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by sjs 17y ago
Outlook only runs on Windows, and Office costs a lot of money. Unless you're already buying Office it's probably not worth it.
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by sjs 17y ago
I guess it depends on your frame of view. Web apps have advantages over traditional desktop software, such as no installation required and upgrades by hitting refresh. Don't underestimate the power of users being able to just try your app b
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by sjs 17y ago
That's one reason why lesscss is being ported to JavaScript. http://github.com/cloudhead/less.js
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by sjs 17y ago
One reason to move to JavaScript is so that you can process LESS on the server and client. This way you can serve up a static LESS file and let the user's browser parse it, cutting out the extra compilation step. But you can still compile i
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by sjs 17y ago
Try rotating. That reliably crashed Safari on iPhone and iPad for me. If it hadn't crashed for some other reason. When it didn't crash it did strange things like display things from later slides on the first slide when it was loading. Hopef
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by sjs 17y ago
I think Riak has everything you need. It's worth a look anyway.
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by sjs 17y ago
It's a fine line, but if the patients are willful participants then I guess that's a different story. If they are not willful then I'm unmoved on my stance.
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by sjs 17y ago
I don't think any amount of human suffering is really worth some perceived progress. Not only because the progress will likely come around eventually anyway if it's for the better, but if we're trying to better humankind we shouldn't start
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by sjs 17y ago
There is something wrong either with your Mac or some software you're running. I would send or take it in for service with problems like that.
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by sjs 17y ago
As someone who ditched Windows XP for OS X, Linux, or any other Unix, I tried Vista SP1 and it was very solid. Windows is slowly getting better. I wouldn't be surprised if Windows 7 was actually pretty good. It doesn't solve the lack of a g
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by sjs 17y ago
I'm not sure if this unit does take advantage, but GSM encryption was cracked late December 2009. http://www.google.ca/search?q=gsm+cracked
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by sjs 17y ago
It's well known that the code signing & cert setup process is troublesome. Apple has a 70+ page PDF of instructions on the matter. That JWZ is having trouble is not really surprising as the error messages are not helpful unless you've b
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by sjs 17y ago
I'm still wondering why nobody has funded a web-app store for iPhone and other modern phones. Hell, it doesn't even have to be limited to mobile devices (but supported resolutions, features, and device support should be prominent). There's
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by sjs 17y ago
Good points. Given enough data it could do a decent job at normalizing lows & highs, enough to be useful anyway. It would be interesting to see a proximity sensor in the iPad. I'm not sure what the range of those is. The accelerometer m
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by sjs 17y ago
Great footnote. I'm undecided if I should tackle Clojure or Erlang next. Each one is excellent and interesting in its own way. > A lot of writeups repeat a "nine nines", ie 99.9999999% reliability claim for Erlang-based Ericsson telepho
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by sjs 17y ago
He completely failed to acknowledge a big issue for developers and users of other mobile platforms. They miss out on apps in a world where there is a leading platform in a monopoly position, and nobody can use cross-platform toolkits to dev
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by sjs 17y ago
I tried dragging & dropping messages in all of those samples and all I got was some highlighted text. I know they're just samples and that is "just one thing", but it's a pretty big difference. If you don't like Uki for some reason that
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by sjs 17y ago
s/Or/And/ emit strictly, accept liberally. then we'd have 2 lines of defence.
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There are millions of people using Linux. A few percentage of desktop users worldwide is not an insignificant number.
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Not to mention the media cartels.
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Has it? Everything I've read that is not just speculation has concluded that you'd have to constantly write a great deal of data to wear out an SSD, even with a swap partition (or file). http://serverfault.com/questions/23720/should-you-di
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by sjs 17y ago
Of course it depends on the protocol and/or application. That's the way it is meant to be and why they will be useful for a long time. However, a popular convention is to use protocol://[username[:password]@]host[:port]/path/components/sepa
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by sjs 17y ago
They are all protocol://host/path?params. Looks pretty uniform to me.
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We could do that but I can't think of any benefits. Not to say there aren't any, but the obvious negatives would likely outweigh them 100:1.
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by sjs 17y ago
Framerate is not something I've looked at. It appears that Chrome beats the pants off of Safari just looking at that benchmark. Safari: 16-20fps Chrome: 100+ fps Here is my issue though. While playing a Flash video on break.com: Safari: ht
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by sjs 17y ago
Hopefully they do something about the performance next. Flash performs much worse in Chrome than Safari (OS X 10.6).
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by sjs 17y ago
For legacy stuff that's true. For new projects we can and should make better decisions (if politics aren't in the way). Many DB systems are free and open source. If you have Unix servers you can choose from PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, Ri
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by sjs 17y ago
used to solve a problem != meant to solve a problem Let's bring up the age-old vehicle analogy. Any vehicle fundamentally solves the the same problem but that's naïve outlook that doesn't acknowledge any specific use-cases. I can drive a tr
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> Alternately you can just clutch onto NoSQL and bleat about how it changes all of the rules anyways, which is the route quite a few have decided to pursue. Bath water and baby gone without a second thought. Not to mention that later th
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by sjs 17y ago
"I know this sounds like a semantic quibble, but words mean things." -- unknown

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