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abdelazer

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About abdelazer

Publishing technology & food geek. Helping build Safari Books Online; probably hiring

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    IANAA, but... Remember that these vacation policies also offer a very significant accounting benefit compared to PTO polices that let employees accrue & bank PTO. The accounting do…

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    Comment #4124659

    Try d'Yquem.

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    Comment #4108256

    What you just clarified is a big improvement. "Would commercial support for Redis be useful to you?"

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    Comment #3795063

    Agreed. In the same vein: http://nedbatchelder.com/text/unipain.html

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    Comment #3358540

    I thought $32k sounded low.

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    Comment #2574866

    And you've just reverse-engineered (some of) http://m.ibisreader.com

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    Comment #2574861

    Yes. The Web SQL database on iOS can hold a maximum of 50MB and on Android 2+ it can hold an expandable amount (in practice it's often limited for various reason to 50–100-ish).

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    Comment #2420970

    It's probably worth running the HTML through tidy to get cleaner XHTML and then spending a little while trying to get http://code.google.com/p/epubcheck/ to be a bit happier. In ge…

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    Comment #1722835

    I look forward to someone re-captioning All Your Base with this text.

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    Comment #1609390

    That's right ($35 for most folks, $10 for people with very young kids), they're doing walk-ins for the pertussis booster right now ( http://sfcdcp.org/pertussisiz.html ). Everyone …

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    Comment #1198799

    Try visiting on an iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Droid, or Nexus One for the installable HTML5 version. It will then allow you to view both text and images without an internet connecti…

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    Comment #1087842

    Why in the world is Safari not on the iPad simulator?! I'd like to believe they'll fix that during an update, but I hesitate to think that Apple would do anything I find sane...

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    Comment #1073824

    O'Reilly has never used any DRM on their own (oreilly.com) downloadable stuff ever. The first 12 titles they put into the Amazon Kindle Store had (were forced to have) DRM for a wh…

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    Comment #788594

    Yeah, we need to ask Google to whitelist Bookworm so that it can do a remote add-from-URL (described in http://labs.oreilly.com/2009/07/new-features-and-bug-fixes-f... ). Right now…

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    Comment #284137

    After leaving Ruby (non-Rails) for Python this year, I've mostly noticed the difference in the obsession about testing. The Ruby crew is very into TDD (and now BDD)–that isn't to s…