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by yapcguy 13y ago
I haven't tried it but you can make your own epub using the scripts here: https://bitbucket.org/gsauthof/aosa-epub
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Ken Case is a nice guy, always polite whenever you speak to him. However, someone should do him a favor and tell him that after 5 years of Apple ignoring him, it's obvious he's in an abusive relationship and needs to get out. Omn
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Is It Time For Apple To Update App Store Pricing Rules?(fastcolabs.com)
27 points by yapcguy 13y ago|24 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Like the CODE keyboard which got a lot of attention but is really just another keyboard sold by WASDKeyboards.com.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
> But going back to my iPhone with iOS 6 made me realize how dated that OS looks and feels. Isn't this simply emotion - based upon you already knowing that iOS 7 is newer? If you showed iOS 6 and 7 to someone who had never seen an i
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by yapcguy 13y ago
I guess Apple wants you to use iCloud...
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by yapcguy 13y ago
I was going to complain about AirDrop being proprietary, but this is very disappointing. What is wrong with Apple? > It’s important to note that while AirDrop in iOS 7 and AirDrop in OS X share the same name and underlying technology (b
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Apple marketing sounds so hi-tech, so unique, yet China is selling RF fingerprint readers by the truck load. They're so cheap to manufacture that you can sell them for $1 and still make a profit. http://www.alibaba.com/
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by yapcguy 13y ago
I think this obfuscation comes from a fear of failure, which is ironic given that it's the ready acceptance of failure and the can-do attitude which is supposed to set American entrepreneurs apart from Europeans and others. It seems th
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by yapcguy 13y ago
I wish we could have more detail on these kind of transactions. Someone glancing at the headline would assume this was a successful exist for a YCombinator backed company. However, perhaps any remaining cash was returned to the original inv
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by yapcguy 13y ago
The words "Plastic Perfected" don't appear in the ad itself, but given that this is an official Apple YouTube channel, the title smacks of sheer arrogance.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
http://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-557... > Mr Ward came to my lab about a year before his death needing help to turn what was essentially a party trick into a useable & commercialy vi
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by yapcguy 13y ago
So did Bump fail or is this considered a successful exit? I met some Bump folk a year ago. The company had a lot of employees and still wasn't making any money. They basically burnt all their investors money. Calling this an acquisit
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by yapcguy 13y ago
> I use the middle button for scrolling. Great tip, didn't know about this. It works for both vertical and horizontal scrolling.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
> I think the iPhone 5C is the perfect realization of hardware and software running harmoniously on a single device. Wow, really? The iPhone 5C hasn't even shipped yet!
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Don't you miss the convenience of multi finger gestures on the touchpad? I haven't got used to the trackpoint but that's because I tend to use the touchpad more. I guess I should disable the touchpad completely and force mys
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Isn't that keyboard no longer in production? Have you tried using their latest keyboards which drop the touchpad and come with the new style keys? http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Have you used the Kinesis Freestyle 2 or the just released Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic keyboard? If so, what are your thoughts?
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Japan sends rocket into space with a launch crew of just 2 laptops and 8 people(news.sky.com)
2 points by yapcguy 13y ago|4 comments
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California poised to allow driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants(sacbee.com)
2 points by yapcguy 13y ago|0 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
> "Mozilla confirmed the code exploited a critical memory management vulnerability in Firefox that was publicly reported on June 25, and is fixed in the latest version of the browser." Will Rust help eliminate the problem of
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Quantitative easing floats all boats...
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by yapcguy 13y ago
> dump as much money as they can into the stock They would say that wouldn't they!
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Rick Perry tours Moto-X factory and then throws his iPhone away (at 2:35)(engadget.com)
1 points by yapcguy 13y ago|0 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
In the mean-time, the community will be wasting time and effort in trying to solve ARM 64-bit issues which Apple has already solved. If LLVM were under a copyleft license like the GPL, Apple could still have created it's backend in sec
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1.6 million Catalans form human chain 250 miles long for independence from Spain(washingtonpost.com)
22 points by yapcguy 13y ago|2 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Dropbox is not a backup service, it's for synchronizing local folders.
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Apple will "take at least several months" to release LLVM backend for 64-bit A7(lists.cs.uiuc.edu)
53 points by yapcguy 13y ago|31 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Motorola released an Android phone with fingerprint sensor in 2011. Check out the video. http://secureidnews.com/news-item/motorola-releases-fingerpr...
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Motorola releases fingerprint sensor-embedded Android phone (2011)(secureidnews.com)
66 points by yapcguy 13y ago|38 comments

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