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The 3G connection from my iPhone is my primary modem at home. With an unlimited plan and pretty good signal, it works pretty well for what I need.

The funny thing is that when I need to download something bigger than 20mb from the App Store I have to use iTunes, which is using the tethered 3G anyway.

This really looks like something I could use. I'll give it a try!

I've been using that for while as my primary HN frontpage. Can't live without it or the extension highlighting unread comments.

I think the main issue there is that the trunk is not stable, not that people forked off unstable points.

We only land tested, verified code in the trunk. Each trunk revision is pretty much a separate release. Features are developed in feature branches and multiple features are merged into an acceptance branch for testing. Once accepted, they are merged into the trunk and put in production.

This is using SVN though. I wonder how it compares to a git workflow.

I got Code, from Charles Petzold, Code Complete (finally!), and Gamestorming.

I prefer to get my fix on specific tecnologies online.

True. Didn't know that one either, thanks.

More interesting than a guy drawing monsters, is the site UpHype itself.

Besides a lot of "I'll spam your site/service on twitter/fb for $8", there seems to be quite a few designers and artists offering logos, voiceovers and other potentially useful things.

Their "All for only $8, $16 or $24" model is simple enough to work well. I'll keep an eye on it.

Just bought one and it worked just fine.

edit: it explicitely says it's only for e-books and videos.

Here's the full list:

http://oreilly.com/store/ebooks-complete.html

Any recomendations?

He's not saying that piracy isn't wrong. He's saying that the act is called copyright infringement, not theft.

Charles Stross has a written an interesting piece about this in his blog:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/05/cmap-9-e...

This seems to be his site:

http://videolla.com/

It's not necessary, but it's damn convenient. That's mostly the fault of the content distributors, IMO, that actively prevent honest consumers of legaly acquiring things due to outdated regional distribution models.

I don't live in the US either and saw this more times than I care to remember: "you can't buy this digital download because it's not available in your region. print and fill out this form, mail to your local distributor and you'll get it in a few weeks".

Want to watch Lost finale? Wait a couple months until it's been spoiled to death. The lastest album from your favorite band? A technical book, games, it's all the same. Sure, it's all purely convenience, unnecessary things, but it's digital bits that have people all around the world, with their credit card in their hand waiting to consume them.

I've seen people use proxies and whatnot to be able to give their money, say, to Apple to buy music in iTunes which is not available here. I think it's absurd to pay to get something that end up being infriging anyway.

Not to mention all the hoops customers have to jump through (quotas, DRM, exclusive content, DLC) that pirates don't have to worry.

I like the honest position Shane Carruth (who written, directed, produced the movie Primer pretty much by himself) about torrenting his movie:

http://primermovie.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1626#1626

(somewhere else he says he received several tips through paypal from people who downloaded but rejected them all due to legal issues)

All that said, I think there's a huge market for someone to provide a way for people around the world to purchase legal bits of pretty much anything, if they can work through the legal issues. Steam is already doing a good job at this in the gaming market, but there's still plenty of space there.

No, it's not stealing. This word has a very specific meaning (and emotional baggage associated with it) which is often used to blur the argument (like you did).

It's called copyright infrigiment.

I found the link to check my OAuth token and was surprised who already had access to my account:

https://www.google.com/accounts/IssuedAuthSubTokens

I think the main issue is the content. Not that it's bad (it isn't), but it's recycled. It's out of context, doesn't feel you are communicating to me when I read it (and you're not, since you wrote it replying to someone else). Why would I go there instead of skimming your comments page?

The concept is not bad, though, but I think it would work better if comments served as inspiration for a post. What advice/opinion were you trying to convey through it. If it helps, I tend to structure my writing in motivation/introduction, content, then conclusion. Topic tends to flow better.

For specifics:

1. Keep them on. First, do you have any readers for there to be comments? I never heard about your blog before. Second, write something asking for experiences, feedback, opinions. Give them a hook to write something back to you. If this askhn was posted in your blog there definitely would be replies.

2. The main point that jumps out to me here is the "only text" part. It's a bit dull if you are trying to engage an audience. Design to convert surfers to subscribers. When I write I like to put headers and subheaders. Some graphs, images or screenshots. Liven it up.

3. I don't know posterous, but I tend to like looking at categories to find similar posts.

4. I like clever names.

5. Write first for yourself, then for your audience. Writing is a great way to put your thoughts in order and realizing what you really know about that subject. You'll learn, and that's good in itself even if no one reads it. It seems to me that by recycling comments you're not gaining anything personaly and not getting motivated enough to make it better.

It's not about user decisions. It's about maintainability and testing. These are factors that are hugely affected by the combinatorial explosion of a ton of different settings.

Developers often have to make a choice, and this is one of those times. You may not like it, but I don't blame them.

Several years ago, computers running Win9X in the company I worked for would stop booting, complaining about missing loader or somesuch. IT was puzzled and couldn't figure out what was going on - no data was missing and hardware seemed fine. A windows repair would fix it until it happened again a few weeks later with someone else.

This happened for a year or so until I was making changes to a code I had written in the past, in a method that would delete all files from a temp folder it had created. I noticed a rare case where it could fail to get the folder name and clean up non-recursively the drive root instead (wiping some windows boot files and mostly nothing else).

I then learned why you validade arguments and check return codes.

runtime maybe.

Is it me or there's no RSS in the site?

Can a similar, simpler method be used to steal WEP/WPA passwords?

Set up a wireless AP broadcasting an existing SSID. Some existing clients connect to it passing the keyphrase. Verify against the actual AP.

Would this work?

I have been using Stanza on my iPhone for a while now and I think the opposite.

I like the interface and usability of Stanza better. It does have PDF support, annotations and bookmarks. You can load your own ePubs and PDFs into it through iTunes. It has nice dictionary features, brightness controls, themes, support for third-party libraries.

Overall seemed like a much more mature app than iBooks for the short time I spent with iBooks so far.

Actually, if you buy an app when it's on sale and then try to download it again after it goes off sale, it won't let you.

I once caught a an app that was temporarily free and got it in iTunes with my account it in one of my computers, expecting it to show up as an available download when I got back to the one I sync my phone with. It doesn't appear and I had to copy the .ipa file there.

I have no experience trying to redownload paid apps that are still the same price, but first thing I did was to add .ipa files to my daily mozy backup.

It would be great to have it as a single pdf (or better yet, epub).

Anyone got the right tools to make it so quickly?

Similar artists and genres? Boring.

I wanted some tech like Midomi's ou Soundhound's music fingerprinting mixed in with this. Show me new artists that sound similar to artists that I like. Better yet, similar to a mix of artists that I like. Now that would be nice.

A couple weeks ago I saw a phone falling off a biker's girl back pocket. I stopped and picked up, but the girl was already gone.

We called a couple numbers on her cell trying to get her to call back. Eventually she did - turns out she was running away from her family with her ex; and we "ruined her life" by calling them. She never came back to pick it up.

Next time the phone will remain on the ground.

When I was there, I was expecting the iconic god image to be huge but it was only a small part of the ceiling.

In fact, even though the ceiling takes most of the fame, my favorite painting was Michaelangelo's Last Judgement depicted in the altar wall:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Judgment_(Michelangelo...

The later-added fig leaves and robe parts do stand out which I thought was a shame. Lots of art in the Vatican museum have private parts which have been broken (in statues) or covered/painted over.

Another impressive point that stands out is that the ceiling is mostly flat. The painted arches and columns give it an amazing 3D look.

Interesting. It did demand-load here. In fact it is still loading (there's a progress bar at about 80% in the middle of the screen and some parts of the image are still blurry)

That's incorrect. His public Star Wars reviews linked him to the Michael Moore's rentals he wished to remain private.