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I am baffled at how people continue using such a service for something as important as e-mail in 2012, while still being fully aware that their access can be completely cut off at random with no reason or recourse. Does everyone just assume "it won't happen to me"?
I've been using the same e-mail address since 1999, posting to public mailing lists, signing up for new websites, showing it as a real mailto: link everywhere on my website, and I only get 1 or 2 pieces of spam per day that make it past my spam filter (Postini).
https://github.com/divegeek/uscode/commit/4b58ecaa6a6ea4b158...
Lots and lots of lines that don't change anything useful, and then the one change is hard to understand because it's wrapping a bunch of words causing extra changes.
I would recommend un-wrapping lines before commits and then have the presentation app smart enough to not show all of the lines where just a date in a header changed, doing word wrapping on the client side.
Also, without commit information, the changes are hard to wade through. Are there summaries or titles of the bills that can be used in the commit message? Who are the authors that drafted the bill and who are the "committers" that voted for it?
I finally admitted to myself that I was wasting too much time having to run so many searches twice and I switched back to Google.
stty status '^T'
This interacts badly with many unix commands, which often send status info to standard out. Some commands have a quiet options, but that can turn off all error output too.
Maybe it's that I've mostly been administrating BSD machines, and so most of the tools follow old Unix guidelines like not printing anything unless it's necessary, echoing errors to stderr, using proper exit statuses, etc. (http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/interfaces.html) I think it's a GNUism/Linuxism that commands are overly chatty, writing junk all over stdout (like author/license information - do we need to see this every single time?), and using ANSI colors by default.
pmset -a destroyfvkeyonstandby 1
pmset -a destroyfvkeyonstandby 1 hibernatemode 25
There are a few free load testing services that are good for catching problems with caching or concurrency. I've used http://blitz.io/ before going live to tune my caching and have survived a few HN front-pages.
A great example of this was that Bentley used the lightest bolt they could everywhere on the car to minimize weight, but Audi used the same size bolt everywhere to minimize the number of tool changes needed to replace the parts.
As a non-designer, I always use text labels in my applications because I can't make good graphics/icons, but it always seems like the applications lack polish because of it. I guess there is a happy medium to be found between no icons and the strict only-ambiguous-icons like Google switched to with Android 4 and their recent web property redesigns.
I'm very unlikely to ever read this type of book again after I finish it, so needing it on a non-Kindle format if I were to ever switch to another e-reader is not that important. And unless there's a lucrative, legal resale market for e-books that I'm unaware of, there is really no point in even keeping the file around once I'm done reading the book.