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Re: Installing Firefox extensions with less coddling

Fredrik Bränström — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 07:03:38 -0000

In Firefox 2.0b2 there's a checkbox in the options to avoid having to drag the link to the location bar just to bypass the site check. I also edited some .jar file and changed the value for the countdown to 2, seems reasonable.

Re: Installing Firefox extensions with less coddling

Fredrik Bränström — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:01:18 -0000

Oh, and there's also a Restart Firefox button that shows when the installation is complete. Fx 2.0 restores the session too, so it's a smoother experience.

Re: Improved Greasemonkey bundle for TextMate – The Pug Automatic

Fredrik Bränström — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 22:20:09 -0000

Woot!

Re: View source from Firefox with TextMate

Fredrik Bränström — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:50:01 -0000

There's also mozex for editing textareas in web pages using app of choice.

Re: Taming booklets

Fredrik Bränström — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 21:01:48 -0000

*LOVE IT*

Re: del.icio.us Bookmarks extension and Firefox bookmark keywords

Fredrik Bränström — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 04:20:54 -0000

Just do a sync and it'll come through. Probably takes more bandwidth and less clicks.

Re: WTF-8

Fredrik Bränström — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 04:23:31 -0000

Apple's always trying to simplify the tech jargon, and hold some standards as "true" as opposed to the others, like in this case UTF-16 is the True Unicode. They're quite opinionated aren't they?

Best title ever.

Re: del.icio.us Bookmarks extension and Firefox bookmark keywords

Fredrik Bränström — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 05:06:56 -0000

Oh... It's worked for me the three or so times I've added keyword searches since I installed the extension. Actually now that I tried to add one it worked right away. I just posted it and typed the search in the location bar and it worked.

Do you have an input field for the keyword or do you just type in the tag by yourself? (Seemed to indicate the latter in the post, but I have the field)

Re: WTF-8

Fredrik Bränström — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 05:14:24 -0000

True... It was just a guess. It could be an opinion but it's probably just Human Error.

Re: del.icio.us Bookmarks extension and Firefox bookmark keywords

Fredrik Bränström — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 05:45:20 -0000

I was talking about adding searches (Right-click in some search field on page and choose "Add a Keyword..." which then takes effect immediately) - but when adding keywords for static pages all I have to do is start a sync and almost immediately the latest keyword I added works.

Re: Adium tip: swap buffers

Fredrik Bränström — Fri, 04 May 2007 16:57:09 -0000

Wow, this seems great. One IM feature to look forward to for when I finally go through with the Switch.

Miranda IM (Windows-only) has so many great features and plugins that I rather thought I'd be missing things, but this doesn't seem to exist in the Miranda universe (yet).

Re: Comma concatenation for punctuation after link in Haml

Fredrik Bränström — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:22:20 -0000

More proportion and clarity. That's nice.

I was using the fugly helpers before and you've helped me see the light! Ideally it should be even easier to do this... but I think this example covers a lot of the cases where you want to avoid whitespace seeping in.

I could never go back to ERb templates. But Haml certainly isn't perfect (yet).

One issue is that multiliners are kind of cumbersome. You'll have to use the pipe separator at the end of every line, even in a block parsed by a Haml filter, like :ruby, apparently.

On the other hand, that promotes good coding, separation of concerns. You should move all your ugly multiliners out to helpers and you should use dedicated CSS/Sass files instead of inline styles. Then everything will have its place and be quite readable and maintainable.

Re: Comma concatenation for punctuation after link in Haml

Fredrik Bränström — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:37:00 -0000

I agree.

http://groups.google.com/gr...

Here's an idea by Inviz, who I know from the MooTools dev team... Seems pretty nice, but there's no code written that really does this yet. Basically the idea is to simply render inline tags like inline tags (no whitespace inside or adjacent to them).

Re: Use END for keeping code around in testing

Fredrik Bränström — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:04:45 -0000

I use vim, so I get splits for free :D

Re: Rails truncate helper that handles HTML tags and entities

Fredrik Bränström — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:05:18 -0000

Nice. Some time ago I searched for the best solution to this problem and found some snippet in a Pastie that seemed to be the smartest thing there was at the time. It didn't check if there was an unclosed start tag present though... I think that was it. This is awesome though and does all I need. Thanks for contributing to the community and blogging so feverishly. I really need to set up my own blog... sigh...

Re: Rails truncate helper that handles HTML tags and entities

Fredrik Bränström — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:07:46 -0000

My name gets beaten up by this form somehow.

Re: Leopard, AFP and the Hardy Heron

Fredrik Bränström — Thu, 15 May 2008 08:40:44 -0000

Why doesn't this work by default? It's an outrage if you ask me. Why the heck would we not allow SSL on Ubuntu's side?

Re: What Atheism Offers: Life’s Mysteries

Fredrik Bränström — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:39:21 -0000

This are huge questions

Re: What Atheism Offers: Life’s Mysteries

Fredrik Bränström — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:48:01 -0000

"This are huge questions" should be "these are huge questions" I presume. (Sorry for the double post...)

I can't tell you how much I appreciate all these articles. Thank you for being so articulate and outspoken.

(And for The Hole, too, I'm just about to embark on part 1...)

Re: What Atheism Offers: Life’s Mysteries

Fredrik Bränström — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:08:36 -0000

I wish you would have it played out like a radio theater podcast. That would probably be enjoyable, don't you think? I could try recording the first part with a couple of friends perhaps... my cousin has some audio equipment ^_^ (I'm only half serious, but the serious half is very enthusiastic.)

Re: What Atheism Offers: Life’s Mysteries

Fredrik Bränström — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:18:28 -0000

Re: What Atheism Offers: Life’s Mysteries

Fredrik Bränström — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:22:02 -0000

I take that back - not as a radio theater. Just read aloud, maybe by the author himself? You should investigate it, anyhow.

Re: Obama's Prayer and the Problem of Religious Leaders

Fredrik Bränström — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:04:22 -0000

Is Hillary any better?

Btw, "diety" = "deity"... (I figure you could at least spare yourself of any badwill that might register in the minds of your readers by stupid spelling mistakes, and let it be limited to the actual content of your immoral, God-hating ramblings ;)

Re: Obama’s Prayer and the Problem of Religious Leaders

Fredrik Bränström — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:05:23 -0000

I also have a hunch that Obama is agnostic at his core.

But not much can compete with the effect of somehow getting into your head the idea that you're acting out the will of a god. Self-criticism applies in every case except when you're encouraged to believe that your ideas aren't your own. That they're telepathically transduced from an omniscient supernatural consciousness to you and that you should not question them.

Agnosticism just says "maybe, maybe not - I dunno" with its hands in its pockets and lets the show go on. It means to avoid taking a practical point of view on the question of the existence of gods. Pascal's Wager often accompanies it, so it's practically on the theist side of the fence.

The observed and conceptually necessary evolution of consciousness, as well as the observed and conceptually necessary complexity of the same phenomenon, means that any idea about a physically detached consciousness floating around in the universe should be assigned an incredibly small probability. This is maybe one of the strongest arguments to make when skeptically examining the claims of any religion, in my mind.

"Needless to say, I find Obama’s religious pandering repulsive. The suspicion that he is pandering, out of obvious necessity, and not quite as religious as he makes out, is somewhat comforting, however. But even if Obama were precisely as religious as he appears, he is not a Creationist, Rapture-Ready blockhead."
http://www.samharris.org/si...

Related: http://thesciencenetwork.or... has a very nice and long video interview with Dan Dennett on his book "Breaking the Spell: Religion As A Natural Phenomenon" that should interest anyone with a fascination for the workings of religion in today's society and how it came to be.

Re: How the Bias for Intent Makes Fools of Us All

Fredrik Bränström — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:39:30 -0000

Just thought I'd alert you to the fact that I had a scientology ad thrown in my face when I was about to read your article. :D http://bayimg.com/baKlEAABg Very nice irony. You should bitchslap your ad host. :p

Mike: You don't have to be biased in order to take into account all the possibilities. (I'm going to read the article and your comment more thoroughly later, only skimmed it now...)

Disqus - Friends of antonellastellacci

Re: Installing Firefox extensions with less coddling

Re: Installing Firefox extensions with less coddling

Re: Improved Greasemonkey bundle for TextMate – The Pug Automatic

Re: View source from Firefox with TextMate

Re: Taming booklets

Re: del.icio.us Bookmarks extension and Firefox bookmark keywords

Re: WTF-8

Re: del.icio.us Bookmarks extension and Firefox bookmark keywords

Re: WTF-8

Re: del.icio.us Bookmarks extension and Firefox bookmark keywords

Re: Adium tip: swap buffers

Re: Comma concatenation for punctuation after link in Haml

Re: Comma concatenation for punctuation after link in Haml

Re: Use __END__ for keeping code around in testing

Re: Rails truncate helper that handles HTML tags and entities

Re: Rails truncate helper that handles HTML tags and entities

Re: Leopard, AFP and the Hardy Heron

Re: What Atheism Offers: Life’s Mysteries

Re: What Atheism Offers: Life’s Mysteries

Re: What Atheism Offers: Life’s Mysteries

Re: What Atheism Offers: Life’s Mysteries

Re: What Atheism Offers: Life’s Mysteries

Re: Obama's Prayer and the Problem of Religious Leaders

Re: Obama’s Prayer and the Problem of Religious Leaders

Re: How the Bias for Intent Makes Fools of Us All

Re: Use END for keeping code around in testing