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Metapony··on SpaceX's Dragon ship set for station visit
While SpaceX is getting all the press, Orbital is working on the same thing.
Metapony··on Banned from Kickstarter for Being a Stalking Victim
Yeah, this is weird that blingbling23 here and brokenrobot23 on reddit are both less than a day old.
Metapony··on Show HN: Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework
Ha! I was watching the example just now, and got a sudden grey screen http error -- "No data received"
Metapony··on Netflix Recommendations: Beyond the 5 stars
Screw netflix -- they stopped trying to even upsell you to dvd rentals if you have instant. So if you search for something, and you have instant, they no longer tell you that you could rent the dvd. It's just plain dumb, but then so was their last 'de-design'.

Also the instant que is not in the order we added the items in, and seems to be arbitrary. It's just a terrible service with stale content. We'll be cancelling soon.

Metapony··on Banks are too big to see what's coming
>This argument isn't even coherent enough to be wrong.

Oh man, that's a great line.

Metapony··on Timeline - A JS Library For Beautiful Timelines That Are Easy & Intuitive To Use
Wonderful! I can't wait to have some free time to play with this!
Metapony··on Memepool is back, after 4yr hiatus
Oh, this is awesome. I still have been typing in the url from time to time. Now if only Jorn Barger would drop the bad google products and continue the old-school robotwisdom...
Metapony··on Poll: Which text editor do you use daily?
Best windows text editor by far.
Metapony··on Poll: Which text editor do you use daily?
Me too.
Metapony··on Poll: Which text editor do you use daily?
This is what I use/would use if I had a Mac. It's all about having a great ability to search directories and filesets.
Metapony··on Poll: Which text editor do you use daily?
I use Windows, so I am using IDM's UEStudio, which isn't on the list. (There's a less feature rich version called UltraEdit, too.) It's the only windows text editor I've found that has features akin to BBEdit (which I haven't used since the old dot-com days back in 2000.)
Metapony··on Schemer: New Social Network by Google
Schemer? That's a horrid name! What is up with google that they can't see what a terrible name it is? Does anyone want to hang out with ANYONE who is "scheming"? Google's own search for that word gives this definition: "Given to or involved in making secret and underhanded plans." And really, in this day and age that makes half of us wonder if we'd get on some eff'n homeland security watchlist on signup.
Metapony··on OpenStreetMap: Welcome Apple
Link is down. I'd ask for a google cache link, but the irony would make me implode.
Metapony··on 'Brogrammers' challenge coders' nerdy image
Another stupid label invented by a reporter desperate for someone to read his story. All sorts of dumb. I guess 'brogrammer' sounds better than 'douchegrammer'? People are just people. There's all sorts of people and all sorts of programmers.
Metapony··on Chrome to be deployed by US State Department
Now the State dept will get out of memory errors too!
Metapony··on Chrome Now Officially Lets You Open All Email Links In Gmail
Creepy.
Metapony··on The Mounting Minuses at Google+
The ONE thing that I loathe G+ for is that they did away with the just-about-a-standard @username and replaced it with +username. That's as lame as a .biz domain. No one is going to use it if you have to translate your post into googlese.
Metapony··on The Death of the Cyberflâneur
From the article: "Hardly anyone “surfs” the Web anymore."

Pffffft.

Metapony··on Megaupload was our collective library Of Alexandria
I'm going to have to buy stock in kleenex tissues if this is how this generation is going to whine. We'll be seeing shutdowns of fertile environments a lot in the future.
Metapony··on Raspberry Pi's GPU double the performance of iPhone 4S
Thanks, didn't know about these.
Metapony··on Google, Facebook, and Twitter to coordinate a blackout in opposition to SOPA
Vocal minority my ass.
Metapony··on Impress.js - a Prezi like implementation using CSS3 3D transformations
In looking at the stylesheet for the impress.js demo, I wonder if this http://leaverou.github.com/prefixfree/ would be useful to keep things tidy when rotating content and such.
Metapony··on CNet's Download.com now bundling Nmap with malware
It has in my mind. I feel sorry for all the users who would still trust them.
Metapony··on Sprint.ly: New software development management tool from Joe Stump
Vimeo doesn't allow one to skip ahead -- it should be hosted on youtube. (I have this problem with any vimeo vs youtube video.) Also, it looks like some of those popup boxes don't open when clicked until a delay happens. Looks slow. Ug.
Metapony··on Google adds verbatim search mode for your exact search terms
More like adds and then buries. I'd rather have the plus sign operator back, google.
Metapony··on $19/month cell carrier Republic Wireless overwhelmed on release day
Does anyone know what phone they are shipping with this?
Metapony··on The Internet Weighs About as Much as a Strawberry
It's evil, don't touch it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY9Z5OPzE78

Metapony··on GoDaddy SSL Cert Scam
I know people who work for GoDaddy and the confusing website is part of the upsell. That GoDaddy would screw people with SSL certificates is no surprise.

My requirements for hosting are always 'Anyone but godaddy."

Metapony··on For $185k Brands Can (soon) Apply For Their Own TLD
Does this mean domains like http://snort.coke are going to be available? Rock on!
Metapony··on Pirate Bay, MegaUpload & Others Blocked By Government Order in Malaysia
They were trying to block all the copies of Zoolander they could.
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