On 3 Nov 2009, at 12:58, David Cantrell wrote:
Holding up anything proprietary to Apple, especially from the Dark
Ages
before they had an operating system, as an example, is a FAIL.
When didn't Apple have an operating system, other than maybe the
earliest Apple I/Apple II days?
(Is it th
Dear MacPorts,
Why do you always have to use the pre-built GHC 6.8.2 bootstrapping
compiler to build GHC, when I *already have a newer version installed,
by you* and I am just *upgrading* it? I think you are not
understanding the concept of "bootstrapping".
- Adam
On 4 Mar 2009, at 07:56, Peter da Silva wrote:
My Macbook Pro just piped up and started complaining about the
temperature. Both cores running at 80%, for I don't know how long.
So I go to see who's responsible. Safari. Why? Well, because I don't
have a Flashblock for Safari (need to look fo
On 9 Jun 2008, at 05:51, Patrick Quinn-Graham wrote:
Considering it's an interactive programming shell, and it tells you
exactly how to quit, I disagree. If it just said "No. Invalid
syntax. You're doing it wrong" without providing any hint as to how
to fix it, then I'd agree. It even says
I've hardly used Java, and I had never heard of this feature (?)
before, but I didn't have to read any more than the subject line
before knowing that I hated it.
On 14 Jan 2008, at 19:10, Matt McLeod wrote:
It's about a 50% chance that speaking my email address will result
in the other person being confused and trying to use 'boggle.com'.
An alarming proportion of the Great Unwashed think everything is
under .com. Even .com.au confuses some locals.
Y
On 14 Jan 2008, at 13:57, Michael Jinks wrote:
My (and Sabrina's) local (US) National Public Radio station regularly
airs announcements directing the listener to visit some URL,
"[whatever]
backslash [whatever]".
Our hard-earned tax dollars are being wasted on NPR announcers
speaking wast
On 14 Jan 2008, at 13:18, Michael G Schwern wrote:
How long do you think it'll be until viruses start adding on their
own certification?
They probably already are.
On 2 Nov 2007, at 14:35, Tia Marie wrote:
The fact I have to use MySpace for work is depressing enough, now I
have to deal with their shitty bugs too?!
All must deal with their shitty bugs! Oh, and since said bugs have
been around so long, including the generic "Unexpected error occurred,
God I hate Autoconf, Automake, etc.
Mainly because I hate the whole "here are a bunch of shell scripts
that process M4 scripts in order to generate some more shell scripts
that generate a bunch of Makefiles that will hopefully eventually
generate some executable code" thing... honestly, can
On 28 Sep 2007, at 23:23, Peter da Silva wrote:
I'm surprised XML retained [...] foo
That exists?
On 27 Sep 2007, at 14:10, Tony Finch wrote:
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Michael G Schwern wrote:
I would like, at this point, to pimp YAML a little.
Not at all over-engineered!
Also I'm wary of any technology that calls itself "yet another"
something.
(Yeah yeah, I know YAML officially stand
On 27 Sep 2007, at 13:33, Sean Conner wrote:
So, you're saying you would rather have:
[...]
Ick. Or does it go:
[...]
Ick indeed!
I think a decent rule of thumb is that attributes are for parameters
that are not displayed to the user directly, while sub-elements are
On 5 Jun 2007, at 16.07, Andrew Black - lists wrote:
How many times have I gone to a form
...
Why can't it check your username is sensible before all the other
things. I guess with Ajax you can
Indeed, indeed. It's not just checking the username, for that matter.
It's any sort of valida
On 8 May 2007, at 09.02, Adam Atlas wrote:
On 8 May 2007, at 08.46, Yossi Kreinin wrote:
Or something. I wonder what inserts that backslash. I'm pretty
sure I've seen it from people reading their mail using both
Outlook/Windows and Thunderbird/Linux. Is it done at the server
s
On 27 Apr 2007, at 14.22, Denny wrote:
Um, what? No.
Or at least, it's not quite that simple :)
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/bsd.html
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/
index_html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses
...
Original BSD license
Yeah yeah, I was talking about the revised lice
On 27 Apr 2007, at 14.02, Yoz Grahame wrote:
(I don't understand how it can be FSF-valid while BSD isn't, but
never mind)
I've never heard the term "FSF-valid", but the FSF considers the BSD
license to be both free and GPL-compatible.
On 24 Apr 2007, at 04.48, Ann Barcomb wrote:
I'm used to just ignoring these so-called 'requirements'. In this
case,
you are entitled to a choice of two operating systems: Windows and
Mac. You're allowed two browsers: IE 5.x and Navigator 4.x. You must
also have Acrobat Reader 4.0 or 5.0.
On 22 Apr 2007, at 10.55, Andrew Black - lists wrote:
It is what we used to call "Christian Name" in our less
multicultural and more European/ British supremacist days. Ie the
Andrew of "Andrew Black".
What do you call it in US?
I almost exclusively hear "first name". I'm familiar with "
On 20 Apr 2007, at 16.33, Timothy Knox wrote:
Somewhere on Shadow Earth, at Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 04:22:05PM
-0400, Adam Atlas wrote:
How's that any different from doing it with links, in terms of user
interaction? If you really want to, you can even style a button to
look exactly like a
On 20 Apr 2007, at 16.56, Andy Armstrong wrote:
I'm still a fanboy. I like the names and I've got a while to wait
before the upgrade doodab pisses me off:
http://flickr.com/photos/andyarmstrong/466211460/
The trick, of course, is to upgrade the day BEFORE it's released.
That way the serve
On 20 Apr 2007, at 16.14, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
What you want to do is use single-submit-button forms, not links.
(Eg. you have one for each action rather than a link, with
a submit button as UI to trigger the action.)
Ooh, I hate those.Hello slow web-application, please force me
to c
On 4 Apr 2007, at 11.42, Ann Barcomb wrote:
Why do you consider it wrong to have dot directories on a Mac?
I think BSD underneath is one of the good points of OSX, so the
Unix way of doing things makes sense.
It's fine for Unix programs running on OS X to make dot directories.
But for actual
On 27 Jan 2007, at 21.34, Robert Rothenberg wrote:
On 26/01/07 21:48 Timothy Knox wrote:
On the other hand, the guy who inherited the build system showed
me a comment in
the code to the effect "This is the wrong way to do this, but by
the time it
becomes a problem I expect to be long gone
On 24 Jan 2007, at 12.02, Peter da Silva wrote:
If you want your OS free-as-in-speech you lost out as soon as you
installed Windows. I got Interix free-as-in-beer from Microsoft,
and it still seems to be there:
I want to start a Free Software conspiracy: "Free as in Masonry, not
as in bee
Am I the only one who finds it hateful that most web browsers add new
bookmarks/favourites to the BOTTOM of the list? When I find some site
that I'd like to come back to later, the bookmarks feature would be
more useful if I didn't have to scroll through hundreds of old ones
to get to it...
On 26 Dec 2006, at 07.42, Peter da Silva wrote:
As far as I can tell one of the reasons PHP won was because it had
a really sucky half-assed web security model that made PHP
applications no more secure than anything else, but made people
think that because it paid lip service to web securit
On 18 Dec 2006, at 07.32, jrod...@hate.spamportal.net wrote:
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 12:18:18PM +, Robert Rothenberg wrote:
On 18/12/06 07:18 Yoz Grahame wrote:
And I won't be able to tell unless I play the thrilling all-day
game of
systematically uninstalling them one by one. ...
A s
Dear audio software (including, but not limited to, mixers,
synthesizers/samplers, and effects):
Who told you you were supposed to look like audio HARDWARE? Please,
stop. It's really bad interface design.
Love,
An aspiring musician who's tired of his music programs being full of
fucking k
Dear MSN and other authors of email address validators who don't read
the RFC,
The ASCII plus sign is a valid character in email addresses.
I will kill you.
Love,
Adam
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