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iPhone tethering is allowed on my carrier, but I got the app anyway because setting up an ad-hoc WiFi network will allow me to tether my iPhone to my iPad, as well as the fact that bluetooth tethering between Mac <--> iPhone is flaky as hell. Will be interesting to see if Apple kills it, and if they go as far as to kill it outside of the US where tethering is allowed anyway.

I asked my girlfriend to refactor the dishwasher the other day.

It crashed my Chrome tab. Joy.

"I also think that it would benifit Apple to start thinking about shaping OS X to work on a mobile platform. Think about it. OS X running on a cell phone or a pda? F*ck!ng awesome!"

In hindsight, I agree.

or even post+memorableuniqueword@posterous.com

Fair comments, but I'm still not liking it... I've had my existing Mac Mini for about 6 years and I don't really ever turn it off (it now mainly serves media). I would leave the back facing the front, but then I might as well buy a Dell.

I love Apple's visual and industrial design, but sometimes the focus on aesthetics impacts the user experience, which I think is more important (and generally something they completely nail). Example: the USB ports on my macbook are too close together to support most flash drives sitting next to any other USB peripheral. I think that this will prove to be another example.

That was my first "wtf" reaction. Although they don't show it in the photos, the back of a mac mini isn't exactly a fun place to have to poke around all the time. Cables etc. Especially because (at least in older models) the cables tended to get loose after a year or so and could be easily knocked out. I wouldn't want to be reaching around there to pop the card in/out. It also limits the places you can mount the computer relative to where you're using it from. Seems stupid. They should've left it out. However, I guess it provides a good utility for doing occasional tech support (boot from SD etc).

I was thinking about this just today. I want a cert to use with Heroku. I love Dreamhost and I use them for all my static websites, backup storage, git hosting, and domain registration. They provide SSl certs for $15, but I've never bought one and they don't provide a lot of details. They mention that you can use them with other hosts, but not much else.

Anyone have experience with Dreamhost SSL?

Love it. One thing I noticed is that in the example, they are clicking on div elements (I assume) within the html page to trigger the contextual menu. Those div elements contain anchor links, but the demo'er is careful not to click the link.

I wonder if it will ever be possible to detect the difference in the user's intention via the browser. The iPhone OS seems to be capable of this; i.e. it feels as though it can detect the difference between a concentrated Push and a slight tap (someone may know for sure - I'm just speaking from user experience). I look forward to seeing how mobile browser APIs evolve to allow richer touch-specific interaction in web apps. Assuming that the current touch paradigm is sticking around for a while.

We are based in a far off land, with most of our customers in the US. I just include in my support emails: "If you'd rather discuss anything on the phone, just send me your phone number and timezone and I'll be in touch at a time that works for you". It works well - I normally initiate a few phone calls each day using SkypeOut. We are looking at a SkypeIn number with voicemail to allow customers to make inward calls, but I am pretty happy with the current scenario.

I admit - I overreacted... Sorry Magcloud. You can cancel my support request (seriously, which is kind of embarrassing).

Anyway I've had dinner and can now speak calmly. The feature that I described (a preemptive suggestion of the inability to ship to the visitor's country) is not common on the web. In fact most online retailers really suck at it. I still haven't found a decent solution for quickly checking whether Amazon items can be shipped to me without adding to cart and proceeding to checkout. However, it would be a welcome feature for most online retailers, and would definitely stop visitor's like myself from getting a nasty first impression.

I guess it's not implemented well because, by definition, if I'm outside your shipping area than I'm outside your target market. However you can see how this is short sighted, and keeping me happy might be a good idea for the future.

So those are my $0.02 on the issue. I guess this is what happens when a company makes me angry ten minutes before dinner :D

I'm not seeing it, and the fact that I have to search for it isn't exactly encouraging.

I start on this page: http://magcloud.com/browse/Issue/88360 I click Buy Issue. I click Sign Up Now. Still haven't seen it. Even on the magcloud.com homepage I don't see it. Maybe I'm crazy/blind.

The site has my IP address this whole time and could use it.

Visitors from outside the US will feel my pain on this one - it is a common and maddening frustration.

@MAGCLOUD PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD tell your users that you don't ship to their country before they add items to cart, sign up (in order to confirm purchase), and then proceed to the payment page. PLEEEEASE!

Several months ago I came across an issue where it became obvious that a file in my Dropbox public folder was being blocked by the GFWoC (public files are accessed via the dl.dropbox.com domain). I ran some tests using online services that attempt to access your web resources from within the firewall perimeter, and sure enough my links were blocked. I am surprised that the rest of the story is only now developing.

Wait. Isn't Final Cut Studio still written in Carbon? Talk about throwing stones in a glass house! What a strange statement to make given his obvious knowledge of the difficulty of porting such a large suite of applications.

This is the first time I've seen an abbreviation for Macbook Air given as MBA. Fantastic considering the target market.

I like the idea. I've often thought about this within more narrow verticals (e.g. programming).

I like to learn using iTunes U, but it would be nice to have those video lectures included in a broader curriculum recommendation from somebody whose credentials I trust.

<Off-topic rant for your consideration>: Personally, it would be nice to force me into a certain timeline. Perhaps using some form of calendar style metaphor where I can check things off as I complete them and it lets me know if I'm getting behind (or even how I'm doing compared to the average). Maybe it's just me, but sometimes it is nice to have some enforced discipline when learning. Further to this idea, imagine if an author could create a curriculum and then constrain it to what they considered an optimal timeline; that way a group of learners could be working through the curriculum simultaneously - asking questions in the forum about "this week's task" etc. Or meeting up with other local learners. Then again if you had enough learners participating, there would always be someone at the same stage in the material as you anyway. Maybe I just miss my undergrad years :(

Anyway, I really like the idea; would love to know how you will recruit curriculum authors with the necessary credibility.

I am loving Heroku for the exact reason described in this post: no sysadmining. At first I thought that wasn't possible and expected all kinds of issues with gems etc, but so far everything I've tried really does Just Work™.

This may warrant a separate question, but I've seen various posts here and there about running Ruby/Rails on GAE using JRuby. Does anyone have any experience as to just how realistic that is as a deployment option? I can imagine it being full of headaches, but I would love to hear from someone who has either tried it or is actually running it on a production app.

Absolutely. I live in New Zealand, and would be happy to hire anyone in my country (it's not a huge place). But because "We're assuming you're in Christchurch, Canterbury.", which is about 5 hours drive from here (and a 3 hour ferry trip), and because I can't change it to just "New Zealand", the entire service is pretty much not usable.

Other than that I really like the simplicity. I don't like services like elance that make me perform the whole transaction through their website. I would prefer a simple classified-like solution like this appears to be.

I am also absolutely loving this tutorial. I already knew rails, but actually building an application from scratch using RSpec and git is so valuable and something that the rest of the concise literature (i.e. books, not collections of blog posts from disparate authors found using Google) even come close to communicating.

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This is really awesome! I'm still yet to see anybody from either side (seeking work or seeking workers) from New Zealand though... Are you out there!?!?

I think it's more deperate that Adobe has basically faked the Google Finance screenshot. The site degrades gracefully in the absence of Flash, and will still show a graph. The author has edited the graph out and imposed a 'missing plugin' icon. That is terrible! I use GF on my iPhone all the time - it's never looked like that...

The whole 'i' thing is wearing on me. I expected to see a new angle.

Wow! I am quite surprised. I use a Macbook running Snow Leopard, fully up-to-date software, with Safari. I don't (yet) have any after market fonts installed. And yet "Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 47,390 tested so far." That is creepy.

Who is using this type of profiling as an alternative to cookies and other techniques? I would love to see some examples.

This is for long haul trans-pacific flights (e.g. Auckland to San Francisco). I take that route often. It would be highly suspicious if the seatbelt light was on for 12 hours straight. Also, the cabin is seldom full, so getting to lie down without paying for extra seats is quite likely. On my last trip from SFO -> AUK I had three seats to myself and managed to sprawl out across the chairs, albeit uncomfortably. This will be much nicer.

I don't consider a job to be the absense of unemployment. I consider a job to have attributes, that is, my job is my role. So when I say 'created a job', I am talking about his influence in shaping a role and hence affecting somebody's life significantly. I thought about mentioning that explicitly in my comment but decided to leave it out. Again, just a thought.

There is no need to offer authors money. You just need to formulate something clever around reputation/kudos.

I like it. Though I feel that some of these guides don't really qualify as cheat sheets. I consider a cheat sheet to be a quick reference with helpful commands, syntax, examples etc. Some of these documents are just condensed howto guides. For instance, most of the SEO ones. Something to think about anyway.

The chain was founded in 1958 by Dan and Frank Carney. They chose the name "Pizza Hut" since the sign they purchased only had enough space for nine characters and spaces.

From Wikipedia.