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by zacwest 11y ago
So your argument against it is, "somebody else already made something similar so why bother"?
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by zacwest 11y ago
Developers link against system OpenSSL, so Apple can basically never upgrade it.
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by zacwest 11y ago
From the article you're writing a comment to: > A given person, in 2006, eating the same amount of calories, taking in the same quantities of macronutrients like protein and fat, and exercising the same amount as a person of the sam
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by zacwest 11y ago
> The developer unit we disassembled was sent to us by Apple. Evidently, they didn’t intend for us to take it apart. They won an Apple TV in a prerelease developer lottery, rather than being sent a demo unit by Apple like they do with t
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by zacwest 11y ago
Sounds like this is an early revision: > You are looking at Notion 0.5. We are working hard on the 1.0 that would have a lot more ideas flushed out. Stay tuned, and thank you for your feedback. http://www.producthunt.com/
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by zacwest 11y ago
Their argument for doing is compelling. They figure larger purchases like rent or car payments should go through above smaller ones. It feels like the person doing the reordering was a different person from the one setting charges.
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by zacwest 11y ago
I'm curious what is the use case. If it's 3rd-party resources, wouldn't this make things like Google Analytics unable to be updated if they use hashes? I guess this must be mostly targeted at resource hosts who modify resourc
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by zacwest 11y ago
I haven't been happier paying for an internet service in a long time. FastMail keeps releasing more and more useful features. I can't wait for CardDAV syncing. Even after so many years, Gmail still doesn't support push notifi
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FastMail gains push notifications in iOS Mail.app, joining only Yahoo and iCloud(blog.fastmail.com)
47 points by zacwest 11y ago|64 comments
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by zacwest 11y ago
Apple disallows apps whose only purpose is one of beta, demo, trial or test. You are more than allowed to set up a trial period then charge an in-app purchase/subscription to continue using the service.
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by zacwest 11y ago
They may have been asking you to talk about UIActivityViewController: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UIKit/...
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by zacwest 12y ago
> "There are few companies who share our dedication to excellence…" Authy is one of the worst-designed iOS applications I have ever used. It has been this way for a very long time. They are actively hostile to people who try to
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by zacwest 12y ago
You can use my handy backup: http://www.daringmeatball.com Note: some content editorialized by a deranged bot.
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by zacwest 12y ago
Adium has had a huge decline in users, though, since then, so the percentage isn't as informative. For example, if you look back to a couple years ago, we had ~180k stats pings for the same week period[1] as we do now at ~20k[2]. I thi
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by zacwest 12y ago
My ISP here in SF, Webpass, has begun deploying their customers behind an IPv4 NAT with an IPv6 /64 prefix. I think this trend is going to be more common with consumer ISPs. I mind a little bit, since VPN access is impossible on IPv4,
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by zacwest 12y ago
At least where I grew up, nobody cared about expired licenses. Many of my friends used their sibling's or friend's old IDs to buy alcohol or cigarettes, despite the expiration. Perhaps this practice lead to people checking expirat
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by zacwest 12y ago
People can sell or give away expired licenses when they receive a new one. You can't trust an expired license because it implies there's one which _isn't_ expired.
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by zacwest 12y ago
Google says: > Using client-side Maps API services (JavaScript and Flash) in the browser is rate limited per map session. That means that requests are distributed across all your users and scale as the number of users grows. Therefore, c
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by zacwest 12y ago
There can only be one room admin per room. Doesn't really fix it.
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by zacwest 12y ago
This is a pain point for me because HipChat's permissions granularity is really bad: my organization gives everybody admin access so we can configure API tokens, emoticons, etc. Things we want to do pretty often. Now, we'll have t
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by zacwest 13y ago
The disappointing part: "For Box, the service would likely be aimed at only the most security-conscious organizations and not made available to individual consumers." Still, I hope it becomes a popular area to innovate for competi
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Box wants to let businesses control cloud encryption keys “this year”(arstechnica.com)
2 points by zacwest 13y ago|1 comments
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Bay Area Bike Share Open Data Challenge(bayareabikeshare.com)
2 points by zacwest 13y ago|0 comments
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by zacwest 13y ago
The big client issue for me is the bandwidth usage. Google Drive has no intelligent throttling, so it consumes your entire upload pipe, which makes other apps unusable. This is not really what I want a background service to do.
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by zacwest 13y ago
Pidgin specifically but they encompassed libpurple as well. They are sort of the same codebase from Pidgin's perspective. Sort of.
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by zacwest 13y ago
Thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours[1] have gone into security audits and improvements of Pidgin[2] and are not one-time things; this Google donation has recurred. It makes little sense to me to pick up and move to another platform a
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Dropbox adds arbitration requirement(zacwe.st)
2 points by zacwest 13y ago|0 comments
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by zacwest 13y ago
From Ars Technica @ http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/01/amazon-may-spawn-liv... > Update: Amazon spokesperson Drew Herdener has denied the WSJ's report, saying that Amazon is "not planning to
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by zacwest 13y ago
Very strange to post a reading list from a course given in Summer 2002. I took this same class at UCF more recently with Dr. Heinrich, who did an amazing job. I don't think his course materials are public, though he used Modern Process
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by zacwest 14y ago
For a library that is GPL, you would need that library's authors to relicense it to allow it on the App Store. It's not that reasonable: the Apple EULA requires things that directly conflict with the GPL, such as the EULA requiring non-dist

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