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LoonyPandora

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About LoonyPandora

London, UK / Austin, TX.

Perl guy by profession. Graphic Designer by training.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #8027456

    Likely as a result of the DMCA takedown request that has blocked access to their repo: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2014-07-11-MPAA.m...

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    Comment #7988490

    I've installed the app, but have not created an account yet. Every few minutes I get a push notification that "Ed sent you a link". [0] I think you have a bit of a problem with wha…

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    Comment #7804057

    Important to note that postfix dereferencing is experimental, and does not replace the existing method of dereferencing. Also, I think the deprecation of core CGI.pm is pretty majo…

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    Comment #7346315

    I can see zero difference in the information density between the existing non-responsive design of that page [0], and the beta version of the responsive design [1]. While your poin…

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    Comment #7154040

    Or even simpler, use the customizer [0] to download the bits you want. A few checkboxes and you're done. [0] http://getbootstrap.com/customize/

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    Comment #6854481

    Sounds like a very similar chain of events to the Goiânia_accident [0] [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goiânia_accident

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    Comment #6834259

    From the guidelines - and I think a much better way of adding commentary & changing headlines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Don't abuse the text field in the submissi…

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    Comment #6702210

    I totally agree about the private repo thing. In fact I emailed them and they added to their Feature Request List™ I suggest you email to let them know more than one person would l…

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    Comment #6585040

    > Nothing of this has anything to do with cargo cults. There is an actual reason behind every rule. There may be reasons, but I find there is often a lack of understanding about th…

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    Comment #6203087

    To be able to see this information on the linked page, click on "Advanced: Enable" at the bottom of the screen. Then you'll see the "Output Scripts" section where this info is cont…

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    Comment #6116225

    It's new in 0.5.0 [1] - Released ~10 days ago. Things in docker-land move super quick! [1] https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/wiki/Docker-0.5.0:-extern...

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    Comment #5665001

    Older thread with more comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5663581

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    Comment #4864908

    In case it's not clear, this is a development version along the road to the stable 5.18 release, expected in May 2013. The Perl core team are getting very good at timeboxing their …

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    Comment #4719584

    This is really beautiful, and just what I need right now at my company. Well done, and thank you!

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    Comment #4712069

    Incidentally 86% of Dutch people speak English, from my experience that is higher in coastal / docklands areas. Also an iPod shuffle is $49. I thought it was a nice gesture.

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    Comment #4361536

    I don't know how long ago you paid for it, but I paid £35 for my license 3 years and 1 day ago (August 8th, 2009) 3 years of use from a product, plus we now have the almost-guarant…

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    Comment #4361501

    It doesn't appear to be a code-dump to GitHub, which would be indicative of fading interest on behalf of the original developer. The ReadMe, build process, and licensing instructio…

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    Comment #4256934

    The payment not being clearly over HTTPS sets off alarm bells. We've trained people for years to not type CC details unless you see the padlock. Whenever I wanted a fancy in-page c…

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    Comment #4226186

    http://training.perl.com/OSCON2011/index.html Specifically the talk titled "Unicode Support Shootout: The Good, The Bad, & the (mostly) Ugly" It's a year old now, but it's still re…

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    Comment #4080256

    Apple haven't announced which machines will be compatible with the released version of Mountain Lion, so it's premature to say that Apple are "blocking" it. "Blocking" is also diff…

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    Comment #4049047

    The problem is its overuse, not it's qualities as a typeface. Comic Sans is not a bad typeface, it was merely overused and became a cliche. Lobster is well down that same path.

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    Comment #3976016

    Official support for WebSockets and SPDY in nginx is big news. WebSocket support especially, as previously it was impossible to do long-polling / WebSocket type work in nginx witho…

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    Comment #3907350

    I live in the complex where these missiles are supposed to be deployed. The part of this situation that upsets me the most is not the missiles, but what comes along with them - the…

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    Comment #3848090

    By "original issue", I was referring to the actual GitHub issue / bug report. On the wider issue of semicolons I am in agreement of you, and all my own code is written with that in…