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That's the entirety of my point. ccTLDs being the only way to get "nice" domain names that don't end in .com is a global snafu.

A piece I wrote about my frustrations with having my vanity domain taken away from me by a change in government and why we shouldn't use ccTLDs for prime internet real estate.

"You'll need to download the code from Github, create a Twitter application, register a free account with AYLIEN, generate an app specific password for your Google account if you're using 2 Factor Authentication, make a copy of this spreadsheet in your Google Drive, and update the constants in the code. The whole process won't take more than 5 minutes!"

This is your problem. Right there.

i.e.: Everyone seems to be focusing on whether it's a security risk to use fingerprints for authentication, but there's been very little discussion of the implications of combining a positive biometric auth with reliable location data.

This seems quite useful!

Elaborate?

There are over 40k users as of today.

Their main complaint about games is that they don't allow sleep mode. Brilliant.

Can you be more specific about what you mean by that?

Ironically, whatever this is linking to is throwing a 500 error.

The question is - would paying them prevent them from mining your data, or just stop showing you ads?

It seems that the autoswitching has gotten good enough to trust that it's making better decisions than you are about whether the 5GHz network is superior.

I have not in this case, but I've found in the past that the appropriate channels tend to shift with other usage in the area, and leaving it on automatic allows it to compensate for that, while hardcoding a channel can work for a while and then stop being the best.

I will run some other tests when I get a chance. I've done #2, with no effect.

I don't think the Airport Expresses have anything to do with it - I've had some reports of other people being able to replicate my results without that.

That really depends. It's completely untrue for, say, TVs:

http://prolost.com/blog/2011/3/28/your-new-tv-ruins-movies.h...

I agree. Hence the warning.

This airport extreme is connected directly to outside (cable modem). There are several airport expresses extending the network (I have no idea how to tell if the client devices are connected directly to them, and I'm not sure it matters). There is a second airport extreme bridged to that one, which is running a dedicated 802.11g network to keep those devices off the same network as the faster devices.

Are you sure? I don't have an iMac, but I've tested with two MBPs. They will always use the 5GHz network if it's available. This may have something to do with how good your connection to the airport is - does your signal quality say Excellent?

I can't say that this configuration change will help for everybody - I'm just reporting what I'm seeing.

This page gave me an error connecting to the database. Ironic twist, or was there some other point?

A doubling is not an order of magnitude increase, no matter how big the numbers are.

I posted a long-ish piece on this yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4369373

Which is really as it should be. /usr/bin is typically considered to be the property of the OS.

No, but that's funny.

In spite of the fact that it worked for many people?

Apparently, having an external disk mounted prevents the system from going into some sleep modes, which will kill the battery:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1776

Fantastic. Thanks for that.

It's hard to tell for sure, but it seems like this problem may only be present if you're running certain kinds of applications. For example - if it's related to garbage collection, anything that uses ARC instead of GC isn't going to be affected.

I thought it was pretty clear that this isn't a "fix", but there's definitely something wrong here.

How would you manage metadata?

I find in practice that even more important than figuring out which tools to use to solve your problem is figuring out what your problem is in the first place. The importance of measuring tools is often vastly under-represented in this discussion. Doing so properly almost always involves writing some custom profiling code, and having a good understanding of where resource bottlenecks are likely to be in your systems (and then ignoring that when the numbers tell you otherwise).

Did Apple keep the other 30%?