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by riobard 16y ago
Channel API: “There is no concept of “presence” for clients connected to a channel. This means the application cannot receive a call when a client connects to or disconnects from a channel.” Sigh... this reduces the awesomeness quite a bit
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by riobard 16y ago
Seems you'd be really disappointed if you go there :D
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by riobard 16y ago
Anything to do with Pocoo?
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by riobard 16y ago
Apple has an advantage here in that the difference between iOS and OS X is smaller than that between Windows and Windows Mobile, or Android and Chrome OS. Apple is also moving ahead now that they are adding mobile features learned from iPad
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by riobard 16y ago
Finally the pain of collaboration on LaTeX text due to installation differences will be gone! Kudos!
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by riobard 16y ago
The beauty of App Engine is that they bill based on CPU time. EC2 bills you based on wall clock time. Huge difference.
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by riobard 16y ago
You can test this with relatively large files. If a 100mb file finishes syncing to Dropbox within seconds over a slow DSL, you can be pretty sure that someone has already uploaded a copy there before you do.
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by riobard 16y ago
Good news everyone: embedding TrueType/OpenType fonts works in iOS 4.2 Mobile Safari too!
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by riobard 16y ago
Try this if you use Safari http://www.verticalforest.com/2010/06/09/youtube5-html5-conv...
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by riobard 16y ago
“in clock mode, the iPod Nano battery would last a week on a single charge.” Really?? This is cool. I want one!
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by riobard 16y ago
Oh by the way, one more thing: if you supply https://foo.com instead of http://foo.com to App Engine you'll get completely different identity back as a result. This is just pure fun.
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by riobard 16y ago
Not if the provider implements delegation properly. The identity string returned should be http://jerf.org in this case. The catch, however, is that many providers screw the identity up. For example I set up a page at http://foo.com wit
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by riobard 16y ago
If the goal is to fetch as many URLs as possible, the best bet seems to be using async epoll to simultaneously fetch tens of thousands links. Processes/threads consumes too much memory to be viable.
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by riobard 16y ago
“Have you tried to sign out and in again” is the new “Have you tried to turn it off and on again”!! :D
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by riobard 16y ago
Won't using multiple curl processes consume more resources than threads?
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by riobard 16y ago
As it has been said before, ClickToFlash pretends to be a Flash plugin itself. This will send wrong signals to web developers about the installation base of Flash. Also, YouTube's HTML5 does not cover all videos (esp. those with ads). Insta
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by riobard 16y ago
“…the foundation for a new graphical client” Cocoa??
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by riobard 16y ago
Another reason to drop Flash?
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by riobard 16y ago
Every once in a while this will be brought up and debated to death... See my last attempt in Feb 2009: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2009-February/...
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by riobard 16y ago
Is there any way to open PDF in Chrome but use Preview.app to render it (like in Safari)? I guess most likely it's not possible...
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by riobard 16y ago
This is where one of the few cases Chrome is aiming at cross-platform support at the cost of reusing native functionalities. Every OS X and most Linux desktop distros are capable of rendering PDF natively. Personally I think OS X default PD
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by riobard 16y ago
It's quite a decent and neat feature if you have to read a lot of PDF's (i.e. academic paper hunting): you can quickly scan through the PDF opened in your browser and decide if you want to actually keep it. Otherwise the PDF will just be do
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by riobard 16y ago
Is it just me, or is there anyone else on OS X thinks the rendering of the default Preview.app is so much better than Chrome? One of the few reasons I constantly bounce between Safari and Chrome is the ability to render PDF beautifully. I h
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by riobard 16y ago
Papers are, as the name implies, intended to print on dead trees. At least in the academia world you'd like to be published. PDF is the (only?) solution that allows dot-perfect control on paper. No web technology currently addresses this is
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by riobard 16y ago
until ads turn to JS+Canvas+whatever to ruin the whole thing again.
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by riobard 16y ago
OS X Lion will probably push this first as they apply what they learned on iPad to OS X.
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by riobard 16y ago
Not sure if I'm going to get downvoted for my dislike of the fragmentation, but I've been always wondering what if all the efforts could be somehow combined to make a really great one...
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by riobard 16y ago
A few things come to mind: 1. Syntax that doesn't suck 2. Higher-than-text-level abstraction
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by riobard 16y ago
Not necessarily. Some sockets can cope with the majority of the AC plugs in Europe and America. http://img.hisupplier.com/var/userImages/old/selong/selong$7...
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by riobard 16y ago
Ah, thanks for clearing it up! Another question: I saw many international flights feature a VOD system with a LCD screen that is playing some movies on the back of every seat. Does the power to drive the system enough to charge a laptop the

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