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I use GNU Screen for similar purposes (on Mac OS X)

I loved the literate programming style and the cleanliness of the FFI also. Org-mode is even more useful than I had previously thought, the http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babe…

Part 4 is probably the most fascinating piece, as it discusses how their technical choices were different from their competitors and how the leveraged those differences.

Beef Taco is a Firefox extension designed to opt out of tracking cookies. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/180650/ I think it's an acceptable compromise to use such a…

Infuriatingly, it's not clear whether Burt Rutan built and designed his early planes by himself from the Wikipedia articles. I may have bought into a mythical view of Burt, but I w…

sqlite is both beautiful and has a significant test suite. http://www.sqlite.org/

I've had to up the maximum simultaneous connections, but otherwise I've been able to log extremely large volumes of data from 1,000s of machines, with syslog-ng. I'd assume the sam…

I can't recommend the Sed & Awk book enough. Regular expressions are my favourite secret weapon; So many problems are made simple by regular expressions and so few people (outside …

Works for me with MacVim: http://phaseportrait.blogspot.com/2008/12/making-macvim-work...

Enterprise extensibility and inter-operativity or inter-dependency is extremely complex to get right. Multiple standards exist for just about anything, and most implementations of …

An application is a software product which fulfills a useful purpose (performing a task, storing data, etc.) An enterprise application is an application which is suitable for use i…

The real shame is no IE9 for Windows XP. [1] Some 60% [2] of the market share is Windows XP. IE 6 - 8 are going to be with us for some time. [1] http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/i…

wouldn't this be better if you could only go to the same level or lower, thus preventing server/~user1 pretending to be server/~user2? does this break real use cases?

corollary: if everyone complains your prices are too high, find a new market

supporting the fork with updates to the opt outs is good, but the change to the add-on seems gratuitous. a more user friendly approach would have been to give them the 'downgrade' …

How do you know that IT pros are less likely to implement a workaround than hackers are to exploit it? How prevalent is deploying workarounds and mitigations versus deploying patch…

Adding a mode makes the interaction with it both modal and more complex. Compatibility modes are confusing and user hostile, and two different methods of interaction increasing tes…

The important questions are how much value is derived from: - Privacy - Limited Sharing - Unlimited Sharing for both Facebook and the user. This can then be counterbalanced by the …

Disclaimer: I work for a Splunk Partner. Interesting technique, although I think a domain specific extension of Haskell for analysing log records might be more useful. I'm sure the…

It's questioning the idea of work for wages, not the idea of producing in order to consume. An alternative system could be co-operatives or contract working, for example.

Could the lists in the article be cross referenced with 'public' data such as Facebook or LinkedIn to get better results?

With regards to the Dutch Auction it may not have captured the maximum value for Google, but did it capture more than the alternative? According to http://www.businessweek.com/1999…

On most firewalls this should be trivial. On an Cisco ASA: access-list BLOCK_TIMEEXCEEDED deny icmp any any time-exceeded (iirc) and then apply the acl. You should block all hosts …