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Re: JSLint vs JSHint

faddah — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 19:13:03 -0000

for the record, JSLint also allows you to turn certain parameters "off," or put it in "sloppy" vs. "use-strict" mode, or make a number of JS keywords ("console," "require," etc.) usable without throwing a warning that they haven't been instantiated previously in that one file, etc., in the .jslintrc file, either in your project's working directory or in your *nix or mac os x home directory. see — http://www.jslint.com/lint.... .

Re: Surfing the waves of Mavericks

faddah — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 17:47:50 -0000

total terminal 1.4.5 causes massive finder restart in Mavericks 10.9, conflicting with google drive 1.12, i believe. will there be a further update to solve these issues?

Re: THAT IS ALL, The original wagon wheel tee shirts are back. (at...

faddah — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:28:16 -0000

need a photo of you in one, hodgman.

Re: Will The Autonomy Debacle Be The Straw That Breaks HP's Back? - by Antone Gonsalves

faddah — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:14:18 -0000

that lion, behind meg? lookin' kinda hungry...

Re: The Notifications Are Too Damn Many - by Jon Mitchell

faddah — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:03:18 -0000

i soooo agree! i get the feeling sometimes my smartphone is giving me middle-aged A.D.D., and... oh! wait,... my phone's buzzing... oooooh! someone just did their turn on words with friends!...

Re: ReadWrite – `A Trillion-Dollar Transfer of Wealth Is About To Hit Silicon Valley'

faddah — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:09:57 -0000

um... i already get this in any modern browser when i'm in the facebook window or tab. now it's gonna be in every window or tab? that's not a feature, that's an annoyance.

Re: ReadWrite – How To Solve The Racist-Teens-On-Twitter Problem

faddah — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:58:58 -0000

ms. eordogh - i just want to say i really appreciate your very sensible and level-headed reporting on this very sensitive issue. i still believe, for my part, that most adults on twitter are basically doing the equivalent of spray-painting their opine on a public wall, so if i repeat what they said, as long as i credit my source (that's my own ethics i'm choosing to employ here in citing the source), it's not that big a deal. it's akin to photographing or reporting what someone you saw spray painted on that very public wall (or saying they signed what they wrote — like some current art activists).

but the problem is, of course, the number of under legal age kids on Twitter and all other social media, and that often, unless you dig further into their Twitter, Facebook or other social stream, or their associate Photo avatar make it obvious, you don't always know you're dealing with a kid (though you might have already ascribed their attitude to being rather puerile). and, as art linkletter once intoned, kids say the darndest things. and as you point out, an immature mind saying just plain dumb stuff is more than a common occurrence.

so i agree, not publicly calling out people, especially if you don't know if you're dealing with a legal minor, is never the best course of action. i agree twitter really needs to look at it's ToS poicy, and enforce it better, and also develop the same tools that YouTube already has. though i must point out YouTube still has far more vile, foul & hateful trolls often in their comment field than any other place i've seen on the interwebz short of a white supremicist site. but better ToS reporting tools, along with a follow-up and enforcement policy that has actual teeth, like the ones you point out, are necessary for twitter.

Re: ReadWrite – Windows 8 'Slow Going,' But 2013 Should Be Better, Top Retailer Says

faddah — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:40:14 -0000

one question on your article: in this day and age, what do you need an SD card slot for? either your device the SD is in already has wifi, or most SD cards can be sold with usb readers, and macbook air always has had a usb port. so again, what is the necessity of an SD card slot on a design that is meant to be as pared down as possible?

Re: Google Mimics AirPlay, Apple TV's Best Feature - by John Paul Titlow

faddah — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:03:19 -0000

and set the apple patent suit to fire directly at google in 3... 2... 1....

Re: ReadWrite – A New Era Of Detente? Apple And HTC Settle Legal Claims

faddah — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 01:20:36 -0000

the real reason: apple dropped pursuing litigation with htc because htc is circling the drain. its real competitor is samsung in the android market, and they are whupping them something awful. the enemy of my enemy is my friend: if samsung is doing all the heavy lifting in beating the bejesus outta htc, no reason for apple to waste time & money on it.

Re: Facebook Has A Business Model Problem - by Dan Lyons

faddah — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 00:52:31 -0000

i liked most of this, and i like and usually prefer google+, trouble is, i use google+, but i don't really know about google+. know whut i'm sayin' here, vern?

google+ seems to poke along. they have enough very deep pockets to keep it going. sure. they've had their mis-steps also (the verified names only scandal in its beginning). it does seem to have the best content bang for the buck, mostly really good informational links and videos with a preview that i want to see, sure. but all your friends and family who don't know technology that well and just want what everyone else is using are over on the bookface, posting their baby pics and their party pics and their vacation pics and their funny pic o' the day, so where do you spend most of your time? bookface. inescapable. they won, so far, the number of users/eyeballs war, the way microsoft trumped apple in the OS wars by the late 80s.

if bookface has a business model problem, google & its google+ have a brand problem. as in: not enough moms & families choosing them first to post baby and cute cat pics. the war is won, i'm afraid, by number of eyes on cute cat pics.

Re: Marc Canter: Cuban's Stand Against Facebook Will Change The Industry - by Dan Lyons

faddah — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 00:33:15 -0000

it's more like this: http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: Tyra Banks, Super Techie? - by Adam Popescu

faddah — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 00:22:52 -0000

well, if the acer can front in their video ad on your site that meagan fox is actually a dolphin language genius computer scientist, then yeah, sure: tyra banks, tech guru iOS app entrepreneur. could happen. with yet another instagram-esque app. like there's not 5000 of those in the app store already. you go, tyra. be fierce.

Re: ReadWrite – BotClouds: How Botnets Now Offer Crime-as-a-Service

faddah — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 00:11:18 -0000

good keeping this info going and edu-ma-catin' the nØØbz, but this is a long-standing issue. as long as there are new platforms (social media like facebook, twitter, google+, etc.), where people aren't used to being attacked and walk the field like sheep with “eat me” signs on them, there will be organized crime viruses, malware, botnets, rootkits, key-loggers, etc. i used to work for companies that made & supported security & anti-virus software, and i have friends still in the sec/av field, pretty high up in circles. it's a zero sum game. once upon a time, virus writers were disgruntled hackers, usually from eastern europe — disgruntled mainly because they were paid a gov't wage of, oh, maybe the equivalent of U.S. $10/hr. for their computer engineering expertise, and over here, lead developers & designers earn $100K/yr.+ salaries plus become rock stars and cash in on massive stock grants. so they'd write stuff mainly aimed at windows, as that was the predominant OS for 95% of the world, to make names for themselves in hacker communities on bbs' (this is pre-internet-dominance). now, it's all a for-profit business, no “hacking for fun, loyal to none” mischief any more. it's mainly eastern european and russian organized crime hiring programmers to create botnets, rootkits and spoof web sites that last for all of one to five minutes and then are disappeared without a trace after they have your personal financial data.

and there's no money in capturing once person's credit card and then trying to use it — the big money is in capturing thousands or millions of private financial data numbers and security codes, compiling them in databases and then brokering them out for to the highest bidder. someone several purchases down the line goes through with a program to see which credit card numbers still work. even then, they won't use them, but probably will use data off them to apply for credit or other things at front addresses in your name, and create a world of financial and tax hurt for you that could last years. yeah, it's like dat, y'all. as long as there is the internet, there will be crime on it. use lots of password, layers, and caution, always.

Re: Google Is Almost Ready To Submit Its iOS Maps App - by Jon Mitchell

faddah — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 23:27:55 -0000

if you had the google maps iOS app, you'd be home by now...

Re: ReadWrite – Is Apple's iMessage Killing Texting After All?

faddah — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:06:08 -0000

i love iMessage, use it all the time, love that if who i'm messaging has it set-up on their mac os x or iOS device for all their e-mail and phones, we by-pass the big fees of the carriers completely. that said, i have to say this article is mostly personal conjecture. the idea presented about the cause behind the drop in texting rates are anecdotal and correlative, at best, not causation. i agree with other commenters it could just as well be the rise of various IMs (googletalk, etc.) or facebook messaging, though there is no study to verify that either, it's all just guessing at it. i could just as easily say that parents are simply cracking down better on monthly text overages by teens, but that's just me guessing also, not an actual statistic based study.

Re: ReadWrite – Skype Arrives For Windows Phone 8 - And It Won't Leave You Alone

faddah — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:01:53 -0000

good review, and good catch on the “always on” skype on windows phone 8. no replay yet from MS on this? itho' i have to point out, having a screen shot of "metro" windows 8 desktop with a skype message, rather than that sort of screen shot from windows phone, does not seem right for this article.

Re: Microsoft Demos A Star Trek-Style Universal Translator [Video] - by Mark Hachman

faddah — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 16:30:45 -0000

yeah, so what happens if you're in the middle of an intense treaty negotiation, and it suddenly blue screens on you? {snicker!} sorry, couldn't resist... ;)))

Re: Samsung Galaxy S III Tops The iPhone 4S: But It's All About The Timing - by Dan Rowinski

faddah — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:01:39 -0000

first, i want to say that the samsung galaxy s iii is an amazing piece of technology, and it almost had me convinced to jump ship from iOS...almost, as i still wish to code for iOS, for now. but, galaxy s iii is some damn sexy tech. that said, this was also covered yesterday by the folks over at TWiT's Tech News Today, and i have to agree, this is the most opportunistic numbers futzing for a marketing "atta boy," pat on the back that I've ever seen. the numbers here are in comparison to the iPhone 4s, in the quarter when the days before the iPhone 5/iOS 6 release was rightly predicted in the last week of the quarter. yeah, suuuuuuure you did better... against the iPhone 4s, in the quarter when no one was buying one while waiting for the new iPhone 5. nice try. come back next quarter when all the iPhone 5, iPad mini & iPad 4th gen. numbers are really there, then we can have a conversation at the big kids table.

Re: ReadWrite – ReadWrite DeathWatch: The Real-Estate Multiple Listing Service (MLS)

faddah — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:36:05 -0000

oh my. i don't doubt that what you're saying is true, but just by posting this, be prepared for every blue-blazered remax listing agent in the nation who ever did their own wordpress page and then hooked in their mls listings with a plug-in to firebomb this article in... 3... 2... 1...

Re: ReadWrite – Towards A Digital Code Of Ethics For Journalists & Researchers

faddah — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:29:30 -0000

very good article and very excellent food for thought — i don't know quite where i stand, as i've had similar arguments with folks on-line: people angered at me for mildly disagreeing with something they post on facebook responding with, “how dare you post that on MY WALL!!” i try an point out they are making a public comment in a public forum and they do not “own” their wall, facebook does, and they are not the client, they are the product facebook sells to advertisers and marketing brokers, but that fine point in their red-eyed rage is often lost. i certainly still feel twitter, facebook, google+, et al, are a public conversation, and re-posting that content to me feels no different than if i photographed someone's wall graffiti art on the side of a building and then posted it somewhere with my own commentary. however, in journo articles or even researched blogging, i do also feel sources should be properly cited and permission asked. this is especially the case when the journalist is doing this for pay by the publication, digital or otherwise, and especially in the case of children and teens, seeking their parents' permission. thank you for making me mull this over further for my own blogging. one more thing: the pic at the top — is that what dan lyons looks like when you come in to his office to pitch a story?

Re: Meet The Internet Video Stars: Hak5 & TechnoBuffalo - by Veronica Henry

faddah — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:44:16 -0000

thanx for this article - love darren & shannon (a.k.a., “snubs”) and their tech know-how and wizardry in small, easy-to-consume chunks.they both know their stuff. i'll have to check out rettinger and technobuffalo. i like this article for not only the background on these folk and their podcast, but also for getting the idea of how they did it and continue to maintain their audience, for those who want to also get i to the wild west frontier of internet video.

Re: ReadWrite – What Apple Should Be Doing With ARM - And It's Not Macs

faddah — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 22:40:02 -0000

hi andrew,

i was speaking in general terms about going from any chip set to another chip set. yes, initially, re-compile; but once that's done, when you hit errors in your recompiled code, in this case for ARM, you need to do some re-writing. don't really feel like clogging up this comment thread with code, but i did give some examples above: graphic handling, vector math, threads through pipelines and handling caching on the chip.

Re: Did Amazon Just Launch a Netflix Killer? Hardly. - by John Paul Titlow

faddah — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:48:07 -0000

the amazon instant video app for iOS is a nice addition... for when netflix , iTunes or hulu don't have anything i want. they'll have to work on product services to make them more compelling than a 3rd place back-up plan. and the ui/ux in iOS is still too complex to just get to the video i want to play to make it an app i want to use all the time, save when i have to.

Re: What's It Like To Work For Tim Cook? A Former Apple Sales Exec Dishes - by Dan Lyons

faddah — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:41:11 -0000

news flash from former grumbly apple manager: steve jobs, and now tim cook, are not incredible “people persons,” failure isn't tolerated much, they can berate underlings for poor performance, and it can be a hard, stressful place to work. in other news: sky still blue, sun appears to be bright yellow in day time hours, and sf giants and barack obama are still the clear winners this year.