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by tommusic 16y ago
As far as I can tell, TextPlus is an app made by someone else that is distributed via Apple's iOS App Store. Claiming it is an Apple product in such a case is probably a bad idea.
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by tommusic 16y ago
It's interesting: when I look back on my life so far, I don't feel like my path has been messed up significantly because of any particular piece of advice. There were times in my life where acting on a particular bit of advice kept me from
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by tommusic 16y ago
Great job learning a language (and an infrastructure) with such speed! I've been building something with a similar aim on and off for a long time now, and it's neat to see in the comments that there are at least three others already out the
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by tommusic 16y ago
I wonder if this virus has been able to effectively spread to Madagascar. To put it another way: I wonder if "Free Public Wifi" was the surviving ad-hoc phantom in countries where the primary language isn't English.
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by tommusic 16y ago
For what it's worth: Woot.com's deal for the day is a flip-around tablet-style netbook. http://woot.com/
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by tommusic 16y ago
Also worth pointing out: your site crashes iOS4 Safari while loading your index page. Running on the latest.
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by tommusic 16y ago
Your instructions say to select a topic and then hit "Start", but the topic list is inactive until the user clicks the Start button. It took me a little while to decide to stop following the instructions. I don't know what that says about m
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by tommusic 16y ago
I'd expect they use the data in aggregate to figure out what sizes of clothing to stock where to keep latency and transportation lower. It doesn't seem that much of their variable cost would get shaved off by already having one's measuremen
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by tommusic 17y ago
Most table cells don't have selectable/copyable text, as they're not able to get for-free the built-in text editing menu. Clicking on a table cell could advance the user to a "detail" view that does allow cut/copy/paste, though.
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by tommusic 17y ago
One of the most difficult things to do is to create an effective mechanical way of measuring that student has learned the subject matter. Naturally for some subjects it is more straightforward than others, but the problem is still challengi
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by tommusic 17y ago
come be a poet with people around the world one line at a time http://haikoo.org
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by tommusic 17y ago
I enjoyed reading the article, and the resulting recognition that to "really disappear" is diametrically opposed to what we'd normally seek around here: - Brand Ownership vs Brand Abandonment - Search Optimization vs Search Pessimizat
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by tommusic 17y ago
Third shelf, all the way to the right, "The More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide" -- which does not include Mostly Harmless, but IS leatherbound and DOES include slick gold-leafing.
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by tommusic 17y ago
According to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_Traveler the TSA allows these companies to collect and submit user information. The TSA then does the screening, and returns approval or condemnation. It sounds like there were ar
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Ask HN: Learning From Failure and Iterating on Defunct Companies
1 points by tommusic 17y ago|2 comments
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by tommusic 17y ago
As did my wife and I. Victory!
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by tommusic 17y ago
Nope. It was some slick illustration for the assertion discussed in the beginning of the book; that we are closer to being destroyed by Huxley's vision than Orwell's.
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by tommusic 17y ago
Do you feel that the advancement of technology (print > TV > online grassroots) is linked more than temporally to the reduction in social closed-mindedness (Kennedy as non-Protestant, Obama as non-white)? I wonder how much of the ch
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by tommusic 17y ago
I'm reading this book at the moment, and liking it very much. Postman goes deeper than this, though. He isn't saying that TV's weakening of the discourse is directly because of trash programming, but that the medium itself is modifying what
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by tommusic 17y ago
When I wanted to make sure that I knew a class subject area front and back, I'd get into a room with a whiteboard. Preferably with other students. We'd make an agenda, or use a study guide, and take turns presenting the material at the whit
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by tommusic 17y ago
Thanks for the tip! I'll spend some time reading on what those both provide; I think that once I'm writing code and watching it perform I'll have to motivation to pull myself over the other hurdles.
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by tommusic 17y ago
I just recognized that I missed this reply! What I meant to call as inaccurate is that the article is dated 18 March and describes the two locations; post-announcement publication. Your consideration of the word "schools" was not at all bei
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by tommusic 17y ago
Thanks for clarifying some more! I've been using PHP almost exclusively when doing stuff for the web, but frequently feel that I want to pick up both Ruby and Python. I still haven't actually done it yet. It isn't a lack of community or the
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by tommusic 17y ago
When you talk about PHP being too "web centric [... and] just not flexible enough", how do you mean? Would less web-centric mean being useful in making desktop apps? What other dimensions of flexibility do you have in mind?
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by tommusic 17y ago
I really appreciate the time you took to reply, and feel like I have a much improved understanding of the landscape. And now: a short thought on default passwords! It feels like default passwords should not mean "operate normally". When you
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by tommusic 17y ago
Some Slashdot-spelunking resulted in a few comments that seemed reasonable: http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1191575&cid=27502... The poster makes some odd similes in advancing an argument that the biggest problem is not central
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by tommusic 17y ago
Can anyone explain (or at least speculate) a little bit more about what kind of vectors the "cyberspies" might have used? The article didn't seem to imply physical presence, so my mind goes next to social engineering and e-mail trojans. I'm
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by tommusic 17y ago
Though it is a little inaccurate; the article is dated too recently to miss that Boston is right out. Perhaps it was built awhile back, and just recently published?
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by tommusic 18y ago
From the default index.html that is placed in a user's Sites folder on Leopard: "Open System Preferences and click Sharing, then select Web Sharing. Your done . Your site is now available on your private network at home or work." What, wha
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by tommusic 18y ago
For our great-grandmother we ended up getting one of HP's Presto printers. You pay a monthly fee (for the ISP) and the printer dials out on the phone line and downloads and prints any photos that have been e-mailed. You set up a whitelist

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