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sirn
15y ago
Nice looking app! But why distributing it as PKG when it only creates Private Eye.app and com.radiosilenceapp.nke.PrivateEye.plist?
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15y ago
I don't think that's the right analogy. You're comparing tool with a technology . Adobe's tool already did all the hard part for you when you write for Flash. HTML5 can be the same too, once its tool matured enough. Not to mention equi
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15y ago
* "super-intuitive CMD-Tab that will let you switch through all you *windows* in the order the were last used" and Ugh! Please no! Switching between application rather than window is my main reason of switching t
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sirn
15y ago
Why not just generate a unique token for each user then?
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15y ago
Can't edit my comment for some reason, but EULA now reads (from VMware Fusion 4 installation): VMware Fusion You may install and use the Software for personal, non-commercial use on any Apple-branded products running Mac
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15y ago
They seems to change the EULA to allow installing on as may Macs as long as you own it[1], compared to previous license[2]: You are prohibited from installing and using the Software on more than one computer at a time [1]: http://
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15y ago
$49 full price isn't that bad compared to Parallels 7. Not only you have to pay $49 for an upgrade , it will also slow down your boot time drastically[1]. VMware Fusion user can get P7 for $29[2] but from my experience I'd rather not switc
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15y ago
Somewhat related: Tetris in Clojure and Penumbra[1] [1]: https://github.com/ztellman/penumbra/blob/master/test/exampl...
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15y ago
I believe the current problem is that Mozilla has removed status bar so there's no way to know if a file is downloading without a separate window being constantly open. The way to open up download window is not very accessible either, espec
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15y ago
>In Windows Live Photo Gallery, just about every task and command is available from the ribbon. The design allows you to pick a tab and then scan its contents to see commands that apply to the task you’re trying to accomplish. In iPhoto
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15y ago
The biggest difference between All My Files and Libraries is that Libraries requires you to manually manage library paths if the file is not stored in default locations. All files shown up in Libraries still retain the hierarchy layout of o
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15y ago
I've been playing with ep.io for a while (nothing serious), it's a standard Python + PostgreSQL stack using few inis for configuration. Their pricing is a bit high on bandwidth though, so I'll probably wait for Heroku Cedar to officially su
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15y ago
I think it's still in the works. They don't mention it, but Heroku Cedar will happily reads and install requirements as defined in requirements.txt when you push to it. Server setup is just a simple Procfile calling whatever Python web serv
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15y ago
Ugly on any non-Windows platform, too complicated for simple use (e.g. enter a query here and show me a result or show me a schema), etc. Well, just compare Sequel Pro screenshot with pgAdmin3 :) Disclaimer: I actually like pgAdmin3, especi
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15y ago
I thought the parent is trying to say accessing content via Akamai will be slower when using Google Public DNS/OpenDNS because they don't support the purposed DNS extension thus the request is routed to a non-local server instead of local
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15y ago
> The iPad is only popular in rich first world countries. At very least in Bangkok, which is obviously not belongs to rich first world countries, I can see iPad (and Galaxy Tab) everywhere on a train or even in a not-so-expensive restau
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15y ago
There was this one time when I restore my iPhone without using backup, one application restored all my favorite items without me ever input anything into the application. There's no mention of this "feature" in their product page as far as
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15y ago
One case I can think of is HTML must be allowed in comments for some WYSIWYG libraries that can't output Markdown/BBcode or WhateverMarkup. If most user of the website is using WYSIWYG with only selective few prefers plain text editing, the
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15y ago
Changing form factor is also considers evolution. Tech people tend to ignore anything beyond a list of specs, but something like iPod Nano design creates interesting ecosystem beyond the initial "omg it supports MicroSD", e.g. the iPod Nano
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15y ago
What about Rubinius? Can you also elaborate on why you're happier with Ruby and Rails than Python and Django. Since I'm completely the other way around, while Ruby paid my bills, if there's a Python job offering I would have jumped onto it
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15y ago
If you want a bleeding-edge WebKit development tool, sometimes even more bleeding-edge than Chrome Canary/Chromium build, try out WebKit Nightly. It just swap out Safari's WebKit for Nightly WebKit while the whole Safari experience remains
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15y ago
It's no longer in development, but Plainview[1] seems to fit that description. [1]: http://www.barbariangroup.com/software/plainview
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15y ago
Just as with MobileMe, iCloud Web seems to be done with SproutCore and a bit of jQuery[1]. Though it feel funny when they recreate the iOS-style scrollbar with JavaScript, despite Lion already has such a thing... (not to mention the scrollb
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15y ago
Emacs keys binding not working in some place (e.g. Ctrl+N, Ctrl+P not working on Awesome Bar). Missing contextual services menu when you right click on some text. Missing text services (e.g. Cmd+Shift+D popup dictionary), etc. etc.
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15y ago
The problem I've found with Safari 5.1 is that it no longer shares the same localStorage between global.html and manage.html, so the CSS files no longer get loaded properly. The behavior of this appears to be very random (some user report C
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User CSS extension for Safari 5.1 released
(code.grid.in.th)
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But the thing is the problem Pump solves, is already solved by all WSGI wrappers at application level: Werkzeug and WebOb. I don't think it's really worth to have another standard just to solve something that has been solved at the applicat
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15y ago
Disclaimer: was running GM for a few weeks. Love: * Never been a Spaces user, neither do I use Exposé but I found myself using Mission Control more and more. It feels very natural to my workflow possibly because I hate having an empty space
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15y ago
The best thing with the introduction of ClojureScript, at least for web applications, is that we can now write the whole application in Clojure without context switches. Gaka for CSS, ClojureScript for JavaScript, Hiccup for HTML and Clojur
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15y ago
Because now you know the email is spelled "security@google.com", it would be easy to come up with search query that returns that email address after the fact. If you going by the instinct, search for "google bug report", ...I'm on page 20 a
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