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by novum 10y ago
This is chock full of platitudes and obfuscation. Pinboard appears to have participated in good faith, as you admitted yourself. It seems rather like HN/YC had never intended to allow Pinboard to win, even before any votes had been cas
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by novum 11y ago
Parent is most likely referring to the telnet GOAHEAD character and its related SUPPRESS GOAHEAD protocol: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc858 I am the author of a MUD client for iOS[0] that, like most other clients, wi
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by novum 12y ago
A Facebook spokesman says the company “doesn’t have shadow accounts or profiles – hidden or otherwise – for people who haven’t signed up for our service,” and a 2011 audit by Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner confi
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With $30M More in Hand, IFTTT Looks to the Internet of Things(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
203 points by novum 12y ago|90 comments
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by novum 12y ago
Sure it could be a cron job, but using Jenkins adds some conveniences: a nice UI to browse projects, plus it archives the output of every historical build, locally-archived build artifacts, lots of extensibility with plugins, and so on.
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by novum 12y ago
CI means knowing that your product is always in a releasable state. Green tests is only one small piece of that. I have an iOS app or two that I work on independently, as side projects. Even though I am the sole developer on these projects,
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Microsoft by the Numbers(microsoft.com)
1 points by novum 12y ago|0 comments
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by novum 12y ago
I have mixed feelings here. On the one hand, the announcement is correct that "email is here to stay" and it's exciting to see innovation on top of an ancient protocol that was never intended for the abuse it receives today (
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by novum 12y ago
Data Scientist (noun): A statistician who lives in San Francisco. (only half joking)
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by novum 13y ago
I think I can also attribute my initial interest in programming to MUDs. Funny how, all these years later, they still give me satisfaction albeit through a much different tech stack. :) > recite ritual of reminiscing
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by novum 13y ago
My personal side project, a MUD client for iPhone and iPad, is not even remotely profitable. That's right: online multiplayer text-based games. There are still thousands of them online today, set in fantasy, sci-fi, absurdist, and many
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by novum 13y ago
Hard to say. Sounds like you have until 2/26, at which point something(?) happens: http://help.testflightapp.com/customer/portal/articles/14527...
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by novum 13y ago
They already have gone away for Android. On iOS, it looks like they won't allow new apps to be created but existing apps may continue to upload new builds.
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by novum 13y ago
This looks really neat. Thanks! I wish I could self-host this on my own server. I also wish it did not rely on Github as I also self-host my own repos.
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by novum 13y ago
Thanks. I signed up for an account, but everything I'm seeing is about A/B testing, in which I am not interested. Mega points to you for having a Jenkins plugin. Awesome! Is your framework required for beta distribution? Your docs
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by novum 13y ago
Sounds neat! But I must be missing this free service on your pricing page? It seems to start at $150/month: https://www.vessel.io/pricing/
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by novum 13y ago
Bummer...but also exciting, since Adhoc/Beta distributions and access could be massively improved by being handled first-party by Apple. Maybe now it will be! I've long been using TF for adhoc beta distributions of my iOS apps. Lo
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by novum 13y ago
Almost certainly a shared keychain.
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by novum 13y ago
Travis CI (for now) is stuck on iOS 6, so you're out of luck if you're targeting 7. They expect to resolve this soon. You must also subscribe to a paid plan if you want Travis to build your private repo. That said, I use Travis fo
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My Facebook Lockout(robdenbleyker.com)
8 points by novum 13y ago|0 comments
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by novum 13y ago
Not to be that guy, but since no one else has mentioned it: a file in Dropbox is a file shared with the NSA. I was a happy paying Dropbox customer since 2008 but downgraded my account to the free tier a few months ago. I no longer consider
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by novum 13y ago
TB3 uses the system font size that you specify in Settings -> General -> Text Size. I do agree that the default is too large, and furthermore that some (most?) apps would benefit from an independent text size setting. [Shameless plug]
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by novum 13y ago
Definitely seems sketchy to me. Particularly this line on the application form: Have you ever successfully released an app on the Apple Market? * The application form itself is an embedded Google Docs form with this unfortunat
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by novum 13y ago
As an aside, I was watching BBT just yesterday (on a long plane ride with limited entertainment options) and I was reminded how uncomfortably awkward it makes me feel. In short, the core problem is that the characters are not sympathetic --
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by novum 13y ago
Dungeons and world-of-webcraft developers. I slew my own personal WoW demon in '08 and this site, using the same skill tooltip-style as WoW, brings back memories :/
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by novum 13y ago
Yes. However, I believe Facebook has a history that shows it repeatedly failing to be trustworthy enough to make those decisions.
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by novum 13y ago
You are correct. Facebook was not the first social network and they will not be the last. I guess I'm more concerned about the precedent they've set, in terms of (mis)handling user data, and how other companies seem to be falling
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by novum 13y ago
I admire your positivity. However, is it not the case that this: Don't code bad shit and compete against those that do. Make the privacy destroyers lose. ...has been disproved by facebook? They are (one of the larger) privacy
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by novum 13y ago
By what measure do you assess "quite many shadow profiles of you laying around" to be "much ado about nothing"? Isn't that exactly the problem? What of one -- and one is all it takes -- company, disaffected employee
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by novum 13y ago
Is this it? This is our brave new world of pervasive data gathering, social network analysis, and the dying gasp of any shred of privacy? This is the future we've built for ourselves? I haven't had a facebook account for 3 years.

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