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by blahpro 15y ago
If Skype is "punching holes big in your network security", you’re doing it wrong.
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by blahpro 16y ago
I’m surprised that no–one is using Linode.
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by blahpro 16y ago
I find it laughable that they’re arguing this from the "don’t abuse exceptions as control flow" angle considering that PHP 5.3 introduced goto.
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JS1k: Christmas Edition(js1k.com)
5 points by blahpro 16y ago|0 comments
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by blahpro 16y ago
Is it possible to make video full–screen in this version of Skype? I can’t for the life of me figure out how.
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by blahpro 16y ago
Classy.
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by blahpro 16y ago
I’m a web developer. Much of my recent work has utilised Python/Django and JavaScript, although I have experience with a wide range of (mostly open–source) technologies. I just checked out CoderStack. I’m looking forward to your launch :)
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by blahpro 16y ago
As a recent CS grad, this article stuck a chord with me. I wrote the following reply to the author: -- Hey Dominic, I’m a recent CS grad (2009) from ECS at the University of Southampton. Full disclosure: it goes against my humility to say i
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by blahpro 16y ago
It’s slightly concerning that Apple use the word "class" in this document. JavaScript has no concept of "class".
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by blahpro 16y ago
Interesting, but they're still two fields conceptually AFAICT. They just happen to be within a single box that makes them look like one "field".
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by blahpro 16y ago
I think you might have misread kbob’s comment. I think he was talking about upgrading from one SSD to another newer SSD — not from HDD to SSD.
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Markov chain tweets(zeus.ugent.be)
1 points by blahpro 16y ago|0 comments
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by blahpro 16y ago
I used to use Slicehost, but moved to Linode once they launched their backup service. The admin UI isn't as pretty, but IMO the service is better (and they have VPS hosts in London, which shaves a few milliseconds off for me). At Fantastic,
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Jailbreaking now exempt from DMCA non–circumvention legislation(nytimes.com)
5 points by blahpro 16y ago|0 comments
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by blahpro 16y ago
My favourite is probably Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/barry_schwartz_on_the_para...
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by blahpro 16y ago
There’s a Hacker News group on AirBnB, through which I found a couple of very welcoming hosts in the San Francisco Bay Area. Check out http://www.airbnb.com/groups/hackernews/ . I also met a lot of really friendly people at Hacker Dojo in
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by blahpro 16y ago
“There are ± 100 million websites out there with Flash content.” Plus or minus? Also, I tried to copy and paste that text from the footer but I couldn’t because it’s all wrapped up in Flash.
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Behind the scenes of BBC iPlayer(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by blahpro 16y ago|0 comments
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by blahpro 16y ago
http://twitter.com/jot/status/14898912505
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by blahpro 16y ago
Here’s mine from about 5 months ago: http://i.imgur.com/MqZop.jpg
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Apple Announces WWDC 2010: June 7th - 11th(tuaw.com)
2 points by blahpro 16y ago|0 comments
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"The state of the Twitter ecosystem: a developer's perspective"(ippio.com)
1 points by blahpro 16y ago|0 comments
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by blahpro 16y ago
“SproutCore” sounds like a musical sub-genre of veggie metal.
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Crockford on JavaScript — Vol. 1: The Early Years(yuiblog.com)
3 points by blahpro 16y ago|0 comments
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Letter to Steve Jobs(probablyinteractive.com)
142 points by blahpro 16y ago|45 comments
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by blahpro 17y ago
Wh... what? Minimal applications aren't a result of laziness, they're designed that way. One of the many reasons why, IMO, Tweetie is the best Twitter client for OS X.
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by blahpro 17y ago
“I’m [...] starting work on turning Tweetie.app into Twitter.app”. I bet there are a lot of unhappy Twitter iPhone/iPad client developers today.
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Why Mercurial is greater than Git, or How I Learned To Stop Censoring Mys....(blog.zacharyvoase.com)
1 points by blahpro 17y ago|1 comments
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by blahpro 17y ago
There are plenty of wonderful places in the UK outside of London that are considerably cheaper. If you’re a freelancer, there might not be any need for you to live in The City.