jrabone

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by jrabone 15y ago
Actually, no - I use Linux on the desktop at work, and Windows by choice elsewhere. However, after more than 10 years of pain I've had it with cross-platform code that isn't. I KNOW that this library isn't SUPPOSED to be cross-platform, tha
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by jrabone 15y ago
Well, I suppose it's one step up from embedding ANSI escape sequences in your output. Various crappy Ruby tools do this and it makes Windows development SUCH a joy. Free clue: the world is not a 1960s UNIX terminal. If you don't want to sup
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by jrabone 15y ago
Try this: 1. Install Privoxy (http://www.privoxy.org/) 2. Add the following to etc/user.action {+block{Stupidities}} /(.*/)?snow(storm)?\.js(.*)? 3. Configure browser to use localhost:8118 as an HTTP proxy 4. Profit.
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by jrabone 15y ago
"...a watered down version or just serve them up crapply encoded videos/images etc" That is actually a REALLY good idea - serve up smaller, low resolution content and let me easily BUY the higher resolution content (as a download, not some
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by jrabone 15y ago
Privoxy is pretty good. I run it (usually a single centralised instance) on any LAN I am allowed to. Any network installs for people (e.g. family/friends) I set up a Linux server and Privoxy is in there (with judicious bypassing because it
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by jrabone 15y ago
People are complaining about PayPal "hiding behind antifraud", but real banks do this too - at least in the UK. My bank has phoned me up multiple times to check transactions. On one occasion they simply "black-holed" a credit card transacti
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by jrabone 15y ago
Not this again. Amazon does not do this in the way that you imply. They try to have a single page for a given item (not always successfully). On that page, different users may see an offer for the SAME item from a DIFFERENT merchant - the p
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by jrabone 15y ago
Somewhere that makes real physical products. And doesn't need ads to know where you are... :-)
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by jrabone 15y ago
Anecdotal, but anyway... Earlier this year, Paypal notified me that they required more information about my personal account - namely confirmation that it wasn't a business in disguise. Due to my mistranslating from American English to Brit
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by jrabone 15y ago
Oh, it all looked so enticing until I read: * Using machine learning to implement intent-based search ads No. I think not. I'd rather use machine learning to block ads, thank you.
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by jrabone 15y ago
What is this bullshit? Looking for a job? Convince me you know what you're talking about. Show me something I didn't know and convince me it's worth knowing. Demonstrate you know big 'O' notation (and maybe tell me how little 'o' and \omega
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by jrabone 15y ago
Lots of fail here, but I'm surprised no-one has mentioned www.ironkey.com yet (I just did). I've been using one for a couple of years (admittedly mostly on Windowses) and was so impressed I bought a couple more for my partner, family member
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by jrabone 15y ago
"Not to sound like an old dude stuck in his ways, but there is a reason that we're still all using VT 100 and 220 emulators from 30+ years ago -- they work great." No, they don't. Really. Look at the source code to ncurses and see if the mi
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by jrabone 15y ago
I didn't recognise the name either but to be fair, Devolver are mentioned as a partner on Croteam's website (the original Serious Sam developers).
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by jrabone 15y ago
This has been the future of reading on the web for about the last 10 years. It's now so bad that my default browser setup (the one I use for sites I've never visited before / known offenders, as opposed to my online bank) is Firefox + AdBlo
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by jrabone 15y ago
Ha. Non-Orange phones are much better off in this regard (at least in the UK). And non-branded phones are even better. I don't think carriers have realised just how much ill-will their crapware/crippling branding process engenders. In the p