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by sjs 16y ago
Nice job on mixtest, I saw it here on HN the other day. It's pretty cool! I couldn't load it on my iPad or iPhone though. Loads on my notebook right away. I'll bookmark it and try it later.
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by sjs 16y ago
I want Hulu as well. In Canada our only real choices are iTunes and copyright infringement. I'm not paying $3/show for DRM encumbered video on iTunes, so...
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by sjs 16y ago
Yes and no. I don't really blame them for disallowing system extensions (Backgrounder, SBSettings, fake carrier, call recorder, etc). They can be useful, and they can also be privacy and security nightmares. I tolerate having to jailbreak b
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by sjs 16y ago
Oh, good to know! Guess I don't need Flash on iPad for anything then.
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by sjs 16y ago
Maybe they just added it but they do include a link to the github repo at the bottom under "source".
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by sjs 16y ago
Every game he loaded up required a keyboard. Oops. Oh and there were Flash ads on Newgrounds. Yay? TED talks, Slideshare, and blip.tv would have made far more compelling demos. Lots of good content trapped in Flash on those sites. Until the
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by sjs 16y ago
SBSettings (and the Congruence skin), Grooveshark, Fake carrier, RandomRing, MyWi, Backgrounder. Grooveshark is a big one for me since it's the only streaming service we have in Canada. I could live without any one of them but when I recons
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by sjs 16y ago
joubert linked to an article outlining the specs that make up FaceTime. The same article is also linked in an answer on the SO page you linked to yourself. The pieces used in FaceTime are all listed there. I'm sure Apple will release some d
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by sjs 16y ago
You think that's bad, check out their "Work" page.
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by sjs 16y ago
Here's a system I'm sure most of us would like to have: http://i.imgur.com/AEt79.png I didn't just go for the most expensive parts either, it would have easily been > $20k if I had. I'm sure we all can imagine a certain bank balance a
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by sjs 16y ago
If you have a bit of time it's not that hard to convert a simple ePub file to a single Kindle-friendly HTML file, since ePub is already HTML. Use your favourite HTML library in your favourite scripting language to pull out the contents of t
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by sjs 16y ago
It got at least a few good reviews. There are certainly some interesting ideas there that everybody could learn from if they look at it with an open mind.
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by sjs 16y ago
Not all the songs play for me in Safari 5 on OS X.
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by sjs 16y ago
Fair enough, I'm glad to see them improve. I don't hate MS or anything of the sort I've just traditionally had bad experiences with their products. I used Vista SP1 for 8-9 months in 2008. It never crashed (when I wasn't OCing) and was grea
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by sjs 16y ago
I think it's more that the registry and filesystem get bloated and crufty. You can defrag an older installation and it'll still be slow. It happens on new systems too. I've done it dozens of times, install Windows and be happy about the fre
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by sjs 16y ago
I try to be fair, I really do. Of course I'm biased - I grew up using Windows and can't help being bitter about it - but I try to keep things in perspective. Push Button Reset is great for geeks using Windows, but it's a bandage not the cur
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by sjs 16y ago
Installers on OS X have a manifest of files they install. I'd be surprised if MSI didn't do the same, but I guess not everyone uses MSI. On OS X most apps still leave prefs or other files around too so it's not perfect, but it's something.
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by sjs 16y ago
What's funny is that further down the page they present Push Button Reset, for when your Windows installation deteriorates to the point of being unusably slow. Instead of fixing their OS they decide to burden the user with re-installing the
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by sjs 16y ago
I didn't look at the code. If that's all it takes to get it working for Gecko as well then yes, shame on them for not doing so.
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by sjs 16y ago
When the standards are widely implemented those who are already familiar with them will have a head start. Unless some people push things forward they will forever stay the same. We don't all have to move in lock-step, that kind of thinking
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by sjs 16y ago
It is instinct. At least for me. If I know how someone actually sounds I "hear" their voice as I read a quote by them.
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by sjs 16y ago
It was increased to 20MB near the end of 2009. Devs can get around this by downloading extra bits on first startup or heavily compressing big datasets and decompressing them on first startup. Only a handful do, but there are ways around it.
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by sjs 16y ago
Because you can't use Facetime with your notebook's webcam.
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by sjs 16y ago
Because most of us don't know him and his online persona is pure asshole. It's that simple. I've read that he's a nice guy in person all over the place and that's great, good for him. He writes like a spoiled, attention-grabbing 15 year old
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by sjs 16y ago
I've seen it once or twice but it's only in Canada so unfortunately not even close to a PayPal alternative.
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by sjs 16y ago
As a Canadian who uses PayPal to pay for things directly from my bank account, I'll believe it when I see it. No PayPal "alternative" that I've heard of will let me do this.
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by sjs 16y ago
It sucks for app devs but it's good for the customer. Until the platform has matured halting progress is a bad idea. Otherwise you're stuck supporting legacy crap forever and cannot move forward fast enough, especially in the mobile space.
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by sjs 16y ago
It's amazing that Unix kernels rule the modern mobile OS landscape. Like Objective-C and Cocoa, it shows how far a good, simple design can take you. Talk about reusability, Linux has proven to be a good fit for everything from your phone (a
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by sjs 16y ago
A USB stick? How do they interoperate if they don't follow the spec[1]?!! [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149
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by sjs 16y ago
Perseverance and stamina are rare qualities, and that gorilla is a very nice work of art. A ported BF chess engine not so much. Now, a C-to-BF compiler would be interesting. The recent "X in pure CSS" theme is important as it shows how adva

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