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Hard Drive Hygene: Downloads Zero

By Robert Fischer | Published: November 24, 2009

I recently blew my computer away and re-built everything from scratch. IA lot of cruft had built up, and instead of trying to scour my computer, I just punted and started all over. One of the things I’ve done is adopted a kind of “Downloads Zero” approach (akin to “Inbox Zero“): I had built up [...]

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Two Applications Everyone Should Be Running

By Robert Fischer | Published: October 31, 2009

If you’ve got a computer and it’s got some spare clock cycles/bandwidth/memory (which is almost certainly true), then you really should be running the following programs. This is “should” in the sense of “you should feed the poor”. Tor — This system provides anonymity online. Even if you don’t use it yourself, running a server [...]

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Why Apple Rejected Google Voice

By Robert Fischer | Published: July 31, 2009

Seems there’s some hatred on Apple because they bounced Google Voice from the app store (cite). What surprises me is that this is pissing off people now: seems to be spreading throughout the internet, but let me highlight this particular article, and especially this quote: I haven’t heard a single explanation for the rejection of [...]

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Favorite April Fool’s Pages

By Robert Fischer | Published: April 1, 2009

Just like last year (cite), I’m cataloging some of my favorite April Fool’s jokes. Google has triggered the singularity by giving the internet sentience: this is its home page. The technical specifications include a picture of Descartes and other fun stuff. Help Save the Best Browser Around: Save IE6.

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More Ruby Type Weirdness

By Robert Fischer | Published: March 5, 2009

Back in My Fundamental Issue with Ruby, I complained about Ruby’s types without the ability to work with/understand types. Just had another example of the issue. I’ve got this code: path = [’foo’, ‘bar’, ‘baz’] msg.step = path.shift if msg.step == ‘foo’ # Do something smart end The problem was that the “do something smart” [...]

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