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by rufo 17y ago
Why not Android on a tablet? (Or, to put it another way, why does Chrome OS exist?)
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by rufo 17y ago
I don't think most of the millions of iPhones and iPods that have been sold were purchased by people who buy Apple products on blind faith.
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by rufo 17y ago
You mean like http://tilestack.com/ ?
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by rufo 17y ago
Radiant uses Rack::Cache behind the scenes, so it still needs to be running. I'm sure there's some reason it doesn't use Rails static caching, but even having used Radiant I'm not sure what it would be...
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by rufo 17y ago
NoSQL will never die, but it will eventually get marginalized, like how Rails was marginalized by NoSQL. Is it just me, or does this statement make absolutely no sense whatsoever?
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by rufo 17y ago
I've had very good experiences with Spreedly... you'll need to get a payment gateway, but they handle all the work of renewals, expiration dates, plan upgrading/downgrading, etc. They have a RESTful API so you can check status at any time,
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by rufo 17y ago
I've had MacPorts completely explode in my face several times when installing a seemingly innocuous package - some shared library gets replaced due to a requirement, and suddenly every utility I've installed doesn't work. Eventually I got t
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by rufo 17y ago
I think that Windows doesn't turn on power for a USB device until a driver recognizes it and OKs full power; I've run into this with other battery chargers in the past, and with other combinations of devices. Even though I have 6 different
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by rufo 17y ago
I just did a quick check on amazon.co.uk and I see plenty of 300Mbit-advertised 802.11n routers... is there some regulatory problem or something else I'm missing?
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by rufo 17y ago
Heh. My "when Linux was bad" story was when I was 14 and trying to bootstrap mkLinux for PPC on my PowerBook 1400. It had a problem that whenever an interrupt would happen close to an HD ACCESS, the text {IDE TIMEOUT} would crawl across the
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by rufo 17y ago
I don't believe iPhone or Android devices have a user-facing toggle... there might be some way to hack it out, but I'm not sure. I don't think it's ever been used on either device, so it hasn't exactly been a burning issue yet; the stated p
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Love and the Super Bowl(googleblog.blogspot.com)
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by rufo 17y ago
You don't have to jailbreak to avoid updates - neither Apple nor app developers have the ability to force updates upon your phone. Both iTunes and the App Store ask for permission before updating your device and apps. There is the remote ap
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by rufo 17y ago
This Engadget review has a screenshot, and mentions you can change both the SSID and password via a web interface: http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/05/13/verizon-mifi-2200-revi...
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by rufo 17y ago
Put it in a directory in your home folder instead. (Also: this doesn't address the security concerns, but by default on a clean install of SL there is no /usr/local, so you're really not hurting anything.)
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by rufo 17y ago
Any details you can share? I may have a need of something similar.
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by rufo 17y ago
Perhaps it's just the way I work, but generally if I'm adjusting CSS in the browser, I'm previewing how some potential changes will work. I already know what the affected class is (since I'm editing it inline), and I've already targeted the
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by rufo 17y ago
Haml is literally a one-to-one relationship with HTML tags, so there's almost zero mental overhead. If anything, the tight relationship between indentation of HAML and outputted HTML makes it far easier to debug things, and I haven't had to
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by rufo 17y ago
Just grabbed the last code. Syncing it over now, some impressions in a bit. EDIT: My main complaint so far: No mobilized version of the article? I'm used to Byline and Instapaper, which both cache text-only versions of the page. If it went
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by rufo 17y ago
There is a significant difference between a locked-at-30fps game and a locked-at-60fps game. Heck, I've seen 60fps video on a PC and you could instantly tell that it was uncannily smooth compared to regular 30fps video. Many high-end filmma
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by rufo 17y ago
I suppose it depends on your use patterns, but I've usually taken advantage of Enterprise's 50%-off Friday-thru-Monday special, which works well when I need a nicer/larger car for a weekend. They've also fudged it for me a few times, so I'v
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by rufo 17y ago
I think he means up/down travel, not how much your fingers move when typing.
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by rufo 17y ago
The document specifically mentions "aircraft-integrated" GPS devices.
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by rufo 17y ago
"Sure, if I were a commercial entity coming to you for investment, and I'd made the projections I had in the past, you wouldn't invest again," he says. "But we're not a commercial operation. If we only achieve half of what we're setting ou
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by rufo 17y ago
Last I heard, they were waiting for extension support in mainstream Mac Chrome betas: http://www.switchersblog.com/2009/12/chrome-support-is-comin... EDIT: They also have a workaround using a bookmarklet you can use right now: http://www
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by rufo 17y ago
I was rather skeptical of 1Password as well, but wound up checking it out after receiving it as part of a MacHeist bundle. It's since easily become my favorite Mac utility (tied with LaunchBar). A few notable features, rambled off in no par
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by rufo 17y ago
The one problem with super-fast-scrolling: even with an iPhone-designed web app, you can easily go past the boundary that Safari has rendered and wind up with the checkerboard pattern.
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by rufo 17y ago
It works well enough on Android and Palm Pre, although without the fancy OpenGL-accelerated CSS transforms (it gracefully degrades to more traditional CSS animations if WebKit transitions are not available). The underlying HTML is just a bu
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by rufo 17y ago
We used iUI for the PAX scheduling app a friend and I hacked together in a few days (best seen on iPhone, mostly works on Android): http://pax.expojunkie.com/ iUI is a pretty decent way to get going quickly - it's a fairly simple framewor
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by rufo 17y ago
The page itself isn't actually scrolling. There are Javascript event handlers that are capturing the swipe events and adjusting the positioning of the main content block via WebKit CSS transformations and/or standard CSS positioning. Since

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