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sheckelon Howdoi – Instant Coding Answers via the Command Line

It looks like they are trying to make the dumps available on S3: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/158050/regular-stack...

They also have odata endpoints so you should be able to get at the data (updated weekly) that way. It looks like there is a problem with it at the moment, though (I get 'server error'): http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/atom

sheckelon Live: Google Fiber anouncement

They just announced "Google Fiber TV", integrated with Netflix and support for Android / ios.

On another note, this event seems super awkward...

sheckelon Twitter is down

I get this fantastically helpful error page:

Title: Twitter / <%= reason.capitalize %>

Twitter is currently down for <%= reason %>.

We expect to be back in <%= deadline %>. For more information, check out Twitter Status. Thanks for your patience!

sheckelon Keeping the Trans Pacific Partnership from changing our copyright laws

Do people like using these sites with scrolling backgrounds? I find it quite difficult to actually read the page...

sheckelon Facebook forces all users over to Facebook.com e-mail addresses

Wow. This thread just alerted me to the existence of that 'other' mailbox. I had no clue that existed. That could have saved me some trouble; I just found this message from last July:

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/1792/screenshot20120625at35...

sheckelon Google Music: The Best Service That Nobody’s Using

If you signed up early enough and bought an album (or something like that), Amazon gave out free unlimited storage for music. With that, there's no good reason to move to Google (20k song limit) - they have a perfectly good Android app, a decent web player, and they make it a snap to upload/download from your computer. I've tried Google music out and I agree - the software is really annoying.

It doesn't help that I already spent a month uploading my music to Amazon. I'm not going through that again anytime soon.

sheckelon Why I Still Use Emacs

Aw, before I clicked through, I guessed this article was from the 90s - I was sure that vim had taken over the world by now. Goodness gracious, folks, it's 2012!! :-)

In all seriousness, although these are all good points and I'm quite jealous of Emacs' tetris mode, I think you're missing out on one of the best features of Emacs: shell mode. IMO shell mode (or whatever it's called) should easily be at the top of the list. I wish there were a decent analogue to this feature in vim but there really isn't, just a bunch of not-quite-there plugins...

sheckelon "qqqq ... qqq" is a strong password according to Microsoft

Hm. It tells me "Worst Password Ever!" is a "Best" password. Better start using that one!

sheckelon Kayak: We’re Very Sorry BlackBerry Users

This is why commas are important :-)

We’re Very Sorry BlackBerry Users vs We’re Very Sorry, BlackBerry Users

sheckelon [dead]

http://www.wdyl.com/#murder

"Plan your murder events!" "Start a murder blog!" "Email someone about murder: I love murder!"

/erases browser history