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Hmph. Thinking about writing a better "top stories" retweeter for/than @newsycombinator .
"Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God." - Pope John Paul II
lolcats, according to Google: http://translate.google.com/transla...
Poll: What's more annoying: animated ads or Javascript+CSS popup "window" ads?
I'm voting for the JS+CSS popups, on account of my ad blocker(s) not blocking them. :P
- Pistos
"What a father says to his children will not be heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity." - Jean Paul Richter
Hm. Blazing speed, and both --colour and --color options. I think I'm sold. http://betterthangrep.com/
This might even replace my long-time friend, glark. http://www.incava.org/project...
- Pistos
Hm... you know you need a coffee when you misread optionparser as opinionparser.
I actually read that as 'onionparser' first time around, what do I need?
- nickrw
LOL, nickrw
- Toby Thain
hehe
- Pistos
Dear Internet: Please recommend the best downloadable multiplayer games to play under Linux on a LAN. Any & all genres.
Unreal Tournament 3 should be ok (commercial). FPS.
- Toby Thain
Isn't it odd how many help forums have a practice of putting [solved] in titles when solved, instead of building such a feature into the forum software itself?
Then again, many forums *do* have this feature...
- Toby Thain
I happened to think of this while surfing the Gentoo forums. But what forums have that? The sites I know that do this are specifically help sites (not just forums). e.g. stackoverflow
- Pistos
Adobe, Apple, and others. Sometimes this is a simple "helpful answer" or "this solved it", and others have kind of points system that you can assign etc...
- Toby Thain
e.g. http://telegraphics.com.au/~toby... (Adobe)
- Toby Thain
"The family is a good institution because it is uncongenial." - Chesterton
Indeed, I say that you can know a lot about a person's character by the way he treats his family! (Or she hers.) Observing family relations is especially sage advice for those hunting for a spouse.
- Pistos
My Google wave simply asking "Are you out there, fellow Catholics?" has sparked tonnes of discussion. Didn't mean to!
"Work as if everything depended upon your work, and pray as if everything depended upon your prayer." - William Booth
On the other hand, Mother Teresa said: "Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world."
- Pistos
Working with XSL again. The hatred is being stirred once more. XSL is so dang unintuitive!! #vent
I swear, the inventors must surely have been making it difficult to use ON PURPOSE. That's the only sane explanation.
- Pistos
Oh come on, it's just declarative. Like all your other favourites: make, regexp, css, sql, ...
- Toby Thain
I am reminded of Terminator 2, wherein Sarah Connor tries to assassinate the inventor of a weapon of mass destruction, in the hopes of averting the terrible future. In the same way, I feel like I need to go back in time to convince the XSL drafting committee: "Guys, it was a nice idea, but it turned out HORRIBLE. Just don't. Go invent network-ready toasters, or something."
- Pistos
@qu1j0t3: No really, time and again, I find them making what should be simple and straightforward into a nightmare of syntax and usage lookup. I'd pick simple template systems over XSL every time. Current case in point: You'd think it'd be simple to do "whenever you see this tag, replace it with this", but it's not (due to template nesting).
- Pistos
How do you replace a tag with a "simple template system"?
- Toby Thain
Well, my only experience was with XSLT, not XSL itself. But these are meant to be highly general mechanisms afaik, so ...
- Toby Thain
"The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works." - St. Augustine
Aaaaaaaand that marks the first and last time I blindly click an unadorned Twitter link with @Pistos in front of it.
lol. Hey, are you online somewhere? I need ruby help ;)
- Joel Bennett
I am so loving Facebook Lite. Fast UI, no ads, no "applications", no games, no quizzes. Need I say more? http://www.facebook.com/login...
Well, okay, there are probably ads, but they are so few (or blocked) that I don't notice.
- Pistos
Yeah, there are ads in that there sidebar. But no games + no quizzes makes it a winner in my book too.
- Joel Bennett
"Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible." - Corrie ten Boom
Hey Internet. Please recommend me a $0, ad-free email service with a clean web interface. Not GMail. Thanks in advance.
Do you want a pony with that? :)
- James Britt
Sorry, I meant that the emails I send and receive should be ad-free. I can tolerate ads in the web interface (since they get blocked :) ).
- Pistos
Chopin – Nocturne Op. 72, No. 1 in E minor - http://blog.purepistos.net/index...
Once in a while, you see a web ad that is actually of interest to you, and you click through.
"We trust not because "a God" exists, but because this God exists." - C. S. Lewis
@webbynode : Please add "refer by URL", in addition to refer by email address. Would be much easier to spread.
Just tried Chromium. Yes, it's fast, but @Opera is fast, too, while Chromium is lacking too many finishing touches.
"Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading." - Oswald Chambers
Any spammer on Google Wave can add you as a contact and see and verify your email address. (via @Jaykul)
What I Use: http://blog.purepistos.net/index... #whatiuse
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