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Try loading any Meteor-based site (such as the linked story, or http://www.meteor.com/ itself) with cookies disabled on Chrome or Firefox and watch them break. (Meteor doesn't appe…

But seriously: if you sell the CD, should you delete your MP3s?

Mentioning CDs reminds me that the price of physical CDs on Amazon in some cases has dipped below $0. For some CDs, Amazon throws in the MP3 download (with the usual cloud storage)…

Also, this will turn on vi-style line editing in programs using GNU readline (things like mysql, psql, sqlite3): echo "set editing-mode vi" > ~/.inputrc For programs linked against…

Take a look at bcvi if your preferred local editor is vim: http://sshmenu.sourceforge.net/articles/bcvi/

I remember reading that longboxes were a way to prop up the LP jacket manufacturers, since the materials and process were similar, but... "citation needed".

I'd take that further. Is there any good reason for anyone to run an FTP server (public or otherwise) in 2012?

This made me smile, but I think Perl is more like Robert Pollard/Guided by Voices. Both seem like kind of a mess to the uninitiated (and even the initiated). Both hit their stride …

That's the thing. Once you have "fixed" PHP, you're left with a brand new language that few people know, won't run your existing code, isn't included in Linux distributions or host…

I think some organizations see this kind of implementation leakage as a feature, not a bug. I remember when http://microsoft.com/ began doing external redirects to "default.asp" ci…

While seeing "index.html" (or "index.ANYTHING") makes me cringe, I have some sympathy for the developers who do this. Let's say I have an old-school, all-static site with pages at …

How did we end up with OK/Cancel in the first place? When I run into an OK/Cancel box (usually on a web page using the generic built-in confirm()), it often feels to me like the me…

It's not just simplified, but more secure. Your version doesn't write to predictable filenames in /tmp like the original does.

I think that reason is mostly inertia. Also, because it's GNU. Just as IE is the Microsoft browser, bash is the GNU shell, and most Linux distributions are built around GNU userlan…

So you could say bash is the Internet Explorer of shells. It's the default, it's what most people use, and it's good enough.

I just went through the iTunes "forgot my password" process and had a different experience. According to that box to the side, my new password passed all their requirements, yet on…

They do solo projects, but I don't think that's analogous. Would Radiohead have been allowed to self-release albums while they were under their major label contract?

This is good for sanity checking the right side of the '@' but detectable things go wrong on the left side sometimes, too. One phenomenon I've been seeing for years is the erroneou…

Take a look at rsync's "--inplace" option. I think this does what you want.

I think you're underestimating child-related expenses. Since we're talking about both parents working full-time, just take the cost of child care: http://www.naccrra.org/randd/data…

Not that I'd like to encourage it, but there could be a sudo in FTP, along the lines of WU-FTPd's infamous support for a "SITE EXEC" command.

Also don't forget that rsync does not overwrite a remote file until it's completely uploaded. Compare to ftp, sftp and scp, which overwrite the file from the start, possibly breaki…

Text-only Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6jeyroO...

I don't know; this hypothetical family of 4 making $200k would have about $12k/month in take-home pay. After rent, utilities (including cell phone bills with data plans for 4), foo…

DarwinPorts/MacPorts, Fink, and Homebrew all require the OS X developer tools, so "you have to download a DVD just to be able to compile stuff from source" still applies.