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Re:Gitdocs: Open-source Dropbox using Ruby + Git on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @10:30PM (#3298173)
Lack of windows support and the difficulty to install the server side components are the two ones that I've heard a lot of complaints about.
Re:Gitdocs: Open-source Dropbox using Ruby + Git on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @09:56PM (#3298096)
Does this address any of the issues people have with SparkleShare? (Another dropbox clone based on git - http://www.sparkleshare.org/)
Remember that this article is advising that you upgrade to the most recent version. That means if your parents are running IE 6, let it update itself. Although I agree with you're point about not contract work, I think that upgrading to a newer version of the same software holds low enough liability (esp when compared with changing to Firefox/Opera/Chrome)
Re:HTML5: The Technology Changing the Web on Monday November 14, 2011 @04:32PM (#3235784)
I'm surprised that wsj is portraying that Apple is the driving force between HTML5. It seems to me to be a much more "grassroots" level idea than one coming from the top down.
Re:Global average response times from EC2 regions on Saturday October 01, 2011 @04:33PM (#3061033)
Why is it that Canada is consistently getting better or equal performance than the US? I would think that most traffic requests from Canada are routed through the US.
Re:Facebook gets redesigned on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @01:01PM (#3022788)
The thing that scares me most about this redesign is that Facebook is spending resources making half baked UX changes instead of focusing energy into doing something new an innovative.

Lists might have their place in the future, and somehow users might get used to a more cluttered design. Ultimately, these types of features are tweaks on a product and not a game changer.

Re:British Discuss Limiting Social Media to Fight Crime on Friday August 26, 2011 @12:41AM (#2927407)
If legislation like this passed, I wonder how it would effect relations with the US and the US tech industry. Its all fine and good to try and subvert the Egyptian government during a revolution, but what happens if the tech companies try to subvert another first world country?
What goals are being accomplished here that are not adressed with other HTML/JS/CSS presentation frameworks?

I'm thinking specifically of DZSlides (http://paulrouget.com/dzslides/)

Re:Show HN: I am building a next-gen browser on Saturday August 20, 2011 @12:43AM (#2905758)
A lot of these features remind me of what mozilla is trying to do with browserID (https://browserid.org/)
Re:Firefox 6 for web developers on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @01:23PM (#2892046)
Mozilla is supporting a new version of websockets (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640003) that as of a week ago did not work with a lot of popular libraries yet (socket.io). Its awesome to see better security features in place and I hope that library distributors are fast to follow up with changes in their library.
Re:Edit like an Ace on Monday August 15, 2011 @04:40PM (#2888590)
I wonder if joint support with somebody like heroku is coming. Being able to develop and deploy all from your web browser would be a very cool feature.
Re:A new use for the scroll bar on Thursday August 11, 2011 @02:22AM (#2871705)
It seems that the API that this is using has been rate limited.
Re:The Results: #AskObama Town Hall analyzed on Friday July 08, 2011 @03:05PM (#2743668)
This is awesome. I wish more companies would take the time to show data in meaningful ways.