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by webjprgm 15y ago
I was going to ask wether using full-disk-encryption on Apple's Lion OS (aka "File Vault 2") would be sufficient. It sounds like Google is uncertain that it is. Still, Apple's FDE is much better than no encryption at all! No excuse, NASA
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by webjprgm 15y ago
Hmm, code bubbles actually looks interesting. I might actually try something like that. Pretty list still doesn't look very appealing to me. It doesn't help organize the code, all it does is replace parenthesis with visual boxes.
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by webjprgm 15y ago
[off topic] Wave was too complicated and did not integrate into everyone's existing mail clients. I had a professor that tried to use if for class lecture notes. That only lasted a couple weeks. A lunch group at work used it successfully f
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by webjprgm 15y ago
Yuck. The parenthesis are much easier to read than the boxes with lots of padding. Only useful for beginning programmers. Anyone using lisp-based languages will quickly be able to read parens easier. (Plus some IDEs have coloring based on
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by webjprgm 15y ago
If the phone could access remote computing resources then this would be awesome. (I could show you stuff I've written years ago saying you should "dock" a phone, wirelessly, to keyboard and monitor and have it also connect to external CPUs
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by webjprgm 15y ago
> Splitting document management up into two parts, the way Windows and the Mac do it (with parts of it happening in the Finder, and parts of it happening in applications’ open/safe dialogs) is one of the dumbest things desktop systems d
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by webjprgm 15y ago
Are you guys seeing different images than I am, or is this a gesture from a non-US, non-California location? I see the image with the pointer finger extended, and the thumb out to the side, with the rest of the fingers folded. (For a secon
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by webjprgm 15y ago
Hmm, yes, especially if the designers are working on such a large resolution screen. Would the solution be a media query in the CSS? Would there be data in the HTTP user agent string to serve up a different CSS/HTML/image resource?
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Exactly. Which is why I'm actually thinking about this article instead of ignoring it out of hand like I do for any article that makes a fuss about changing the tax system. The other part (respecting who says what) is partisan politics. Re
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by webjprgm 15y ago
Long distance travel is the primary reason I have not wanted to buy an electric car. I only have one car at the moment, so I need it to be good both for commuting and long distance. I can make a 12 hour trip from SF to UT or 7 hr SF to LA.
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Very cool. But I seem to lose connection to the server when the server-side wipe happens sometimes.
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I've only used an Android phone once for 5 min (my Mom got one for Christmas), but that was enough to run into Back button confusion. My assumption was that it would take me up the stack, since when I entered the Mail program and navigated
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by webjprgm 15y ago
For a dev machine this is mostly true. I haven't been able to be as conveniently productive on Windows, since I always end up installing Cygwin eventually, then decide I might as well be using Linux. However, for a relaxing machine, Linux
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by webjprgm 15y ago
This is what I was going to say. They'll need 2 3D printers so if one breaks the other can print replacement parts for it. "Machines building machines, how perverse". Well, if we had little robots to run the 3D printers anyway.
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by webjprgm 15y ago
It's great to have a washing machine that works for 10-20 years, but why couldn't the government and corporations pick a _good_ washing machine. Why IE6 instead of some sane browser? Anyway, there's enough non-IE6 work to do that I generall
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by webjprgm 15y ago
> running outdated software the rest of us have to support. Why would you support outdated software only used by pirates? Just don't support it to force the pirates to update.
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by webjprgm 15y ago
Agreed. Besides Perl, you can also use Ruby and PHP just as easily. At least that works for me. The main selling point is the ability to run shell commands with `command here`. I exclude Python from my list because you have to use the su
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by webjprgm 15y ago
No, it also looks like the border is slightly raised more like the Kindle. This is the form factor that I would have thought of naturally, before seeing the iPad, since it's similar to the designs that existed for computers at the time. Com
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by webjprgm 15y ago
They could have made the margins with a raised border, like the Kindle, and still had a black border, rectangular with rounded corners, flat back tablet that didn't look quite so much like an iPad. They could have put their logo in a shallo
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by webjprgm 15y ago
Easy. The reason for the other nets is because the governmental ones want to censor out parts. So if a domain on the govt net starts bypassing censorship by pointing at things on the other nets, the govt will consider that domain also an i
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by webjprgm 15y ago
I learned SQL with copy/paste/modify from PHPBB code base. When I got my first web programming job I could write basic select/insert/update/delete but knew almost nothing of joins. I learned the rest by reading MySQL docs on the job. (Lat
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by webjprgm 15y ago
> There's no arguing about this subject with people who believe that people should not have the right to control their own data, There's no inalienable human right to data about you unless you want to argue that it's somehow your proper
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by webjprgm 15y ago
That would be extortion unless they allow you to completely delete an account and opt-out (or better yet, require opt-in) of data collection. Because if not, then the only way to hide your data from the public would be to pay FB.
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Or you could teach Java/Assembly/C++/[insert least favorite language] first so that when the student finds Ruby/Python/Scheme/[insert favorite language] then s/he is amazed at how cool programming can be.
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Their work is used in the academic community. E.g. they have a suite for examining/debugging concurrency called CHESS which was used in a class I took in grad school and is related to and referenced by some of the research my (former) acad
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by webjprgm 15y ago
A "relation" is the fundamental concept in relational databases. When they say "set based" they really mean "relation based" as far as I can tell from their site. So this is essentially a relational database that replaces SQL with their ban
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by webjprgm 15y ago
First, you wouldn't get all programmers. You'd still have customer service. You'd probably also have executives, teachers, scientists, mechanics to work on robots, doctors, cooks, and then your smattering of people mixed in to help with ro
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by webjprgm 15y ago
Sounds stupid for the small businesses, because only people who already know about a place will ask for a deal there, so they won't be getting any new eyeballs and probably no new customers either. It will just be people wanting deals at p
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by webjprgm 15y ago
That's what I do. I have a DB class in PHP that makes most queries easy (much easier than Pear or PDO), and all DAOs are similar to each other so it's a copy-paste-modify to add a new one. Then I have static methods to do the special querie
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by webjprgm 15y ago
Of course they did, if they made it look simple then everyone would freak out (or they should, and have mass exodus away from Citi). People are used to hackers finding occasional, difficult exploits.

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