RossM

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by RossM 17y ago
My text alert is Charmander's self-proclaiming blart as it appears. I expect to live to 20.
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by RossM 17y ago
Yes. While it seems to be the trend to bash on PHP there's nothing wrong with discussing it's shortcomings in a constructive manner.
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by RossM 17y ago
I think b99 was a QA version, for a last call for bugs before the RC.
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by RossM 17y ago
Became compatible with b99 yesterday, so if it's incompatible again it should be fixed fairly quickly.
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by RossM 17y ago
And integration with Google Calendar, which is a godsend.
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by RossM 17y ago
Funny how it partially confuses Pascal with the real thing, but still records its influences.
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by RossM 17y ago
Thanks, the #4 is interesting too, reminds me of Stargate :s
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by RossM 17y ago
There's plenty of open-source ones, Witty ( http://code.google.com/p/wittytwitter/ ) for example, its just that TweetDeck is continously marketed as "the popular client".
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by RossM 17y ago
I quite like this idea, although the way its been squashed in the second one isn't as good. An unsquashed version of #2 would look good imo.
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by RossM 17y ago
Is there a way to trigger Firefox to install an update the traditional way (as in with a user dialogue)? If this is the only way possible to install an extension (without asking the user to visit addons.moz.org for example) then it's Mozill
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by RossM 17y ago
I use Highrise (free version) for task management, although since that's all I use it for I'm working towards shifting those to Google Mail/Calendar Tasks. I do however like the fact you can get some of the task/reminder feeds in Backpack a
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by RossM 17y ago
I think that OpenID is too confusing, until presented well to the user. I'd include a short piece of text on yuor registration/login page about OpenID - and make it clear to the user that they probably already use an OpenID-enabled service
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by RossM 17y ago
Interesting technique, but it does use JavaScript (but degrades nicely). A couple of side-effects: Firefox 3.0.8 is pretty sluggish when scrolling (although it might be better with only one instance of this used), also you can't (visibly) s
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by RossM 17y ago
Something I just noticed. I much prefer this over Twitter Search's implementation as it doesn't require you to refresh - it can just fetch the new data. Although I'd still prefer a check, load, highlight sequence but done automatically.
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by RossM 17y ago
Interesting idea, I think most of them allow at least some versioning - whether it's accessible by the user is another story. My thought would be to store some meta-data on devices about the current version of the file, and just check the r
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by RossM 17y ago
Each year I end up in a panic state trying to remember if Mother's Day has come yet because someone posts something like this (or worse, a small reminder on a blog post) without saying "in the U.S".
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by RossM 17y ago
I think it's worth giving the student some credit for not adding something embarrassing: While he was wary about the ethical implications of using someone’s death as a social experiment, he had carefully generated the quote so as not to di
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by RossM 17y ago
I can agree with that, the site does look like it's still in the 90s. It's a shame there isn't anything much similar (searching GitHub can turn up some gems though). It's an idea I toyed with once.
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by RossM 17y ago
I agree with this statement. I've reached a stage where I could code a PHP-based website much quicker that in other languages. Admittedly it's what I started programming on (and has taught me a few bad things, but certainly kept my interest
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by RossM 17y ago
I've no idea why this was downvoted, but ok. Perhaps pg can review logs to check whether it's someone targeting you (sounds unlikely) or a bug then. Edit: above comment was -1 before I upvoted.
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by RossM 17y ago
Yahoo's homepage has always been of the portal style. When I see people's homepages (friends, family) they're never Google but some sort of portal (whether it's a social news aggregator (Digg, reddit), an actual news network or one of the '
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by RossM 17y ago
Looking at your other comments there seems to be the typical number of 1's - are you sure it's not just showing for you? Try logging out and finding one of your comments.
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by RossM 17y ago
As an aside, SearchYC ( http://searchyc.com/ ) and HNSearch ( http://www.webmynd.com/html/hackernews.html - Firefox plugin) might help you if Google isn't.
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by RossM 17y ago
The pre might have had its styles reset, and then been placed inside a block-level element that hadn't been reset.
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by RossM 17y ago
In my opinion just adding subdomains to the source bar would be enough. Another common one is code.google.com coming up as google.com.
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by RossM 17y ago
Like weaksauce suggested, some sort of auto-detection (although build an override too) would be a good start. A simple addition would be to make links clickable. You could look into overlaying tweets onto a Google/Live Earth map (although t
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by RossM 17y ago
I've been moving towards using aggregators, such as HN and reddit, as my RSS readers. I found myself not reading half the items in my blogs, and then finding the items I was reading in the HN/reddit feeds. I now only have a few blogs (tha
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by RossM 17y ago
I last read about 100 un(?)confirmed cases for the US but I still agree with this. It's a novel idea, and certainly a topical one, but does nothing to help the scaremongering dealt out by the media.
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by RossM 17y ago
I had a similar issue - I forgot I'd registered with an OpenID and thus when attempting to login couldn't figure out why it would fail, even when using the correct case.
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by RossM 17y ago
If the university offers to give you licenses for this software then fair enough - this is one way to rule out compatibility issues for the IT department. Surprised that they check if the software is legal however, what happens in the case

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