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811.
by acabal 15y ago
Seems like a nice idea, but I get a "Data was not valid JSON." error when drag-dropping any font on FF6 Ubuntu.
812.
by acabal 15y ago
I could never understand the appeal of Flickr. I've always found the UI to be extremely confusing and close to unusable. Way back in the day I used to post my travel photos there, mainly because back then there weren't that many alternati
813.
by acabal 15y ago
I like PHP because it's got a C-like syntax, which is a personal preference of mine. I also like it because it exposes the nuts-and-bolts of web development without any fuss, unlike, say, ASP.NET (though last I touched that was 3 years ago
814.
by acabal 15y ago
Thanks! Scribophile runs on PHP and MySQL using a very simple custom templating system I built.
815.
How I made $1000 in 5 hours with an idea, a sales page, and a tribe(alexcabal.com)
2 points by acabal 15y ago|2 comments
816.
by acabal 15y ago
Not to sound too cynical, but if companies like MS, Apple, IBM, Google, etc. have spent the last 20 years amassing billion-dollar patent war-chests and are still giving in to patent trolls, and they haven't managed to get the system changed
817.
by acabal 15y ago
Agreed. I think it was Boehner who compared the US debt situation to a household. These comparisons are like comparing a 747 to a Hotwheels car, and not just useless in most cases but damaging in the sense they cloud the more complex bigg
818.
by acabal 15y ago
A perennial classic. While I would say that Windows usability has improved significantly since 2004 (when the mail was written) it's shocking see how the big kanuna's own company became too mired in politics and bureaucracy for even a fire
819.
by acabal 15y ago
Since I'm getting downvoted anyway, may I request that we change the name of the site to Airbnb News, and does anybody know what EJ had for breakfast today? That might be interesting to post.
820.
by acabal 15y ago
Can we please stop posting this stuff? I get it, the woman had a tragic experience, and Airbnb is getting blamed. I still think this is getting wildly overblown--the number of rehashed posts on this topic here is like watching CNN. I don
821.
by acabal 15y ago
I'm not an expert in this but I think the issue is one of tradeoffs. I think I remember reading (someone correct me if I'm wrong) that broadly generalized, microkernels have better security at the expense of performance, vice versa for mac
822.
by acabal 15y ago
I tried out Ubuntu One when it had just started, and was unimpressed. There were lots of bugs and it didn't seem feature complete. I went back to Dropbox. Unfortunately I think Canonical has garnered a bit of a reputation for pushing alph
823.
by acabal 15y ago
I love reading stuff like this. As a kind-of sysadmin by need rather than by choice, I'm often confused and intimidated by systems that other sysadmins seem to be born knowing about. It's always refreshing to read a straightforward explan
824.
by acabal 15y ago
The article suggests that easier discovery might lead to smaller settlements, but what will probably happen is the settlement amount will stay the same and the cartels will just take the money to the bank. While our justice system is ostens
825.
by acabal 15y ago
Nice idea, but the problem for me would be the screen. I used to spend hours staring at my textbook back in the day. Hours spent staring at a backlit screen like a laptop would give me a headache (and does today, when I spend hours progra
826.
by acabal 15y ago
Your view is exactly the kind of fear I'm referring to. Re. Tylenol, 7 people died in an isolated area, and the response was national legislation and money and materials spent tamper-proofing every drug made since then. People are still sc
827.
by acabal 15y ago
Good article but it'll never be read by those who need to read it most. Unfortunately terror has now been institutionalized. The TSA is a massive bureaucracy that generates jobs and cash flow. It's not something that will ever be dismantl
828.
by acabal 15y ago
This is starting to get scary. An indie developer like me can have their life's work crushed with a single letter for something as ridiculous as having a method to transfer bytes from one storage medium to another. For smaller (i.e. one-pe
829.
by acabal 15y ago
That is one ugly-looking device. But if we're trying to compete on e-ink readers, I think the device to compete against now is the Nook Simple Touch. I loved my Kindle when I had one, but after using the NST I realized how rough a lot of
830.
by acabal 15y ago
Great idea. Some nitpicking: your logo looks extremely reminiscent of the National Geographic logo. You might want to give some though to changing that.
831.
by acabal 15y ago
Since it's a commonly-held sentiment that politicians and the laws they make are bought and paid for, I don't understand why some of the shockingly wealthy VC firms don't start buying up their own lobbyists. Surely it would make business s
832.
by acabal 15y ago
What I find almost more scary is that instead of anybody in the system using a little common sense and human decency when processing this guy, they right away threw him in jail. Couldn't the police have, when they found him in the bank, se
833.
by acabal 15y ago
Thought this might interest those of you who, like me, are messing around with ePub files on their readers. The article goes on a few tangents but the core is a good read. Building a cross-reader ePub today is faintly reminiscent of buildi
834.
An Analysis of Epub3: "Website in a box," and why that's bad(sigildev.blogspot.com)
3 points by acabal 15y ago|1 comments
835.
by acabal 15y ago
That might work depending on Paypal's TOS, but then again building your main revenue stream on someone else's API is asking for a headache too. Think Twitter or Facebook apps, but even more sensitive because it involves cash transactions.
836.
by acabal 15y ago
For your ticket sales idea, I believe Ticketmaster has exclusivity agreements with many venues that will block you out. I remember reading some time ago about a startup (this was long ago, can't remember the name) trying to upset Ticketmas
837.
by acabal 15y ago
I'm guessing the X in title of this post is standing for "desktop", since that's what the other post on the front page today was referring to. But I think the problems in this article have nothing to do with the mainstream indifference tow
838.
by acabal 15y ago
Agreed... I've never used <? in a non-PHP context and it's way easier to type than <?php all the time. Why not just leave it in, or at least change it to something just as short but unique?
839.
by acabal 15y ago
If your revolutionary banking startup can't dredge up $500k in the land where Color managed to get away with $41 million, then your banking startup probably isn't such a good idea to begin with.
840.
by acabal 15y ago
But "easy" is relative. To geeks like us who know to search Google with "how to replace Unity" (a phrase that would never, ever come to mind to Grandma) and know that we just have to change a dropdown setting, it's easy. If you tell a "reg

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