cmsj

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1. 691.▲
   by cmsj 13y ago

   So, you need to cover yourself against (at least) the following: 1. Bug in your backup software This is addressed by using more than 1 piece of backup software. 2. Corruption in your live data (i.e. your filesystem corrupts your favou
2. 692.▲
   by cmsj 13y ago

   This is probably the most rigorously honest comment here :)
3. 693.▲
   by cmsj 13y ago

   Or just have a cloud-centric workflow and you have billions of devices around you that can quickly access any of your data :)
4. 694.▲
   by cmsj 13y ago

   Much slower. The flash chips in a microSD card can only do a few tens of MB/s. The are now full size sd cards that claim 250MB/s, but not micro ones.
5. 695.▲
   by cmsj 13y ago

   Yep. I was a backer too and received some early, crappy units. The latest revision is really good :)
6. 696.▲
   by cmsj 13y ago

   it'd be awfully tough for them to just go to the Contacts app, pull up your card and see your address :( Use a passcode for goodness sake! Actively protect your data!
7. 697.▲
   by cmsj 13y ago

   Please can you wire up some unicorns to some rainbows and make it so I can have irssi act as a client for irccloud? ;) I really want an IRC kernel with an API, so I can have all sorts of clients on different machines/platforms, but it
8. 698.▲
   by cmsj 13y ago

   People love things to be a war, even if the "opposing sides" are playing a different game (quality & profit for Apple, market share for Google).
9. 699.▲
   by cmsj 13y ago

   Aren't there something like a billion very poor people in the world with no continuous access to electricity? I sincerely hope that they are going to get to take advantage of local, diverse micro-generation soon, but for now I'm g
10. 700.▲
    by cmsj 13y ago

    Thank you for stating what seems like it ought to be an obvious truth, with such a stark example :)
11. 701.▲
    by cmsj 13y ago

    They should not be dealing with sensitive information, unencrypted over a non-governmental Internet connection, so your point is irrelevant.
12. 702.▲
    by cmsj 13y ago

    I find it most amusing that you'd buy the laptop with the best screen available and then connect it to a monitor with the worst available connection method (VGA) ;D
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    by cmsj 13y ago

    I also can't reproduce it with the Thunderbolt Display. Are the original reproducers of this all using minidisplayport adapters? Or are some able to reproduce using the native HDMI port?
14. 704.▲
    by cmsj 13y ago

    We have no idea the demographics of those who left Africa, or why!
15. 705.▲
    by cmsj 13y ago

    I don't think that's true, you can create more albums on the device and move photos to those albums?
16. 706.▲
    by cmsj 13y ago

    I just noticed that %7C is the URL encoded form of..... | so it's always just full of pipes!
17. 707.▲
    by cmsj 13y ago

    I counter with http://www.ctshirts.co.uk just go there and even the front page transmutes itself into a horrifying URL of doom. Depending on which subsection of the site you're in, you sometimes also get |||||||| on the end of the URL. I
18. 708.▲
    by cmsj 13y ago

    Thanks, that sounds great! Out of interest, if someone has site-specific software they need to package, but is of no interest to the wider world, how easy is it to host their own repository with that software? (is it like apt where it offer
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    by cmsj 13y ago

    Hey Sketch :) Could you maybe talk about how easy it is (or isn't) for J Random Developer to get Awesomesauce New Webscale Database packaged and into your repository? (cf Homebrew which is some git forkery, creating a worryingly simple conf
20. 710.▲
    by cmsj 13y ago

    Also binary packages don't require you do have compilers installed. I'm slightly biased because I have known Mr Perkin for some time, but I could not be more delighted that there is a fresh attempt to get a binary package manager running on
21. 711.▲
    by cmsj 13y ago

    DVCS is so so much better than CVCS that developers generally love it hence the popularity it is seeing. You are trying to hold back the tide here :)
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    by cmsj 14y ago

    Or LastPass. Or if you're in the Apple ecosystem, 1Password.
23. 713.▲
    by cmsj 14y ago

    Email isn't private unless it's encrypted :)
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    by cmsj 14y ago

    Worked for me in Mac chrome, but I did see others complaining about it killing chrome.
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    Google Street View Hyperlapses [video](thisiscolossal.com)

    461 points by cmsj 14y ago|67 comments
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    by cmsj 14y ago

    Ah right, then yeah, that stuff is now pretty opaque and has changed a bunch since the old desktop days.
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    by cmsj 14y ago

    Give them a DMG? It would be lovely if there was a One True Software Distribution Format, but it's not going to happen. wgetting into a bash script is a terrible way to not really support any users properly :)
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    by cmsj 14y ago

    A general policy that doesn't apply to the employer that everyone has heard of, thus automatically giving you some kind of platform to speak from? :)
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    by cmsj 14y ago

    I always install sl because it helps me. If I'm frustrated from typing too quickly/angrily to even get "ls" right, the little train breaks me out of my fugue state and I have to laugh and shout "choo choo!" in the office :D
30. 720.▲
    by cmsj 14y ago

    Then it needs to adjust its worldview to match mine. It showed me some text, I selected the text it showed me. If its simple layout engine thinks I saw some text that was rendered hundreds of pixels outside the viewable area, that is its bu