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by jrabone 14y ago
Nice idea but it breaks horribly if you have a smooth / bouncy scroll plugin (like Chromium Wheel Smooth Scroller) installed. I don't know if it's easy to detect plugins in Chrome any more, but if you can't you might want to mention that so
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by jrabone 14y ago
I don't think the community should be laughing too loudly about enterprise XML, given the security difficulties Rails has been having with its serialisation formats. How much did people lose in that Bitcoin exchange hack?
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by jrabone 14y ago
Seconded, I have that Lansky set and it's the best sharpening system I've used, and very fast and accurate, whether you're grinding a blade to a new angle or touching up an existing edge.
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by jrabone 14y ago
Seems like a simple fix to make it latitude-aware, if it's not already.
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by jrabone 14y ago
One of the troublemakers on a small island :-) You've escaped anyway.
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by jrabone 14y ago
Who'd have thought it? Hugely dynamic language turns out to be difficult to audit or analyse for security issues. It was never about Java(C, C++) vs. Ruby despite what fanboys on either side made out. It was about conservative vs. devil-may
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by jrabone 14y ago
I don't have a problem with curation; Sturgeon's Law goes double for blogs, and I'd be happy to have someone else filter the crap. It's not like it won't find somewhere else to get published or self-hosted. Honestly, the way some people are
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by jrabone 14y ago
And yet you listed it. No doubt you have it on your paper CV as well. And when I ask you about it in a tech. interview, what then? Will you have the balls to tell me why it's all crap?
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by jrabone 14y ago
My fault for being lazy and using it as a shorthand for "all countries between longitudes 120W and 30E", give or take a few degrees. No offence intended, I just don't live there!
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by jrabone 14y ago
Much for the same reasons I run my own mail server - because I can, I learned something doing it, it gives me more control than I'd otherwise have. I also don't trust any network with plain-text credentials so TLS was a requirement for mobi
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by jrabone 14y ago
It's not whether I think Turkey is "West" or "East", it's more than I just don't interact with Turkish websites - so why should I broaden the attack surface of my browser unnecessarily? I realise that the CA -> domain mapping is a poor
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by jrabone 14y ago
Quite. You, are, of course, free to run your own CA. I rather like my version (a custom minimal Linux virtual machine, ~ 16MB, stored on an IronKey). Built from source, reasonably tamper-proof, works offline, encrypted at rest. It's a bit o
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by jrabone 14y ago
At least on my Android devices, you can select which root CAs to trust via Setting -> Security -> Trusted Credentials. Click on TURKTRUST, scroll down and click "Disable". Repeat. YMMV as I'm running Jelly Bean on both phone (CM10.1
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by jrabone 14y ago
I'm afraid that was my response. I doubt I'll need them, and I'll re-evaluate if I ever do, but as far as I'm concerned TurkTrust is not a valid CA. Here's how on Windows (you can't delete them, they come back with the next CA update): IE,
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by jrabone 14y ago
I suppose instead of someone flying cargo planes full of rubber dog shit outta Hong Kong, they can at least print their own and save SOME airmiles...
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by jrabone 14y ago
It's basically a way for those who are secure in their own identity to inform others of the essential pointlessness of their existence. Fads and trends are actually a con-trick; they bring new cults of personality to our lives. Deriding peo
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by jrabone 14y ago
You could probably submit a request under the Data Protection Act to force them to reveal it anyway, so it makes sense for them to just have a web form...
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by jrabone 14y ago
The lead-generating scumbags need to be clamped down on, hard. When a phone service provider sells YOUR customer data to the highest bidding lead-generator, you'll agree with me. Telefonica - you are scum, and you've lost as many customers
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by jrabone 14y ago
Has it occurred to the advertards that perhaps one of the reasons behind the rush to mobile/tablet devices is that the user experience is SO MUCH BETTER without the insanity that is the advert-polluted desktop internet? After all, $12 milli
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by jrabone 14y ago
One thing not mentioned so far is the use of high pressure fuel pumps for common-rail injection petrol engines. This used to be something you only found on diesels. The lubricity of diesel fuel is a factor in the design and longevity of th
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How the Queen of England Beat Everyone to the Internet(wired.com)
4 points by jrabone 14y ago|0 comments
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by jrabone 14y ago
Nope. I treat Facebook as a 12 month delay line - any content older than that gets "deleted" (I maybe archive messages). I actually hate the whole idea and would have deleted my account a long time ago, but it's the only medium by which I'l
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by jrabone 14y ago
It's inherent in everything the Ruby community does - sooner or later someone will come along and write a 14 page diatribe about how DHH is full of shit and then flounce out in a cloud of opprobrium.
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by jrabone 14y ago
Yeah, and I don't think he's been keeping up with Java EE 6 - EJBs are dead, long live JPA annotations. Of course, Spring is likely on borrowed time too. Just maybe we can lose the whole concept of a "framework", lightweight or not, that ha
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by jrabone 14y ago
Does not work well on my phone (Galaxy S2 running CM10 nightlies) using Chrome. Animation is just not fast enough, or possibly the AMOLED screen is too quick to respond compared to an LCD. Maybe a combination of these. Anyway it's unusable
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Sweden students riot over Instagram sex insults page(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by jrabone 14y ago|1 comments
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by jrabone 14y ago
http://www.mkw.me.uk/beebem/ is a very, very good software "replacement" if you need a quick fix.
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by jrabone 14y ago
If anyone is tempted to try this without purchasing a suitable kit, make sure the parts are suitably rated. The 250V non-polarised C2 may be safety critical if it's a line to line or line to neutral capacitor - look for an "X" or "Y" markin
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by jrabone 14y ago
Yep, me too. Courier IMAPD (at least the Debian stable packages) works just fine. But where's the equivalent software for tasks, calendar and contacts?
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by jrabone 14y ago
Where is the stable, open source CardDAV & CalDAV server, equivalent to Courier IMAP/POP? All I can see are Zimbra, some other half-finished Exchange replacements or PHP monstrosities, or an unmaintained mod_caldav for Apache. All I wan

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