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by tvon 15y ago
> The problem is that an outdated, unsandboxed version of Flash is installed on almost every desktop system. Don't use it. > So, if we stopped including Flash, the vast majority of our users would be more vulnerable than they al
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by tvon 15y ago
They can very easily stop including the Flash player with every version of Chrome. It seems like that would solve some obvious security problems. This is hardly an impossible feat.
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by tvon 15y ago
> (...) lord knows if someone like samsung pulled a trick like this the condemnation from the true believers would be severe. Interesting, it seems to me that Apple gets far more scrutiny than any other company in tech.
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by tvon 15y ago
I think that's reading a bit too much into it. The product has been announced, having the store down now does nothing to promote it (as having it down during the announcement might), it only prevents people from buying it.
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by tvon 15y ago
I'm still somewhat amazed they haven't found a better way to handle updating the store. I understand that there is a marketing aspect to taking it offline, but it should be back online and updated immediately after the event is over.
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by tvon 15y ago
I think you're missing an 's' there: https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SplitSettings
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by tvon 15y ago
I like Django quite a bit, but it boggles the mind how many developer hours have been spent solving the same basic setup problem over and over again.
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by tvon 15y ago
On a technical level, yes, but when discussing Android "the product" (aka "the experience") it's the correct way to refer to it.
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by tvon 15y ago
Colloquially speaking, "for" means the FBI is making matching contributions to his 401k, "with" means he is cooperating. Technically speaking, either word works, but you need more than the OED to properly communicate meaning.
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by tvon 15y ago
Looks okay here (in both Safari and Chrome on OSX): http://civicit.com/~tvon/sencha-heading-font.png
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by tvon 15y ago
It's certainly not a small task, but an issue is open here: http://code.google.com/p/sequel-pro/issues/detail?id=362&#38... Developer input from mid-2011 is towards the bottom, but in short the gist is "that would be great, contributions
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by tvon 15y ago
I believe it's for non-torrent sharing methods such as NNTP (since you can't, I guess, upload hundreds of megabytes of data to a newsgroup in a single post).
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by tvon 15y ago
As I understand it, basically. Granted, I've never used BBM before. If you try to text someone with iMessage, it will send them an iMessage instead of a text (assuming you have iMessaging capabilities). Aside from being free, the only othe
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by tvon 15y ago
Nothing makes you look like more of a jackass then throwing gifs into rails commit comments.
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by tvon 15y ago
"Everyone has a video camera on them these days, and the last thing we need is honest cops being taken off of the street because some lawsuit happy ambulance chaser thinks they can make a quick buck off of the police department."
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by tvon 15y ago
I wouldn't worry about random down votes, they happen all the time and are eventually balanced out by a level head with a click to spare.
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by tvon 15y ago
You could just say "Windows runs on a wide variety of hardware, OSX does not" to more simply get your point across. edit: Okay, the point being made is "Apple hardware is not cheap, and you need Apple hardware to properly run OS X". It's ma
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by tvon 15y ago
What meaning do you propose we extract from this?
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by tvon 15y ago
> Update: Path CEO Dave Morin has commented on the Journey project’s site, complimenting the team, saying “Super cool guys. We should probably get you access to our API :).” Nice to hear, hopefully they follow through.
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by tvon 15y ago
Which bit was not factual? There isn't a single factual statement in there except in the most absurdly pedantic sense, it's all mocking hyperbole.
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by tvon 15y ago
Haptic feedback would be great but there hasn't been any evidence of the feature existing.
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by tvon 15y ago
I think that may be a bit over-the-top...
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by tvon 15y ago
I think Microsoft is pretty poor at product development.
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by tvon 15y ago
Eh, "retiring" to me generally means "making sure I have enough money that I don't have to die on the street". Saving for retirement is more of a precautionary act than a journey to a destination.
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by tvon 15y ago
XCode is the tool Apple expects you to use to build products for the App Store(s), I think it's fair to expect a certainly level of quality.
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by tvon 15y ago
I think not putting profits first qualifies as "ignoring profits" as far as standard business practices are concerned.
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by tvon 15y ago
You certainly can't get far without someone playing the "apologist" or "fanboy" card. This is annoying because you are presenting no argument or evidence, you're just saying "this person's opinion is bullshit because of the apparent side t
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by tvon 15y ago
Informative comment from Jeremy Huddleston (XQuartz developer): http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=14341845#post14...
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by tvon 15y ago
> how many of them came in the form of a dmg that the user opened and installed? Erm, in recent years, all of them? I can't think of any exploits in the wild that have been anything other than a trojan.
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by tvon 15y ago
Sort of tangental, but I know the command line tools are not GNU but are they otherwise outdated? I used to install various GNU coreutils packages but decided they weren't really adding anything and in some cases (ls) they were removing fu

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