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mjs7231on Github now supports rendering tabular data

In similarly large tables, I found if you shove about 1000 rows into the DOM at a time inside a setTimeout(0) loop, most browsers behave quite ok.

mjs7231on Shuttle for Ubuntu

Cool, but is using your mouse to navigate a menu tree really more efficient than typing "<terminal hotkey>ssh host"?

mjs7231on Google+ spamming people every 2 weeks to put up a profile photo

The reason behind not wanting to upload a photo is irrelevant to the main conversation.

mjs7231on Replace Dropbox with BitTorrent Sync and a Raspberry Pi

I put encrypted files in Dropbox using encfs. I imagine the same would work for this. It does require one tiny extra step tho. But not enough of a burden for me to care.

mjs7231on China’s plan to build the longest underwater tunnel on the planet

Curious question. How does one get proper air flow in a tunnel that long?

mjs7231on Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage

encfs. Encrypts each file individually and file name are encrypted.

mjs7231on “Accounts merged and now my files are gone”

How are these people deleting their friends accounts without a password? Does Google not confirm your password a second time when deleting your entire account? Seems silly if they don't.

mjs7231on Parsley.js: never write a single JavaScript line to validate your forms

From a Django background which also provides form errors very easily, it seems at first glance that this would not be needed (and it technically isn't). However, it's often nice to the user to let them know of silly mistakes like passwords not matching or invalid emails before they hit submit and get bombarded with everything at once.

Javascript validation provides convenience, not security.

mjs7231on Ninja IDE: written in Python for Pythonists

This is a very strange reason not to like a product. Care to elaborate why?

mjs7231on iPad and Linode: 1 Year Later

OK, let's be sensationalist for a moment: I should stop using Google, Dropbox, Microsoft, Apple, Sony, Amazon... They have all been hacked at one point or another and very rarely do we get details of what actually happened. Ohh yea, I should give up my US citizenship as well. I hear about the US gov getting hacked all the time and they don't let us know whats going on either.

People love hating on hosting companies, and touting their own horror or success stories. When will people realize that mistakes are inevitable. To me, one mistake every once in a while is forgivable. Perhaps I could also careless about bitcoins (they seem about as worthless as Second Life money). Linode did mention publicly that only 8 accounts were compromised and no credit card info or passwords were available to them.

mjs7231on Leading ‘Ethical’ TV Show BitTorrent Tracker Shut Down By FACT

BTW if you're an expatriate Brit who wants to access this content you can pony up about $5 a month for a VPN service with an endpoint out of the UK and still access all this content.

Isn't that just as illegal as downloading it? Or is it more legal because it's more technically savvy?

mjs7231on Dropbox Introduces 2-Factor Authentication

Yeay, now I can have a really secure login to my insecure files?

mjs7231on Customize Twitter Bootstrap To Not Look Bootstrap-y

Take it one step further. Install SublimeOnSaveBuild and have it compile every time you save a less or sass file.

mjs7231on Customize Twitter Bootstrap To Not Look Bootstrap-y

I customized Bootstrap on my website. Thing is, no one knows I'm using it because of the customization. I suppose you only notice the people who don't customize it, and assume because of that, no one customizes it?