leo straight, guest (to leo's left) straight, wide angle, guest (to leo's right) straight, and over leo's shoulder. used that excessively for the giz wiz and what not.
Reading the FAQ I see it's OK to fully answer my own question, which might eventually happen. Is that OK for reputation — not just in terms of numbers, but how people view things?
@KyleCronin for that particular question in Ask Different, I'll probably add something terse to the question with reference to a particular folder. And my habit to include, in the folder, a link to the question. So for example in the folder at wuala.com/%23%23Apple-support/members/grahamperrin/2011/08/02/b click 'question.url' to visit the question in Ask Different.
hmm, it's just a matter of personal preference, but it might be better to include inline links to the individual files than to have just one link to the directory
@KyleCronin you might be ahead of me :-) it's a group area that any registered user of Wuala is welcome to use. So I was going to ask whether I should (a) continue in ##Apple-support or (b) create another group Ask Different (or more human-friendly for autocompletion, ask-different)
@KyleCronin or anyone, is there another cloud storage that people around Ask Different tend to use, more than other cloud services? Or free for all? I'm an established user of Wuala (neatly integrated with Mac OS etc.) but always interested in other trends
good morning @VxJasonxV! (I'm often around in the early hours, tinnitus.)
@KyleCronin yeah as a rule of thumb I'd like to keep as much content as possible internal to Ask Different (for Google search result and other purposes)
@KyleCronin are tips such as imgur … and gists on GitHub … usually gained through chat like this? Or is there a page of tips somewhere? (I haven't searched meta for those things yet)
@AbbyTMillerΨ I saw a Top of the Tops repeat of that recently, performed live (I think), it's a lovely song but when it's just him and the piano and the words, it's remarkably repetitive!
i just like to sort of apply and enforce the things that the community actually comes up with, without interfering in the actual coming-up-with-stuff process :)
@Nathan yep the meta question was for exactly that purpose. Wish I could remember what option 3 was! It's the sort of thing that'll come to me when I step AWAY from the computer and do the washing up.
Anyone: for markup in an answer, what's the trick to have the symbol for alt/option (instead of the word e.g. <kbd>alt/option</kbd>)? and to have the right arrow instead of …
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Hello! Nice to meet you all. Well, I have a "meta" question: I am just getting started on the StackExchange, so this was my first site, then I went on to others that interested me. One of my questions in the Sci-Fi Q&A was just closed because, the moderator said, it was about asking for a recommendation. He said that that type of question did not have a definitive answer, as it was based on opinion. Yet, I see those types of questions all the time in Ask Different. What am I missing?
Back in the mid nineties I was reading a book series by an author named Louise Cooper. The first book of the series is called "Nemesis" and the book series is called "Indigo". I remember reading the first two or three books of the series and really enjoying where the story was going. However, my ...
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the difference with apple is that app recommendation requests generally are searching for an app that will serve a specific purpose or solve a specific problem. people don't generally ask "what's a good iOS puzzle game i can play this weekend", which is the type of thing i don't think they want on gaming or scifi, for example
I see your point. Book recommendation take on a different feel than software recommendations.
Because on a book the "usefulness" factor is not as measurable, just like software really can't be measured in its entertainment value (unless it's a game).
@ChristianCorrea exactly. though, if you were to ask something like "what is a book my 9-year-old can read that features dragons and deals with themes like overcoming childhood lack of self-confidence," or something to that effect, that might be something the scifi crowd would accept as on topic
Yeah, actually. We might not be able to discuss it, though. You tell me... Anyway. Xcode requires that development iPhones/iPads are registered as developer devices. This is needed before being able to push your binaries into the device. So there is some sort of server validation at some point as part of this process. My question is: Is installing the iOS betas making a similar validation?
A developer friend of mine, who already paid for his developer license is in the process of registering (it takes several weeks if registering as a company). He is getting impatient and I was wondering if giving him the .ipsw for the beta as well as the iTunes beta would allow him to upgrade--or would I have to add his device to my list of devices?
You can certainly (technically) upgrade a co-worker's device using your account. The ipsw are validated in Xcode against your dev certs - just like iTunes validates a consumer iOS build against their certs and issues a SHSH key for that device and that ipsw
so - it's trackable - does require an internet connection and could be a grey area since the NDA typically requires you to not distribute assets to others not in your organization. Can you hire a contractor for a week's work - of course. Should you charge on a street corner new iOS build - that would be a pretty spectacular way to interview for the we no longer want you as a developer program.
you don't have to burn a development device unless you want that device to run apps signed by your cert.
@Nathan It's really not bad at all. The 100 device limit has workarounds, the code signing is very permissive, the loading of development certs means one device can be enrolled for testing against many developers. Most of the pain is of ignorance how to do it and initially poor / opaque web services.
starting today iOS developers have it really easy - most of the hard things are automated away and well understood as policy limitations, not something you can't find out and waste hours trying to do.
Yeah, I read about what a meticulous process setting up a device for development was.. Then a few months ago when I did it myself, after paying my $99, I pretty much just got a dialog in Xcode asking for my apple id and it set everything up for me.
Hah. Well, to be fair, I haven't plumbed the depths of Xcode enough to judge it, but at this point I expect the kind of stuff ReSharper/IDEA does to come standard with any IDE.
But I'm not starting a holy war against an IDE/language I barely understand so I'll just walk away for now.
Well, conflicting info there. "Do not use the first time until a full charge has completed." Then, a paragraph later, "You can use your Nook while it's charging"
@Nathan What it should say is you will damage your nook if you unwrap it and start playing and deplete the battery totally then let it sit overnight under the tree.
LiPo batteries should ship half full - so if they are not, then the supply chain is long and it's sat for months (or they only topped em off to 1/3 at the factory which would be bizarre)
Is the charging on a plane thing for hand carried devices or any cargo at all?
I've shipped thousands of LiPo and many were dead as a door nail. The regulations I was taught specified clear external labeling, physical protection and procection from short circuiting - but these all went cargo - not as hand carried where I needed to show it powered on.
I remember when Sony had the 'exploding batteries' drama.
And the group that released the video of "this is what happens when you puncture a LiOn battery". And had to edit the end of it to say "this has nothing to do with the sony battery recall, nor was this a sony battery"
you should change your login shell from bash to xkcdsh
better idea
you need to download all of the strips, with alt text added to the bottom of the image, stick them in a folder, and let OS X rotate those as your background.
Different people use different terminology and symbols for Mac keys/commands. I figured we should have one standardized list that can be a point of reference for editing guidelines. Since no one else has created one…
Usage:
Names go from most to least common, so use the first in the list whene...
