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by zachlipton 12y ago
Sure (in my limited experience, the answer to "is there a blind person who does X?" is virtually always yes). I've met engineers with varying degrees of visual impairment. Obviously, it's not for everyone, but coding isn
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by zachlipton 12y ago
Compared to what? Unaudited security-related closed source software? That's not an improvement.
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by zachlipton 12y ago
So? This is not particularly uncommon if you run a large number of EC2 instances.
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by zachlipton 12y ago
The site is down. Not a good start. Why do we need a new URL shortener anyway?
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by zachlipton 12y ago
???
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by zachlipton 12y ago
The Danger Hiptop was an incredible device. At a time when RIM basically thought the web was a useless feature on a mobile device, Danger built an amazing mobile browser (discussed in the article) that wouldn't be matched until the iPh
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by zachlipton 12y ago
Odd. It works for me on a Samsung Smart TV. Was able to authenticate to my account (Comcast sub) with no problem.
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by zachlipton 12y ago
HBO Go (in the US anyway) doesn't have "paid subscribers." Comcast customers who have subscribe to HBO as part of their TV packages get access to HBO Go as an additional service. Comcast authenticates subscribers to tell HBO
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by zachlipton 12y ago
Yep. See http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140305/14254626446/comcas... .
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by zachlipton 12y ago
This could be one of the few remotely practical uses of QR codes in existence, easily capturing ephemeral data. Now, most kernel messages can get logged to a file, but there are cases in which that's not practical.
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by zachlipton 12y ago
Outside business travel? Bahahhahaa. Airlines make most of their money on business travel.
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by zachlipton 12y ago
MetaFilter's moderators are some of the most considerate and caring people I've seen on the internet. Sure, if you're approaching the site in bad faith they are going to tell you to take a hike, but they also put a huge amoun
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by zachlipton 12y ago
The $5 entry fee has never been about revenue and my understanding is that it never netted all that much revenue. Most of the money, to my knowledge, came from AdSense ads shown to logged-out users through search traffic. The gatekeeper fee
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by zachlipton 12y ago
Presumably iTunes is part of their base system image for all workstations, along with Office, Firefox, Adobe Reader, and the like. In other words, a basic set of software to handle standard officework tasks. iTunes is free and IT would prob
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by zachlipton 12y ago
Until "Blogger Clarissa" gets a subpoena demanding that she hand over her emails with the guest blogger and testify as to her knowledge of the employer.
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by zachlipton 12y ago
Right, because no men ever behave badly in the workplace? Sure, there are stereotypical ways in which a small number of people from each gender behave like assholes and create toxic work environments. The solution is to not hire jerks and t
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by zachlipton 12y ago
Remember that the advertising tagline was "rip, mix, burn." Not "find a cable, connect your headphone jack to your microphone jack, painstakingly copy each track in real-time, trim and organize the audio files, encode to mp3,
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by zachlipton 12y ago
And, to engage in some historical guesswork, if the iPod never happened, what would have happened to the iPhone and iPad? It's not that smartphones and tablets in some form never would have happened without the iPod, but it's hard
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by zachlipton 12y ago
Not working for my account (also in SF, already logged in). Based on the TC story, it appears to be specific to a certain set of accounts.
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by zachlipton 12y ago
Gruber's second footnote really sums it up for me: "You know you’re in poor company when you’ve chosen the same word as Valleywag’s Sam Biddle, who describes Cotton as “the queen of evil tech PR” in his headline, and quotes an ano
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by zachlipton 12y ago
Google Maps can pretty much do this with its built-in flight search. See [1] for an example (Google automatically converted the destination lat/long to an address, but you can replace them with the coordinates of your choice). 1: http
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by zachlipton 12y ago
It seems pretty likely that the legal tools they are using really apply to European flights, although they are incredibly vague on that point. In the US, you're really only legally entitled to compensation if you are involuntarily bump
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by zachlipton 12y ago
Right, because this is a problem with women?
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by zachlipton 12y ago
This does seem like yet another "me too" move from Yahoo, but I am excited to see Paul Feig getting back to TV.
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by zachlipton 12y ago
No, they don't. Google is quite clear that its prices for Google Shopping Express are the same as in store: https://support.google.com/shoppingexpress/answer/3423377?hl...
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by zachlipton 12y ago
My iPhone 5 sleep/wake button has been pretty much dead for a month or so now (it would sort-of work if you pressed it multiple times with feeling) and this program was finally the kick in the pants I needed to deal with it. I had Appl
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by zachlipton 13y ago
Well, the system-wide "internet available?" variable isn't completely useless from a user perspective. If youtube.com happens to be down for whatever reason, there isn't much the user can do about it except wait, so ther
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by zachlipton 13y ago
See, that doesn't really describe the situation here. The internet was working just fine, but samsung.com was down. As a result, the TV wouldn't let users get to Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, or other services because it insisted
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by zachlipton 13y ago
Apologies for trying to make a point. If anything, my analogy seems pretty much on point, as it barely changes the reality around the events here as described: banging on door <=> text/phone call, which likely causes an audible aler
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by zachlipton 13y ago
This isn't the hypothetical where you're stealing a loaf of bread from the market to feed your starving family. I certainly respect that taking the moral high ground isn't always easy and that some people are going to be in situations where

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