piggity

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1. 61.▲
   by piggity 15y ago

   And who's to say that negative comment isn't the work of an astro-turfing lobbyist. They've certainly got means, motivation and opportunity.
2. 62.▲
   by piggity 15y ago

   I demand that the existing media conglomerate distribution model be left in place so that I may be told what is worth "consuming" and who I should look up to as a star.
3. 63.▲
   by piggity 15y ago

   Hypothetically speaking, just because you didn't catch a virus doesn't mean that that virus can't be incredibly effective (or "viral").
4. 64.▲
   by piggity 15y ago

   This is probably how skynet started. Lets put surveillance software in every device... what could possibly go wrong...
5. 65.▲
   by piggity 15y ago

   I tried to download it using my 3 free downloads - failed miserably (got about 10k/s for the first 100MB). So I'll be one of those leeches shortly...
6. 66.▲
   by piggity 15y ago

   Good tip I had a surprising number of random players installed too. e.g. Silverlight - requiring a critical update; amongst other plugins that I never even use any more.
7. 67.▲
   by piggity 15y ago

   But why should you have to contact them directly to get the wrapper removed? They're likely in violation of the licence of most opensource packages which typically have a clause saying you can't redistribute your version and call it the sam
8. 68.▲
   by piggity 15y ago

   Google Chrome's "users" should let you segment all your cookies and browsing neatly. I use it to separate my various different Google identities and logins (so I can stay logged in with distinct accounts). (Google's multiple sign-in is rare
9. 69.▲
   by piggity 15y ago

   Ruby 1.9.3-rc1 (and presumably -p0) fixed all manner of memory leak issues I was experiencing in Rails apps (Ruby 1.9.2-p290 + Rails 3.1 + Passenger 3.0.9 + Nginx). This was on top of the loading slowness of Ruby 1.9.2 with Rails. Went from
10. 70.▲
    by piggity 15y ago

    And once you've agreed on PUT vs POST, you can start the arguments on PUT vs PATCH ! https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/348
11. 71.▲
    by piggity 15y ago

    Nah, it wasn't astroturfing; I lurk most of the time. It does everything that submission does, does it well and does it inexpensively compared with rolling your own or having to deal with the vagaries of S3 (who lost S3 and EBS data irretr
12. 72.▲
    by piggity 15y ago

    Just use Crashplan - http://www.crashplan.com/ Unlimited backups on one computer for $50/year (USD) - http://www.crashplan.com/consumer/store.vtl Encrypt your files with your account password, a passphrase, or a local encryption key. In