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lakwn | 12 years ago | on: Dyn Decided To Stop Offering Free Accounts for Dynamic DNS

I used to pay for a subscription, but I canceled it because I was using it for two hosts only. They are now offering a subscription for 20 dollars, which I think is very expensive considering the two hosts I need.

Oh, well. Time to move on.

lakwn | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why not use variable-width fonts for programming?

To me it's really a matter of symmetry. Having lines of code that do similar things look aligned is readable and beautiful.

Hence in Ruby, for example, I love how the "case" statement makes it easy for several conditions to be aligned:

  case
  when a == 0
  when b == 0
  end

In C++, "a == 0" and "b == 0" don't align:

  if (a == 0)
  {
  }
  else if (b == 0)
  {
  }

Now imagine that on a much wider scale. With variable-width fonts the only thing that would ever align would be the beginning of lines. A visual nightmare that affects readability.

lakwn | 12 years ago | on: AutoJS – JS library for textarea lookahead

Indeed... I typed the project's description, and this is what I got:

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lakwn | 12 years ago | on: YouTube Shoots Google in Foot, Publishers Suffer Collateral Damage

And Youtube Viewer: https://code.google.com/p/trizen/

lakwn | 12 years ago | on: This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and Pakistan

You don't need to be Indian or Pakistani to be moved to tears by this ad...

lakwn | 12 years ago | on: Writing Robust Bash Shell Scripts

This article was very relevant to me. I've been writing bash script for so many years, yet I didn't know you could just "set -u" to make bash stop when I accidentally use an uninitialized variable. "set -e" is also incredible useful (bash quits if any statement fails).

lakwn | 12 years ago | on: Bytecode

When you have bytecode, you have programs that run using them. I understand how these are a good thing in fonts or in PDF, but what is running i this ACPI machine the author described?

lakwn | 12 years ago | on: Why Humor at Work Can Boost Productivity, Sales & Morale

Once again, people's productivity is not linked with their salary. There are better ways to encourage them to increase the quality of their output, while making them happier.

lakwn | 12 years ago | on: How to Tell an Android User from an iOS User

28,000 questions? Isn't that a bit of an overkill? Their claims would be much more credible if they had taken their questions from a smaller set.

lakwn | 12 years ago | on: Mac OS 10.9 – Infinity times your spam

I'm not an iOS user, but doesn't it sound a bit unprofessional for them to write such post on their main blog? Won't it piss off iOS users, who are not responsible for Apple's bad practices?

I think such rants should indeed be made public, but maybe there was a better outlet for FastMail to do that.

lakwn | 12 years ago | on: To-Do Lists Don't Work

I use org-mode extensively, and personally I don't experience any of the problems the author mentions.

lakwn | 12 years ago | on: FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera

I agree wholeheartedly. I'm a paid customer, I'm loving the service (support too), and this is the only thing keeping me from telling people how great FastMail is.