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by rufo 18y ago
Glad to hear it. I switched to GrandCentral as my main contact number back when Google bought them since I figured they'd be around for a while, but have been rather concerned with the downtime/SSL expirations/domain screwups. If 2.0's comi
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by rufo 18y ago
I can't say I've used it, but this sort of sounds similar to what splunk ( http://www.splunk.com/ ) does.
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by rufo 18y ago
I bought quite a few Seagate drives back when they were the first to move up to a five-year warranty; I believe it was around the 7200.7 series. Those were great drives - fast and reliable (knock on wood, I don't think a one has died on me
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by rufo 18y ago
In addition, Sass (Haml's CSS counterpart) is almost worth the price of admission by itself - the way it handles nested CSS rules and families is very smart, and that's not including constants and calculation functionality. http://haml.ham
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by rufo 18y ago
Perhaps, but Haml isn't an abstraction layer. You're still using exactly the same HTML tags and attributes, just expressing them in a different way. A better way of thinking about it would be simply an alternative syntax for HTML, eliminati
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by rufo 18y ago
No problem. I don't think I caught it until I went through the Haml docs a second or third time - lots of handy little tidbits floating around in there I missed the first time.
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by rufo 18y ago
I read your comment, and was a bit taken aback.. "isn't that what :javascript is for?" Reading through the comments, though, :javascript was developed specifically in response to that post - it wraps everything indented in script tags, and
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by rufo 18y ago
Speaking as someone who lost a close family friend to an accident where a helmet would've saved him... I still think I would wear the helmet. Even if you do get injured, I'd think it would be far less likely to be the kind that puts you int
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by rufo 18y ago
As a long-time Treo 700p user that switched to an iPhone at the beginning of 2008... I'm seriously impressed. Palm seems to have actually looked at the iPhone interface, taken what it does right to heart and attempted to improve upon Apple'
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by rufo 18y ago
It doesn't use the tags, it looks up your account history. The MacBook Pro I'm sitting in front of doesn't have any of the music it's offering to upgrade to iTunes Plus.
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by rufo 18y ago
Now THAT is a review.
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by rufo 18y ago
I'm only eagerly awaiting it because I'm curious to see what additional awesomeness can be added in. (Yes, yes, vim, emacs, ed, etc...)
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by rufo 18y ago
In my personal tests, uTorrent running in Crossover on my Mac gets about 25%-50% higher transfer speeds than Transmission, and connects to peers faster.
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by rufo 18y ago
Rather than replying to one of your several other posts, I'll just ask here - what do you think is so "complex and arcane" about git that makes it so difficult to learn? Speaking as someone who had very little experience with SCMs before gi
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by rufo 18y ago
Two words: Five Guys.
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by rufo 18y ago
Yup, works great. You can buy one at http://apple.com/iphone/ /nosarcasm
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by rufo 18y ago
Knowing _why, if he expanded it out into a full article it would involve cartoon weasels, a grayscale cardboard-cutout version of Lee Iacocca and a smoked ham.
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by rufo 18y ago
Are the laws concerning taking pictures that much different in the UK than the US, or just the attitude? In the US, if you take a picture on the street and there are people in the background, my understanding is that you don't need permissi
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by rufo 18y ago
I'm sure they've covered their bases. They're not negligent. I think they only very recently added a checkbox to opt-out of being a supernode though, the lack of which I found rather annoying.
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by rufo 18y ago
As an interesting aside, that's also why Skype claimed Windows Update caused their last major outage - they claim there was a bug that caused the P2P network self-healing code to work slowly, a larger-than-normal number of computers reboote
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by rufo 18y ago
Erm... I've wasted far more time fiddling with Linux trying to get it to see things like the mirrored RAID in my PC than dealing with Windows. (Yes, even Ubuntu.)
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by rufo 18y ago
Yes - Skype does attempt to use the technique in the article, but it's far more sophisticated than that... Skype was written by a bunch of the programmers from Kazaa, and the Skype network is essentially P2P; people who connect to the Skype
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by rufo 18y ago
iPhone OS 1.x wasn't anything like this - even with me jailbreaking it and throwing all kinds of bizarre apps onto it. I played with it enough that I did get the occasional reboot, but maybe once a week. In the 10 days I've had the iPhone 3
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by rufo 18y ago
Did you try rebooting? (turn on phone, hold down lock button until "slide to power off" appears, then press lock buton to turn on) Location dies fairly often for me, and I have to reboot to get it back (fairly often being once every 24-48hr
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by rufo 18y ago
That was my first thought as well: "Hasn't he ever heard of Linux?" But then again, if he's got all the apps he needs, running as well as he needs them, and isn't bothered by being unable to run newer applications (which he pretty clearly s
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by rufo 18y ago
Congrats to Twitter!
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by rufo 18y ago
That's what he means by "forcing it" - if you specifically type https://mail.google.com/ Gmail will encrypt the entire session; if you just go to http://mail.google.com/ or (more commonly) www.gmail.com it uses SSL for authentication, t
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by rufo 18y ago
Adobe has several patents covering various areas of the PDF spec, but they "are licensed on a royalty-free, nonexclusive basis for the term of each patent and for the sole purpose of developing software that produces, consumes, and interpre
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by rufo 18y ago
I'm not sure that you can make these kinds of judgments of hosting providers that easily: $ ping 66.39.3.7 PING 66.39.3.7 (66.39.3.7): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 66.39.3.7: icmp_seq=0 ttl=54 time=43.215 ms 64 bytes from 66.39.3.7: icmp_seq
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by rufo 18y ago
CSS is simple, until it's not. Then it's like clawing your eyes out with a rusty spork. Underwater. With your hands tied behind your back. It's best learned when you have a goal in mind, as tutorials are too idealized; you're not going to l

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