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janus··on Google Hangouts - Cross platform messaging
It works fine. Here it is https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
janus··on Stay away from rebase
Please, stay away from not using caching with static websites.
janus··on Diving into AngularJS
I've found The tutplus angularjs course to be very beginner's friendly.
janus··on The Ruby on Rails Tutorial for Rails 4.0 (beta)
Are you running on the cedar stack? heroku stack

You need the cedar stack for the ruby directive to work on the Gemfile

janus··on Users don't like social login
The worst offenders are sites that lead you into logging in with a social account and then ask you to add your email and create a password anyway.
janus··on Surface Pro versus MacBook Air: Who's being dishonest with storage space?
Do you have a mac? OS x reports free space differently since the last few versions
janus··on Dropbox is not a tool for developers
The tool you are looking for is git.
janus··on When To Write Bad Code
Nothing is more permanent than the temporary: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/243216
janus··on Squash
zsh with a custom theme probably
janus··on I Don't Want To Be Part of Your Ecosystem
Don't you know there's an app called Doubletwist that syncs your itunes collections to android phones? That music bought from the iTunes store is DRM-free?
janus··on CyanogenMod.com hijacked. Transition to CyanogenMod.org
Obligatory reference http://xkcd.com/932/
janus··on Raspberry Pi now with 512MB RAM
This just arrived at my email inbox:

Your Raspberry Pi order was despatched today.

If you ordered a Raspberry Pi board as part of your order we are pleased to inform you that we have sent you the upgraded 512MB Revision 2 board to thank you for your continued patience.

We hope this upgrade is acceptable to you.

janus··on Airplanes can't get much more efficient
The problem with this analysis is that it doesn't take into account the fact that better wing profiles also improve performance by reducing drag, as we have seen with sailplanes in the last thirty years.

A modern sailplane can fly at higher speeds than those with thicker wing profiles with less drag, optimizing the lift. This is an approach that modern airliners could follow, optimizing the lift and reduce the drag, to save on fuel, not reducing the speed.

The engine is not the only thing that can be optimized.

http://soaringcafe.com/2011/01/concordia-supersegler/

janus··on Argentina bans dollar purchases for savings
If you can't store wealth, how are you supposed to buy something like a house if the only way you could do it is by saving for many years?
janus··on Argentina bans dollar purchases for savings
Meanwhile, the president says "we're resisting while the world collapses on top of us", so many lies.
janus··on Argentina bans dollar purchases for savings
This is not new, it's been almost impossible to buy dollars since last november, but it has been made official just recently.

The problem with this ban is that there are really no ways to save money here, unless you have a significant amount of capital to buy a house or apartment. What are we salaried workers supposed to do with the percentage of our monthly income that we can save? The only alternative seems the black market, or spending everything in things you might need in the next few months but with no real resale value.

With a 25% inflation rate, saving in pesos equals losing money. What can we do?

janus··on Zurb launches Foundation 3
Thanks. I was looking around in features so I didn't notice the link that was next to it.
janus··on Zurb launches Foundation 3
Are there any docs on Foundation? How can we compare it side by side with Bootstrap?
janus··on Customer: Apple Store denied me iPad for speaking Farsi
Just buy it from the Apple store and their website and it should work ok
janus··on Google: We’ve acquired Motorola Mobility
Specially Android ICS. Removing Sense from my HTC Sensation and going to a rom that has an almost native ICS not only gave me a much better iphone-like experience, but it's also way faster the the stock android from HTC. WAY WAY faster and smoother
janus··on The First Time I Used Programming At Work
He means that the law firm makes money by billing hours; hence if you take less time to do a task, the firm earns less money.
janus··on Some free Rails Tutorial screencasts
Hey Michael, Cmd + X selects and removes the current line where your cursor is... but, it overwrites anything you have in the copy buffer
janus··on Five Common Rails Mistakes
You are right, well in that case, you would have to delete associated records manually if you didn't add any foreign keys at the db level
janus··on Five Common Rails Mistakes
You might want to use 'destroy' instead of 'delete', as 'delete' skips all ActiveRecord callbacks (i. e., if you had a dependent: :destroy callback for post comments, using 'delete' would leave them intact)
janus··on Show HN: Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework
Mind blowing. Feels very desktop-ey for a web application. The included deploy to cloud options are a huge plus!
janus··on A fork of ruby-debug that works on 1.9.2 and 1.9.3
You can do steps if you install pry-nav https://github.com/nixme/pry-nav
janus··on Why some nations become wealthy while others remain stuck in poverty
And it's unavoidable to mention that really sucessful people are mostly suspects of being unethical, because of historical issues (and the most public and rich people usually are, like most politicians)

The sad thing is, this doesn't seem to be changing at all anytime soon, despite people brainwashed by the government saying that this is the best time ever for the country.

My philosophy to stay sane is avoid reading most of the common trend topics and most of the news, and just work hard hoping to have some financial security for the future (which is not an easy thing to achieve here)

janus··on Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
If you install Perian, Quicktime supports expands to include many more formats http://perian.org/

But I agree and would welcome the support for VLC too!

janus··on SimpLESS compiless .less into beautiful .css
Very well polished.

I think it might be super useful to get frontend designers who are afraid of the command line to use LESS even more.

janus··on Ruby Frameworks? Which one? Bye bye Rails.
Even though I agree with you in trying new things out, I think that never settling with an established tool is pointless. We are trying to get things done here.

My point is, I like trying new things, but I prefer to stick with tested and supported tools when working in a job, and leaving these new things to personal projects or hobbies.

Rails has not only a huge community, but a huge support of third party libraries that while they may not be the best performance-wise, they allow you to accomplish the project's goals.

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