aMoniker | 10 years ago | on: “This mistake will become the thing you are best known for”
The same man who convinced the president to fund the creation of nuclear weapons.
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aMoniker | 14 years ago | on: Grc - it's like stylesheets for your terminal
You are so cool. How can I be cool like you are cool?
aMoniker | 14 years ago | on: HTML5 Presentation
CMD+0 no longer works to reset to default zoom since you've bound it to the help toggle.
aMoniker | 14 years ago | on: Dropbox adds drag and drop
To get it working in three modern browsers, no.
To get it working in all the browsers that your users use, it's trickier.
aMoniker | 14 years ago | on: How to Create Buzz Before You Even Have a Prototype
2. Cackle maniacally
aMoniker | 14 years ago | on: Today is World Backup Day
Backblaze looks like a great service, but like other cloud-based backup services, it does not store "your operating system, applications, and temporary files."
Out of curiosity, why is this? Are there copyright issues involved?
aMoniker | 14 years ago | on: The freedom to drink coffee
Thankfully, we have you to point this out for us.
aMoniker | 14 years ago | on: The Cost of Cracking
I cracked the screen of my iPhone 3G a few years back. Rather than get it replaced, I decided to keep it like that since the touchscreen was still perfectly functional. I thought it made an interesting juxtaposition, and I loved the looks of horror mixed with pity people would give it whenever I nonchalantly used it in front of them.
aMoniker | 14 years ago | on: You Are Not Ruthless Enough
Corporations are people too.
aMoniker | 14 years ago | on: How Far Can You Get From McDonald's?
And by definition of the individual words it can mean 'demands the (following) question'.
aMoniker | 14 years ago | on: Living in China, let me tell you what life is like with restricted internet
SOPA's main objective is to give the US government an easy, legal way to shut down sites for a variety of reasons.
Piracy is a pretense.
aMoniker | 14 years ago | on: Top Developer and Engineering Skills Employers Will Look in 2012
You don't have to wish. You literally have that ability.
aMoniker | 14 years ago | on: Why Technical Smart Asses are Technically Dumb Asses
As your girlfriend wasn't there to observe that person going into town, the word 'supposedly' makes sense.
aMoniker | 14 years ago | on: Sprint orders all OEMs to strip Carrier IQ from their hardware
If you are really reading between the lines, realize that he is not doing what is best for customers, but what is best for his business. In this case he is serving both, but his motivations lie with the latter.
Carrier IQ is getting a bad rap, so removing it shines a positive light on Sprint. However, if it was installed on their phones they have obviously known about it (and its nature) for some time. Why did they wait until now to remove it?
aMoniker | 14 years ago | on: Happy Meal Ban: McDonald's Outsmarts San Francisco
s/Kids/Humans
aMoniker | 14 years ago | on: Researcher shows how to "friend" anyone on Facebook within 24 hours
Correction: you _deactivated_ your account. Facebook keeps your data.
aMoniker | 14 years ago | on: Back to the Future Photo Project (NSFW)
The first image is currently being used in an anti-smoking ad which I saw yesterday in the London Underground.
aMoniker | 14 years ago | on: Most laser printer printed pages have tracking watermark
All the while they print as much as they like. Hypocrites.
aMoniker | 14 years ago | on: Off My Lawn
I'm very nearly certain that the first half-dozen or so of his examples quite neatly fit the definition of irony.
His ultimate point may be valid, but his lexicon isn't.
aMoniker | 14 years ago | on: How to Think Creatively
A paradox not to be understated.
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