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Re: Book Bleg

incidentist — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 16:21:52 -0000

Fiction: anything by Carl Hiassen. Nonfiction: anything by Jon Ronson (his audiobook versions are great too). Them, The Psychopath Test, and The Men Who Stare At Goats are terrific.

Re: Introducing the new HTML5 Hard Disk Filler™ API

incidentist — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 18:37:49 -0000

Thanks! I am using this to fill up an iPhone so that I can test what happens when my app runs on a device that has no disk space. It works on iOS Chrome (4GB so far!) but Mobile Safari seems to be immune.

Re: SSH ControlMaster: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

incidentist — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 17:03:50 -0000

Thanks for this -- I was trying to figure out why my ssh connections hung sometimes on exit.

Re: Tweaking realpath_cache_size for SugarCRM

incidentist — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:59:04 -0000

As of PHP 5.3.2, there is a realpath_cache_get function that outputs the contents of the cache.

Re: Can I Donate Money Anonymously on the Internet?

incidentist — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:17:10 -0000

Justgive.org is the payment processor for a lot of charities, and it let me pick what personal information makes it back to the organization, or make it completely anonymous. I usually allow organizations to have my email address, and it's worked great. A lot less junk mail.

Re: Game Makers Want To Charge High Prices For Games, But So What?

incidentist — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:03:15 -0000

The full text of the letter is here: http://igdaboard.wordpress....

The IGDA isn't whining -- it mentions in the letter that Amazon is within its rights to do this. The people who stand to lose from this are not customers and shareholders, but game developers. That's who the letter is directed towards, with the idea that fewer developers would submit games to Amazon if they were more familiar with the terms of the publishing agreement. Isn't that how these things are supposed to work?

Re: Meetup.com webOS Client Part 1: Services

incidentist — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:17:57 -0000

This is really useful. One of the hardest things to get used to about WebOS is the fact that everything is an async operation. Your examples are great because they demonstrate how to deal with this gracefully. I dig those idioms, man.

Re: Feel The Message

incidentist — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:19:38 -0000

Kobe's a better actor than Shaq, that's for sure. He emotes. Why doesn't he get a movie?