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You can bypass writing the archive to disk, as well:

    pushd /tmp && \
    curl 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/tmux/tmux/tmux-1.8/tmux-1.8.tar.gz?r=http%3A%2F%2Ftmux.sourceforge.net%2F&ts=1364579710&use_mirror=garr'| tar xvf && \
    cd tmux-1.8 && \
    ./configure --prefix=~/installs/tmux-1.8 && \
    mkdir ~/installs && \
    make && \
    make install && \
    popd

jlogsdonon Bitcoin Hits $1 Billion

> Your JS mining tool almost certainly won't be as efficient as the specialized GPU rigs

GPU rigs have even been greatly surpassed in hashes/sec by the ASIC rigs (of which only 1 real batch has gone out, all the other providers are probably scams).

jlogsdonon Bitcoin Hits $1 Billion

http://bitcoinity.org/markets is the place I watch. The table on the right is aggregated buys/sells, so if you see something like "200 for 90.00" it could be 20 people buying/selling 10 coins, not 1 doing 200.

jlogsdonon Show HN: Updated Hacker News Chrome Extension

I just installed this for the first time and my favorite feature is relative font-sizes, hands down. I have a larger default font-size on my laptop and I didn't realize how many sites don't respect that until I switched.

jlogsdonon Show HN - usernique.com: Generate usernames and check availability

Whois wouldn't help here. The problem is that so many requests are going to twitter.com/[username] that they start sending false 404s (or some other error, not 200) because of rate limiting.

jlogsdonon Vim Git Gutter

vim Fugitive does this as well. `:GBrowse` will open the current file on GitHub, with an optional line range.

jlogsdonon Firefox, I Just Can't Quit You

> One of my favorite Firefox extensions is RESTClient (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/restclient/?s...). Haven't found a tool as nice in Chrome yet.

Here you go: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/postman-rest-clien...

Postman has some amazing features like Environments and Collections so you can save some common headers/requests.

jlogsdonon Firefox, I Just Can't Quit You

I think he might be using the swipe to change workspaces, not tabs.

jlogsdonon A brief XML rant

If you need layouts RABL falls apart with Ruby 1.9: https://github.com/nesquena/rabl/wiki/Using-Layouts there's a note at the of the "Using Rabl" section.

jlogsdonon How not to send password reset notification email

Those cookies would be blocked for browsers with 3rd-party cookies disabled, and Firefox is making that option the default at some point in the near future.

jlogsdonon Heroku Fucking Console

For those of us who know how to "fix our fucking network". Most consumers don't have a clue what that error means.

jlogsdonon An alternative to alert()

Yeah, that caught my attention as well. I think it's pretty insane for something like this to require backbone to work, the functionality is trivial to implement without Backbone.View.

jlogsdonon Mininet: Emulating a network on your laptop

You wouldn't need a fake network to load test a web app, and you'd end up being CPU bound for a good load test (as in, the load tester would be CPU bound, obviously you want the app to become maxed in CPU usage). AWS is actually great for doing something like this.

The Chicago Tribune actually released a tool to do load testing with AWS instances: http://blog.apps.chicagotribune.com/2010/07/08/bees-with-mac...

jlogsdonon Sony Pirates KDE Artwork

It doesn't fit on that Toshiba page at all! Everything is dark and then bam white and yellow!

jlogsdonon Why is Spotify chugging upload bandwidth when it is not streaming?

Yeah, and everyone reads those.

jlogsdonon Ember.js or Angular.js?

It will be a part of the generated Gemfile, much like coffeescript is now.

jlogsdonon Linode vs. DigitalOcean – performance benchmarks

Slightly off-topic, but I hadn't seen jsonip.com before this and I really like the way you did http://jsonip.com/about.

jlogsdonon Dial-up is still the main revenue source for AOL

Headline, and article, is sensationalist.

The article states "that its Membership Group — the division that includes its dial-up Internet business — still generates most of the company's revenue".

According to the Yahoo! report[1] it includes every membership service (such as Mail):

"The Membership Group, which consists of offerings that serve AOL’s registered account holders, both free and paid, and are focused on delivering world-class experiences to AOL’s loyal users who rely on these AOL products and properties every day. The results for this segment include AOL’s subscription offerings and advertising offerings on Membership Group properties, such as AOL Mail, as well as from performance compensation for marketing third party products and services."

[1] http://finance.yahoo.com/news/aol-reports-revenue-growth-fir...

jlogsdonon IMAP client for coders

Stylish[1] would work.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylish/fjnbnpbmke...

jlogsdonon Flight: A lightweight, component-based JavaScript framework from Twitter

Flight doesn't care where things are rendered.

> It's agnostic to how requests are routed, which templating language you use or even if you render your HTML on the client or the server.

jlogsdonon Flight: A lightweight, component-based JavaScript framework from Twitter

http://angularjs.org/#todo-html

This just does not jive with me. My template knows that submission should be handled by `addTodo()`? Or even worse, looping. I want all of my logic to live in code, not some abstract framework specific attributes that don't add much in the way of clarity (context switching between template and view just to follow the workflow, for example).

I use (and love) Backbone because the DOM is considered a pure presentation layer, nothing else. Any behavior, logic, whatever that the code controls is defined only in the code.

jlogsdonon Flight: A lightweight, component-based JavaScript framework from Twitter

Because not everyone wants to define application behavior in markup.

jlogsdonon Vulnerability in JSON Parser in Ruby on Rails 3.0 and 2.3

You would really want to do

    gem 'rails', '~>3.2.0`

otherwise you could get upgraded to '3.3' or '3.4' which is more likely to break something.

jlogsdonon Linking to any web page on this Web site is prohibited

It seems to be you would just be "renting" the URL. You "rent" a domain on a yearly basis from the registrar which "owns" it.

jlogsdonon Statistics vs. Machine Learning

The site isn't loading for me, here's the text-only cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

jlogsdonon Lorem Pixel

They have a page[1] listing all of their images (the "Images" tab at the top-right).

[1] http://lorempixel.com/images.php

jlogsdonon Lorem Pixel

From their images list:

> The provided images are for layout purposes and each image we use for this project is released under the creative commons license (CC BY-SA). For more information visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ So, if you want to use the images for more than just layouts, you have to double check the license and ask the author. For this we will link to each photographer's flickr page. Furthermore, we assume no liability.

jlogsdonon How We Want To Fix Team Chat

IRC compatibility at the last is fantastic, and it's a simple protocol. Flowdock offers this (and is a similar service).

jlogsdonon Gboom: CLI Gist gem

I see no reason to use this instead of defunkt's excellent gist gem[1]. Yours requires you to pass a file (or files) in, but sometimes you just want to paste whats on your clipboard or the output of a command. gist handles that.

[1] https://github.com/defunkt/gist

jlogsdonon Pickadate.js

I thought the idea behind microjs was libraries/frameworks that didn't require monoliths (like jQuery).