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   by altano 17y ago

   "with most speculation focusing on a shift of iTunes user libraries from user desktops to online storage" Yeah right, they can't even make MobileMe work despite people inexplicably throwing gobs of money at them to do just that. How many y
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   by altano 17y ago

   How would you significantly improve this html?
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   by altano 17y ago

   So turns out you're totally wrong. I just went to the settings page to kill Buzz completely now that they've added the ability, and the default option is worded as such: "Show the list of people I'm following and the list of people followi
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   by altano 17y ago

   Although I don't remember creating a profile, I wouldn't rule it out, so I'll take your word for it. This was all much less terrible than I thought. If no private data was exposed, this was mostly just an inconvenience rather than a horrib
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   by altano 17y ago

   1. Clicking yes/no at the splash screen didn't disable/enable buzz (for everyone), it just showed or didn't show the tutorial. I clicked "no" and buzz was enabled. 2. The subset of my contacts that clicked "yes" became exposed to the publi
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   by altano 17y ago

   Others have suggested NearlyFreeSpeech.net here and so I signed up with them a while ago (switched from GoDaddy). I've been using it for domain registration, DNS, and web hosting. Since I have ~0 traffic, it's dirt cheap. It's ideological
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   by altano 17y ago

   I've absolutely adored gmail since I got it for forwarding, spam filtering, and providing me with a permanent email address to give out to people. I'm definitely ditching it now over this and this alone. Which sucks because I will miss th
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   by altano 17y ago

   If you have Windows 7, just use the built-in backup. If you're willing to buy a Windows Home Server, that works great too (and does a lot more than backup).
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   by altano 17y ago

   I'll spare everyone the Outlook/OneNote and just list the possibly unusual: - VistaSwitcher (alt-tab replacement) - FeedDemon (most RSS is actually on iPhone with MobileRSS) - LastPass (Firefox plugin) - HandBrake (and complimen
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    by altano 17y ago

    It only works with stack variables, but you can wrap the construction and destruction of anything, including heap-allocated objects, with a stack variable. You tie the allocation of the heap object to the constructor of the stack variable,
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    by altano 17y ago

    Mail.app and the iPhone natively support Exchange if you're into that. iPhone support is great in my experience. I love Outlook 2010, which I'm beta testing. Mail.app was just too buggy for me and I like being able to have a shortcut key t
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    by altano 17y ago

    Live Mesh (access my files anywhere), Exchange Online (affordable hosted exchange, my personal email, calendar, and contacts actually in sync, everywhere), Windows Home Server (my music and movies, available on any device in my house, tri
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    by altano 17y ago

    I'm going to take every reasonable opportunity I can to tell everyone to go buy the Xbox game "Braid" and play it right away. That is all.
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    by altano 17y ago

    You probably want Windows Live Mesh if that's why you're looking for. It's like Dropbox, but a bit more complicated/flexible, has more free storage, can sync any folder on your system, does p2p syncing, works through firewalls without confi
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    by altano 17y ago

    I tried the axbo and it didn't work at all.
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    by altano 17y ago

    I use Visual Studio all day every day as nothing but a text editor (for the most part). It has the best find/replace I've seen in a text editor. jEdit has better functionality, such as PCRE find/replace with good backreference support, but
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    by altano 17y ago

    What does the equivalent code in the latest version of Python look like?
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    by altano 17y ago

    I visited Cairo ~10 years ago. It was so polluted that your nasal mucus (can I say 'booger' at my age?) would be black by midday. The entire area around the Pyramids of Giza smelled like camel shit, to a nauseating degree. The museums an
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    by altano 17y ago

    >Intel improved the resolution of its lithography with a technique called dipole illumination, a process that splits light into two beams, sends them through reduction lenses, and projects features from different angles. That's so cool
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    by altano 17y ago

    So it sounds like you're using Outlook 2003 on XP and don't have Windows Search (what powers Outlook instant search) installed. Hound your incompetent IT department and say you need to search your email and you need Windows Search 4 install
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    by altano 17y ago

    Can everyone please leave their populist "oh my god everything the government does is so god damn innefficient and if only we dismantle it and let 6 smart people run it instead it would be SO great" yammmering at home for a few decades beca
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    by altano 17y ago

    We're much too shy for that. And I doubt the marketing dept reads this site.
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    by altano 17y ago

    I wonder if gay porn has experienced a noticable uptick in sales since January from all these out of work Republicans.
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    Best intro to c#/.net/wpf book?

    2 points by altano 17y ago|3 comments
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    by altano 17y ago

    I prefer feeling faster than being faster (when they're mutually exclusive, which of course isn't always the case).
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    by altano 17y ago

    Holy shit, you just called Quickbooks solid and polished. I'm floored.
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    by altano 17y ago

    FYI, here is a video demonstrating the web version of Word and Excel in FireFox (5th video down): http://scobleizer.com/2009/07/13/microsofts-new-office-10-br... The title above it is "Is Office 2010 the world’s largest JavaScript applica
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    by altano 17y ago

    Yes, I briefly messed around with an early build. It was fantastic . I won't say more as I haven't been following the publicity and so I don't know what is/isn't public info. Disclaimer: I work for MS.
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    by altano 17y ago

    Yes, if you're tired from a normal amount of sleep or have trouble sleeping, just go do a sleep study. At the very least it will rule out things such as sleep apnea, a lethal condition that you might live your entire life not knowing about
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    by altano 17y ago

    > Thanks to Glenn, Hayes, Yazan, Peter, Mark, Jeff, Hemant, and others for reviewing drafts of this. That's asking a lot of people to review 3 paragraphs.