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by jbinto 3y ago
TouchBistro ( https://www.touchbistro.com/ ) | Senior iOS Developer, Developer Acceleration | Full time, Toronto OR remote Canada/select US states TouchBistro is an all-in-one restaurant management system that has powere
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by jbinto 3y ago
20+ years of this handle online without problems, and I found out trying to sign up for Stern Pinball Insider that "bint" is a dirty word: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bint
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by jbinto 12y ago
Square remembers your email address by credit card number. This was really surprising to me. I used Square once at a shop in Seattle, and had an email receipt sent to me. Almost a year later, I used Square back home in Toronto and asked for
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by jbinto 12y ago
While it is mostly marketing (i.e. still using Chakra and Trident engines), the biggest change from a web developer's perspective is that the new Spartan browser will be evergreen[1]. [1]: https://plus.google.com/+PaulI
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by jbinto 12y ago
Just because you opt out of letting Facebook (or Linkedin) see your contacts, does not mean your contacts have done the same thing. e.g. If you are someone@example.org, and others have someone@example.org in their address book and they let
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by jbinto 12y ago
As others have noted here already, the smart TVs are quickly becoming the only thing you can buy now, at least in North America.
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by jbinto 12y ago
Radio Shack in Canada ended up in a similar situation. In 2005, they sold to Circuit City and opened as a rebranded store called "The Source" (after a brief legal dispute about the Radio Shack name). When Circuit City went bankrup
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by jbinto 12y ago
> I'm in Illinois which is an all-party-consent state It looks like this was overturned in 2014. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_wiretapping_law#Court_... http://www.washingtonpost.com/new
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by jbinto 12y ago
It would have finished eventually. This only happens if you have a lot of stuff in /usr/local (e.g. Homebrew). https://jimlindley.com/blog/yosemite-upgrade-homebrew-tips/
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by jbinto 12y ago
It's good to see this get some attention. I spent a long time trying to figure out how to make full screen zoom usable with an external display. I found if you enable the "Increase Contrast" accessibility feature, performance
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by jbinto 12y ago
My feedback: I just tried it in Toronto and had to swipe down about 50 times to get rid of obvious (and NSFW) spam. The content is better now, but all coming from the eastern USA. I tried to comment on something, and got prompted to registe
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by jbinto 12y ago
I don't believe it was a DDoS, but Route 53 stopped resolving records for Cloudfront distributions for a few hours on Nov 26 2014. This affected everyone who uses CloudFront (which is a lot), including Amazon.com itself. There, all pro
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by jbinto 12y ago
That is true, the discount is only good for e-books. I hardly even thought to make the distinction. These days, for technical topics anyway, the "e-" prefix is just as optional for "book" as "mail".
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by jbinto 12y ago
https://pragprog.com/ has 50% off all books. I don't see that listed here.
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by jbinto 12y ago
Amazon.com is up for me, but is entirely missing product images.
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by jbinto 12y ago
Yes. That's not perfect. But it raises the bar for forgery to "can sign certificates as a root authority", which is still fairly high. (e.g. I can't do it, and neither can you.) It stops coffee shop/hotel wifi opera
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by jbinto 12y ago
Airbus. That makes a lot more sense. I initially read that as Airbnb.
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What Architecture Is Doing to Your Brain(citylab.com)
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by jbinto 12y ago
OT: Anyone remember VRML? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML
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by jbinto 12y ago
They should have never diluted the "Kindle" brand by mixing e-ink products and iPad-knockoff products. I still think e-ink is the best way to read long texts, and it's a shame that you can no longer colloquially refer to a &#
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by jbinto 12y ago
That this is an opinion piece is made obvious by Betteridge's Law: > "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_
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by jbinto 12y ago
This reminds me of the infamous HN response to Dropbox's launch 5 years ago: > you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on
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by jbinto 12y ago
I didn't get the context, so I looked it up: http://aphyr.com/tags/Jepsen > This article is part of Jepsen, a series on network partitions. Covers MongoDB, redis, RabbitMQ, among others. All articles start with
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by jbinto 12y ago
> Maybe the "next browser" will be so intrinsically attached into your OS window manager there will be virtually not difference between an installed application and a website, their windows will behave the same way. Reminds me
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by jbinto 12y ago
> [..] multi-touch gestures to use to find that chrome popup window that disappeared [..] This may not help for your case, but it may interest keyboard shortcut junkies. When I was getting used to the "interesting" way OS X han
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by jbinto 12y ago
I mentally blacklisted Quora when it was proudly US only (I'm Canadian). Their reasoning was extremely dubious: something about "cultural differences" and "language barriers" preventing "high quality content&qu
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by jbinto 12y ago
Even without those conditions, it's a problem. If I have too many tabs open in mobile Chrome, t.co will flat out not work. As soon as I "close all tabs", it starts working again. I have no explanation for this.
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by jbinto 12y ago
Apparently they're still popular in Taiwan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTT_Bulletin_Board_System
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by jbinto 12y ago
I agree Wikipedia isn't great for approaching new topics. Have you heard of Simple English Wikipedia? It does describe (e.g.) electricity in a useful way. http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity
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by jbinto 12y ago
I see. You can use Iodine to tunnel through any arbitrary DNS server, even ones not under your control. I didn't appreciate that when I posted the above comment. Very neat.

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