Lazlo_Nibble

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by Lazlo_Nibble 8y ago
In 15+ years of building and maintaining SWIFT-connected systems that run SWIFT-provided software, I’ve never encountered a situation where a SWIFT message has “just disappeared”.
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by Lazlo_Nibble 8y ago
SWIFT charges pennies (well, eurocents) per message. The fees you’re referring to are imposed by the institutions on either end of the transaction.
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by Lazlo_Nibble 9y ago
CD ripping. Initial audio pass in an older version of EAC, which hands off to the scripts. Those validate the audio against the AccurateRip + CUETools databases and file the rip appropriately if there's a failure (e.g. "might be a
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by Lazlo_Nibble 10y ago
There are already a lot of completed "presale" sales on eBay for $125-$189.
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by Lazlo_Nibble 11y ago
Oh, the havoc you could wreak with control of the .corn TLD!
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by Lazlo_Nibble 11y ago
The pro-open-plan side is armed with hard numbers; cost-per-employee for one buildout vs. another is easy to measure up front. The anti-open-plan side has no way of generating the equivalent numbers for lost productivity and even their bes
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by Lazlo_Nibble 12y ago
Uh, no. Bit-perfect ripping is trivial and routine, and tools like the AccurateRip DB (which has checksums for around three million different titles you can use to verify the checksums on your own rips) and the CUEtools database (which has
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by Lazlo_Nibble 15y ago
I saw this implemented at (I think) Times Square Tower a few years back. It had you enter your floor at a podium in the main lobby on the way to the elevators, and it worked beautifully. 49 floors and not once did I have to wait more than t
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by Lazlo_Nibble 15y ago
EFF is a 501 (c) (3). If EFF can advocate, so can Wikipedia.
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by Lazlo_Nibble 15y ago
Amazon is already working with 7-11 to provide this service.
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by Lazlo_Nibble 15y ago
You can't? What's this screenshot showing, then? http://i.imgur.com/acOje.png (That's a serious question, BTW. I would check it myself but I can't upgrade to iOS5 until I figure out how to get Windows DEP to stop killing iTunes 10.5 every
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by Lazlo_Nibble 15y ago
The search bar is ridiculously large, especially given how rarely I suspect most folks actually run searches against their calendar. I'm sure some people are doing it constantly but if I've even done it once I'd be surprised. There's an awf
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by Lazlo_Nibble 15y ago
Zork was an adaptation of DUNGEON, not Adventure. (Or DUNGEO, as it was called on our PDP-11/34a in high school. Still have my maps!)
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by Lazlo_Nibble 15y ago
Agreed re: community size and Usenet's inability to scale to it (see: http://www.studio-nibble.com/lazlo/images/wiredquote.jpg ). My lament is strictly about the tools used to interact with that community. Most web discussion boards are ju
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by Lazlo_Nibble 15y ago
Unless you've actually used a decent newsreader like trn, It's difficult to appreciate just how much we've given up by moving most online discussions to the web. Loss of threaded discussions isn't the worst of it -- many of the web-based di
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by Lazlo_Nibble 15y ago
That's a huge assumption that I doubt very much will survive the EULA you'd need to agree to in order to use iTunes Match. It seems unlikely that the labels have licensed Apple to run the world's biggest pirated-music-laundering service.
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by Lazlo_Nibble 15y ago
Instapaper also works from any browser on any platform. I don't see that happening with Reading list anytime soon.
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by Lazlo_Nibble 15y ago
The vast majority of the articles I add to Instapaper, I add from Firefox on my desktop at work. And virtually all the articles I read in Instapaper, I read when I'm off-network completely (I have an iPod touch). I don't think Marco has
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by Lazlo_Nibble 15y ago
People have actually paid me to do editing (the fools!), and I know the standard proofreading marks backwards and forwards, but I still didn't read the graphic on the key as "delete". I might have been able to suss it out if you told me
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by Lazlo_Nibble 15y ago
Is the name Hype not admission enough?
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by Lazlo_Nibble 15y ago
and, as I understand the overall issue to be, the concern is that DropBox may at some point "hand over your files" to (I assume) The Feds -- should they come knocking? No, the concern is that Dropbox led people to believe that by use of e
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by Lazlo_Nibble 15y ago
There aren't many better ways to ID people who've downloaded music illegally than to have them upload copies of those music files to a central location where they can be easily analyzed. Hell, I'd love a chance to run stats on that dataset
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by Lazlo_Nibble 15y ago
If companies can have cultures then they can also have ethics, as the two are closely related.
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by Lazlo_Nibble 15y ago
I would look at it this way: say you've started a new job. You've been told that you're expected to behave "professionally", but not given any specific guidance as to what that means in this company. You're seated at the head of a large tab
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by Lazlo_Nibble 15y ago
There are very few professional settings where expressions of sexuality are seen as normal and fun. That's what "unprofessional" means.
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by Lazlo_Nibble 15y ago
Yup. You get the behavior you incent, and my impression is that the incentives to play politics at Microsoft are far more pervasive nowadays than the incentives to build good product. In fact, one of the biggest incentives to build good pr
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by Lazlo_Nibble 15y ago
My first guess at an explanation would be that the camera is actually a self-contained little image/video engine that's "running" (i.e., capturing images internally) anytime the phone is powered up, and that under certain circumstances tick
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by Lazlo_Nibble 15y ago
Yes you could. There may have been a centralized "store" at some point, but I don't remember it. Palm OS let you install arbitrary executables, so you didn't need one.
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
This is fine as long as you actually understand what it is you're working around, why it's there, and what the consequences are of working around it. What looks like bureaucracy to a technologist may well be there for a very good busines
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
Possibly relevant: http://geniusnow.com/2011/03/15/the-strange-case-of-josef-oe...

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