shawnz

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by shawnz 14y ago
While you have some legitimate suggestions spliced in here, the majority of your post says to me "The feature they should have added is to change everything back to the way it was, and change the business strategy". This is not really a ver
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by shawnz 14y ago
You're right, proper transparency support is step 1 -- but that isn't to say that GIMP couldn't have some sort of automatic lossy compression tool (akin to this) on top of that tech. EDIT: I suppose this software is equivalent to gimp's "
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by shawnz 14y ago
The problem is that websites are the most accessible way to deliver an interface for humans . But nobody else can do anything with the tech, and you're limited to the one workflow that the creator had thought of. If this were a library or
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by shawnz 14y ago
When compared to having a (reasonably simple) tool which will do it for free, using only one volume, while still allowing r/w access? Yes, it's impractical.
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by shawnz 15y ago
I don't think working for hire and working to produce a quality product are mutually exclusive. However, there surely are many people who focus on only one of the two. Even then, the situation usually isn't as bad as people make it out to b
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by shawnz 15y ago
This could be very useful for populating load-on-scroll lists. I think Flip and Tilt are the least distracting.
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by shawnz 15y ago
I don't really know anything about this, but how does water cooling consume water? Is it not just for heat transfer?
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by shawnz 15y ago
You can do it on a page-by-page basis. If your server supports PHP, add <? header('HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable'); ?> before all other bytes in the file that you want to 503.
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by shawnz 15y ago
The nice thing about textual discussion is that you can have multiple opinions being analyzed at once. Just because not every single person is mourning in every message they write , doesn't mean nobody cares about the obvious tragedy. Bu
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by shawnz 15y ago
I'd like to point out that name.com (my current registrar) has been an EFF donor for some time already -- but I don't know to what extent.
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by shawnz 15y ago
Yeah, but vistaprint is a business card company ! What could you possibly expect out of their domain registration services?
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by shawnz 15y ago
AFAIK, Metro is always available, but desktop IE is only available on x86 (or the like).
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by shawnz 15y ago
It's a poor way to judge code, yeah, but the more important thing it speaks to, IMO, is the respect the developer has for the fact that other people will actually be executing the code they write.
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by shawnz 15y ago
Here's Jeff Atwood's take on it: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/07/nobody-hates-softwa... "I think you can tell a competent software developer from an incompetent one with a single interview question: 'What's the worst code you've