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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.

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 l…

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 c…

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 …

For what it's worth: Woot.com's deal for the day is a flip-around tablet-style netbook. http://woot.com/

Also worth pointing out: your site crashes iOS4 Safari while loading your index page. Running on the latest.

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 fol…

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 …

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 "deta…

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 str…

come be a poet with people around the world one line at a time http://haikoo.org

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 …

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-leafin…

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 retu…

Clear (http://flyclear.com) recently (and suddenly) announced the end of service, as they weren't able to reach an agreement with their creditors. Which I would expect means that t…

As did my wife and I. Victory!

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.

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-Protesta…

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 tra…

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 stu…

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 …

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.…

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…

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 dim…

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 de…