cmontgomeryb

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by cmontgomeryb 14y ago
What? Nothing is broken. They don't let you mute ads, because they're ADS. This is the intended behaviour. If you don't like it, pay. Of course it's a matter of removing ads, your post details how to silence them when Spotify have built the
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by cmontgomeryb 14y ago
It's £4.99 or £9.99 per month. Most people probably spend significantly more than this for their iPhone contract, data and so on. Unlimited music for this price is a steal. Pony up, or put up with the ads.
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by cmontgomeryb 15y ago
"OSX users are such a small minority, its hard to find a way to please them without making it worse for Windows and Linux." There are many more OSX users than Linux on the desktop. http://www.netmarketshare.com/os-market-share.aspx?qprid=9
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by cmontgomeryb 15y ago
I realise we were never able to hold the Microsoft Courier, but I think they were on the right track there and had they executed (yes - I realise this is where Apple won) the landscape may look different today. RIP Courier, you passed befor
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by cmontgomeryb 15y ago
I think that was the intention: (tech == man revived) returns true :)
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by cmontgomeryb 15y ago
"if you are serious about programming you will _eventually_ master both." Starting to really dislike the text editor snobbery on HN. At home I use TextMate for Python and Ruby, Eclipse for Java. At work, Eclipse for Java and Visual Studio f
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by cmontgomeryb 15y ago
Have you discovered the (relative) joys of Calibre? http://calibre-ebook.com It's not perfect, but it's very good and much nicer than doing it manually. Especially for managing collections. Regularly updated too.
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by cmontgomeryb 15y ago
I have very mixed feelings about CCTV, but generally I don't mind it (note that this is different to being 'for' it). I worked for a company writing software for CCTV operators, recording/playback etc and I heard of various crimes being sol
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by cmontgomeryb 15y ago
Fully agree. I wish they'd left Spaces in, maybe just enabled Mission Control by default. I would pay to have spaces back, rather than MC.
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by cmontgomeryb 15y ago
Doesn't seem to be available for me (UK, 13:45).
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by cmontgomeryb 15y ago
The first public release is pencilled for the end of 2011.
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by cmontgomeryb 15y ago
Nice timing, I'm in the process of replacing my beer snobbery with whiskey snobbery :) I needed something just like this, to help my find my way through the masses of new drinks out there.
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by cmontgomeryb 15y ago
IANAL, and haven't read the patents. But "system and method for performing an action on a structure in computer-generated data" and "real-time signal processing system for serially transmitted data" - really? I'm sure people were doing both
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by cmontgomeryb 15y ago
I think PaaS would be worth mentioning at an introductory level - the difference between managing your own VPS/Dedi/CoLo, and using something like Heroku.
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by cmontgomeryb 15y ago
Unfortunately I don't have anything particularly constructive to add, just that I hope this does take off - it's definitely needed and I would be a customer. The reason I'm not a customer yet (and there is a domain or two I'm toying with pi
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by cmontgomeryb 15y ago
An interesting read. I'm born and raised in the UK, 23 years old and would love to move to NYC in the next few years. The problem for people outside of the UK is always going to be the immigration process - I'm having trouble figuring out t
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by cmontgomeryb 15y ago
Thankyou for Iconfinder!
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by cmontgomeryb 15y ago
Meeting the love of your life by banging heads as you both reach for the last copy of your favourite magazine is serendipity. Arranging a date via an online dating site is not.
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by cmontgomeryb 15y ago
But law enforcement _wouldn't_ be able to use the hashed password to gain access to the system, would they? Otherwise there would be no advantage to hashing over storing plaintext. Am I misunderstanding you?
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by cmontgomeryb 15y ago
You're focusing too much on it being a 'birthday', traditionally a 1 day event. He spent a long weekend with his girlfriend, which is healthy and worthwhile to do so long as he isn't doing it every week!
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by cmontgomeryb 15y ago
I believe Reddit does this for the first X hours of a submissions life - to discourage bandwagons, and so that newer submissions that may otherwise be overlooked (due to having less initial upvotes) will get a chance. I agree that it's a go
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by cmontgomeryb 15y ago
I have started automating a lot of the smaller, repetetive tasks. It doesn't save a huge amount of time, just removes small annoyances and friction. One example is that I'm new to OSX, so I was playing with Automator and have used it to cre
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by cmontgomeryb 15y ago
Ouch. Thanks for that. For people who haven't followed the link, 2.8 is available from the source at http://www.skype.com/intl/en/get-skype/on-your-computer/maco...
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by cmontgomeryb 15y ago
Sorry for the curtness, that reply was from work. I actually found this site for the first time last week while searching for the subject of this very thread - I had reinstalled OSX and in the process ended up with Skype 5. I'm thankful tha
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by cmontgomeryb 15y ago
http://mac.oldversion.com/Skype.html
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by cmontgomeryb 15y ago
That screenshot was to point out that when changing from "automatic" to "custom", there was no difference ie the setting Google's automatic setting settled on was "full pelt".
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by cmontgomeryb 15y ago
I didn't know Yahoo charged for this. Any reason you went down this path rather than Gmail, which offers POP3 and IMAP both for free?
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by cmontgomeryb 16y ago
Exactly, this is a mistake made by almost everyone who has reported it! Large companies have their recruiters send emails like this out all the time.
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by cmontgomeryb 16y ago
I bet a lot of people here can relate to this.
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by cmontgomeryb 16y ago
Honestly, you came off much worse in that story than Gina. According to your story, she said "none of her clients have ever been interested in such an arrangement" - not that NOBODY IN THE WORLD was interested. Going to her manager was VERY

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