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by akirk 17y ago
I think the Pedibus (or walking bus, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_bus ) is a good idea for having children walk to school. It's a group of children walking to school accompanied by two adults along predefined routes. There are bus
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by akirk 17y ago
A little side project by nader and me. People can simultaneously draw on the same page. The Comet part was built using http://orbited.org/ and http://www.rabbitmq.com/
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Colorillo: real-time action painting(colorillo.com)
3 points by akirk 17y ago|2 comments
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by akirk 17y ago
Well, for the disk size, Windows is still using base2 calculation. I don't quite understand why they just don't use the correct term (GiB (Gibibyte) for base2, and GB (Gigabyte) for base10) and make it user configurable. I'd prefer the base
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by akirk 17y ago
So that you can send your information to them encrypted via e-mail. For example if you have to provide sensitive information to reproduce the problem.
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by akirk 17y ago
Check out http://www.commandlinefu.com/
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by akirk 17y ago
It also shows the picture which is mentioned in the NY Times article, but the NYT failed to include it.
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How to find un-indexed queries in MySQL, using tcpdump(xaprb.com)
38 points by akirk 17y ago|10 comments
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by akirk 17y ago
Also the rounded rectangles for the tags drive me crazy. I thought that I liked their graphics designer, as I liked the visual appeal of both stackoverflow and serverfault. Now it feels like they did not pick the right combination on http:
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by akirk 17y ago
Well, it is controversial whether rev="canonical" is the right thing to be used. Furthermore the rev attribute has been removed from HTML5. See http://annevankesteren.nl/2009/04/rev-canonical for some details.
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by akirk 17y ago
Sorry for being picky, but don't "average drives" rotate between 5400 rpm (rotations per minute == 90 rotations per sec) and 7200 rpm (== 120 rotations per second)?
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by akirk 17y ago
As bad as this is, I think their blog post is one of the best ones that I have seen dealing with a security breach. They give a good overview over what they know and have added an FAQ below explaining even more. Something like this can easi
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by akirk 17y ago
so am i :)
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by akirk 17y ago
Cocoa Packet Analyzer ( http://www.tastycocoabytes.com/cpa/ ) is a nice replacement for Wireshark on OS X if you don't want to have to use an X server.
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by akirk 17y ago
Finally a list of tips that I would dare to give to a novice PHP programmer. Leaves out all the micro-optimization noise you find in most other articles. Stas (who works for Zend) also did a quite nice post about those (in)famous PHP perfor
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PHP Performance Tips from Stanislav Malyshev(php100.wordpress.com)
39 points by akirk 17y ago|7 comments
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by akirk 17y ago
I like the combination of Xdebug and MacGDBp on OS X quite a bit, as I blogged here: http://alexander.kirk.at/2008/12/26/debugging-php-on-mac-os-...
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by akirk 17y ago
Thanks for proving me wrong. It was the gripes I always had with Prototype and Scriptaculous, how cool that they finally addressed that.
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by akirk 17y ago
256K (zipped) download, says it all.
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by akirk 17y ago
When I was a child, I liked looking at those world maps with the timezones drawn in columns. Today, as a programmer, I am still fascinated with time zones, but there is almost always something that I hadn't considered when dealing with time
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Sometimes PostgreSQL time calculation is just too clever(lethargy.org)
15 points by akirk 17y ago|5 comments
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by akirk 17y ago
PNGOUT ( http://advsys.net/ken/utils.htm#pngout ) and PNGCRUSH ( http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/ ) are similar utilities that can compress PNG files even further. The idea is that you do all your invasive stuff (like reduce colors etc.
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by akirk 17y ago
Funny how they take the pain to provide the page using HTTPS and then this.
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by akirk 17y ago
Sometimes I just wish that they would focus more on the customers' needs :)
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by akirk 17y ago
I just don't get why Apple doesn't just sell a higher-priced, unlocked iPhone, so that you don't have to get yourself screwed by your local carrier.
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by akirk 17y ago
Not that obvious (even from this description): you can simply do a grep -3 to get three lines of context, etc.
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by akirk 17y ago
This is about jQuery Tools that were linked a few days ago from HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=640479 Actually the comments are more interesting and noteworthy than the article itself. Also the author of jQuery Tools responds in
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JQuery Tools vs jQuery UI(marcgrabanski.com)
2 points by akirk 17y ago|3 comments
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by akirk 17y ago
They seem to support texting: http://www.strongwebmail.com/images/howitworks_main_choosePh...
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Perch: A Really Little Content Management System(grabaperch.com)
2 points by akirk 17y ago|0 comments

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