nickzoic

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by nickzoic 15y ago
"data:" URLs are pretty good for this too, no web request needed. See RFC2397. I've been using these a bit lately for little icons and such, I think its a cleaner approach than spriting in a lot of cases. I put a little script to generate
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by nickzoic 15y ago
* Only use it for the iOS simulator (I'm doing some HTML5-type development, and I want to see what it looks like on an iPad ...)
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by nickzoic 15y ago
> I've dumped my consoles in the last year and moved to finding 'indie' game devs like these because, as the old saying goes, 'It's not about graphics, it's about gameplay' Ironically, this is pretty much what made the Wii such a succes
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by nickzoic 15y ago
Since there's no DRM you can't help it if people are buying one key and then burning a bunch of CDs, but that won't affect the average price much. Seems to me that if they're selling license keys for $1.50, the best way to counter this is
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by nickzoic 15y ago
<rant> Names are just Unicode strings, which you should not fold, spindle or mutilate. Why do you care which bit is the family name, or if this person has a family name, or even if there is such a thing as a family name in their fa
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by nickzoic 15y ago
A second used to be a short time, now it seems like a thousand milliseconds . You might find RFC 4429 IPv6 "Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection" interesting ...
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by nickzoic 15y ago
I've just been using Chromium browser on a small window on my desktop. It has a really excellent JS debugger (with breakpoints and watches and so on) and acts enough like Mobile Safari that most of what I've been trying to do works just the
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by nickzoic 15y ago
Agreed, Synergy is excellent. For me, anyway, I can have the laptop open on the desk in front of the desktop's monitors. Your underpowered laptop is probably still pretty good for reading email, etc. Also PS: If you like the action of the
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by nickzoic 15y ago
That's a valid point, although I suspect the algorithm subscribed is just about complicated enough to tempt you to write down frequently used passwords anyway. You could carry around a little pwdhash implementation on a smartphone or whatev
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by nickzoic 15y ago
So really, you're using a primitive hash of the domain name, where the exact algorithm is a secret. Why not use a proper hash of the domain name plus a secret, like this does: https://www.pwdhash.com/
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by nickzoic 15y ago
I was going to make a longer reply, but then I noticed this, and my reply reduces to: * Getting to actually see your kid: priceless. If you're out of the house 7am - 7pm, all you're going to see of your kid are asleep (cute but boring) or a
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by nickzoic 15y ago
For a good example, see advrider.com, which has free and (mostly) pseudonymous accounts but a great sense of community.
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by nickzoic 15y ago
Relatively common on motorcycles too (well, not exactly unheard of: my '86 Honda XLV750 has it, as do various recent Ducatis and BMWs.)
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by nickzoic 15y ago
Or just engines using diesel, which have existed for quite some time now, and don't use sparkplugs either.
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by nickzoic 16y ago
> Mass customized product strategies require local production to reach customers quickly and require highly skilled labor [...] I think there's two very big assumptions right there: actually, international air shipping is pretty quick a
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by nickzoic 16y ago
Sounds like Nomic! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic
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by nickzoic 16y ago
I think it is a great analogy because it also points out the value of the "theme park" to the consumer: they feel safe with the vendors within it. In a lot of ways, that 30% is paying not just for Apple's e-commerce, but Apple's stamp of a
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by nickzoic 16y ago
List of Articles not listed in a List of Articles.
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by nickzoic 16y ago
When jumping off a burning oil platform into the freezing North Atlantic, don't look down and think "Oooh, I'll jump into the burning oil slick, that'll be warmer!"
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by nickzoic 16y ago
Thanks, I just realized that ... duh. I'd been imagining the guard regions as a "passive guard", eg: an area where nothing important is, rather than as an "active guard", eg: where you fault if you read/write.
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by nickzoic 16y ago
Not knowing anything about ARM, I didn't get how this bit is supposed to work: We enforce this rule by restricting the sorts of operations that programs can use to alter sp. Programs can alter sp by adding or subtracting a
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by nickzoic 16y ago
Nah, I read the whole thing, which is funny, because I've got a lot to get done this morning. Then I saw your comment, and figured I'd better reply. Oh, hey, look, there's that bookshrink thing they mentioned, I wonder if that's any good,
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by nickzoic 16y ago
AWS EC2 nodes are fairly cheap, and I like them for a lot of things, but there's also a whole range of virtual host providers like http://www.asmallorange.com/hosting/shared/ who provide Linux-based shared hosting with a GUI to set up ema
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by nickzoic 16y ago
Very happy with Redmine too, on a couple of client projects. The Ubuntu package seems to work pretty well to automate the setup too.
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by nickzoic 16y ago
Congratulations to thegyppo and all the other new parents in here. Father of a 4yo daughter myself, and another on the way ... Everything changes, best to accept it and just try to roll with it. Every kid is different, even if you have tw
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by nickzoic 16y ago
waves . Yeah, I literally fell into the consulting business, and here I still am, 2-1/2 years later, slowly transmogrifying from a consultant into a small business. It'd not really about the money: as a family guy flexibility counts for
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by nickzoic 16y ago
Is it actually just imagemagick and a procmail script? PS: If you've got one of those old fashioned iPhings, check out JotNot which does this sort of thing on the phone.
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by nickzoic 16y ago
Still trying to work out if "at the tale end" is a dumb typo or an incredibly subtle pun.