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by jpravetz 10y ago
I go out for mega long bike rides in areas with very spotty cell coverage (Silicon Valley). This app is great because when my spouse wants to know where I am she can initiate the request, and I can keep my hands on the handlebars and keep r
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by jpravetz 11y ago
Wow, thank you Jetbrains. Adobe could learn a thing or two here.
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by jpravetz 11y ago
Or it could be that what causes CFS also affects brain chemistry in a way that can result in depression. That's where my money is.
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by jpravetz 11y ago
In a nutshell, non-fat (or very low fat) vegan. A good resource for this is drmcdougall.com. Though I find McDougall a bit off-putting with his style, IMHO he's on the money, and the diet is what my doctor recommends. See, this is what
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by jpravetz 11y ago
Yes, I am curious too. The reason for my curiosity is I have been successful via diet as well, so it's to see if we're doing the same thing.
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by jpravetz 11y ago
I can imagine these devices are beautiful, and I'd love if I could run a good MAC OSX-like OS on them that also runs common productivity apps. I combined too many unrelated points the in above quote and made what I wrote confusing.
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by jpravetz 11y ago
I have two very competent friends that, in the past couple of months, have quit Apple because they were working in groups with toxic cultures. One was IS&T, the other was hardware (I don't want to name the exact group). They had ve
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by jpravetz 11y ago
What archive format would you back up to, and what application would you use? I looked at this a few years ago and, if I recall, the choices weren't obvious.
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by jpravetz 11y ago
This seems expensive for what you get. I made a $25 table from Ikea parts to put on top of my work desk. I cut the pipes to the right length. It works just fine and I get storage under the table. I too will use a recliner at home sometimes,
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by jpravetz 11y ago
Easier, or at least easy, fun, less compatibility issues when you live in a pure js and json world on the front and backends, productive, good libraries, good built-in libraries, easy to deploy, productive.
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by jpravetz 12y ago
I'd agree with that. I'm of the pretty firm belief that CFS and a bunch of other autoimmune disorders are of a parasitic origin. This pretty much sums up my knowledge on the subject: http://www.iadvocatehealth.org/
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by jpravetz 12y ago
And isn't mmmdG0tKtN#mmmmmmmmmmmmm more secure than dG0tKtN#mm?
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by jpravetz 12y ago
And the "9-Volt Nirvana" Radiolab podcast on "trans-cranial direct current stimulation", or tDCS, which is also mentioned in the article. http://www.radiolab.org/story/9-volt-nirvana/
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by jpravetz 12y ago
Exactly, the US regulations are absurd. And not just for US citizens living abroad. I'm Canadian living in the US as a resident and have a couple of real estate investment interests in Canada, but also can't create an investment a
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by jpravetz 13y ago
Unfortunately, for off road, even though the classification of whether bikes are allowed on a trail can be input, I haven't seen any viewers that show this information. I find it difficult to determine the trail type (single/doubl
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by jpravetz 14y ago
I wish there existed a popular config format that was somewhere between YAML and JSON. In my current nodejs project I sometimes use js files for config because js supports comments and is more lenient on syntax then JSON. I prefer using { }
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by jpravetz 14y ago
And so have I (put it to real world use). I'm getting 2-3 days of battery life (not much actual talking on the phone), love the display, love the OS and all the interconnected s/w features, and love the responsiveness, and find the data per
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by jpravetz 15y ago
Does anyone know how the sandboxing works to allow a camera, gallery and dropbox app to access the same locally stored image files? Or for local contacts to be shared?
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by jpravetz 15y ago
I'm most alarmed with this restriction: iCloud document storage and Notification Center. Both of these are slated only for third-party apps from the Mac App Store. Many developers, though, have been maintaining non-Mac App Store versions o
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How to create an easy to remember password, resistant to brute force attack(grc.com)
7 points by jpravetz 15y ago|2 comments
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by jpravetz 15y ago
I agree. I had to go back from AS3 to AS2 for a project and it felt like a step backwards, and AS2 is more like Javascript. Adobe has also open sourced the AS3 runtime. But of course the practicality is that we have Javascript in browsers,
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by jpravetz 15y ago
Correct. I have two 'normal' people in this house, and neither of them could or would get their work done on today's iPad. They are on Macs. For them, and myself as IT support person, the most interesting feature of the iPad might be the ap
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by jpravetz 15y ago
You have to wonder what form of authentication was used at Comodo's Registration Authority server that enabled it be breached. Maybe an RSA SecureID token :-) (see http://steve.grc.com/2011/03/19/reverse-engineering-rsas-sta... ). Seriousl
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by jpravetz 16y ago
If Sendoid is completely relying on RTMFP then the core security technology would have to be coming from Adobe. Check out Matthew Kaufmann's two year old talk on the subject: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/max-2008-develop/future-of-communi...
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by jpravetz 16y ago
You can get any content onto an iPod, but you can't take the DRM-protected content bought thru iTunes anywhere else, including streaming with Slimserver, etc. And people now presumably have a large collection of content that is managed the
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by jpravetz 16y ago
Yes ePub is open. But Apple's DRM is not an open standard. I assume they are adding DRM to content sold thru their book store?
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by jpravetz 16y ago
In support of unencumbered formats, think about how Apple became dominant. iPod/iTunes initial success + music labels insistence on DRM, lead to lack of content portability, lead to device lock-in, lead to iPod dominance, lead to music labe
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by jpravetz 16y ago
Except that no financial institution will accept a Facebook identity.
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by jpravetz 16y ago
This is so cool. Very well done. A feature request would be to add layering for muscles: I can't pick out the hip rotators and Piriformis. Ditto for Transversus abdominis.
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by jpravetz 16y ago
I think that Netflix also doesn't want to be in the business of building the full secured/DRM code stack on all these platforms themselves. They'd rather leverage. And for whatever reasons I believe they are/were a Microsoft video encoding

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