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by skue 13y ago
Apple's change wasn't a feature expansion, it was a limitation and clarification of how the device identifier should be used. Originally, Apple allowed all apps to access a common unique identifier tied to each device. As a develo
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Reading the comments below Schneier's post, I was reminded again just how much the Internet has changed how we interact. Here is an expert creating a space and inviting anyone with an opinion to gather and discuss whether he can be tru
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Exactly. Apple learned a lot working on resource-constrained mobile platforms, and they brought a lot of that knowledge into OSX (one of the benefits of not having separate divisions?). Back in Lion, the Mac would began suspending/kill
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> Giving it a monetary value defeats the whole purpose of it. And what if the purpose is the absurdity of its monetary value? I don't believe that Banksy's goal is to have his work be seen as curios. It's getting us to hav
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My timeline and experience is similar. Also, I started web development with Perl back in the 90s before moving onto Java prior to Objective C. When I started doing Objective C, it felt analogous to Perl 5 in some ways -- an OO language that
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There is a distinction between class and income. In all these examples, people are still responding to their economic situation.
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> Plus, poverty stifles political activism. Do you have evidence to back that up? I can think of a number of examples to the contrary offhand: The French Revolution was preceded by a financial crisis and poverty, as was the rise of the N
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I'm curious why you find FMDB cumbersome? I've always found it pretty easy to work with.
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Most iOS devs fail to realize that CoreDate was originally created for managing data in desktop apps, but many of the advantages it offers for Mac development don't exist on mobile. For example, iOS has no bindings. On the Mac you can
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I still use Word regularly, and yes there are styles in the ribbon, along with a panel which can be opened as well. But the ribbon only shows six styles (until you pop it open), it doesn't do a good job of warning when you have overrid
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This is an interesting article and has generated some good discussion, but blaming Word for mixing style sheets and control codes seems off to me. > Arguments raged internally: should it use control codes, or hierarchical style sheets?
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I'm disappointed to see that MS Word has become the default for publishers. Back in 1999 I authored a web programming book for O'Reilly. At the time, their technical folks would begrudgingly accept Word files, but they strongly pr
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It absolutely makes sense for the Treasury to generate new bills with technology/features that stays ahead of counterfeiters. But changing bills every several years can also produce unintended consequences. If new bills are constantly
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It baffles me that the Post and Guardian decided to release this on a Friday.
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Why am I not surprised that the Series A VC is with Matrix? They seem to go out of their way to earn a bad reputation: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2009/11/th... (Far more detai
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> While funny looking, what is the ingenuity behind it? Is there a requirement that HN articles be ingenious? It's a novelty, that's all. And sometimes that's enough.
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It certainly didn't help that Eliot Spitzer's political career imploded months before the financial crisis hit. It's impossible to know what he might have done -- either as governor or in some investigatory/prosecutorial
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Here's a direct link to the NSA slide explaining the MITM attack (originally published by Fantastico in Brazil): http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130910/10470024468/flying...
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Sadly, the largest American media sources are still ignoring the story almost a day later. I searched CNN, NBC News, and Fox News - nothing. At least most of the tech news sites picked up the story.
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I know. You can tap on a button to reveal a button to show three more buttons to get some details. But there's a reason I didn't bother to mention that in my post: No one will ever do this. Edit: changed 'click' to &#x
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This browser is a web security joke. 1. Unless you prefix URLs with http or https, you are relying on Opera and/or Google's algorithms to point you to the correct page. Some might say that's a feature, except... 2. You cannot
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That TechCrunch article includes this quote: > Kleinhout also noted that the team looked at how to keep users safe without having them evaluate lots of icons in the browser’s URL bar (which Coast doesn’t have). Instead of having to know
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Recreating a logo is not the same as reusing a logo, especially when we are talking about music. What you are describing would be akin to recreating a song by using different sounds, instruments, algorithms, etc. In other words, a new perfo
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I canceled my account a week ago, and it wasn't nearly that simple. They paid an agent almost an hour's wage to make it as difficult as possible to delete my account. The agent kept asking me for personal data such as my birthdate
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> I realized it would make a pretty neat demo just by itself, so I built that in too, to the dulcet tones of Selah Sue—whose last name I hope is not indicative. The demo and technology are amazing, and he should be proud of his hard wo
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> Windows 7 and 8 were the first mobile OS that didn't completely rip off Apple Is everyone here too young to remember Palm, Windows CE, Pocket PC, et al? We need new terminology for describing the transition that occurred once we h
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> He will be remembered for missing mobile. Wait, what? That's like saying RIM missed mobile. Microsoft was doing mobile years before Apple or Google ever entered the market[1]. My guess is that Microsoft and Ballmer's real-wor
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Mobile networking is imperfect. An app capable of waking in response to a push notification may still fail to create a network connection with the sender.
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HN isn't just about software/engineering, it's also about entrepreneurship. Tesla is a startup with cool technology. They're taking on a market where startups never succeed and are navigating significant challenges regar
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It was easy to see that coming once the media story took off the way it did. But this just generates more coverage of Tesla's results. I doubt that anyone at Tesla is feeling the least bit chastised. Musk is certainly not the type of p

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