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Actually, one of our customers started writing "Thank you!" e-mails one or two weeks ago. I guess my boss managed to convince her that twenty hours of support per day is not the no…

I don't find HN's font too small, but I usually have Firefox set up with a readable minimum font size in the first place to evade that problem. This breaks a few sites' designs, bu…

I don't use Apple products either but I know that they sell tracks AAC encoded. And that's exactly why I see MP3 declining: before iTunes, there was no serious competitor for it.[1…

ACK. Additionally, FLAC is perfect for future-proof archiving. MP3 is already declining (thanks to Apple) and while you will probably still be able to play MP3 files in twenty year…

Command substitution using $(...) is valid POSIX syntax, not a bashism. $ /bin/dash $ echo $(uname -r) 2.6.31-rc7

If only those developers read books...

[Disclaimer: I am a big fan of Radiohead and at the same time listen to music almost exclusively album-for-album. No shuffle play for me, thanks.] I seriously hope that they at lea…

I agree. And it's not that Python strictly needed the "@"-syntax in the first place. They just implemented ("hardcoded", as the article calls it) it to make it obvious what is happ…

rest2web: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/rest2web/ It is not very flexible, but doesn't take very much effort either.

I always just "(Dis)allow pages using their own fonts" + a readable minimum font size. That makes browsing much more comfortable for me and doesn't break too many sites (only very …

A completely different approach to the problem is to minimize the number of necessary distance computation in the first place. There are various indexing algorithms which make find…