Hontano

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by Hontano 13y ago
The fictitious placeholder in Pages templates: https://www.apple.com/iwork/pages/images/overlay_template_07...
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Data will help us remember, but will it let us forget?(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by Hontano 13y ago
I didn't say they're perfect or anywhere near perfection. I could go on at length about the myriad things that annoy me: Finder, HFS, software update crammed in the App Store, iOS lockdown. All I did say is that they absolutely do _care_ a
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by Hontano 13y ago
It might not be perfect, because what ever is? But the interior of the Macbook Pro, Mac Pro, and other hardware suggests otherwise: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+15-Inch+Retina+Di... Similarly, the filesystem on OS X. As far
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by Hontano 13y ago
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by Hontano 13y ago
The book is a fascinating read: http://www.amazon.com/Box-Shipping-Container-Smaller-Economy... It chronicles competing standards, proprietary efforts, attempts at sea-rail-road integration, with some lively characters thrown in. It capt
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by Hontano 13y ago
It's not ideal, but there's a happy enough compromise in USB-powered 2TB 2.5" external drives.
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by Hontano 13y ago
True. And the "marine reserve" shenanigans are disgraceful.
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by Hontano 13y ago
Indeed there is no indigenous population and hasn't been since 1966 [1]. It's nothing but a strategically well-placed airbase with a few thousand personal and contractors. .io is clearly a gccTLD. The TLD administration and commissioner in
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Stunning Quadrocopter Pole Acrobatics(youtube.com)
1 points by Hontano 14y ago|0 comments
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Charles Darwin's ecological experiment on Ascension isle (2010)(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by Hontano 14y ago|0 comments
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by Hontano 14y ago
You're right, I just re-read the judgment with the proposed wording. Apple should have gone with that verbatim and otherwise shut up so as to not drag it out. They made what could have been a publicly boring notice buried in the page footer
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by Hontano 14y ago
The judgement specified where, when, and how to publish the notice down to which website and publications, the typeface, and point size. It was sloppy to do all that and then not either properly parameterise what should be published or
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by Hontano 14y ago
The obvious answer is to use progressive fines, making them proportional rather than a fixed amount. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-fine
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by Hontano 14y ago
Beats me. Apple complied with a sloppy judgment. I'm no great fan of Apple in this, but the appeal judges fucked up by not clearly specifying what Apple needed to do and could not do.
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by Hontano 14y ago
"The job of an OS not a human admin. "apt-get install puppet" on the clients and "apt-get install puppetmaster" on the puppetmaster. That's about it." It might be a simple apt-get command, but consider setting up Chef Server. You're sudden
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by Hontano 14y ago
Sorry, I don't recall in particular. It was about a year ago. It was only a basic setup of a user account, a directory tree, and ufw. It took over a minute for either a first or subsequent run on a clean install of Natty. Considering how m
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by Hontano 14y ago
I never got on well with either. Puppet was mind-bogglingly slow (even locally without a master), both Chef and Puppet felt overwrought, and I prefer keeping dependencies to a minimum. Just a pointer for anyone else that doesn't have much l
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by Hontano 14y ago
I don't know if that would be more awesome or terrifying, especially once you've removed the pilot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaman_K-MAX#Unmanned_remote_con...
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by Hontano 14y ago
I forgot Browett came from Dixons. Everyone then said he would probably be disastrous for Apple. Looks like we were correct. I can't imagine him not being shown the door imminently after such a huge PR gaffe. Asymco just posted figures on s
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by Hontano 14y ago
Ah hah, I forgot about Fantastical. Looks like it will do the trick for quick entry of reminders which was one of the few features I was missing after Things. (Plus there's a 50%-off sale). Using an Fn double-tap to dictate makes it Siri-e
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by Hontano 14y ago
I loved the original release of Things on the desktop, but wish I had never bothered with the iOS app. It took far too many taps to do anything and syncing was clunky to the point of uselessness. It was the wait for over-the-air syncing, wi
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by Hontano 14y ago
I read both "What wasn't I consulted?" and "Behind a Press Release" as being very directed at this situation, neither of which were classy ways for Gruber to handle it, just snide allusions. Dan's short message was pure class.
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EVE Online economy attacked by massive alliance of players(theverge.com)
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by Hontano 15y ago
It looks like Apple Illustration got there first in August 1996. I presume Apple Computer didn't have the foresight to go around registering with every ccTLD back then. It must be worth a pretty penny now though.
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A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100(ribbonfarm.com)
2 points by Hontano 15y ago|0 comments
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by Hontano 15y ago
Way to leave in style, good for him. I hope it gives the firm the wake up call it needs. I left a couple of years ago after a three year stint. It was partly out of the boredom of babysitting a legacy platform that had little future, but m
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by Hontano 15y ago
A few paragraphs in to the article I was wondering what font the article was written in. I figured it might be Roboto and sure enough, a quick trip to Web Inspector shows it is. I'm not a fan of Roboto personally as each character feels too
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by Hontano 15y ago
Depends on what scope you're considering. You're right if you're talking about the US alone. But calling the NYT moderately right-of-center isn't far off the mark if you consider the wider Western media.
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by Hontano 15y ago
Sure it's a piece in a far right wing magazine with its own agenda to push, but you'll have to substantiate your claim of "complete bullshit". The Chinese government is well known for its supression entire ethnicities. But surely you'd agre

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