themckman

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by themckman 14y ago
Anecdotally, I "feel" I get better definition in the music I'm listening to when my Mac volume is maxed and I adjust the listening volume at the speakers, rather than the other way around.
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by themckman 14y ago
The only compelling use case for this device appears to be for kiosk-esque setups. For the casual user, it seems unlikely to catch on. I'm certainly not going to carry that thing with me, pull it out, plug it it in, open the FloJack app and
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by themckman 14y ago
Now that's just one of those things I would have never guessed. Super interesting.
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by themckman 14y ago
Wow, before coming here and seeing this comment, I had my speakers off and assumed there was no sound. I thought the video was just as good, if not better, completely silent.
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by themckman 14y ago
Haha. Got a call like this at work one day and did the same thing for a few minutes ("Hmmm, 'Start Menu'? I'm having trouble finding it..."). Before it was all over, all my coworkers in the area had turned their chairs and were just watchin
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by themckman 14y ago
Sioux City: United 232 heavy, winds currently 360 at 11, three sixty at eleven, you're cleared to land on any runway. UAL 232: You want to be particular and make it a runway, huh? ------ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l4pywdqvK4&featu
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by themckman 14y ago
> Twitter promised to be a platform. A shining message bus on the hill. Serious question: Ignoring that little bit of melodrama/hyperbole in the last sentence, is this true?
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by themckman 14y ago
Maybe it's just the Mac trackpad or I have perfect motor control, as you imply, but I very rarely have a problem with unwanted clicks due to tap-to-click. I certainly feel more agile not having to apply the pressure necessary to initiate th
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by themckman 14y ago
They still have huge engineering challenges and as long as that's true they're going to be able to find people willing and interested.
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by themckman 14y ago
Hell, looking at Safari, I see no reason why you couldn't put together an interface like this in HTML/CSS. To the grandparent's point about Java Swing, I don't have much experience with Swing, but I did see a little as I was entering colleg
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by themckman 14y ago
How does craigslist block numbers? I don't understand.
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by themckman 14y ago
I was thinking the exact same thing as I watched. It seemed ridiculous that any of that was needed, but I was like "I bet those cops are having a blast!". Hell, it made me want to strap on the kevlar and go kick a few doors in. More serious
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by themckman 14y ago
I see a lot of talk in this discussion about debit cards. I currently have only a debit card through my bank with my checking account, however, always run it as a visa and NEVER run it as a debit card. A lot of times, for small purchases, I
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by themckman 14y ago
I find it hard to believe that Google had/has anything to do with the Mail app in iOS. It seems awfully tied to Mail.app on the desktop which certainly has nothing to do with Google. I'm open to evidence suggesting otherwise.
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by themckman 14y ago
Burning bridges, huh? I usually show up on my first day at a job with gas can and matches in hand. By the time I'm leaving a company, any criticisms I've had at all about anything there have been voiced quite publicly and, ideally, to the h
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by themckman 14y ago
That one is a border-line condescending, however, the message is clear: Accept no substitutes. Don't be a sap and pretend you got a Mac, because you didn't. The other two (guy having a baby and guy making a movie on the plane) make the Geni
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by themckman 14y ago
This is exactly how I describe this idea to people. I tell them to complete the following sentence. "Applying this change set will...". I've recently become less averse to verbs like fixes, updates adds, etc as I feel the sentence "The chan
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by themckman 14y ago
http://www.guitarworld.com/archive-yngwie-malmsteen-critique... Very similar article featuring guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen. I'm not sure you could paint Malmsteen in the same well-rounded light as Miles, however, from a guitar players pers
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by themckman 14y ago
I don't know. If you read the article, they specifically keep mentioning HBase and Cassandra as the alternatives that the NSA should have tried to build upon rather than build something from scratch. edit: I will say I'm not familiar enough
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by themckman 14y ago
There's a certain amount of irony in this comment. If only there was a way to capture this sentiment in the joke that is Vooza.
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by themckman 14y ago
> Sometimes I do wonder why people decided to use a new language for a critical/important piece of their product while learning on the go as well. Because flying by the seat of your pants, making shit up as you go and putting something
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by themckman 14y ago
It seems encouraged, to me. They give us jekyll ("a blog-aware, static site generator") and provide a real simple way to host such a static site at <username>.github.com by creating a repo by that name.