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901.
by pronoiac 14y ago
Honest questions: Don't Micro instances get throttled under sustained demand? And aren't they lowest priority on the host?
902.
by pronoiac 14y ago
bogus.apple.com came to mind first for me. I guess if an ISP resolved it, there might be cookie leakage.
903.
by pronoiac 14y ago
I hate that too, and here's a way to get that tab back: wait for the new page to load, and then the back button works, taking to back to the not-exactly-overwritten page.
904.
by pronoiac 14y ago
There's an inaccuracy - Dead Trigger was hit hard by piracy on Android, not on iOS. I think Lifehacker publicized it after the creator made it free on Android - "buy it on iOS to show support!" Edit: I wasn't fully informed. They first ma
905.
by pronoiac 14y ago
Oooh, I like the git-annex integration.
906.
by pronoiac 14y ago
Nuts. One of the reasons the stops are kept private, is to keep rents from going up near the stops.
907.
by pronoiac 14y ago
Oh look, you just implemented an open proxy. Those are rather prone to abuse, aren't they?
908.
by pronoiac 14y ago
I really like Notational Velocity - or, for me, ResophNotes on Windows and Simplenote on the iPhone. Before this, I tried MobileOrg on my phone, an Org Mode app - the search in NV is just much smoother and more useful.
909.
by pronoiac 14y ago
Open drivers are good for debugging and avoiding crashes, and for flexibility, re: Linux kernel versions and API changes over the lifetime of the device.
910.
by pronoiac 14y ago
He was a tech reviewer for Computer Shopper in the UK, and a Linux programmer. He has an admirable breadth of knowledge, which peeks out in his non-technical writing.
911.
by pronoiac 14y ago
The failure mode of "clever" is "asshole." From John Scalzi, I believe.
912.
by pronoiac 14y ago
I wouldn't trust Iron. I read that it wasn't made with an eye towards privacy, but towards self-promotion: http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/12/iron.ht... I can't find the feature-by-feature takedown I read, but it looke
913.
by pronoiac 14y ago
I'm with you. I've been annoyed with reasoning by analogy and metaphor for a while now, because it's so often bogus.
914.
by pronoiac 14y ago
I haven't looked at cooled lava up close, but I thought it was abrasive and sharp and really had for tires.
915.
by pronoiac 14y ago
I think if he'd made a symbolic link within his Dropbox folder to his iCloud folder, it would have worked as expected. At least, that's how the Linux client works.
916.
by pronoiac 14y ago
The print version works for me, and it has all three pages: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/175586/cliff_bleszinsk...
917.
by pronoiac 14y ago
Wow. For scale, the Internet Archive had 5.8 petabytes of data in December 2010 [1] - so, about 9 grams' worth. How much did this cost? [1] http://archive.org/web/petabox.php
918.
by pronoiac 14y ago
I think Bloom filters would allow offline checking, without pinging Google for each request. They already do this for antimalware notices, iirc.
919.
by pronoiac 14y ago
Has anyone collected advice for after the acquisition? I'm thinking things like: * Give yourself six months or so after joining before finalizing plans to sunset your original systems. It gives you time to work out the lay of the land re: p
920.
by pronoiac 14y ago
Seriously? I'm a Linux sysadmin who prefers being able to fix problems from ssh. I mean, you can't copy and paste GUI commands. Am I that anomalous & out of touch?
921.
by pronoiac 14y ago
In your blog entry that you linked here - the one titled "Who's the Dick?" - you called John Gruber a scumbag, presuming that he dug for dirt instead of maybe following conversations where someone pointed info out, and then insisted that th
922.
by pronoiac 14y ago
Just a reality check here: for someone asking for people to behave decently online, you're being argumentative, calling people names, assuming the worst possible motivations, and pretty much blowing off a - in my eyes - honest criticism. Ne
923.
by pronoiac 14y ago
If you can't read this blog post, it suggests hosting your blog because Tumblr's uptime is atrocious.
924.
by pronoiac 14y ago
On the other hand, you also disarm the population, making them easier target for mass murderer. Has a massacre in the US ever been stopped by someone with a gun, who wasn't a cop?
925.
by pronoiac 14y ago
The title might be clearer as "will use less resources." I expected to see, say, Flashblock, which would be an extension that helps use less memory.
926.
by pronoiac 14y ago
This uses browser plugins and public-key cryptography. The technical details page[1] mentions some problems and workarounds. Some more issues I see: * How do you securely log in from an internet cafe? * What if someone gets your private key
927.
by pronoiac 14y ago
I was surprised that Snow Crash wasn't the main inspiration, I learned from Ken Jennings' "Maphead." Instead, Powers of Ten is, though Snow Crash is somewhat involved. See: http://www.realityprime.com/articles/notes-on-the-origin-of-...
928.
by pronoiac 14y ago
On Chrome, the arrow keys occasionally scroll the page. Keeping my other hand on the Home key helped. I've also had it tell me "You won. :(" which is incorrect. :) Edit: the Github badge at the top can get in the way. And there could be a c
929.
by pronoiac 14y ago
If you want to hook up some unusual buttons up to your computer, there are a couple of ways to get them to appear as USB hid devices. A presentation I saw at Maker Faire mentioned Teensy USB, ~$20, and another I've seen is Makey Makey,[1] a
930.
by pronoiac 14y ago
> If I'm not mistaken, I think you can also use multiple 'pv' commands at a time too. I use multiple pv instances to track compression/decompression rates, and overall progress, for tarballs. Using the "-c" code for console codes keeps

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