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sampkon Microsoft takes down No-IP.com domains

Where exactly does Matt accuse Malwarebytes of blocking their CDN because of "political" reasons? Your whole post looks like blatant lies.

sampkon From India, Proof That a Trip to Mars Doesn’t Have to Break the Bank

Protip: Disable JavaScript to see the article if it gives you a paywall.

sampkon Font Awesome 4.1 released

What scripts? The topic at hand is usage of custom fonts. Should we use images instead to please you?

sampkon Dropbox Webhooks

http://www.drop-dropbox.com/

sampkon The United Arab Emirates “Drones for Good” Award

Positive activities like this competition will probably help make an end to this insanity so I don't see what exactly is your point?

sampkon Firefox Developer Tools – Editable box model, Sublime Text keys

Yeah Chrome Dev Tools have supported that since a while now, found it very useful.

sampkon Npmjs.org moderated one of my comments regarding their outage today

Hence the "Vitriol gets you nowhere. This is something I've learned the hard way.".

sampkon PayPal Mafia

Wow I had no idea you need your employer's permission to be in a photo..

sampkon Microsoft applies for trademark on 'Mod'

Huh? It wasn't a common computing term at all.

sampkon A basic guide to when and how to deploy HTTPS

Either you misconfigured it or you tested using Android <2.1[1] which accounts for less than 1% Android users.

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=21632

sampkon The Right Stuff: Breaking the PageSpeed Barrier with Bootstrap

Don't even video games using image sprites for (non-network) performance benefits?

sampkon oDesk to merge with Elance

Not directly related but shit like this really scares me away from these sites and make me lose some faith in humanity (look at the client's history): https://www.odesk.com/o/jobs/job/Artist-Needed-for-Home-Page...

He's basically selling ratings. 147 jobs — which would usually cost you at least $200+ each — done for $829 total!

sampkon Google Dart target: Chrome soon, other browsers someday

asm.js amuses me.. so many useless layers, NACL is much more sensible. But oh well Brendan Eich wants to keep his bragging rights.

sampkon A WebSocket Primer

IE is just trying to look all hip and cool and EventSource hasn't generated much hype so it doesn't get implemented.. shame.

sampkon Bootstrap 3.0.3 released

If a web designer needs to by anywhere close to your stylesheets, I would recommend LESS. SASS (especially SCSS) is way too verbose and complicated.

sampkon Sprite Cow – Generate CSS for sprite sheets

Me too. I've been waiting for Media Fragments URIs to be implemented since forever: http://css-tricks.com/media-fragments-uri-spatial-dimension/

sampkon Free vector icons

Yeah the project owner should add a disclaimer.

sampkon Password hack of vBulletin.com

For real? Oh a spaghetti fan I see.

sampkon Facebook puts bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation

http://forum.dlang.org/thread/l65mvq$du0$1@digitalmars.com#p...

    > The D Programming Language? $80? Ha... Fail.

    How do you mean that? The budget is of course much larger than that. I'd 
    just started assigning it.

    Andrei

sampkon Microsoft and Xamarin partner

Great comment. I've been looking for such a niche for some time. I'll start scanning freelance sites now.

sampkon How to fill 90% of free memory?

Dick move to refuse running the game anyway, just show a notice and have a "Continue" button.

sampkon Is Modern Web Design Too Formulaic?

Off topic: @mjio I was supposed to be a part of the Microlancer Beta and I've that badge on my Envato profile but it says service provider applications are temporarily closed when I click the "Start Selling" button. I'd love to try out Microlancer if you're giving away any invites.

sampkon Google announces uProxy

http://uproxy.org/

Can I look at the source code?

The source code will be released by the University of Washington under the Apache 2 license after the trusted tester phase is completed. If you would like to get involved sooner go to http://uproxy.org/#join

sampkon At 16, Ganesh got a job in Qatar. Two months later he was dead

We don't talk about their religion because their religion doesn't encourage slavery, obviously.

sampkon A new breed of Chrome Apps

Moreover Google has paid millions to security researchers for finding flaws in Chrome.

sampkon Ember.js 1.0 Released

At the risk of offending some people.. Mega.co.nz gives 50 GB free storage.

sampkon 1pxdeep v1.0 released: Now a Bootstrap 3 theme

You think the simplicity of LESS is what's wrong with it?

sampkon 1pxdeep v1.0 released: Now a Bootstrap 3 theme

So that non-programmers can use Bootstrap.

sampkon What would you like to see most in minix? (1991)

Huh? It was just some constructive criticism, I wasn't being racist like you made it look like. Am South Asian and my country has so much shit going on that I won't even bother to criticise it.

I just think that this violence crap should be censored instead of breasts or nudity. If you show that being a criminal is so cool and bad ass then don't expect anyone to not commit crimes. Many people would try to replicate what they see on TV.

sampkon What would you like to see most in minix? (1991)

OT: That movie has so much violence I couldn't watch it all and it made me cry. Then you Americans wonder why there's so much crime in your country.