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jmreid

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Principal Engineer at Shopify

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jmreid··on Who is squatting IPv4 addresses?
Apple was the same when I was there for 17.0.0.0/8
jmreid··on SpaceX delivers 3rd batch of Starlink satellites in two weeks
Zero issues from my experience. The dish has a snow melt "mode", and I didn't have to manually clean it at all after a large snowfall.
jmreid··on What's Going on with HEIF and Mac OS 10.13
I believe it converts those files to compatible formats when you transfer them off the device. The exception seems to be when you have macOS 10.13 and use Photos, the images and videos stay in HEIF and HEVC.
jmreid··on Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security
He's not correcting the use of a period, he's correcting the numbers themselves. 1:50,000 and 1:1,000,000 vs 1:10,000 and 1:50,000
jmreid··on SoundCloud saved by emergency funding as CEO steps aside
It absolutely isn't hard to get music on Spotify. DistroKid (distrokid.com) is $20 a year to upload unlimited tracks to all the music services.

But, you're point about being able to upload "anything" to SoundCloud stands. It was a place for remixes, demo tracks, podcasts, etc. You aren't able to upload just anything to the music streaming services. (need album artwork, etc)

And your last paragraph is spot on. I'm surprised we didn't see them release their own mobile OS and phone /s

jmreid··on Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs Eyes Toronto for Its Digital City
My wife and I did the exact same thing, except it was SF. We're very happy that we moved back to Toronto and Canada in general. It's our home (friends and family are here) and we didn't want to have kids in SF.
jmreid··on Mailtrain Newsletter #8 – Bundled MTA
Can you elaborate?
jmreid··on CurrentC Ends Beta Tests, Will Deactivate Accounts
Apple Pay has been a godsend for me. I carry one backup debit card and slimmed my wallet down to almost nothing.

In Canada, we've had contactless terminals everywhere for a few years, so it's very rare to find a place where I can't just tap my Apple Watch or iPhone to pay. There's no need to find a place to explicitly supports Apple Pay, it works the exact same way our credit and debit cards have for years.

jmreid··on Netflix to block proxy access to content not available locally
The iTunes store currently works based on your billing information.
jmreid··on Bedbug bait and trap invented by Simon Fraser University scientists
I feel like this statement could get used a lot on HN.
jmreid··on Apple Event October 2014 Live Stream
Uses HTTP adaptive streaming that's built into Quicktime and iOS natively. It's the same technology that MLB/NFL/NHL use to do live-streaming of games to their apps on iOS.

There is a way to get VLC to open the stream, but I haven't had to do it personally.

jmreid··on Netflix refuses CRTC demand to hand over subscriber data
I know that Canadian ISPs have the Netflix appliances located in their data centres, so technically yes they do serve content from within Canada sometimes.
jmreid··on Apple releases U2 album removal tool
They do let you hide purchases so that they won't show up on in the music list on iOS and iTunes. They won't let you delete a purchase, which makes sense.

It's confusing because they're using purchase history as a basis for your entire library, which might not sync up with your mindset for your music list. I've definitely hidden past purchases that I know I'll never need easy access to.

jmreid··on Apple Pay
From the demo video, it looks like a "standard" reader that I've seen in use today.
jmreid··on IPv6 privacy addresses crashed the MIT CSAIL network
I find the Privacy addresses a pain when it comes to managing traffic on my network. My (mostly Apple) devices will never use their DHCP provided v6 address to connect to a public service and this means that my gateway doesn't know what the hostname is for that connection.

I ended up writing a little script to scan the "ip -6 neigh" and correlate hosts together based on MAC, then write that to a hosts file for DNSMasq to use. Hack, but it works for me.

jmreid··on Show HN: BemTV – Hybrid CDN/P2P Architecture for HLS Broadcasts
But in most of the services areas where you can get Bell or Rogers, you can get one of the 3rd party providers like Start or Teksavvy. These providers have an unmetered upstream cap and very generous downstream caps.
jmreid··on CSS One-Liners
For the section that isn't actual body copy and isn't for reading as one article?

That's not a good example of where multi-column works "nicely".

jmreid··on OS X Yosemite public beta starts tomorrow
I was trying it out for a while, but had to go back to 10.9 because of some Photoshop issues. So be careful if you use Adobe apps.
jmreid··on Skype TX
People also use SourceConnect as a way to do studio-to-studio sessions. Works very well in the studio where I set it up. Sessions to Portland, Chicago, Germany, etc all go off without a hitch. http://source-elements.com/source-connect/

You can use an ISDN bridge service to be able to talk to those studios that are still on ISDN and that works well, as well.

So, this sounds like a decent thing to also have available as a service. That way clients can be on SourceConnect pure, ISDN over a bridge, or Skype TX.

Skype is used currently sometimes if the talent is local but the producers are remote. Allows them to "be in the room". But Skype TX sounds like a decent solution for collaborating between studios.

jmreid··on Apple's Buttonless Mouse Came From Steve Jobs' Misunderstanding
Ya, I basically need to use my Magic Mouse while my MBP is plugged into an external monitor and I'm not using the trackpad.

Not having easy access to gestures slows me way down while working.

If I want to play a game in Bootcamp, I just use a standard two button mouse.

jmreid··on America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $287 Million (1998)
I can't believe I can remember mine as well (10407923). I don't even remember my old phone number that I had at the time, or the address of where I lived!
jmreid··on DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2
Yes, Route 53 has been great for me as well. I have my crucial DNS zones hosted there. But all the other stuff was on Namecheap's name servers.

I'll probably continue with that setup, but just make sure my TTL is set fairly high.

jmreid··on Whatever happened to the IPv4 address crisis?
As pointed out in another comment, the situation in Qatar is a political one, not one of a situation where they could only get one IPv4 address.
jmreid··on Facebook can now read your texts
Can't you already disable access to Contact, Calendar, Reminders, location, etc per app on the iPhone?
jmreid··on USA ISP Speed Index
I actually have an amazing ISP (start.ca, uses Rogers' cable network, but with their own peering infrastructure behind it)

I always hear about people saying "I can't play YouTube videos!" or like the comments above this "Netflix keeps buffering!". I've had absolutely zero issues like that.

But, I'm starting to think that people's issues with their home internet comes down to their network setup. I have the fast Asus RT-N66u with Tomato firmware, good QoS rules, Apple TV wired and not wireless, etc.

Maybe some of these folks have the crappy gateway from the ISP, or really bad wireless environments, or bad cabling.

Case in point, I was at a person's house the other day who wasn't even aware that their DSL connection from Bell was disconnecting every 5-10 mins for 30secs or so (probably due to bad phone lines in the old building).

But they went on watching Netflix and checking their email totally unaware. So Netflix drops it quality or buffers a little then continues on it's way and people go "Oh man, my ISP sucks! Netflix is always buffering!"

I bet there's a good business in going around to people's homes to fix network issues.

jmreid··on Quick tip for developers who use OS X
You can override any key combination using the Keyboard preferences.

Just make a new shortcut under the All Applications group named exactly the same as the one you want to replace. http://i.imgur.com/JqBncTy.png

I've also had to add an entry for "Paste as Quotation" because that's Mail's default use of Command-V.

jmreid··on All New Mac Pro Available Starting Tomorrow
It's the PR site, not the marketing site. The users of this site are folks looking for images to put in newspapers and magazines.
jmreid··on The new Galaxy Note 3 is region-locked
Yep, it's the carrier bundle. I have an unlocked Canadian iPhone 5 and when I put a T-moble sim in when travelling to the USA, I get an entry in my stocks app for T-moble.
jmreid··on Show HN: Free hi-resolution photos for your website. 10 new photos every 10 days
You are allowed to use the iPhone in any manner you want, as long as you use your own photography (not from apple.com, or their PR images).

If you are talking about Apple's marketing partners' rules for using photography, then those do not apply to the rest of the world.

jmreid··on Dear Apple, let's talk about photos
I agree with you. I'm a little confused about the "outrage" about Photostream.

It's basically just a wireless USB cable that automatically imports into iPhoto based on the month. It's actually been 100% perfect for me. When I plug my phone in using USB to transfer the videos over, it tells me that it already has all the pictures, then it imports the videos, then offers to remove the already synced photos and videos from my phone.

Once everything is in iPhoto, I have been curating an album from a vacation then sharing it with myself using Shared Photostreams. That way I have the trimmed down and edited album available on my phone and iPad.

Maybe people are asking it to do something it was never designed to do?

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