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by vaporstun 17y ago
I am not going to opine on the specific reasoning behind Apple's patenting this because only they truly know until a product is released, but if I were in the business of creating operating systems and I came up with a concept that could ap
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by vaporstun 17y ago
Just because they patented something does not mean they plan to use it. The title here is extremely biased.
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by vaporstun 17y ago
Hah yeah, they are a bit grandiose and set up unreasonable expectations. I sincerely hope no one takes their claim that this will "change the way people think about MySQL" too seriously.
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by vaporstun 17y ago
I actually liked that it was similar to PHPMyAdmin. I was looking for an alternative because I was tired of how heavy it was and came upon this. I was also tired of constantly refreshing PHPMyAdmin which, due to its heft, took quite awhile.
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AJAX PHPMyAdmin Alternative(sqlbuddy.com)
44 points by vaporstun 17y ago|21 comments
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by vaporstun 17y ago
I think when they say spin me, slice me, shade me, etc. they mean the developer, not the end user.
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by vaporstun 17y ago
(setq comint-input-ring-size 2048) The default undo history is only 32. I like to be able to go further back.
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by vaporstun 17y ago
Firemacs, Firefox extension which gives emacs keybindings. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4141
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by vaporstun 17y ago
While this is certainly valid, it's depressing that most non-Apple laptops still only ship with VGA so most meeting rooms are stuck with an inferior, non-digital connector. This wouldn't help the issue with having 4 different video connecto
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Horrific software demo turns out to be a gag(lumalin.com)
2 points by vaporstun 17y ago|1 comments
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by vaporstun 17y ago
Very cool, one problem I found is that you can't have 2 word objects. Example: Router connects to Web Server It uses Router and Server as the objects with "connects to Web" as the connection. Putting the 2 word object (Web Server) in quotes
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by vaporstun 17y ago
I have RoundCube [ http://roundcube.net/ ] installed on my server and all of my other accounts forward to it. I constantly hack it to add functionality where needed.
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by vaporstun 17y ago
MPJ - Miles per Joule As we move toward alternative fuels, we need a fuel-independent metric.
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by vaporstun 17y ago
True, but one of the things that is different about their approach is that it doesn't show a list of all their logins making it a bit more difficult for sites that require logins to just disable the usernames. Bugmenot presents a long list
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by vaporstun 17y ago
While both show some context, DecentURL is not a shortener. For example, I took the URL of this comments thread and stuck in in both yours and ctxt.us: Original - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=731637 DecentURL.com - http://news.yco
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by vaporstun 17y ago
Aquamacs ( http://aquamacs.org/ )
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by vaporstun 18y ago
I like to use it for the simple fact that it automatically overrides all of the default styles. So no more Times New Roman, and all of the header tags look decent without much modification. That way, I can usually use most of their default
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by vaporstun 18y ago
I think you are missing the point of his statement. His discussion of making money for his shareholders is in his role as a CEO. The CEO of a company has a very different set of obligations and interests than an entrepreneur starting a bu
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by vaporstun 18y ago
Most of your issues are addressed not true issues, but complaints from you about how OS X is not Windows. * no reasonable way to write to a CD (!) * installation of apps can be confusing to people not familiar with macs * disk volumes (dmg