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I've been a fan of Aqua Data Studio for years and it doesn't seem to get mentioned often. Cross platform and supports a myriad of dbs. http://www.aquafold.com/aquadatastudio.html

Where are we? - Doesn’t matter - you can work from your preferred location. But in case you’re wondering, we’re in Hattiesburg, MS. Who are we? - http://www.schoolstatus.com - Scho…

I hate they left Airmail out of this article. I switched to it from Sparrow about a week ago and haven't been very pleased so far. It kinda feels like what Sparrow may have eventua…

This may explain some strange occurrences I had yesterday. Starting at 7am, I received an Apple ID password reset request every 4 hours and 19 minutes, ending last night at midnigh…

Get the pcl6 utility. pcl6 -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=out.pdf infile

I'm not sure, but I think we should spearhead an effort to rewrite the Linux TCP/IP stack in Forth.

The Cuckoo's Egg is an amazing read. You get a very play-by-play account of the story, see an 80s honeypot in action, and if I remember correctly, read about interactions with the …

How far ahead of the game do you really think you can get when you're asking permission at every step? Just don't be malicious. I wish we could drill this mentality into everyone.

I absolutely love textfiles.com -- their BBS documentary was amazing. This is the first time I've come across telehack, very cool. I look forward to playing with it more when I get…

Silicon Toad! Completely forget about that name. Lots of fun groups back then, actually writing interesting code instead of useless antics likes DDoS and website defacement.

I hate that the majority (I assume) here on HN didn't get to cut their teeth in the BBS era, you really missed out. I see comments below mentioning "breaking into computer systems"…

Ditto, his eccentricities are very much missed. I have a hunch there's more to come.

Don, you've had a couple of great stories make it to HN recently -- awesome reads. Looking forward to reading many more.

Padrino is excellent and does not get enough coverage.

I've done this successfully with Ruby Mechanize.

It was more of a CDE clone in the late 90s, definitely not as recent as 5 years ago.

This can be changed on OS X with a defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int [value] I personally use a value of 1. There's an entire article on this at htt…

It would be wonderful to see it become ORM agnostic on the Ruby side for simpler integration into Sinatra/Padrino.