sounddust

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by sounddust 15y ago
I don't know who they were referring to in the report, although you could probably contact them to inquire about the specifics. But just by quickly searching Google I found quite a few instances in which real reporters were harmed or arrest
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by sounddust 15y ago
The report states that there were over 25 instances in a two-month period in which journalists in the US were beaten and/or arrested while on the job, with charges such as "public nuisance." That seems pretty clear to me, and consistent wi
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by sounddust 15y ago
My complaint about the bio is that Isaacson had exclusive access to Jobs for at least a dozen multi-hour sessions, and yet there's actually very little content in the bio that hasn't already been retold through other sources. What I hadn'
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by sounddust 15y ago
What are you claiming is the "real problem?" I'd argue that the housing market in CPH is no more scarce than any major city, and the only reason it seems so to you is because you were seriously handicapping yourself by not optimizing your
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by sounddust 15y ago
The problem is that you sent e-mail instead of calling. I had the same experience in a nearby city, sending 30-40 emails for every 1 response. I finally decided to get a prepaid SIM and start calling people, and suddenly things became much
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by sounddust 15y ago
A few points on this post: 1) You don't have to sync offline tracks with the Spotify desktop software; you can mark playlists as "available offline" directly within the mobile app and it will start syncing them immediately. I've never sync
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by sounddust 15y ago
As far as I can tell, the iPhone cannot determine one's location solely from the GPS antenna. If you travel to a place where you haven't been before, location services simply won't work until you obtain internet connectivity for a few sec
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by sounddust 15y ago
It's a common scenario in Europe. It's not "exotic" to take a €39 train ride from Paris to Brussels to visit for the weekend. I don't think it's a privacy concern to store such data locally on the phone. In any case, it should be resolved
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by sounddust 15y ago
I often travel internationally (with no data roaming) and I've noticed that the iPhone's A-GPS is incapable of determining my location when I arrive in a new place, even if I've pre-loaded my route/maps in the maps application prior to arr
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by sounddust 15y ago
Why would writing a simple export feature set you back months? Sounds like something that could be done by one person in an afternoon.
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by sounddust 16y ago
Are you still going to support http://mobile.nytimes.com ? I'd be happy to pay for a subscription, but I don't like the smartphone apps and strongly prefer reading the mobile site on my phone's browser instead.
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by sounddust 16y ago
Nowadays, a significant portion of those "bandwidth abusers" are people who are just watching movies and TV shows on Netflix. The use of Netflix instant streaming has grown tremendously over the past year, and for many people, it's become
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by sounddust 16y ago
This is great to know, but it seems like a lot of unnecessary work on our part to make it work. That means for each file we have to manually create and upload a compressed version, ensure that the compressed and uncompressed versions are a
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by sounddust 16y ago
Thanks for your response; this is fantastic news!
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by sounddust 16y ago
That's exactly how MaxCDN and SimpleCDN work, but Cloudfront and Rackspace Cloud don't pass through requests from your own server; rather, they require you to manually upload the files you want to serve via CDN in advance.
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by sounddust 16y ago
Is anyone else having the same issue with these services as I am - namely that Rackspace Cloud (and Amazon Cloudfront) do not support gzip compression? That means that any advantage in latency that you gain from serving a file locally is o
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by sounddust 16y ago
Linking the coupon codes to affiliate links via onClick so that you're forced to click on them in order to copy/paste the code.
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by sounddust 16y ago
Yeah, same here. It seems a bit buggy; a couple more examples: it's impossible to say you live in Paris, France (only random cities elsewhere in the world named Paris), I can't turn on chat while looking at any of the profile pages (but c
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by sounddust 16y ago
A very important and effective technique in teaching others (regardless of the subject) is to never write or display something that's wrong, because it's often the only thing a student will remember. This is obvious when it comes to langua
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by sounddust 16y ago
You're going to make those types of generalizations based on a blog that just started and has two posts?
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by sounddust 16y ago
I don't think it's ever a good idea to make a headline more sensational. We should wait for a response from Microsoft before declaring them liars/cheaters. It's entirely possible that Microsoft has a valid explanation. Personally - on at
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by sounddust 16y ago
Have you been anywhere else recently? Can you give an example of a community, of comparable magnitude, that is more open minded? No community is perfect, but I'd say that Metafilter is considerably more tolerant and open to a wide range o
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by sounddust 16y ago
Not me, but I wanted to point out that you would likely be more successful in your recruitment if you put your e-mail in your profile. As of right now, there's no way for anyone to get in touch with you other than posting here, which some
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by sounddust 16y ago
I'm not trying to criticize the OP. My point was that downvoting isn't a problem if people are pushing them up again. If a comment is sitting at zero and you are capable of pushing it to +1, then there isn't a problem yet, assuming the co
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by sounddust 16y ago
You can see the up/down arrows in the screenshots, which indicates that he was not only logged in (because of the existence of the down arrow), but hadn't yet voted.
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by sounddust 16y ago
Why didn't you upvote any of these? Your screenshots show comments for which you haven't yet voted. The first two (as of right now) are currently sitting at zero, and with your upvotes they would be fairly sitting at one. I think that we c
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by sounddust 16y ago
In any case, the software also shows a visual indicator of when it detects that your heartbeat, and it graphs your heartbeat over time. It's obvious from feeling your pulse while using it that it's correct, at least in my case with my phon
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by sounddust 16y ago
Seems to work perfect for me; it reported 68, and I counted 66 manually (by counting the number of beats myself in 10 seconds and multiplying by 6). For reference, I have an iPhone 4 and it utilized the flash.
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by sounddust 16y ago
In my opinion, those two cases are not similar. I doubt that this type of automatic caching/publishing would have any protection under the DMCA safe-harbor laws unless you're making it clear to users what they're doing (I'm not a user of th
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by sounddust 16y ago
There's a huge difference between what Google is doing and what you're doing. 1) Google is caching pages for a specific purpose and ensuring that they aren't cached/scraped by others: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/robots.txt By

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