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by ajtaylor 15y ago
I'm probably not the only one who noticed, but the second screenshot (for the Graphite stats) is almost certainly from an ExtJS app. Is there an open source equivalent of ExtJS? The pricing seems to have gone up quite a bit from the last ti
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
Our linode is currently in London (I didn't set it up...), but I'm probably going to request a move to the Tokyo datacenter in the next week. Ping times to Tokyo (136 ms) are literally half what they are to London (297 ms) and still better
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
I was looking over the pastie code (reading is learning :) and noticed they are using Raphael.js for drawing a tooltip polygon. Perhaps I'll add "play with Raphael" to my TODO list. Anyone else using this toolkit for production drawing?
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
Been there, done that! I do it less often these days, but I can't count the number of times I went to bed in the wee hours of them morning because I was trying to finish that last chapter, and then another, and then another...
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
I had a Galaxy S 1 and the lag was horrible. HORRIBLE! I resorted to rooting and using a custom firmware (Darky's ROM, which was like getting a new phone). With my S2, the lag is no where to be seen. I've had it for almost 2 months now, and
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
At my last job, I was successfully using NFS to share a directory from OS X to a FreeBSD VM running under Parallels. I went that way so that TimeMachine could backup the shared directory (which contained source code). It seems like it would
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
Only last week I downloaded the IE9 VM's mentioned here, but got the never ending BSOD-reboot loop when trying to use them in VirtualBox. This is going to make my day when I get back in the office next week!
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
That is a great control. Which reminds me that I should go back and re-examine extjs for an internal app I'm building at work. Thanks!
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
That does it! I've read about both these extensions before, but tomorrow morning I'm taking the time to set them up on my machines. The setup looks like exactly what I've been wanting. Split windows only go so far, and still doesn't let me
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
They may be right about keeping the corporate tax rate steady, as partly evidenced by the fact that nearly every other large EU country wants Ireland to raise the corporate tax rate. But the reason the country is in its current state is pre
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
Thanks for the link. I'm working on some new internal functionality at work, and I too suck at design. The admin templates look fabulous, and $20 is WAY than an hour of my time! I thought Themeforest was only for Wordpress...
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
What a fabulous story! As the father of an 8 year old daughter, I only hope to be able to provide experiences like this to her. It is absolutely the small things in life that make all the difference. Kudos to you Katie for keeping the magic
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
I've only recently (last week!) started using split buffers with vi, and it is a major game changer for me! I've read about NERDTree before, so I'm moving it up on my TODO list. If I may ask a newbie question, why do you use both tabs and s
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
I've been unsuccessfully trying to educate my wife about this behavior for years! The windows model of "app closes with last window" seems to be too far ingrained in her to change.
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
The water rippling/shimmer effect in the opening scene was amazing! Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyKtZT4GPus
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
Wow, I just bought a late model VW Golf and didn't want to spring for the factory bluetooth upgrade (500+ AUD). I'm definitely going to look at this more later tonight! Thanks for the tip.
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
As a data warehouse newbie, this was an excellent introduction. I've heard a few of the names mentioned, but there are lots of new faces to explore.
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
How did I not know about the command-shift-g shortcut? That is a awesome tip! New iTerm user here as well, and I'm really liking it so far. Don't forget VLC to play pretty much any video file you may get.
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
Thanks for the link to Solarized. I had never heard of it before, but I'm now trying it out for Textmate.
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
Thanks for the pointer. My new $job uses mysql and Sequel Pro looks like a great mysql tool. Bonus points for being open source!
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
If you have an EU passport, mobility between EU countries is a piece of cake.
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
That is an incredible deal! I would imagine any employee outside the legal profession would be hard pressed to win this sort of concession.
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
I was at a linux user group meeting recently where a talk was given by a Google sysadmin where he talked about hard drive reliability. Someone asked him about SSDs to which he replied that he couldn't talk about it. My take is that they are
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
I have used labels in the past for radio buttons and checkboxes, but had never considered them before for input-type elements. It's a brilliant idea, and so easy to implement too!
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
Don't forget the flat $100/mo account fee for any month you have servers active too. Based on my reading of this fee, having a single server means you're paying several multiples of what an equivalent account with Linode would be. http://w
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
Thank you for this - I had never heard it before. What struck me was how every successive new distribution method was first called piracy. What comes after the Internet?
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
Mind. Blown. I had to restart the second clip to confirm there was a car going through! The speed is simply mind boggling.
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Why the end of scarcity will change the economics of everything(mashable.com)
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
I'm only echoing what others have said, both here and elsewhere, but I've yet to take this advice myself. Perhaps I need to find more bad clients so I'm forced to try this...
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
This is one more example proving "No guts, no glory". IMHO it takes real courage and conviction to go to a C-level executive and state the obvious. Which is why it doesn't happen more.

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