MrDOS

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by MrDOS 13y ago
> At 30 square feet per rack, that's 10 billion square feet, or 360 square miles. ...with no redundancy whatsoever, and that's raw capacity, not usable. Crazy talk.
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by MrDOS 13y ago
I bet they're not even going to seed back. Bastards.
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by MrDOS 13y ago
I don't see the mobile phone one as being such a problem, as it's green, which indicates permissiveness.
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by MrDOS 13y ago
That doesn't change the fact that a lot of validators disallow common, everyday things like + tags or even . characters. The only good way to be sure is to make sure the address contains an @ SOMEWHERE other than the last character (.+@.+,
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by MrDOS 13y ago
Yes, but I AM the administrator for the Google Apps account associated with my personal domain. It's not a matter of not having enabled it; G+ simply wasn't available.
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by MrDOS 13y ago
Campaign Monitor has a pretty great table[1] describing what's supported where. [1] http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/
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by MrDOS 13y ago
Interac is actually the name of a payment services company (they license and operate point-of-sale plastic-handling machines), but the name is most commonly associated with the Canadian variety of debit cards. As in Europe, the cards are is
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by MrDOS 13y ago
> I imagine that Google wants to roll this out to Apps users before general Gmail users. That'll be a first. Historically, Google has deeply neglected Apps users. My Apps account didn't get G+ until almost a year after it became general
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by MrDOS 13y ago
In Canada, virtually all credit card transactions now take place via chip insertion, not swiping, and chip transactions require PIN entry, not signing. Unless they get an external numpad to handle such things, this is going to be a security
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by MrDOS 13y ago
> Yang's cannon, made out of a wheelbarrow, pipes and rockets, is used to defend his fields against property developers who wants his land. That's... innovative, but really sad.
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by MrDOS 13y ago
Well, they certainly might've had better grammar than us. “Cleverer” my foot.
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by MrDOS 13y ago
Off-topic, but can anyone name the file browser app he's using? It looks way nicer than the couple I've tried.
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by MrDOS 13y ago
That's true. I've heard of people in North America ordering things like mechanical keyboards on Amazon.co.jp and using a forwarding service like Tenso to ship it.
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by MrDOS 13y ago
> There is nothing like AIM left. In addition to the practical merits you've listed, nothing else sips bandwidth quite like AIM. Despite being the champion of open-source communication, XMPP is fairly awful on low-bandwidth, high-latenc
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by MrDOS 13y ago
> Clearly has never used Amazon Canada. Funny, I came here to say something more serious to this extent. The degree of American-centricity in this thread is astonishing (or perhaps I'm just used to Reddit). Outside of the US – to my und
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by MrDOS 13y ago
What, and throw out any legitimate e-mail that contains the word “unsubscribe”? Seems a little heavy-handed to me.
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by MrDOS 14y ago
256kbps AAC (comparable to, if not slightly better than, 320kbps MP3). Close, but no cigar.
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by MrDOS 14y ago
Might be worth putting your name down for the Stripe global beta access: https://stripe.com/global .
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by MrDOS 14y ago
What is the point of this? Obviously, 4000 > 3000 > 2000. Of more interest might be a head-to-head comparison of the performance of these processors under Linux versus Windows.
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by MrDOS 14y ago
FYI, the top-half of the “+NEW…” link is covered by the logo link to the Plunker front page. Kind of disconcerting to suddenly be redirected away from your workspace with unsaved changes. (Firefox 14, Mac OS X.)
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by MrDOS 14y ago
Interestingly, I did this for an event hosted by a student organization at my small university (~3,000 full-time students) last spring. According to the campaign statistics, CA$10.54 bought an astonishing 101,937 impressions. This is somewh
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by MrDOS 14y ago
How is that not a side-effect of the ads?