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For those interested, here's what I was able to read from the twitter avatar:

    Pro Tip: You can add more
    than 140 characters into
    your twitter avatar. For
    example, here are 156 of
     them. Just make sure to
    include all links in the
    main text ;-) Also, hand
    out magnifying glasses!


Thanks! I was trying to decipher it on iMac with a 5k display (? 5120x2880) and an attached LED Cinema Display (2560x1440). MacOS does a good job dealing with the DPI so that they appear the same size (but one is clearer than the other). Using a magnifying glass, I could almost make out the text on the lower DPI screen, though blue was almost invisible, and I could not seen anything other than a colored bar on the high DPI screen :)


I tried using my native resolution on my MBP Retina and then taking a photo and zooming in. Nope. I could only decipher the ;-)


For those interested in seeing the avatar up close:

https://i.imgur.com/hx9fNuB.png

From what I can tell, it says 198 characters, not 156. ;-) You can count the characters yourself, if you'd like.


props for the postscript :)


In that case, they could just bring the phone down to the morgue and unlock it with touch id.


Touch ID does not work after a reboot, to many attempts or a long of delay.

Additionally you don't have to use your thumb, so if you don't know what body part was used your out of luck.


If the phone is rebooted or if 48 hours have passed since the last passcode was entered, the touch ID can't be used to unlock the phone.


Touch ID requires the passcode after reboot or timeout. They'd need to do it very quickly.


And that's because they are cheap enough to buy on impulse, and/or to make an affordable gift for the holiday season that is clearly the hottest and newest available.


Nothing...? http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm//wp-content/uploads/201...

Though your point is clear. Mac OS X is very clearly reminiscent of this interface.


It'd be glorious if one service (say GitHub) had multiple remote links that dynamically switched for you when service faced an outage.


If it's one service though there is still always a single point of failure outside of your control. If you want true redundancy you need to use multiple versions with no interconnections and develop your own solution to mitigate partial failure, of course your own solution is also a single point of failure, but at least it's under your control.

That said, Github has never been down long enough for me to justify a fallback procedure and policy for my team. The complexity of the solution outweighs the benefit. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.


There will be no crossing if the bridge is down, though.


Of course there will be. We are talking about git. Everyone has a full copy of the repository. Github's data center gets hit by a meteor tomorrow and it's a minor setback, nothing more.


The gravatar is a nice touch, but it works even if my email is not signed up with your service, which felt a bit misleading.

I got the sense of, "this is the correct email address to login with because the system recognized me" when in fact it was the wrong email.


Good point - the reason for it is we wanted it to be entirely independent of our users db for security/privacy reasons (and simplicity!)


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