august125

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by august125 9mo ago
This was Steve Jobs' original vision for the iPhone, before he relented and launched the App Store. Maybe it was the correct one.
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by august125 6y ago
Sadly you missed the golden era for the Mac. Back in the PowerPC days there were lots of developers making fun and useful tweaks and there was a fair amount of configurability built in. It really was a professional's Unix OS back then.
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by august125 6y ago
Although I think throwaway is correct that that isn't what they meant, people do indeed lease land in the United States. It's more common in commercial real estate, but there are also (predatory, in my opinion) land leases for &qu
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by august125 6y ago
This is my go-to for workshopping potential domain names.
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by august125 6y ago
Mark Zuckerberg has completed his transformation into a real life Artie Ziff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU9X3tvTmIQ
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by august125 6y ago
Easy. I'm already envisioning all the ways this device could make my life easier. I would no longer have to juggle RFID keys to multiple clients' premises. I can lock and unlock my 1994 BMW that uses a long obsolete RF keyless ent
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by august125 6y ago
What really irritated me was the suddenly imposed three device sync limit. Being forced to pay for 2 TB when I didn't need any more space than I already had just to get my files on all my computers really rubbed me the wrong way. Like
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by august125 7y ago
Who's going to be the first startup out the door to try to sell "EARN IT" compliant encryption and lobby the government to recommend their product for "best practices" implementation?
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by august125 7y ago
Somewhere at Apple, a sysadmin noticed a suspicious amount of traffic to a dusty forgotten Xserve G4 in the corner of a datacenter at the old One Infinite Loop campus and finally pulled the plug, thus ending what was possibly world's h