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by ned 16y ago
Joyent came out with such a product in 2007, called Slingshot. I remember it being quite slow (…for what was supposed to be a desktop app), but functional. http://joyeur.com/2007/03/22/joyent-slingshot/
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by ned 16y ago
I've had dedicated servers, shared hosts and individual domains with them for a few years. I had a hardware failure on a server once, the HD died, they replaced it in a few hours, it was handled pretty efficiently. The price is really low.
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by ned 16y ago
The introductory blog post: http://www.marco.org/666491230 If like me you didn't know that iTunes Store had an API, here's the documentation: http://www.apple.com/itunesaffiliates/API/AffiliatesSearch2.... [PDF] http://www.google.com/u
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Preview.fm: An experiment for fast browsing of full albums.(preview.fm)
3 points by ned 16y ago|1 comments
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by ned 16y ago
Awesome. I tried using SongBird ( http://www.getsongbird.com/ ) for a while, but it never seemed natural to switch to a specialized browser every time I landed on a music blog. This is a much more user friendly proposition. One major proble
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by ned 17y ago
Ahh, people love their compiracy theories, don't they… I lived for years in village just next to Pont Saint Esprit, and my step-dad investigated this story in the mid-80's, interviewing directly the director of the local asylum, a first han
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by ned 17y ago
He correctly points out that LaTeX is a typesetting tool, and that Word and Writer are word processors, two very different approaches to text. So why compare LaTeX to them, and not, for example, Adobe InDesign, or FrameMaker?
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by ned 17y ago
> I don't see the EU saying anything to Apple about Safari. This comes up every time. The problem isn't having a monopoly (the EU isn't preventing the distribution of Windows), it's using an existing monopoly to corner a new adjacent ma
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by ned 17y ago
For me the single best web experience improvement in the last year has been to install ClickToFlash: http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/ Suddenly, Safari didn't slow down or crash unexplicably, fantastic.
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by ned 17y ago
As Mark Hall noted on his blog ( http://mhallville.com/2010/01/13/google-china/ ) the debate seems to have polarized between two camps: the moralists and the cynics. Lost in the noise is the fact that the Chinese government is not longer on
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by ned 17y ago
I agree with the comments. I have a handful of small apps that could really use background processes to create thumbnails and send confirmation emails, it's very lightweight and doesn't warrant a full $36/m dyno. Still, I'd recommend Heroku
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by ned 17y ago
Rounded corners are supported in Webkit Gecko and Presto, and not in Trident of course. Variables are provided by SASS, a CSS pre-processor language/framework.
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by ned 17y ago
Do you care to elaborate on how moving to Heroku "has dropped the hosting fees for [your clients] down to zero" ?
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by ned 17y ago
Sure, why not. I'm in Paris. ned ät baldessin döt fr.
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by ned 17y ago
I agree. But to be fair, you should compare it to a Brompton folding bike (that have an excellent design btw, the parts fit perfectly). http://www.brompton.co.uk/
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by ned 17y ago
You mean a doctype. IE6 users won't be affected if you declare the HTML5 elements in JS, as described here: http://html5doctor.com/how-to-get-html5-working-in-ie-and-fi...
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by ned 17y ago
I've always used -moz-inline-block for FF2, and it has worked for me so far, although PPK warns that it's not always the case: http://www.quirksmode.org/css/display.html#inlineblock But at this point in time, I'd drop FF2 support (pixel p
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by ned 17y ago
I can see the point of using the video tag, because you can achieve better compatibility (iPhone!) and a smother experience (no Flash player crashes with native video support). But I don't see the real benefit of using the tags that only pr
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by ned 17y ago
Here's an interesting scenario: the Opera installer asks you if you want to install the "Freedom" service, if you agree, it installs a background server (always on, launched on start up). This service is a local web server + web application
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by ned 18y ago
Seems much easier to use Flash to detect installed fonts… http://www.maratz.com/blog/archives/2006/08/18/detect-visito...
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by ned 18y ago
Screenshot, with Consolas replaced by Inconsolata: http://baldessin.fr/2009/giovanistyle-20090122-154740.png
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by ned 18y ago
Barry Schartz on the Paradox of Choice. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_par... To paraphrase his talk: There is an "official dogma" that more choice equals more happiness. In reality, we have gone too far, and now
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by ned 18y ago
In this age of massive botnets, I don't see the point of grouping the requests by IP address, as he suggests: the attacker will just use his 500000 different machines to attack a single account. So you should probably keep track of the user
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by ned 18y ago
Spotify is really well done : the client is lightweight, launches fast, is responsive, when you double click a track to play it starts playing instantly (it really feels like the file stored locally), and the catalog is impressive (although
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by ned 18y ago
Skitch !