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by kree10 16y ago
To see something like this in action, this HTML Mail.app clone demo (that I'm pretty sure hit the HN front page several months ago) uses data URIs for all its icons: http://ukijs.org/mail/index.html
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by kree10 16y ago
Reminds me of a use of math in rock that was actually calculated: the beat in Queen's "We Will Rock You". "I mixed all the tracks [...] with different delays, related to each other in length with prime numbers, so there would not be any dis
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by kree10 16y ago
AC/DC is still holding out, and probably will as long as the Young brothers are alive. They're apparently so against separating songs from the context of their albums, they've never even authorized a straight greatest hits compilation.
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by kree10 16y ago
It may take some time, but git & hg are doing it the smart way with the likes of git-svn and hgsubversion. Moving from one vcs to another usually meant 1) a difficult and error-prone history conversion process and 2) a cold turkey switc
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by kree10 16y ago
There's something called Server Name Indication that allows name-based virtual hosting with https. There's some good information here about it: http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/NameBasedSSLVHostsWithSNI The problem is browser support isn't qu
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by kree10 16y ago
It is a matter of taste (and likely class). There are a lot of people out there who think it looks great. Maybe sites should use Comic Sans if they detect the browser is MSIE 6, and save the "tasteful" fonts for everyone else. Everyone wins
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by kree10 16y ago
You can cheat and get them all on on page by reading the source here: http://github.com/bentruyman/enterprise-js/blob/master/tips....
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by kree10 16y ago
"...back when dinosaurs walked the earth, people used this...for FTP sessions." How I wish this were true. Before I started doing freelance web development full-time, I figured FTP had died out in the 90s, just like telnet did. I now unders
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by kree10 16y ago
The genius thing about git-svn is not that it only "talks" to svn: using git-svn (you could say subversively) converts your repo to git. One day, when somebody suggests dumping svn for git, you can skip the "but how do we preserve all that
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by kree10 16y ago
I love that vcs_info works with more than just git. Having my prompt tell me what VCS I'm under (even knowing the difference between git and git-svn) and what branch I've got checked out helps me mentally switch gears as soon as I cd into a
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by kree10 16y ago
All right, I'll give you that. But what if your "reward" was not $100 but a photo of an unknown subject. There's a small chance that photo is something you find valuable (newsworthy, embarrassing to the subject, etc.), but there's a far bet
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by kree10 16y ago
But people can see your house in the woods. I think it's more like: see that forest out there? In one of those trees, I drilled a hole in the trunk and stuck a rolled-up $100 bill in it. Even though I told you it's out there, good luck find
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by kree10 16y ago
The thing is, this attitude isn't new. MSFT's MO for many, many years has been to put out "just good enough" products.
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by kree10 16y ago
I think you're right. Plan9's first "public" (to universities only) release was 1992, when Linux was just getting off the ground and the FreeBSD & NetBSD projects did not yet exist. People interested in Linux or 386BSD at the time would
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by kree10 16y ago
Links + descriptions + tags = http://del.icio.us/ no?
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by kree10 16y ago
FTA: "The magic router formula these days is a combination of commodity hardware and open-source firmware. I'm so enamored of this one-two punch combo, in fact, I might even say it represents the future." I don't see a need for all the hedg
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by kree10 16y ago
In the case of Firefox, I don't even want an installer. I like the OS X install process for Firefox (and many other apps): copy Firefox.app to /Applications. That's it.
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by kree10 16y ago
I have been to several non-tech networking/CoC-type meetings, and my problem is that after saying I do web development, the conversation usually quickly turns to "my PC has some kind of virus". I suppose I should see this as an opportunity
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by kree10 16y ago
It exists: http://bobby-tables.com/
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by kree10 16y ago
I saw this in MRR, though it's only one part of a longer piece from The Baffler published around the same time. The Baffler version had more ranting on the aesthetic side (rather than business side). Lots on production/producers and vintage
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by kree10 16y ago
Cookie Monster (set to deny cookies by default) plus Flashblock seems to be enough to stop evercookie from setting an id on Firefox for me.
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by kree10 16y ago
I've been using this technique with a disposable blade for the past few months: http://consumerist.com/2010/03/make-your-disposable-razor-bl... I keep my razor in the shower, too, though maybe if I didn't it could go even longer.
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by kree10 16y ago
I'm getting "The change you wanted was rejected. Maybe you tried to change something you didn't have access to." for every IP address I try: my current Comcast address, and the addresses of a few servers I work on. I also put in 66.220.147.
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by kree10 16y ago
I'd take the next logical step: integrate it with a shell, much like zsh's zftp module does for FTP sessions. I may have to write this now.
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by kree10 16y ago
It also helps that few people actually live in 60606 (population 1,682 in the 2000 census). If Mayor Daley wanted 60606 to move up on this list, I guess he could do it with some strategic zoning changes.
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by kree10 16y ago
"It is our responsibility as the tech-savvy users to educate these users." It wasn't long ago when the tech-savvy were trying to educate against "top posting" e-mail replies. It was a decisive loss, so good luck. If you want people to use D
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by kree10 16y ago
Great pictures, but I have a technical gripe: while waiting (and waiting) for these to load, I took a look at the HTTP headers of one image: http://denverpost.slideshowpro.com/albums/001/496/album-1251... Given that URL I thought I'd see
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by kree10 16y ago
There is at last one more case: binfmt_misc on Linux, which gives you Windows-style run-based-on-file-extension. I had a run-in with it on a shared host with some PHP cron jobs (don't ask). The hosting company changed the handler for *.php
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by kree10 16y ago
I miss the old FreeBSD parameter behavior when I could have shebang lines like: #!/usr/local/bin/sudo -u someuser /bin/sh
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by kree10 16y ago
There's a very small and (for now?) inactive HN group on last.fm: http://www.last.fm/group/Hacker+News+(Ycombinator)

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