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RyanKearney··on TakeThisLollipop - really clever/creepy use of the Facebook API
Actually no one really cares what your host file looks like.
RyanKearney··on Top ThemeForest author/designer earned $47,000 in September
I've purchased a few themes as well, however every time I've gone to do it I usually contact the author via email first and offer to buy the theme directly from him for 30-40% off. I save money, they get more money, we all win.
RyanKearney··on Top ThemeForest author/designer earned $47,000 in September
And he only got $29,140 if he was using ThemeForest exclusively. If he was selling themes elsewhere, he only got to keep $11,750 of that $47,000. ThemeForest takes an enormous cut.
RyanKearney··on Akamai close to being acquired by Google
Looks like Facebook is going to need to find another CDN...
RyanKearney··on The iCloud homepage drops "developer beta" tag ahead of launch
Or, you know, stop using a browser that's 3 years old.
RyanKearney··on 3.5 Inches
This will hold true until the iPhone 5 comes with a 4"+ screen. Then it will become magical and revolutionary.

Mark my words...

RyanKearney··on Steve Jobs Succumbs to Alternative Medicine
Nonsense Steve, your diet "just works".
RyanKearney··on Google’s Management Doesn’t Use Google+
Kind of hard to use Google+ when Google Apps doesn't even support it!

/sarcasm

RyanKearney··on Did a reporter just solve the bitcoin mystery?
Good job, link to an https article when over half the content on the page is delivered via HTTP.
RyanKearney··on It’s official: Google+ will be connected to everything
Except Google Apps.
RyanKearney··on Spotify now requires a Facebook account to sign up.
I'm sure they will go bankrupt now because you decided not to sign up.
RyanKearney··on Spotify Surpasses 2 Million Paying Subscribers
I don't like having a thousand apps on my phone though. It's nice to just go to Apple's Music app and play any song on my library.
RyanKearney··on Spotify Surpasses 2 Million Paying Subscribers
iTunes Match, so it's streaming and download.
RyanKearney··on Spotify Surpasses 2 Million Paying Subscribers
Especially since I pay $25 a YEAR for 256bit AAC streaming audio to all of my computers and mobile devices. Spotify is simply too expensive.
RyanKearney··on IPad in Business: St. Louis Urgent Cares
>nobody has ever been able to even begin to convince us that our patients' data was secure.

Just use Citrix then instead of some random third party application?

RyanKearney··on The Google Wallet, a lifetime log of your purchases
If you use them for email then they already know much more about you than you think. What's the difference between Google and Master Card knowing your purchases? Unless you cash your paychecks every week and only spend cash then a company still knows everything you purchase.
RyanKearney··on Cracking OSX Lion passwords
Because it just works.
RyanKearney··on Break Google
Hrm, did you click the link?
RyanKearney··on [dead]
I think I remember reading an Intel article about something like this not too long ago. You can't just do this because of a few factors. When you start stacking the die like this, the latency grows. You now have to wait for signals to travel up through multiple processor die before it gets to the die that will process the instruction. It's this reason that you end up with diminishing returns when making processors "taller".

Not only that, but unless you can increase the speed of the FSB by 100 times, you will have a serious bottleneck between the processor and the motherboard. You're now funneling 100 CPU's worth of information through a socket and medium designed for 1 CPU.

RyanKearney··on Delivering fast boot times in Windows 8
Except you can bet on getting about 24 hours of sleep time on a Windows machine (my HP laptop lasted a little over 24 hours on a full charge) compared to the ~4 weeks of standby you get on a MacBook.
RyanKearney··on Google to announce "new programming language for structured web programming"
If this goes anything like AppEngine they will wait until it gets popular, then start charging $0.25 per line of code you write with it.
RyanKearney··on Facebook has the world's largest Hadoop cluster
Except Zynga holds all that information.
RyanKearney··on GoDaddy's New "Selective DNS Blackouts" Policy
People honestly use GoDaddy for anything other than domain names? NEVER use the same company to host your DNS as you registered your domain with. At that point you're pretty much putting all your eggs in one basket.
RyanKearney··on Ultrabook: Intel's $300 million plan to beat Apple at its own game
Ah, it will be the PPC -> x86 mess all over again. Can't wait!
RyanKearney··on Linode Reduces Transfer Pricing (Incoming Data is now Free)
But if you ask for a refund after a few months then it's not like you were going to use the full 1 or 2 years anyway, so what do you have to lose!
RyanKearney··on SSL Certificate Scandal Exposes Bug in Mac OS X
The problem is the certificate can be re-added when you do an update (if the update included new root CA's). Thus it's usually safer to just mark the CA as untrusted.
RyanKearney··on Using Gmail, Calendar and Docs without an Internet connection
Are screensavers considered useful?
RyanKearney··on 9 million hits/day with 120 megs RAM
I'm not too sure I'd go with a load testing company that can't even keep their own website up.

http://blitz.io/

> Internal Server Error

RyanKearney··on IPhone Apps Design Mistakes: Over-Blown Visuals (2009)
No, it does not. It's what the application DOES that sells the app. I can almost guarantee you that you would sell more if you didn't have such an ugly (in my opinion) UI. I bought MotionX because it was only $0.99. A few weeks later I stopped using it because I could not stand to look at the UI any longer. Now I'm just back to using the Maps app that comes with the iPhone despite it not having turn-by-turn directions.
RyanKearney··on Google Reader + Disqus would be a better Google+ than Google+
Maybe if Google buys Disqus. Disqus has far too many outages and performance issues for my liking.
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