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Comment · 13 years ago
Can't read the article as the big popup is in the way and the X is microscopic on my phone.
Comment · 15 years ago
look intresting, but seconding the "why" posts...

what advantage am i getting for having these all under one roof? how are the integrations going to help me?

Comment · 16 years ago
cool, I know so little about materials. Time to watch one of these day.
Comment · 16 years ago
hehe, all software documentation should come in 3 forms: Reference, Tutorial and Pop-up Book
Comment · 16 years ago
If my mum starting using The Cloud in sentences she would mean "The Internet", she doesn't have the concept of a server, and doesn't really need to, she just knows it's "Out there somewhere".

I think it would be unlikely for one of my peers (mostly developers) to mention "The Cloud" unless they were trying to be intensionally buzzwordy for comedy effect. They would be more specific.

I/We would however say:

  a cloud to mean clusters machines (probably split into VPSs)
  xxxx's cloud to mean xxxx's server infrastructure/platform
I like The Cloud as a common term to mean "Stored/Processed out there in the internet somewhere", not as a well defined technical term.
Comment · 16 years ago
I can probably get my brain to generate one faster than visiting a web page :) .... but here's something similar in python:

    import string
    import random
    
    def random_pronoucable(minpairs=8,maxpairs=10):
    	consonants='bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz'
    	vowels='aeiou'
    	password=''
    	for x in range(1,random.randint(int(minpairs),int(maxpairs))):
    		password += consonants[random.randint(1,len(consonants)-1)] + vowels[random.randint(1,len(vowels)-1)]
    	return password
Comment · 16 years ago
I also smirked a little when I saw that.

Not sure if it's a big deal or not.

Comment · 16 years ago
Comment · 16 years ago
great now I have des'ray in my head.

interesting idea... I'll give it a go for a while until someone realises I email myself everyday. Does it get angry if I don't reply?

mini feedback on home page: The 'see example' link needs to scroll the page down for me, I didn't spot the page grow and was waiting for it to load.

Comment · 16 years ago
I installed the osx version of flux ages ago and never looked back, stunningly unintrusive.

Although waking up in the morning to find your beautiful late design is bright cyan is a bit of a shocker sometimes.

Comment · 16 years ago
It's not for me, (mate & vim have yet to fail me), but always nice to see development.

Anyone else think it looks like it was made for MacOS 10.1 though?

Comment · 16 years ago
Comment · 16 years ago
I hope this continues to develop.

At the moment it seems there is a need to know the ids/classes of your entire page by heart - or resort to looking at your own source, it would make it _much_ less painful if when you click in a box that expects an element ID that your cursor could then be used to click an element, to generate the xpath (like webinspector/firebug).

Comment · 16 years ago
no SSL for our own domains is the one killer for me at the moment.... be nice to know a bit more about the timescales of the items on the roadmap, maybe which releases things are being aimed for just to get more of an idea of priorities.
Comment · 16 years ago
cool, it doesn't care........... wait... on second thought the only time I've hit the problem this solves is when a device has poorly labeled the contacts.

Pretty sure this is more expensive/waste of components versus a big clear [+] icon on one side.

Guess it could help devices for the blind?

Or devices where you have to _throw_ the batteries in from a distance :)

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