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jwbaker

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    Comment #4351323

    Oh yeah, that'll be way more convenient. Right up until you need to login when your phone is out of batteries, not in wireless coverage, under water, etc.

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    Comment #4351297

    You should never give legit answers to these security questions. I just paste in the output of pwgen -s 32 1. This may make your account harder to "recover" but it also makes it ha…

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    Comment #4350219

    I feel your pain, slightly, but isn't the majority of this list caused by the fact that Apple's software stinks? There's no way for apps on iOS to share the account details. You do…

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    Comment #4345465

    It's been some time since Apple shipped the X11 package by default. You've had to download it yourself. They're not saving anything by removing it from people's computers

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    Comment #4345458

    That certainly does not justify the installer removing X11 from a perfectly working Mac.

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    Comment #4345451

    I guess there's nobody left at Apple who believed in the spirit of this advertisement: http://www4.macnn.com/macnn/articles/unixad.jpg Now that the Apple no longer needs to be save…

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    Comment #4106238

    At first I thought "what demo, there's just a screenshot here" but wow, nice demo.

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    Comment #4104728

    These docs can retain their usefulness even when their titles are long since obsolete. "The C10K Problem" comes to mind.

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    Comment #3769854

    Isn't that just because parsing XML in Go is difficult bordering on impossible? Or are you saying there's some other language that forces you to think about XML when you don't want…