sjs

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1. 1021.▲
   by sjs 17y ago

   AppTrap detects when apps are trashed and asks if the user would like to trash prefs as well. Very nice solution, way better than AppZapper. http://onnati.net/apptrap/ Don't see whey we can't write a project that solves this problem on a
2. 1022.▲
   by sjs 17y ago

   "I know this sounds like a semantic quibble, but words mean things." RAID is a redundancy mechanism. It's there in the name. rdiff-backup is a backup tool.
3. 1023.▲
   by sjs 17y ago

   You're right, captured blocks are instances of Proc. However I still claim that methods are objects that can be passed around, assigned to variables, and sent messages. Method and UnboundMethod are both classes that inherit from Object.
4. 1024.▲
   by sjs 17y ago

   puts_method = method(:puts) def get_block(&block) block end my_block = get_block { puts_method.call('hello!') } my_block.call #=> hello!
5. 1025.▲
   by sjs 17y ago

   Modern standards compliant browsers are usually cross-platform so HTML is the new GUI toolkit, scripted by JS. Especially with WebGL and O3D in the works we will see the browser become the delivery mechanism for the new-old-school fat clie
6. 1026.▲
   by sjs 17y ago

   They probably use WebKit to render the HTML to a buffer and then compress it, save to disk. If you were asking more generally, see this discussion[1] on the WebKit mailing list, and these Qt links[2, 3] that I found in that thread. [1] htt
7. 1027.▲
   by sjs 17y ago

   I think Ars is in a different situation, especially w.r.t. hardware articles. By the time the content is freed ad-supported surfers have already read about the shiny new toys elsewhere. Time is less critical for longer LWN articles, imo.
8. 1028.▲
   by sjs 17y ago

   I have always used and been a fan of 2.2. It makes sense to use what most others use, imo. When you choose colours for a site you know that most people will see similar colours. With a gamma of 1.8 I found that on other machines using 2.2
9. 1029.▲
   by sjs 17y ago

   Any news on the MagLev public github release? Supposed to hit soon iirc.
10. 1030.▲
    by sjs 17y ago

    I grew up in Ontario and have lived in BC for 6 years now, and find the accents quite different. Most Ontarians I know here agree.
11. 1031.▲
    by sjs 17y ago

    autoload zmv zmv 'oldname.*' 'newname.$1'
12. 1032.▲
    by sjs 19y ago

    There is a public git repo anyone can push to (the so-called git "wiki", or anarki). It contains regular expressions. You could wrap some DB bindings for mzscheme with relative ease.
13. 1033.▲
    by sjs 19y ago

    The point of doing all that is to future-proof your site on the off chance that browsers will render things correctly during our lives. Whether or not it is worth it is for you to decide.