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An email marketing platform that deletes accounts without sending email notices(supermegaultragroovy.com)
9 points by liscio 11mo ago|1 comments
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by liscio 11mo ago
Yes, it's entirely my fault that the account has lapsed: I took a bit of a sabbatical for full-time grad school, and it was a very busy few years. But how crazy is it that an email marketing company thinks it's a good idea not to
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How Album Artwork Took Down Audio Playback on macOS Sonoma(supermegaultragroovy.com)
5 points by liscio 3y ago|0 comments
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by liscio 15y ago
Ugh. Say "no" to spec work: http://www.no-spec.com/about/
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by liscio 15y ago
That is false. RAM and HDDs in MacBook Pro machines are user-replaceable parts. No warranty is voided provided you install the proper stuff, and don't break your system in the process. I believe the manuals include detailed instructions for
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by liscio 16y ago
I've always wanted to try Numpy for this purpose, but I get exposed to so much MATLAB code in research papers for DSP that it hardly seems worthwhile. Furthermore, I've built an entire Objective-C math framework ( https://bitbucket.org/lisc
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by liscio 16y ago
Boy do I love me some Octave. I do all my DSP algorithm research in Octave, because the price of MATLAB is just too high. I think I'm looking at somewhere on the order of $4k for a single license to obtain the signal processing stuff that I
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by liscio 16y ago
You mean 10.5, right? I've got a fairly large install base, and I'd like to keep them happy if at all possible. In the future, when I have to get them to buy a v2 release on the App Store, then ideally I've made a good impression on my cust
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by liscio 16y ago
I think there's not much benefit of staying on Leopard if you run an Intel Mac these days. The upgrade cost is pretty cheap, and the benefits do developers are quite heavenly. I've been keeping Leopard support in TapeDeck because it's been
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by liscio 16y ago
If they email you the .app, it will be locked down to the purchaser's machine. In terms of Snow Leopard-only, that's not necessarily true. However, it will be Intel-only. The version of TapeDeck I submitted to the App Store had to be stripp
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by liscio 16y ago
I've yet to have one of the "bad" problems with PayPal, but I'm always trying to stay a step ahead of them when I can. For instance, if you're expecting a higher-than-normal sales volume (e.g. a launch day, version upgrade, promotion), it d
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by liscio 16y ago
Poor battery life? My Magic Mouse would last 3 weeks of constant use with NiMH batteries on average. However, this was only the case after I applied the software update for my aluminum bluetooth keyboard. The first few weeks with the mouse
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by liscio 16y ago
Are all the features accessible in non-contract plans? I've got a few contract-only perks here in Canada on Rogers, such as the 6GB data plan add-on for $30/mo, and an "Employee Purchase Program" discounted voice service at $17/mo. I don't
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by liscio 16y ago
It's hard for any company to try and work against the carrier-subsidized pricing of handsets. As long as carriers are supplying the access, this will continue to be the case. To pay $500 for a phone, versus the $100 subsidized price, is a s
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by liscio 16y ago
I think that the kind of folks who are _capable_ of building significant iOS based apps simply choose not to, instead of simply producing fart apps. I avoided the platform for as long as I could. During that time: the tools improved, hardwa
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by liscio 17y ago
I can't speak for mmastrac, but in general Rogers devices roam onto AT&T as their first choice. I've noticed similar lameness in AT&T's network while traveling...
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by liscio 17y ago
It's probably the algorithm in question that's to blame, in conjunction with the slow OpenCL implementation for the 8800GT, as you found. On my machine (I'm the article's author), even Apple's GPU-tuned version of Galaxies runs much faster
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Swimming in OpenCL(supermegaultragroovy.com)
14 points by liscio 17y ago|2 comments
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by liscio 17y ago
From the brief description on the site, it sounds possible. Kernel support is not mandatory, as it only provides optimizations. So you're good there. You will have to supply a build of the GCC compiler that supports blocks, and make it pla
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by liscio 17y ago
Not always the case. For example: Watson ( http://www.karelia.com/watson/ ), was killed by Apple's Sherlock. Later, SandVox ( http://www.karelia.com/sandvox/ ) was later followed up by Apple's iWeb. The list goes on... Indie Mac developers
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by liscio 17y ago
To me, I'd question the 'full suite' of Office that was supposedly included. Even when building through Dell, and packing in the OEM version, I'm pretty sure that alone adds $3-400 to the price. That said, Office doesn't ship with Macs. I'
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by liscio 17y ago
I couldn't agree with you more. So many well-known sites are publishing terrible native apps for the iPhone which could have been much more effectively implemented by some CSS/js tweaks. For instance, the PayPal app is utterly terrible, and
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by liscio 17y ago
If I was worried about harsh comments, I wouldn't have started a thread, on the internet, looking for feedback. Anyway... You bring up some interesting features—a few of which I have planned for future releases. I can't do it all in a 1.0
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by liscio 17y ago
You really should download and use the free trial to decide for yourself. In fact, all the slow-downers on the market have free trials. In Capo, you have all the functionality you need, with the limitation that after 5 minutes of audio pas
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by liscio 17y ago
Capo is selling to a market that includes folks who (and I'm included) would easily throw an extra $100 into a guitar because it has a nice rosewood back & sides versus mahogany. That $100 isn't going to help you play any better. It'll
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by liscio 17y ago
It's not difficult to detect all the notes via FFT, slightly more difficult to detect only bass notes (harmonics come into play), and quite a bit more difficult to pull useful chords out. That said, my first Mac app, FuzzMeasure, is an audi
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by liscio 17y ago
I'm using the Apple-supplied time-pitch audio unit because: (a) it has excellent audio quality (b) it's well-maintained (c) it performs well; and (d) I don't like to reinvent the wheel :)
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by liscio 17y ago
Actually, I designed Capo for one-handed use. And, if you don't have a newer keyboard w/ the option key right beside the arrow keys, you can use pgdn/pgup to go between the markers, rather than opt-left and opt-right.
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by liscio 17y ago
Thanks! John was very kind to have written such a glowing comment.
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by liscio 17y ago
I think this comes down to really "living with the app for a while" to make that decision. I've used other apps, including other 'slow-downers', and I really just couldn't find my footing in them. Some are horrid cross-platform apps with u

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