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by cweiss 8y ago
What about a Mac with Windows (bootcamp or VM), the BSD subsystem, XCode with the iOS emulator and Android studio with an Android emulator?
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by cweiss 8y ago
I'd love a citation on that. Not to prove you right/wrong, I'd just love to see the definitive etymology of "Application" to describe software. I'm trying to remember what 'software' was called in the
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by cweiss 8y ago
Nice - I signed up for it and I'm seeing images of mail being sent to my previous address (that's actually addressed to the current occupants, not my mail being mis-delivered).
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by cweiss 8y ago
Unfortunately, I don't _think_ this propagates to other Apple devices that are set to alert you to incoming calls. (Someone please correct me if I'm wrong on this).
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by cweiss 8y ago
There are other blocklists you can use besides the default. Some quick googling turned up half a dozen that folks like. Some more restrictive, some less.
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by cweiss 8y ago
I don't know if the barrier to entry was all that low... You needed a computer and modem (until the C64 & ZX-81 came along, you were talking ~$2k including modem, floppy drive, and monitor for an Apple 2, TRS-80, Pet, or similar -
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by cweiss 8y ago
I wonder if the pilot got any compensation for the fuel savings? I could see that being a dangerous incentive though, forcing pilots to opt for more risky conditions for the fuel savings bonus.
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by cweiss 8y ago
Back in the early 1980's, there was a weekly PBS series called The Computer Chronicles. It was a rundown of tech at the time. Being an older geek, I remember watching them first-run to learn about shiny new things like VisiCalc, sound
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by cweiss 8y ago
Is there an effective mnemonic for the model designations? I've heard the lineup several times and it's just not sticking. Because of this, I tend to forcibly _not_ think about the iPhone to save mental CPU cycles.
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by cweiss 8y ago
Earlier poster is correct about not being intuitive. Now that I know about it, that's awesome. Sadly, it's not supported by the Google keyboard (long press kicks off voice search).
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by cweiss 8y ago
Figure out where the toxic shitstorms are coming from and cut those items out of your life. In my case, the main FB news stream and TV news were the primary antagonizers. I stopped watching TV news and get my news from HN and Google News (e
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by cweiss 8y ago
No, but a growing number of utilities can inform customers that it is a 'peak usage' time and customer devices can adapt accordingly. Nest (and I assume other internet-connected) thermostats are able to accept peak-usage notificat
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by cweiss 8y ago
Is it me, or does their blog not support RSS/Atom? Trying to add it to feedly and it's not recognizing any feeds.
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by cweiss 8y ago
Just because there might be bloggers out there reading this looking to improve things - SHOW ARTICLE PUBLICATION DATES! This is especially critical for tech blogs.
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by cweiss 8y ago
So much this - It's hard to get invested in a product when it's a nebulous cloud rather than a bright point. This is so much like the Performa SKU sprawl that almost killed Apple in the days of old. The problem now is there's
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by cweiss 8y ago
Our company has several LifeSpan treadmill desks (~$1200) scattered throughout campus. For a while, I was using one daily. My experience: 1. You're bouncing up and down while you're walking. At best, you can read something - typin
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by cweiss 8y ago
/me gets tinfoil hat 1. Verizon buys some content producers that flop - Content will not be a profit center for Verizon. 2. Other media companies buy content producers that don't flop (as much). 3. Verizon's General Council (
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by cweiss 8y ago
I know I'm late to the party, but I'm surprised nobody mentioned the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series - It's a BBC Radio Play, but was my first exposure to the story, and a fantastic one at that. I also really enj
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by cweiss 8y ago
My typical web pattern is to open a page, read it's content, open any interesting links in background tabs, then deal with them either immediately after reading the current page, or in bulk at my next idle moment. Dealing with them dep
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by cweiss 8y ago
I've used Device42[0] in the past and found it pretty good for asset tracking. It can map software to hardware and manage software relationships. It's a datacenter manager first though. That said, it's been a couple of years
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by cweiss 8y ago
TBH - Do you even need 1TB of storage on your desktop? If your image/music library is that large, you'd have it on a NAS. Maybe if you've got a big batch of VMs for some reason...
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by cweiss 8y ago
It seems like half (all) of those could be solved with a VM. On paper, the iPad has the storage (1TB!) and horsepower now. I wonder how difficult it would be to implement a hypervisor on iOS.
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by cweiss 8y ago
OTOH - DOS probably has a pretty low vulnerability profile and it's _very_ well known. Most modern POS terminals run Windows 7. Which is more secure?
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by cweiss 8y ago
Depends on what you want out of it. My biggest loss with G+ sunsetting is that there were some decent technical groups. I've not yet managed to get addicted to Reddit, but I'm guessing that's going to be as good as I'll
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by cweiss 8y ago
Synchronizing with desktops - particularly non-OSX desktops.
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by cweiss 8y ago
What will be cheaper: Tariffs or "the right amount of funding"? I'm guessing tariffs will still be far less expensive than ramping up US-based manufacturing that can cover all the components/labor that was sourced in Chi
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by cweiss 9y ago
Yes, but the real win is in a different way than I think you're describing. With Docker, containers are built in a layered fashion with each 'step' of the build creating a new layer (think version control hashes). The benefit
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by cweiss 9y ago
OTOH - It's pretty damn cool to say "Alexa, turn on the room lights" _before_ you get to the room or "Alexa, turn off the room lights" _after_ you've walked upstairs and realized you're not going back to t
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by cweiss 9y ago
It's a fascinating idea. The Pi Zero is tiny (likely much smaller than the battery pack). I'd think it's not that big a deal. Plus, depending on your employer, they may have unreasonable requirements for subsidizing a phone c
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by cweiss 9y ago
For some great context around this, I highly recommend "Playing at the world" by Jon Peterson ( https://www.amazon.com/Playing-at-World-Jon-Peterson/dp/0615... ). It's a fairly detailed history of pap

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