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micampeon Show HN: Where Adblock+ injects 20K CSS rules, HTTPSB injects one

> Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law […]

> Any advert in a public space [is] yours to take, re-arrange and re-use.

I feel pretty confident in saying AdBlock is not what he had in mind there.

Ironically, you just manipulated his words to your advantage, which is exactly what he advocates in that quote.

micampeon Font Awesome 4.1 released

http://www.emojitales.com

micampeon Mac keyboard shortcuts

Cmd-? is so much better than arrow keys. It’s like having M-x everywhere. You can also use that instead of Ctrl-F2.

micampeon OS X Command Line Utilities

> But the open command doesn't allow you to pass the environment

Uh? I’ve been using open to pass NSZombieEnabled and other debugging stuff to apps all the time and it works.

From man open(1):

    Opened applications inherit environment variables just
    as if you had launched the application directly through
    its full path.  This behavior was also present in Tiger.

micampeon Jailbreak tweak brings multitasking to the iPad

ooh, that makes all the difference, now I see why that is the most useful feature. :)

micampeon Jailbreak tweak brings multitasking to the iPad

> The most useful feature is the ability to swipe between desktops and applications, just like on OS X. Swiping four fingers in either direction switches desktops or applications, even using the same animation as on the desktop.

Uh? That is the most useful feature? That has been available without any modification since iOS 5: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/10/12/ios-5-features-new-multi-touc...

micampeon Oracle continue to circumvent EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()

Just like there are no barriers to changing the GPL so it is compatible with the CDDL, other than the FSF not wanting to?

micampeon Google Maps Has Forsaken Us

Ironically, Apple Maps finds it.

micampeon Swype makes almost 4000 location requests every day

As I said, your conjecture is proved wrong by reality.

micampeon Swype makes almost 4000 location requests every day

On iOS you can disable any permission at any time for any application and it's plainly explicit in the API. I've never seen any application do what you describe.

The typical example people make is Facebook, which they assume would block you if denied your location but instead works just fine when you remove access to location, camera, photos, and contacts. I don't see why they would behave differently on Android.

micampeon Swype makes almost 4000 location requests every day

Your assumption is incorrect. On iOS you can turn on or off location (and several other permissions) for any application at any time, since day one.

micampeon Steve Jobs, a Genius at Pushing Boundaries

And the categories the NYT assigned to the three articles (business, technology, science) explain why it’s useless to try to decide who is more “important”.

micampeon Steve Jobs, a Genius at Pushing Boundaries

It’s the same reason rock stars are more famous than scientists.

micampeon Apple Announces 7 For 1 Stock Split

This is the first time I read this point of view. I don’t think it is as widely shared as you believe. Every complaint I read about the 5C is that it is not cheap enough.

micampeon Apple Announces 7 For 1 Stock Split

Elaborate please?

micampeon Lens Blur in the new Google Camera app

It’s an age old topic really, what you are doing with the camera is representing what you see, you are cropping a small part of what’s around you, and you can give something completely different meanings by just pointing the camera in a different direction.

micampeon The Truth About Google X: A Look Behind The Secretive Lab's Closed Doors

Thank you for explicitly calling out mod actions. This is much better than changes blindly happening behind the scenes.

It would be nice if this could also be formalized, maybe with a note at the top or bottom of the page instead of a comment that can be lost.

micampeon Apple declines to join Microsoft in funding patent troll Intellectual Ventures

First paragraph:

Intellectual Ventures (IV) is seeking a major new investment to expand its controversial patent trolling operations but, unlike on past occasions, Apple is not coming along for the ride.

micampeon Internal Apple document: FY'14 Planning Offsite

I said it was just a tip, not the ideal fix. For someone it could be an acceptable solution.

micampeon Internal Apple document: FY'14 Planning Offsite

Tip: if you increase the text size in settings, the text will be larger when using reader mode in Safari.

micampeon Why air travel hasn't gotten any faster since the 1960s

"I don't care about going faster" != "I'm cool with going 36x slower"

micampeon Apple Designer Jonathan Ive Talks About Steve Jobs and New Products

Oh my, you got me, I just keep it in a display case.

Such anger. Wow.

micampeon Apple Designer Jonathan Ive Talks About Steve Jobs and New Products

That camera is rather ugly indeed, but as an (non digital) M owner:

> Recessed dials? A photographer wouldn't be caught dead without quick access to ISO, aperture values, shutter speed, and exposure metering/bracketing.

Plenty of cameras that photographers use don’t have direct access to many of those settings.

> Fumbling around with fingernails inside a recessed dial is the last thing you want to do when a child is running between two trees and the sunlight is streaming down on him, mottled from the shadows of the trees, and you've got the perfect shot.

You would miss that shot with any Leica M ever made, unless you were already set at ƒ/8 and hyperfocal, in which case this one would work just as well.

You would probably miss that shot with an H5D too, and I’m pretty sure some photographers find that useful.

Finally, that camera was not made to take pictures. It’s sad, maybe, but that’s just the way it is.

Criticism gone too far, I think.

micampeon Keyboard Ghosting Explained

Welcome to 1998 :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_USB_Keyboard_B.jpg

micampeon Go for Objective-C developers

There is no mixing. Objective-C is a superset of C, therefore C syntax is part of the Objective-C language.

micampeon Design Details: Secret for iOS

7b: if the picture is black and white Saturation becomes Dim.

micampeon Flappy Bird by the Numbers

Or maybe he was just naive and didn't expect that outcome.

micampeon Flappy Bird by the Numbers

Thank you for saying this.

On the other side there are also people like %#&$* Scoble that say this is just a marketing play. The lack of empathy and awareness that not everyone in the world is as greedy and selfish as you really upsets me. But you said it better anyway.

micampeon IE7 users, we need to talk…

I do that with a car from 1972.

The comparison doesn't hold though.

micampeon Have I tattooed a syntax error on my arm?

You’ll see just as much english gibberish on chinese teens t-shirts. I haven’t seen any on tattoos, but they also seem to be significantly less common than in the US.