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by mhw 16y ago
Free ssh client for iOS? Do you have an example? I'm genuinely interested, but haven't found one.
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by mhw 16y ago
I think the problem in the past has been that developers in general (commercial as well as open source) have chosen to build 'flexibility' and 'customisation' over thinking user interface design through, making a decision about the way some
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by mhw 16y ago
Oh, that kind of phone screen. For a moment there I thought we might have some interesting discussion about Gorilla Glass.
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by mhw 16y ago
In portable systems (laptops and netbooks) the system should be able to work out its location from things like visible WiFi SSIDs and other onboard hardware. This would enable a few cool things: * Tell the user that their normal WiFi router
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by mhw 16y ago
I'm looking forward to trying out Unity and seeing how that handles, so it's hard to make any constructive comments based on the current UI knowing what's coming in 11.04. That said... As a laptop user, it has always felt like suspend and r
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by mhw 16y ago
System > Preferences > Keyboard > Layouts > Options... for swapping ctrl and capslock and other things System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts for shortcuts that hook in to application functionality
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Impact of Verifone's open letter on Square and payment industry(quora.com)
14 points by mhw 16y ago|0 comments
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by mhw 16y ago
Neither was I really. I was making a point about the speed with which people are jumping to claims of anti-competitive behaviour before the competition have really got out of the starting blocks, and in some cases before they've even got th
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by mhw 16y ago
Did I miss the part where first-mover advantage became anti-competitive behaviour?
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by mhw 16y ago
I agree with your list, but I think the 'What can I do with it?' question is more like 'What's the potential for me being able to do new things with this in the future?' - apps, and the likelihood of more of them being available in the futu
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Introducing Union Station: our web app performance monitoring service(blog.phusion.nl)
45 points by mhw 16y ago|11 comments
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by mhw 16y ago
I've held off stuffing fugitive into my vim setup as I'm happy using git from the command line, but this looks like it might be the thing that pushes me in to it. That said, extradite only looks to get me part way towards answering the ques
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Mistakes made, lessons learned, a principle clarified and upheld(markshuttleworth.com)
5 points by mhw 16y ago|0 comments
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Tradable Quality Hypothesis(martinfowler.com)
6 points by mhw 16y ago|0 comments
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by mhw 16y ago
I'm trying to work out which of Wikipedia's list of cognitive biases ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases ) best describes a CEO abandoning the majority of his company's intellectual property in favour of a partnership wi
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Whistlepig 0.1 released, a minimalist realtime full-text search index(all-thing.net)
4 points by mhw 16y ago|0 comments
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Operator billing(quirksmode.org)
5 points by mhw 16y ago|0 comments
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by mhw 16y ago
According to http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12041063 it was raised by Culture Minister Ed Vaizey in an interview with the Sunday Times, but they then link to http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11822874 where they say that Conse
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Censorship - Won’t someone think of the adults?(gonedigital.net)
39 points by mhw 16y ago|28 comments
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by mhw 16y ago
Pro Tip: make sure you spell the subject's name correctly in your submission title. Matt Blaze, not Matt Balze. edit: And it might help in this case to indicate why the link is interesting. Matt was asked by the RSA Conference organisers
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by mhw 16y ago
No joke. http://www.guidewire.com/our_customers lists some companies that are using the Guidewire insurance products in production. These products are all built in a combination of Java and Gosu (or GScript, as it used to be called). [I d
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by mhw 16y ago
Does this extract from the Reference Guide answer your question? "Gosu types preserve generic type information at run time. This Gosu feature is called reified generics. This means that in complex cases you could check the exact type of an
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by mhw 16y ago
As a bit of background, Gosu is based on the GScript language that Guidewire have been using for a number of years to build their Insurance application suite, so it has been proven in the development of non-trivial applications and the impl
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First public release of the Gosu programming language for the JVM(gosu-lang.org)
33 points by mhw 16y ago|41 comments
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Microsoft’s strategy shift - on Silverlight, HTML5 and mobile web apps(quirksmode.org)
2 points by mhw 16y ago|1 comments
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by mhw 16y ago
"A thousand or a million people using [product X] to do their 'INDIVIDUAL' thing is not at all impressive. What would be impressive would be a thousand or a million people using [product X] to work collaboratively together toward accomplish
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Deliberately uninformed, relentlessly so [a rant](sethgodin.typepad.com)
3 points by mhw 16y ago|0 comments
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by mhw 16y ago
> I love Ubuntu for their UI breakthroughs, but I'm only tolerating them for stealing Debian's work as long as Ubuntu stays free (as in price). > If you want to sell your Linux distribution, at least build it yourself. So you're say
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by mhw 16y ago
Anyone care to explain how Canonical requiring copyright assignment for contributions to their projects is different from Red Hat requiring a Contributor License Agreement for contributions to Spacewalk, their now-open-source Red Hat Networ
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by mhw 16y ago
http://www.glendix.org/ is going in that kind of direction, albeit without explicitly doing the bit about porting existing packages. Instead it looks like they're building enough support in Linux to run Plan 9 binaries, and then bringing

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