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3301.
by avar 17y ago
The first demo is yet another example of an E-Mail address validator that rejects valid E-Mail addresses.
3302.
by avar 17y ago
They haven't shown that it's safe to fly, they've just shown that they could fly a few planes from A->B without them crashing. Anecdote is not the same as evidence.
3303.
by avar 17y ago
I also switched to Dvorak due to RSI issues on a QWERTY layout. It's not a substitute for taking typing breaks and improving the circulation in your hands but it helps a lot. I recommend trying for a day or so. Even after a few hours of use
3304.
by avar 17y ago
I presume that you mean "copying" via Ctrl+C and not the X11 way of simply highlighting the text. The latter is known to be broken in Chrome. I filed a bug for it that which was wontfixed: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id
3305.
by avar 17y ago
NCSA Mosaic 2.7b6: None existant
3306.
by avar 17y ago
Please upload it to blip.tv instead (or in addition to) YouTube. There's already a Clojure channel there ( http://clojure.blip.tv/ ) and you can download the raw HD video.
3307.
by avar 17y ago
It just seemed so plausible! In 9.04 every time there was a notification you had to wait for it to disappear before you could click on the buttons. In 9.10 they moved the notifications down a bit as a hack around that. Now in 10.04 the noti
3308.
by avar 17y ago
I thought the reason for them being on the left is that they're reserving the top-right of the screen for notifications, the "social" menu and other things that may overlap with the window buttons.
3309.
by avar 17y ago
Everyone's talking about how they went from right to left but few mention that they also removed the "menu" button from the layout. That's the one that you can click on to make a window "always on top" or "always on visible workspace". I sw
3310.
by avar 17y ago
I posted something similar there yesterday which wasn't too ill received: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/biz27/all_the_re...
3311.
by avar 17y ago
It's required for using your ibuffer-format which references eproject. I couldn't be bothered to customize it to something different. I should probably learn to use eproject anyway.
3312.
by avar 17y ago
Ah, I don't know if magit has that feature. It's relatively easy conceptually though. You'd write a hook for magit that on branch change would check what buffers were open to files within the repository and refresh their contents. Maybe som
3313.
by avar 17y ago
Yes. You create a stash with your changes, or commit them before switching branches.
3314.
by avar 17y ago
That's very useful. I've got it installed already. Here's a small patch to it to make it work without your dotemacs: http://github.com/avar/ibuffer-git/commit/59674f And here's what I had to do to get it working with my dotemacs which use
3315.
by avar 17y ago
I was actually aware of that. I've just been inspired by GitHub to use the word "fork" in a more inclusive manner. Anyway, it really doesn't really matter who maintains the the fork. The important part is that with Open Source anyone can cr
3316.
by avar 17y ago
That's an incomplete analogy. Specific Open Source projects aren't democracies Open Source at large is, or something resembling it. I installed Ubuntu 10.04 beta1 and didn't like the button arrangement. It was trivial to fix it by just doi
3317.
by avar 17y ago
XEmacs is considered pretty dead at this point. Very few people bother to make new (or old) elisp programs XEmacs compatible these days. And I'm hoping you're not one of the remaining 20 XEmacs users :)
3318.
by avar 17y ago
The eruption is small now but that this could become serious isn't an overstatement. I can't recall the details now but I've reviewed the evacuation plan (but can't find it now) used for the area. Once Mýrdalsjökull starts erupting it's onl
3319.
by avar 17y ago
Here's another thing that needs to stop: Asking people for their first name + surname. Not every culture has the concept of a surname. If you need to ask people for their names just do so via one one text field.
3320.
by avar 17y ago
The issue isn't that it's technically impractical to support H.264 but rather that it's legally impractical. Sure you could just offload the problem to the operating system via something like GStreamer but that just moves the target, it doe
3321.
by avar 17y ago
I'm just a mortal developer so I don't have to admin anything serious, but here's how I do backups of my personal files & server. Mainly using Git: Any code / changes to Debian's default /etc setup go into Git and are at least on both t
3322.
by avar 17y ago
As wasteful as the proposed Constellation program was at least it would have gotten humans out Low Earth Orbit again. Is Obama's plan for increased commercialization anything more than moving around the pieces that are already there? Most o
3323.
by avar 17y ago
I'll make sure to do that, no promises that I'll actually get around to this though. Perl and others could definitely use the test work that was done on RE2 though, the way the tests are being automatically generated is really neat.
3324.
by avar 17y ago
As pointed out in the thread the planned features are now maintained in the Emacs repository in etc/TODO. Here's a link to in on GitHub: http://github.com/emacsmirror/emacs/blob/master/etc/TODO#L15
3325.
by avar 17y ago
After reading Russ's original article in 2007 I did some work on bringing the nascent regex API in perl's core up to par so one could lexically replace perl's regex engine with the plan9 engine, PCRE and others. One interesting product of t
3326.
by avar 17y ago
You should check out the emacs starter kit if you haven't already: http://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit