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hexleyon Schwartz: A Python Shell for Quartz 2D

I don't think Quartz is available on Windows unless you install Safari.

hexleyon Ask HN: Why are POS systems all POSes?

Is it still written in RealBASIC?

hexleyon Show HN: Mummify – Preserve web content, fight link rot

Maybe save as a PDF if it's the content you're most interested in.

hexleyon What If IBM’s Watson Dethroned Google as the King of Search?

That's what they say, but it's strange disappearance directly around the time of Google+ says otherwise.

hexleyon What If IBM’s Watson Dethroned Google as the King of Search?

Actually they fucked it up when they started messing with the perfectly working +,- operands.

hexleyon Setting Up A Chromebook Development Laptop

I ran Ubuntu 12 or so on a 2GB C2D MacBook with lion and an SSD. Not too bad.

hexleyon Melatonin

I have had problems with chronic insomnia and tried melatonin — horrible nightmares. So bad I would lay awake in the morning a bit, just stunned at how horrible they were. No thanks.

hexleyon Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM

Doesn't VLC, MPlayer etc bundle h264? How can you say they aren't open source?

hexleyon Microsoft brings 18-year-old game 'Hover' to browser

Works for me in Safari 6.1 on Lion

My MacBook is so old it doesn't even have a GPU. NICE.

hexleyon Nexus 5 to be first smartphone with MEMS camera

It's a much worse camera than what's in the 4S even.

hexleyon Fingerprints are Usernames, not Passwords

The attempts go up quickly. First try, wait a minute. Then 5, then 10, then 30 mins, then an hour, 3 hours, a day, a week etc.

hexleyon Fingerprints are Usernames, not Passwords

Also, configurable after a few hours it can ask the password anyway. A trial and being compelled to place your finger on the phone goes way beyond that. Or if they're going to beat you over the head with a metal pile regardless to unlock then the difference between a passcode or your fingerprint becomes meaningless.

hexleyon Windows Phone doubles share in Europe, trails iPhone by only 1% in Germany

>Lots of UX features are only really available when you go the native route, i.e the new "picture in picture" feature in the Android Youtube app.

Could you think of a less worthless feature to demonstrate with though? The YouTube app is getting so bad (certainly on iOS, I assume with Android too) that it's getting where the website will have a better UX than the native app shortly.

hexleyon [dead]

Same,

OS X 10.7.5 (11G63) Safari 6.1 (7537.66)

hexleyon The new Galaxy Note 3 is region-locked

http://www.whited00r.com

Prepare to be educated. Yes a lot of it is a hack but on half the supported phones CM isn't too much different really. At least the whited00r releases are stable and have consistent feature support over obsolete handsets.

hexleyon Apple’s Fingerprint ID May Mean You Can’t ‘Take the Fifth’

Actually, the data is encrypted firstly with a per-device key that is unique to the phone and unable to be accessed directly (unless you want to go decapping chips), then additionally with a hash of your pin or password. A copy of the data is useless unless you can get to it in an already unlocked state. An erase firstly deletes the encryption key entirely then begins a secure erase in the background.

hexleyon My Quest for a New Browser

So uncheck it?

Have I done something weird to my Mac? 10.7.5 Lion here, when I press the power button it comes up unchecked by default.

"Edit: since 10.7.4, the "Reopen windows when logging back in" checkbox has stayed unchecked if you uncheck it once, so the hacks below are not needed anymore."

Update your Mac.

hexleyon Designing "Mute"

The other option (on the iPhone) is to turn the volume down to zero. Even alarms won't sound then.

hexleyon Death to .DS_Store

Thumbs.db

hexleyon Verizon is blocking Google Wallet on Galaxy Nexus

s/browsers/rendering engines

hexleyon IPhone 4S against all other iPhone models (low light shooting)

Update to ios 5

hexleyon Apple and the Kindle

Dropbox?

hexleyon Apple and the Kindle

Scumbag commenter: has 35 character password for security, discloses precise length of said password publicly anyway.

hexleyon Winamp for Mac

j,k,l under QT 7 control playback speed.

hexleyon Apple Lossless Audio Codec is now open source (Apache license)

QuickTime has a poor AAC encoder? I don't think you'll find anyone credible who seriously believes that.

hexleyon Hell freezes over: Forrester urges IT to support the Mac

Pretty sure he can't

hexleyon Ask HN: Any good Macbook Air alternatives?

Or OS X if you learn the shortcuts.

hexleyon What is the exact difference between a terminal, a shell, a tty and a console?

Can anyone tell me why I can't zoom or select the text on this site on my iPad? Isn't this the very sort of thing we hate in flash thoughtfully recreated in HTML5?

hexleyon Ask HN: Why cant someone invent a screen with a webcam hidden in the center?

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/01/08/apple_files_pa...

hexleyon The Problem with the iPhone's Home Button

On the iPad now this is a four fingers swipe up, then a single press. Or a 4 finger swipe across to the next app.