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jorge.israel.p@gmail.com • @blaenk • http://www.jip.dev

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/blaenk; my proof: https://keybase.io/blaenk/sigs/L9s0eBs0lnDYIyfgyZbxpmrBNkMBiPlHi6tEUtNcsDg ]

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blaenk··on Announcing SPDY draft 2 implementation in nginx
What about the first time the user connects, how would they be assured that the fingerprint really is the site's and not a man in the middle?

Honest question, myself being pretty new to cryptography.

blaenk··on Kickstarter: rails.app
You can create an alias for it:

git config –-global alias.statsu status

I have mine aliased to 'st'.

blaenk··on 63% Prefer a Dark Themed Text Editor
Nice theme! All of the vim themes I tend to see are very simple in terms of color. Understandable that some might find more than a couple colors to be distracting, but I find it very helpful.

Syntax highlighting was the one last thing I regretted leaving TextMate for, but yesterday I spent a day tweaking my own theme (based off of Tomorrow-Night https://github.com/ChrisKempson/Tomorrow-Theme , which does have a vim theme but I found it lacking and not at all like the TextMate version) and I like it so far. But it's nice to finally know of another theme with nice colors. Thanks :)

In fact I think I like the string highlighting on this one, I might try it on mine :)

blaenk··on My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Mac OS X (2011 Edition)
I thought I was the only one that witnessed slower screen updates. I don't know if it's the same thing, but for example, holding backspace to delete a few characters seems to lag (on an SSD with 2600k @ 4.5ghz and 8GB DDR3). I know I can just do C-u, but the lag is irritating nonetheless. Not to mention I actually like Terminal.app so I don't have a problem continuing to use it.
blaenk··on Gmail app for iOS available in the App Store (again)
Is it just me, or do the notifications only work when the device is not locked? If I lock my device and I get an email, it doesn't vibrate and show me the notification. Either that or notifications aren't consistently sent.
blaenk··on Hey CS Paper writers, please show your code
His username lent itself to searching, so I doubt he'll mind me posting: http://www.daemonology.net/papers/
blaenk··on IBM's new transactional memory: make-or-break time for multithreaded revolution
Those do it on the software side, 'emulated'. This article is about getting it on the hardware; on the processor itself.

"Up until now, transactional memory research has mostly focused on software-based implementations. Real processors don't actually support transactional memory, so it has to be emulated in some way."

"BlueGene/Q moves transactional memory into the processor itself."

blaenk··on Estimate your English vocabulary size
Also, leal means loyal in spanish, that's how I knew, when I was reading that book :)
blaenk··on Wikipedia: Making of Doom
This is a great book. It basically goes over how the game industry was able to develop itself for the PC, which at the time people believed was only for work. The guys at I'd pioneered a lot of efficient technology whited allowed for games to even be playable on PCs.
blaenk··on H5ai - a beautiful Apache index
Is there a way to do something similar in nginx? Currently I only use the auto index but the listing page is very ugly. I'd like to create an html template if possible and if not, some way to write an indexer in another language (such as ruby) would be nice as well.
blaenk··on OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store
Thank you very much!
blaenk··on OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store
Does anyone know if there's a way to download it on one mac, and somehow transfer it to another so that one doesn't have to download it multiple times through the mac app store?
blaenk··on Metaprogramming Spell Book
would be nice if it were all in the same gist (separate files if need be)
blaenk··on Which Apps are threatened by iOS 5
I don't know if Boxcar is all that threatened. The notification wrangling it seemed to do seemed like an after-thought, so no doubt the new notifications will be better.

However, I use it and it has always seemed to me that its focus has been to create push notifications for services that otherwise wouldn't have them, such as email, twitter (before the official app added push), and others (they have an API).

blaenk··on Twitter Getting Photos In Order Ahead Of iOS 5 Integration
Gruber posted about this here: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/05/31/twitter-ios-5

I have a feeling that what Gruber is hinting at is the possibility that iOS 5 will provide an API for services/apps to hook into that level of the OS, meaning it wouldn't be limited to Twitter.

blaenk··on QuickSilver for Mac Lives
Anyone know if I have to have a plugin installed to use the "Latest Download" and other proxy objects? Nothing seems to come up for me when I type that.
blaenk··on Stallman on Hacking
I agree with this sentiment. I've been hearing the 'hacker vs cracker' argument for years and it gets old. Move on. It certainly wouldn't be the first time that the media has defined or changed the meaning of words in our language. Languages change over time. Stop trying to fight the current. If you prefer one definition over another, cool, but your time and energy is better spent fulfilling its definition rather than proselytizing to strangers on the Internet over the semantics of a word.
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