piggity

I demand that the existing media conglomerate distribution model be left in place so that I may be told what is worth "consuming" and who I should look up to as a star.

Hypothetically speaking, just because you didn't catch a virus doesn't mean that that virus can't be incredibly effective (or "viral").

This is probably how skynet started. Lets put surveillance software in every device... what could possibly go wrong...

I tried to download it using my 3 free downloads - failed miserably (got about 10k/s for the first 100MB).

So I'll be one of those leeches shortly...

Good tip

I had a surprising number of random players installed too. e.g. Silverlight - requiring a critical update; amongst other plugins that I never even use any more.

But why should you have to contact them directly to get the wrapper removed?

They're likely in violation of the licence of most opensource packages which typically have a clause saying you can't redistribute your version and call it the same thing.

Imagine the real world equivalent - e.g. if you bought a delicious meatball Subway sandwich and took a giant dump on it and then tried to sell it as the same delicious Subway sandwich...

Google Chrome's "users" should let you segment all your cookies and browsing neatly.

I use it to separate my various different Google identities and logins (so I can stay logged in with distinct accounts).

(Google's multiple sign-in is rarely effective or convenient)

Ruby 1.9.3-rc1 (and presumably -p0) fixed all manner of memory leak issues I was experiencing in Rails apps (Ruby 1.9.2-p290 + Rails 3.1 + Passenger 3.0.9 + Nginx). This was on top of the loading slowness of Ruby 1.9.2 with Rails.

Went from leaking MBs per request to no leakage for days.

And once you've agreed on PUT vs POST, you can start the arguments on PUT vs PATCH !

https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/348

Nah, it wasn't astroturfing; I lurk most of the time. It does everything that submission does, does it well and does it inexpensively compared with rolling your own or having to deal with the vagaries of S3 (who lost S3 and EBS data irretrievably in the EU last week).

So you can downvote me, but don't think that it was Code42 doing it - I have no relation to them.

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