mikemaccana

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by mikemaccana 15y ago
Some background from WP: "Brittany is a female given name of French and Latin origins, after Brittany, a region of France... Brittany is also derived from 'Britannia', a 2nd century Roman goddess."
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
Isn't the name ' britney' itself a misspelling?
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
'Properly'. But yes, otherwise I find I don't have time to fix it later. Occasionally, when I know there's a better way of doing it but am having trouble thinking of it immediately I throw a # TODO in there.
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
In the major distros, Fedora and Ubuntu and OpenSuSE, a lot of packages, some of which aren't used by most users, sometimes default iptables rules, sometimes no iptables rules at all. In newer, less friendly but more tech oriented distros (
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
This would apply to Pyjamas (Python that compiles to JS) too. That said, Coffeescript is very similar to Python.
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
Assuming a cleanup is significant, yes, I'm fairly sure Google or another high-profile Linux contributor would have done the same. It's just maintenance work - necessary, but not industry changing like the initial release of GNU+Linux (as a
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
I think most of the complaints were about UAC, which was acknowledged to be overly chatty by Microsoft when they refined it in 7.
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
Are you replacing IMAP and MAPI (mail delivery protocols, per your article) or SMTP, or both? I think this will take a lot more than a single blow.
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
it sounds as if you didn't read the article. It doesn't say LinuX isn't still relevant - quite the opposite in fact - just that Linus has: "Although he can claim credit for popularizing one of the most powerful ideas ever to sweep through t
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
It's approved - check the domain (same as LPTHW)
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
There was an unapproved translation before, IIRC. I guess this is out because the adapter asked Zed's permission first and kept the copyright? If so, I'm cool with that. Zed can be a firestarter, but this shows he's cool with others contrib
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
Indeed. A site asking for my apple.com password that isn't apple.com? No thanks. You'd think oauth would just be part of implementing logins, and apple wouldn't be encouraging people to give their passwords to other sites.
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
> I have seen it already last year and the way how this guys speaks has not changed since then (speaks like a salesmen) ;) +1. I'd actually trust the company more if they had someone who spoke in measured tones and laid off the hyperbol
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
More people use multiple apps on one platform than use the same app on multiple platforms. That said,a browser is considered an app platform itself these days. Also: you disagree with the poster. That doesn't mean he has been proven wrong.
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
This has nothing to do with net neutrality. Net Neutrality is about ensuring consumers have equal access to providers of content and providers of content have equal access to consumers. It's not about allowing piracy - quoting wikipedia: "C
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
Hi there. You should probably read the HN guidelines at http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html .
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
> The more surprising thing is that they seem to genuinely believe they can "block" content. They can. Or do you mean that the judges think there's no way around the block? If so, do you have a reference for that?
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
Doesn't the 'D' in KDE stand for 'desktop'? Which desktop users know what a 'software compilation' is?
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
And, even worse, xorg and xdmcp to get py25-pil.
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
> Brew doesn't install the whole universe and take hours to install a small utility. MacPorts does. Confirming that - my new MacPorts 2 install installed perl and ncurses just to get ipython.
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
> That's not even true. Today I needed to determine if any resources were 404ing on a page. Yesterday I wanted to see the exact POST request my browser was sending. I did both on FF using the inbuilt developer tools. I'm sure they may n
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
Keen in mind that Firefox 8 (and 7, and I think earlier versions) has Web Developer tools built in, obviating much of the need for Firebug.
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Natural, a natural language processing module for node.js(chrisumbel.com)
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
- Why not use any other modifier ending, like 'ing' or 'ish' or 'vore' like: See point #2 - I bet if .ish was a CCTLD they'd do exactly this. - Libya? Wouldn't Liechtenstein be better? It ends in 'li'. See point #1. :^) Pardon if it wasn't
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
- 'ly' is used in English as part of many adjectives. - There's a CCTLD for Libya called 'ly' with domains available.
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
> Does anyone have a guess as to why they are doing an "invite only" style opening here in the US? They're not - you can pay for a premium or unlimited subscription right now. I've just purchased one for my brother in NY, so I can share
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
What phones have easily installed JavaME apps? As far I know very few S60 users actually install apps, despite Nokia apparently having an app store.
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
Really? I've seen GSSAPI patched versions of Putty for two years at least, but never an official version with those patches included.
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
Contrary to the other posters, I think this may actually happen: a little research will show that the xbox 360 OS is based on Xbox OS. Some people say this is a fork of Windows 2000, some people say it is from scratch. If it's true it's bas
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
> unlike 'bastard' http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=all+men+are+bastards

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