andrewf

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by andrewf 16y ago
Might not have been the same one, they've got 8 DCs across three cities. http://www.theplanet.com/data-centers/
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by andrewf 16y ago
I'm very happy with my ATH-A900's. http://headphones.com.au/psingle?productID=143 Different people want different things out of headphones. What was important to me was good isolation (I can't hear my officemates, and they can't hear my m
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by andrewf 16y ago
The ridiculous thing is that SyFy is owned by NBC Universal. How many other cable channels in the same package does NBC own that could get the offtopic (yet profitable) programming? The same viewers would watch the same show. NBC's owners w
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by andrewf 16y ago
http://www.lala.com/#termsofservice (last updated in 2008, supposedly) states: "la la reserves the right to modify or discontinue any of the Services and material displayed on or offered through the Site, with or without notice to you, an
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by andrewf 16y ago
And newer APIs (and even obj-c language features) are only available to 64-bit processes, so sticking with 32-bit so you can use Carbon will be less of an option over time.
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by andrewf 16y ago
Firefox is free to hand H.264 content to Windows' media framework for display, just like IE will.
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by andrewf 16y ago
To be fair, all the other pre-90s microcomputer networking standards (NetBIOS, IPX, token ring..) are also dead, Apple Desktop Bus was introduced before the PS/2 port, and IDE was introduced (as a one-vendor proprietary implementation) in t
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by andrewf 16y ago
Minification provides a nice degree of obfuscation as well. If for nothing else, it's nice to be able to put in the standard /* XXX dodgy hack, talk to Pete before touching this code */ stuff without worrying about curious customers seeing
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by andrewf 16y ago
"Website Payments Pro" is the one that will accept payments into your PayPal account, and "PayFlow Pro" (nee Verisign) is the one which accepts payments into your merchant account at a bank. IIRC, both will take money from a credit card (wh
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by andrewf 16y ago
I think people reading slowly has a lot to do with it; people just jump onto the first relevant-looking item they see. They saw the Facebook button and didn't read the stuff that was obviously a written article. Something else I often see,
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by andrewf 17y ago
--article snip-- I could wax eloquently on about the potential battle of states’ rights versus federal oversight and the potential for a Supreme Court challenge based on the Commerce Clause, but, this is an article for geeks, so I won’t go
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by andrewf 17y ago
PCI DSS states: PCI DSS requirements are applicable if a Primary Account Number (PAN) is stored, processed, or transmitted. If a system accepts CC numbers from a form and then passes them to a 3rd party gateway for processing, it's within P
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by andrewf 17y ago
I disagree; I think the author's central thrust is that Google Docs hasn't improved as quickly as people expected. It's been around in its current incarnation (post-Writely rewrite) for 3.5 years now.
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by andrewf 17y ago
Random guess #1: If some Oracle insiders are saying "we don't care about ODF, and this makes us no money - kill it," other insiders who want to save the plugin may respond with "people want this, sell it!" as a delaying tactic. Expect the p
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by andrewf 17y ago
Why would people copy a private key around? Generate the public/private pair on the client machine and the public key is the one you put on other machines to SSH into them.
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by andrewf 17y ago
Another example of this insanity: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/04/13.html (Cube farms aren't necessarily cheaper than nice permanent construction, but you have to amortise tax deductions on the latter over 39 years).
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by andrewf 17y ago
It's an Apple Magsafe connector.
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by andrewf 17y ago
Theora is patented. On2 granted people the right to use their patented technology without fear of legal reprisal. http://theora.org/faq/#24
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by andrewf 17y ago
I already do this with five labels, one for each day of the week. A plugin would be far sexier and save me 10 seconds for each sent email, but the overhead I have right now is more than worth it.
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by andrewf 17y ago
If you're near a large library that allows public access, they may have subscriptions that allow access to journal articles on their computers. I'm an ACM member, but for any other papers I just walk into the university I live near with a U
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by andrewf 17y ago
In Australia, you might leave the office the day you give notice, but you'll still get paid for the minimum notice period even if the company doesn't want you showing up to work.
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by andrewf 17y ago
I'm going to see if I can make zlib a little faster with some SSE intrinsics.
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by andrewf 17y ago
Capitalisation denotes a given name, rather than a word that has necessarily has meaning.
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by andrewf 17y ago
Monospace under Gnome is, I believe, Vera Sans Mono. Apple ships a slightly tweaked version of this font in 10.6 as "Menlo."
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by andrewf 17y ago
I think it's more like you tell your friends about a place that sells great donuts, then they go to the donut shop and yell at the proprietor because his donuts aren't free.
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by andrewf 17y ago
I don't know how close Safari on Windows will get. But really, "feel" is a huge part of the interface and you should be testing on a real device for any handheld dev. An iPod Touch is your cheapest option here.
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by andrewf 17y ago
As I understand it, people with OCD are checking to subdue an anxiety. They fear that the oven is still on and can't convince themselves otherwise - but checking it over and over helps. Repetitive Facebook checking is supposedly more like a
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by andrewf 17y ago
My nearest IKEA has a number of "tiny houses" all set up that you can walk through. (I'm in Australia)
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by andrewf 17y ago
Going the other way around - can anyone think of an open source project that could benefit from some assembly optimization, and isn't? I'd love an excuse to play with this stuff in a useful fashion. (I love what I do, but my twelve year o
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by andrewf 17y ago
Scripted client testing isn't a panacea. A while back we had a similar IE6-only issue which thankfully lasted only a day before we noticed the metric dip. A push button was, in IE6 only, positioned behind an image with a higher z-index. The

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