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by silencio 18y ago
Same here, until I read they were forwarding, which works for me. I never use my college email for anything important beyond a couple of somewhat annoying profs who set their filters to ignore everything but college email addresses and re
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by silencio 18y ago
I can't decide if this is a good thing or a bad thing. The only reason why I'd want flash on my iPhone is for some websites...but a lot of those rely on the assumption that the user is using a mouse. Lots of menus are difficult to navigate
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by silencio 18y ago
From what I can tell happened to past and present clients of mine, there are plenty of bad programmers all over the place local and worldwide, and throwing more people at the job never fixed anything. If said company is having a hard time h
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by silencio 18y ago
It's possible , but whether you actually want to and have the know-how is a different matter. I would assume that the cost of a used MacBook or Mac mini would end up being more cost-effective in the long run than finding any other way to d
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by silencio 18y ago
The definition of "reading easily" is subjective. As I noted in my other comment here, Scribd is not very accessible with what is arguably the only screenreader for OS X, while the original documents (pdf, word, ppt, excel, txt, etc.) were.
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by silencio 18y ago
But pretty much any browser can display PDFs just fine without having to open a separate reader, and that's the defacto format for documents on the web. Occasionally you will come across other formats like word or rtf, but there are browser
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by silencio 18y ago
I'm going through this right now for nanowrimo. ;) At first I used word (very lame, I know), but a friend recommended Scrivener ( http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html ) to me a while ago, and I've been using that instead, but it
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by silencio 18y ago
To many people on HN, "fifty cents" for an apple is not that expensive, neither is $2.50 for some milk...I know I easily spend that on a bottle or two of Bawls or 50x that on a new toy for my laptop, or even 100x that on a single nice anniv
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by silencio 18y ago
I couldn't help but notice that almost your entire second to last paragraph sounds nearly identical to the current iPhones and iPod touches. Anyway, the only reason why I keep coming back to the iPod rather than any other player in the mark
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by silencio 18y ago
I don't understand your disconnect between the licensing for the OSS projects in question and what you're saying, since I have yet to see Apple and others flagrantly ignore licensing terms. If this was such a big problem, change the license
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by silencio 18y ago
Make it a way to meet new people, network, socialize, and get fit at the same time. But the question then is whether pacefit is worth paying for. Personally I've done exactly that at Curves without having to pay a "middleman" like pacefit
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by silencio 18y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I don't find that huge variety of boring things to do at the local gym appeals to me. You know what it took for me to get off my ass and actually exercise a little? Wii Fit.
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by silencio 18y ago
But said ripped dude at the gym can watch me work out and can give me personalized help. Unless pacefit can give me personalized help, which is most and severely limited by the not-physically-present aspect, why even bother spending money
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by silencio 18y ago
would you happen to know if the arduino starter kit make sells now comes with the new arduino duemilanove? in fact, I can't find that on the make:arduino store at all, only the older diecimila...
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by silencio 18y ago
Yeah, there are some people who do that. But I really doubt a lot of them ARE doing so because they want to, but because given multiple factors (family, past history, school..life in general, really) that it's very difficult to get a good p
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by silencio 18y ago
That route usually requires some sort of high school diploma or equivalent. It's also exactly what I did. I don't regret leaving high school early because it was a real hellhole for me. For the record, it's also entirely possible to transfe
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by silencio 18y ago
Well, would there be some not-sticky way of separating them after the fact? like, say, based on amount of non-trivial input they've given? There are sometimes beta "testers" who never really give any input. For my startup, we're providing
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by silencio 18y ago
wouldn't be toooo sure about that ;) one thing I remember doing back in HS (and occasionally now in college) where there was no wifi at all was running an ircd on someone's laptop and creating a small ad-hoc wireless network so we could all
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by silencio 18y ago
Just speaking from prior bad experiences :) I used to use laptops back even in high school, where the teachers were fine with it but made it clear it was a privilege extended to us that could be revoked should there be any misuse. One teach
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by silencio 18y ago
How you determine what tools the students need in the first place? I've used laptops heavily for almost all my classes for the past few years now (obviously I can't take a laptop to a ceramics class, for example) and the tools I use depends
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by silencio 18y ago
I have a hard time writing legibly with pen and paper due to tremors and there are people with all sorts of disabilities like dysgraphia. I can only hope these professors can allow for exceptions to the rule.
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by silencio 18y ago
I don't know if it's worth it. I attended WWDC and by far the more interesting and educational experience were the labs and networking, and the videos are close to bordering on "meh". Useful if I want to learn something but I don't know if
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by silencio 18y ago
To be picky, whether or not you want/need the bigger screen with you all the time. I have only a MacBook and I use it with a 20" lcd at home, which is where I do the majority of my work. (I also have more than one desktop, so if the laptop
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by silencio 18y ago
I don't see how captchas "just make sense", especially in the most common image-based incarnation. I have worked with visually impaired people and the most popular request was always "I want to something on this website, but they have a cap
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by silencio 18y ago
there are a few apps out there that simulate different types of colorblindness that I find useful for testing all sorts of things (websites, apps, videos and more) when I can't easily find someone who is colorblind. you might find them usef
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by silencio 18y ago
Sure there was, and there still is. It's called jailbreaking, but Apple doesn't like it (will refuse to support your iPhone should there be problems, so you'll have to revert). There were multiple apps one can still use to get jailbroken ap
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by silencio 18y ago
> A normal headphone jack? Are you talking about the recessed one in the first generation iPhones? Because at least the iPhones had a standard 3.5mm headphone jack to begin with (albeit one that wouldn't work with some third party headp

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