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sdfjkl
15y ago
Piping things from curl into bash is about the dumbest thing you can do security wise. Except if you also use an URL shortener, which means that in addition to trusting the author not to be evil, you're also trusting the shortener service t
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15y ago
This was much needed.
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15y ago
Take a look at Dropbox and their IOS app. I believe it does 1-3. There's certainly apps that also do 4. Have a play with that setup for a while, see if it's worth putting it all into a custom IOS app (you can then build that using Dropbox's
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15y ago
GlimmerBlocker (Mac) is a filtering proxy that lets you do just about anything (including filtering headers) to your browsers conversation with a webserver. http://glimmerblocker.org/ Also (in case you haven't already done so), disable Fl
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15y ago
Zabbix works great for this, is stable and whilst it's still a serious undertaking to properly configure it, it's at least not as bad as Nagios. It's also extremely flexible in how you deploy it (distributed monitoring, proxies, agents or d
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15y ago
Getting a visa is a major hurdle indeed. Do not attempt this without professional help, the slightest formal error can cause your application to be rejected and require resubmission (which means paying the submission fee again). If you're s
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15y ago
$ grep 10080 /etc/services amanda 10080/udp # Amanda amanda 10080/tcp # Amanda Incidentally, you're lacking this one too.
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15y ago
Use it, perhaps, pay a monthly fee - definitely not. Perhaps Flattr or donations (avoid Paypal).
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15y ago
Quitting Mail.app and iChat when I'm coding. Also a few useful tools: Alfred, The Hit List, TextMate, 0xED, Terminal, Evernote, BusyCal, Dropbox, Fossil SCM.
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15y ago
Your website is downright terrible. Huge annoying Flash animation with stock photos of smiling people, lacking any useful information.
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15y ago
Very niche. At least you didn't put "elastic", "cloud" or a digit in the product name.
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15y ago
"The sky on Cancri 55 f must be out of this world." Arrrgh.
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15y ago
And you can't beat their slogan: "no bullshit™" ( http://www.gandi.net/no-bullshit )
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15y ago
Interesting fact about the VA's location. That wasn't what I meant though, I was just referring to the SEO part of Noels job. Also, it sounds like you're at risk of getting too hung up on the old-fashioned way of strictly splitting design a
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15y ago
Major turn-offs: - "Noel: in the Philippines, runs recruiting operations and SEO" - "Design team in Moldova: they make the designs, you code them" That's two parties in hard to reach timezones who are more senior and have some influence on
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15y ago
Direct link to job ad: http://zirtual.com/technical/
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15y ago
Game info (Wyvern): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyvern_(video_game)
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How to nap
(boston.com)
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15y ago
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15y ago
Is it just me or is this also easier/faster to read for the rest of us?
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15y ago
Complimentary Unicode snowman: http://➹.ws/☃
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15y ago
I've tried to learn Photoshop from tutorials a few times and failed each time. Either the tutorials were for a newer/older version than I had, or they assumed basic Photoshop knowledge which I lacked, or they were flawed and missed an impor
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15y ago
This is a job that's incredibly hard to describe. Well done. The other hard bit is making companies understand why they need one.
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Music that puts your brain into flow[1] - I have a special playlist for that. The Tron soundtrack fits well if you omit the parts of Jeff Bridges talking - background talk is extremely distracting. Exit email - I check it mornings, lunch an
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Why is it using Flash, despite seeming to be based on Google maps? The square overlay on hovering over the map is rather impractical, since it seems to be fixed on an invisible grid that has a much lower resolution than the blobs on the hea
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15y ago
Mindlessly walking to the fridge and stuffing something in my mouth, then doing it again, then realizing I was actually just thirsty. Also, sleeping enough and not at such weird times.
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I've worked for a guy like this once. He managed to ruin the best ideas and kill fledgling projects by insisting on adding the latest buzzword features into products, even if it made no sense at all. This was mainly so he could ejaculate em
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15y ago
This is possible via the Google Apps Email Audit API[1], which is accessibly only by paid Google Apps accounts. The API submitted export request takes usually several hours to complete and results in a series of large mbox files (1 GB chunk
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Such special purpose companies[1] are quite common and don't necessarily indicate any "shady" practices. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_purpose_entity
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15y ago
There was a similar issue in the UK recently: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11479831
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How to get the RSS feed URL for any Twitter user
(ask.metafilter.com)
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