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by acabal 14y ago
I spent $400 on a Crucial M4 512. The first one failed--no joke--an hour into use. After a reboot the system wouldn't POST, couldn't even get into the BIOS setup. I RMA'd it to Amazon, got a replacement that seemed to be working fine, un
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by acabal 14y ago
This is one of the last things I figured out when I was learning CSS, but it's arguably one of the most important. Once you realize that it exists, all of a sudden any new CSS you write will shrink and you'll understand all those weird qui
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by acabal 14y ago
In the ebook's HTML, you can specify the text-align CSS attribute. If not specified, I believe the Kindle defaults to justify, and the Nook defaults to left-align. So books you read on the Kindle that are left-aligned (ragged right) proba
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by acabal 14y ago
Very cool if true, but didn't they recently announce they're stopping new development on TB? And that bug was opened in 2010 and isn't assigned to anyone.
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by acabal 14y ago
I guess it depends on how far that work has come--if what they have after a year is as good or better than webOS then OK, but if not, webOS worked pretty well for all its rough edges. I guess it pains me for two reasons--I'm a big webOS fan
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by acabal 14y ago
Isn't this basically what webOS was? Now that it's OSS, why not piggy back off what they've already done?
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by acabal 14y ago
To be fair, the title of the post does say "startup" which implies the goal is to make money, and the poster asks for advice on revenue streams. If he had said, "Check out my weekend project, enjoy!" that's one thing, but calling the eleve
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by acabal 14y ago
It doubled, or in this case, increased by 1.6%. That's nice, but how can you know that a 1.6% increase is a direct result of these tweaks, instead of just natural ups and downs in email response? Maybe 1.6% of recipients were having an un
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by acabal 14y ago
I think gap years are an excellent idea. If you can afford to travel for part of it, do so. I feel that I've grown the most as a person from all of the travel I've done. Your perspective changes when you see how other people live and that
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by acabal 14y ago
That's pretty rich, maybe they should ban AT&T as a security threat for spying on Americans ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A ) or hell, why not the NSA too ( http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/ )
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by acabal 14y ago
It's reminiscent of DejaVu Sans Mono, the Free coding font I've been using and liking lately.
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by acabal 14y ago
I'm not knocking the color scheme, I think black with red highlights can look pretty slick myself. It's just the overall feeling I get... it just looks so sharp-edged and industrial. To me that's the opposite of aesthetic. On the other h
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by acabal 14y ago
I can't believe I'm reading an article touting the design smarts of the Thinkpad designers... honestly I've always thought that the standard black Thinkpads were unspeakably ugly. And I'm not even a design snob. Usable yes, but aesthetic?
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by acabal 14y ago
To some extent this is a problem with Diablo 3 and Battle.net in general too. If you (like I did) travel to Europe, download/play D3 on the EU servers, then come back home to the US, you'll find that your character is forever trapped in th
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by acabal 14y ago
Yes, but many IP's--residential in particular--are rotated frequently. That's why grandmas and dead people got sued by the media cartels. Actually I think this fact is an even better justification for pirating stuff. Anyone, anywhere can
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by acabal 14y ago
Those are all nice, but as a long-time PHP dev, the only way to make PHP truly better is to do a Python-style hard version bump. Rip off the band-aid, so to speak. Create an entirely new, consistent, object- or namespace-oriented standard
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by acabal 14y ago
Based solely on what's in this article (perhaps reality is different), this reinforces my inkling that people get truly rich from mostly just two things: who you know, and marketing. Market yourself (or your product) well and know the righ
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by acabal 14y ago
I'm always tempted to switch to key-based auth myself, but I travel a lot and the thought of me losing my private key and thus being permanently unable to decrypt my files/log in to my servers scares me to death. That's the fatal flaw in th
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by acabal 14y ago
I've been using FF for years and never knew it could do this. This is awesome, thanks!
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by acabal 14y ago
Very nice. I'm surprised, though, that they didn't go the OOP route, since they're transitioning a lot of other core procedural functions to objects. Even if it would be a super-simple class interface (almost to the point of not being str
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by acabal 14y ago
I don't get it... why do the ISPs even bother opting in? Isn't it just time and money spent on basically making their customers angry, and for what benefit on their part? Why spend money on something that provides no obvious benefit, and
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by acabal 14y ago
I'm not saying things aren't progressing, all I'm saying is that on any project there's a limited amount of manpower, and how you allocate that manpower is important. Personally I think there are more pressing things to allocate manpower t
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by acabal 14y ago
I can see how this can come in handy, but setting up a LAMP server on localhost is so easy nowadays that I can't help but think this is a little redundant. Sure you get a full-blown Apache install but honestly, calling that bloat is semant
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by acabal 14y ago
PHP coders can use the simple built-in filter_var function: http://phpbestpractices.org/#validating-emails
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by acabal 14y ago
Can it read epubs yet? I was thinking of buying a Nook Glowlight because I often read in bed while my partner sleeps. But when I went to check it out in the store, the contrast is noticeably worse on the Glowlight, to the point where I dec
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by acabal 14y ago
I have a few helpers--writing blog posts, creating contests, etc.--for my website, Scribophile, and they're all over the world and I've never met them. So far they've all worked out really well. Maybe I've been lucky. I basically set a go
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by acabal 14y ago
I experienced the opposite... I had some mild RSI in the past and tried switching to Dvorak to relieve it. Almost immediately my pain increased greatly . I powered through for a month before switching back to Qwerty. I'm sure it helps l
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by acabal 14y ago
Schools have also managed to more or less solve the problem for centuries already without cameras or RFID tracking. House cameras do sound expensive. They also sound ridiculous. But just a few years ago, mandatory naked pictures of your b
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by acabal 14y ago
This post is a great example of how rights are eroded slowly. 20 years ago having cameras tracking your every move in a school would have been a strange proposition, and a system to precisely track and record your every move on campus woul
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by acabal 14y ago
Anything is possible ... but a program has to make it easy for us, i.e. anticipate potentially popular use-cases and cater to them. Otherwise non-techies will ignore the program and techies will roll our own simple solution instead of tak

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