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by tvon 13y ago
> famous enough to merit an article about his departure but not famous enough for Google to give an inch to retain him I do not work at Google, but I suspect there is a bit more involved in these decisions.
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by tvon 13y ago
It is apparently a limitation in the GitHub access levels: https://gitter.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200176672-Authe... Which is unfortunate, because I'd like to try gitter but I'm not willing to
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by tvon 13y ago
"The other hand" is a far better scenario. Odds are you'll see it at some point if this sort of thing interests you, far better that than to find it this way.
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by tvon 13y ago
That's one hell of an authorization request. I see the reasoning in the sidebar, but I'm not really willing to take that kind of chance to try out a new chat service.
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by tvon 13y ago
Every link discussion site needs the ability to merge multiple links under one heading. This has been bugging me for years.
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by tvon 13y ago
I don't see what's particularly good about this, it's just an alliance in a series of legal battles.
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by tvon 13y ago
FWIW, I haven't had any update issues for years. If you have hardware setup that was easy to install on, then you'll have a hardware setup that is easy to update. If you had to do anything special after the basic install, you&#x
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by tvon 13y ago
Uber is based in San Francisco, which may be why they asked a San Francisco-based attorney.
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by tvon 13y ago
FWIW, if that's all you want you can do it with plain old X11.
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by tvon 13y ago
http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/readline.html These work in most GUI inputs as well.
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by tvon 13y ago
Yes, on three machines (10.9 and 10.8).
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by tvon 13y ago
A UIVieController has a view associated with it (typically self.view) which is why XCode offers to create a xib file for you.
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by tvon 13y ago
The Asus N66u is highly regarded: http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-wi-fi-router-asus-rt-n... I have one myself but have not loaded Tomato on it yet.
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by tvon 13y ago
Apple changed an Apple app to use Apple data instead of Google Data, there was no removal of a Google app because there was no Google app to remove.
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NFL, MLB Warn That Aereo Could Trigger End of Free TV Game Broadcasts(variety.com)
67 points by tvon 13y ago|135 comments
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by tvon 13y ago
> For some reason your post doesn't have a reply link I think that for a comment at some level of nesting N, the ability to replay is delayed by Y seconds. IIRC this is to prevent stupid back-and-forth arguments.
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by tvon 13y ago
I could, but I have a complex password so I copy/paste it from another app. I should honestly memorize that password anyway.
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by tvon 13y ago
Yup, I authenticated in the Drive app and it picked up that account. Thanks for the tip.
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by tvon 13y ago
I'm experiencing a horribly broken login process. * Open login screen * Switch to password app, copy password * Switch back to Google Music, login screen loads again * Enter credentials, 2-step verification screen loads * Switch to Goo
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by tvon 13y ago
Compatibility document for the curious: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-versus-mysql-compatibility...
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by tvon 13y ago
Agreed, every MySQL project I'm on is actually a MariaDB project. While I prefer Postgres and have arguments to present to clients who rely on MySQL, a fear of Oracle is not one of those arguments because I just don't think it ma
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by tvon 13y ago
The fast moving spinners give the impression that the page is loading quickly.
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by tvon 13y ago
Don't forget that just about everything in OSX and Linux supports readline navigation: C-n - next line C-p - previous line C-f - next char C-b - previous char C-a - beginning of line C-e - end of line I assume there ar
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by tvon 13y ago
AFAIK the title-casing of submissions is automatic so anything that starts with "iOS" will show up as "IOS".
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by tvon 13y ago
There are still some good NNTP clients out there, but I think Google Groups is the primary interface these days: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.sysadmin.recover...
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by tvon 13y ago
While I like their opposition to Flash[1], IMO you will eventually just end up more advanced HTML ads that are harder to detect. [1] primarily because there are no viable competing implementations to what Adobe puts out
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by tvon 13y ago
You can't download an ISO, you'll need a working OSX install to download it from the App Store. From there I believe you can burn an install DVD and AFAIK you've always been able to do a non-networked install. edit: Un-teste
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by tvon 13y ago
I don't remember the specific setup (or what it's called), but you can have that in Linux. The problem is that then you can't drag windows from one monitor to the other, though that may also be something that can be configur
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by tvon 13y ago
You can either have independent spaces (switch screen 1 to a different space while screen 2 remains unchanged) or you can have them linked (when switching screen 1, screen 2 also changes).
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by tvon 13y ago
I suspect there is a lot of actively developed software out there that you do not use.

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