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veritgo | 15 years ago | on: What Safari’s “Reading List” in Lion means for Instapaper

I think he's betting on being able to implement better than apple.

He states: My biggest challenge isn’t winning over converts from my competitors: it’s explaining what Instapaper does and convincing people that they actually need it.

So if apple deploys this everywhere, more people will understand it. Since Instapaper already has such a huge user base, established users will (supposedly) say 'oh, I use instapaper. It's much better'.

So apple creates new users, which are then drawn to Instapaper's superior service.

This is all dependent upon Instapaper actually implementing substantially better, but so far apple has sucked at multi-device syncing of, well, just about anything.

veritgo | 15 years ago | on: Ultra-Light Titanium Ribbon Bike Lock

This is brilliant, and made me laugh.

I can just see a thief looking at the vespa, the chain, the parking meter and thinking 'It's a crime anyways, may as well get the 15$ in change'.

veritgo | 15 years ago | on: Flynano - Personal Flying Machine

Everyone’s dreamt of flying free as a bird. Nano is for the fun of flying

Interesting how true this must be. We've heard promise of practical personal flying machines for decades, usually complete with artists renditions or renders, but few have seemed to materialize yet.

Ultralights are probably the closest, fairly cheap and requiring little infrastructure. Just a seat with a big fan attached to a parachute really.

Even these though take a surprising amount of work to be able to operate safely.

veritgo | 15 years ago | on: Stanford CS enrollment increase "downright scary"

I'm really liking this thread. Everytime someone tries to dismiss a major or course as being somehow inferior, another person chimes in with a view point that blows said dismissal out of the water.

I'm sure there are CS majors now in the workforce that just crank out their requisite number of lines each day, the work that many like to deify as an analytical blend of art and science becoming a routine drag.

And there are welders who take pride in their work and are treated with religious respect by civil engineers.

Maybe it's more about the person than the major.

veritgo | 15 years ago | on: Cluster SSH (OSX)

You probably already know this, but if you have a significant number of hosts:

    for i in `seq 1 30`; do \
        echo -e "\nhost$i\n===========\n"; \
        ssh host$i 'ln -s /some/path /path/to/link && ls -l /path/to/link'; \
    done
Also, if you just start typing

  for i in `seq 1 30`
  do
     commands
     more commands
  done
On the command line itself, you don't need to worry about semicolons. Bash will take care of it.

veritgo | 15 years ago | on: I'm a linux noob, that thought he knew something, got destroyed in an interview.

That's a little harsh.

If he understands how PKI works. If he understands that people share a public key which is in turn paired with a private key. And if he understands that said private key is the only key capable of decrypting messages that were encrypted using the public key, that should be fine.

If he knew that much, he'd probably be able to reason out what 'symmetric' vs 'asymmetric' meant, if given enough time.

Is knowing the exact terms better? Yes.

Is it shameful to understand the concept pretty well without knowing every bit of terminology used to describe it? I'd say no.

veritgo | 15 years ago | on: Time-saving tips for Linux

ifconfig is deprecated, so probably a good idea to get out of that habit. Particularly if you are using it in scripts.

'ip addr' should give you all the information that 'ifconfig' does. You can also make the output a little less chatty by doing 'ip -o -4 addr' to get IPv4 addresses on one line per interface, or 'ip -o -0 addr' to get MAC addresses displayed similarly. This can make awking / cutting for addresses to use in scripts a little more elegant.

veritgo | 15 years ago | on: 8pen reinvents mobile keyboard

Center appears to be mandatory.

They use gestures started outside of the center as 'macros', able to be custom bound to frequently used phrases or words.

veritgo | 16 years ago | on: Open JDK has a lot to answer for

He seems to be saying that Sun's stance will be let the Open JDK develop, and roll that into the official package.

I thought this would be good news. Sun has a shaky future and a lot of people use Java. The more control of it the community has the better.

veritgo | 16 years ago | on: Amazon deletes purchased copies of 1984 from Kindle

Nowhere near the same level of disappointment, but it is kind of sad that an article from the NYTimes lacks any mention that they tried to contact Amazon for a comment. Even a simple 'Amazon was called but declined to comment' would have been appreciated.

veritgo | 16 years ago | on: Simplenote

Evernote works great. It syncs to a web client which then syncs to native clients which are available on Mac, iPhone, and Windows.

Not as fast as Simplenote appears to be, but excellent nonetheless. Has saved me in a datacenter without my laptop many a time.

http://evernote.com/

veritgo | 17 years ago | on: About That New CrunchPad Video

This is just marketing.

I doubt anyone is actually pissed off, they are just whipping up drama to make sure everyone knows how mystical the CrunchPad will be.

It really does sound like a cool device, look forward to seeing details on the production version.

veritgo | 17 years ago | on: Ask HN: What Web apps increase your productivity?

I've also been using it to compile technical notes. The iPhone client is pretty slick too. Comes in handy when at the command line of a server without internet access in the datacenter and you need to remember the format of some config file.

veritgo | 17 years ago | on: Obama: $15B for Small Businesses

Obama is also making it easier to invest in small businesses and startups, according to the whitehouse blog:

"... a series of tax cuts for small businesses and tax incentives to encourage investments in small businesses. He noted further that in his budget, he proposes permanently reducing to zero the capital gains tax for investments in small or startup businesses"

Not sure how much investors care about taxes when they are investing in a startup, but it seems like this would make funding more available.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/03/16/Help-for-small-busin...

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