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by kennu 14y ago
I don't know if many people agree with this, but I would also recommend you to give Apple's built-in OSX apps a try before installing replacements. I've used Mail, Calendar, Address Book and Terminal for many years without feeling a compell
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by kennu 14y ago
What would you recommend for persistent disk storage on AWS instead of EBS then? Assuming you need to put database files somewhere where they don't disappear when instances terminate, and your database can access them.
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by kennu 14y ago
I don't really understand the purpose of the complex Buildout configuration, when you can just run "pip install -r requirements.txt" in your virtualenv and list your packages in a simple text file? What do you win with Buildout?
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by kennu 14y ago
It would be pretty optimistic to assume that Facebook wouldn't store your historical data, if you're deliberately logged in with your account but sending DNT: 1. Facebook's whole user experience pretty much relies on the historical data it
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by kennu 14y ago
I don't think the protocol cares that much about who made the error. It's more about whether the client should retry the same unmodified request again or not. Using a 4xx series error code indicates that it shouldn't, using a 5xx series cod
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by kennu 14y ago
This is a good feature, but it seems now the temporary AWS access keys of the IAM role will be accessible to any application running on the EC2 instance, not just the one with the config files like before. I wonder if this will create any u
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by kennu 14y ago
I wonder if I'm the only one who doesn't really like the GitHub Windows user experience? The most confusing thing is what you see when you select a repository. It shows you the commit details and diffs of the latest commit. That makes you f
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by kennu 14y ago
I think the problem is that you also make legitimate use harder, like copy-pasteing an email address from a web page. In fact I think this applies to security in general. You need to balance the costs and the benefits. Usually in matters li
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by kennu 14y ago
On the other hand, nobody is enforcing you to address knights as "Sir", so no freedom is taken away from you. I know many doctors but rarely address them as "Dr"..
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by kennu 14y ago
Nowadays web email services like Gmail set the minimum standard for how email should work. You should be able to choose your email address from what's available, and also create new email addresses whenever you need them (with self service)
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by kennu 14y ago
It's still a very different scenario to specifically acquire a single targeted person's DNA which they left lying around, than to collect a massive database of millions of people's DNA that you can use to make all sorts of queries for whate
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by kennu 14y ago
Web servers shouldn't need to rely on any other information than the URL in order to serve the right content. This keeps the simple use cases simple, as the URL directly translates to a file on the server. Otherwise every web werver in the
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by kennu 14y ago
It sounds like being able to run a bunch of Varnish servers to cache stuff at edge locations around the world. I wonder if it really works that way or do you have to change your web app a lot to work with it?
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by kennu 14y ago
I can share Puppet's two greatest weaknesses from my point of view (managing an AWS infrastructure of a few dozen servers): - It handles dynamic host environments like AWS badly. Puppet's SSL infrastructure gets often confused when hostname
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by kennu 15y ago
I am confused when people even consider measuring productivity with hours spent. It's like trying to measure the brightness of a lightbulb with the amount of time it's been turned on - two totally different quantities. Usually productivity
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by kennu 15y ago
When you run the Django test runner with default verbosity, it shows a dot for each test so you see it's progressing and actually running the tests. It has the problem though, that even with the lowest verbosity setting, it still prints out
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by kennu 15y ago
So I guess the title of the article should be "Resolution independent high-resolution graphics for your website" then. Retina still communicates the subject better to me, since we all know this is about providing high-res images for iOS dev
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by kennu 15y ago
This becomes about semantics, then. If somebody writes an article about "retina displays", I immediately assume it's about this particular way of implementing resolution independence in the browser and in the OS (by doubling/quadrupling the
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by kennu 15y ago
I've understood that technically the main idea of "retina" is that the physical display pixels no longer map one-to-one with the logical user interface (CSS) pixels. Instead, the retina display appears as a virtual low-resolution screen tha
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by kennu 15y ago
I've been reading Rand's Atlas Shrugged and found it pretty boring and naive. OTOH after a friend of mine reminded that Rand was born in Russia and experienced the beginning of its transition into the Soviet Union in the 1920's, I kind of u
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by kennu 15y ago
One interesting fact: Leisure Suit Larry is pretty much directly based on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softporn_Adventure text adventure game. If you try it, you'll find the plot and the surroundings very familiar. Personally I discov
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by kennu 15y ago
Or the iPad could normally work in bezel-mode, but allow a separate "fullscreen mode" to take advantage of the whole surface area for some uses cases.
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by kennu 15y ago
Totally agree. When you give people only one way to proceed, they will try it, even if they don't know what will happen. (Which doesn't preclude five-finger pinches and other additional gestures -- people just won't realize they're there un
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by kennu 15y ago
I don't think the original author groks REST particularly well. Fundamentally it's really simple, once you understand the difference between actions and resources.
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by kennu 15y ago
In case you didn't read until the end, Foursquare has terminated the app's API access for violating their venue aggregation policy: http://www.cultofmac.com/157793/foursquare-kills-api-access-...
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Apple rejecting apps for using UDID without user permission (screenshot)(tapbots.com)
2 points by kennu 15y ago|0 comments
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by kennu 15y ago
In the operating system I'm running, there's no "Save" any more..
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by kennu 15y ago
I think infinite scrolling works best for uses cases where you don't typically open links after you've scrolled down. In Facebook's case, most of the interaction is ajax (Like, Commenting, etc.) so you don't lose the position. For me Facebo
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Pinterest posts new Terms of Service(pinterest.com)
32 points by kennu 15y ago|24 comments
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by kennu 15y ago
How's SQLAlchemy working with MongoDB? I, for one, am very happy to be able to use MongoDB as a Django backend. I believe this is largely due to the fact that Django has never directly assumed data models to be stored in a SQL database, but

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