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Here’s a screenshot that basically shows what to do. This is under the “Organization & Users” main setting tab. Then, when you visit http://plus.google.com, you’ll see this message: Which is just like it was when Google+ wasn’t supported for Apps Domains.
Continue Reading →Every once in a while I say something on Twitter and it gets a few responses. Today, it was this quote: At some point in the future, cloud storage will be faster than a local HDD. Even later, cloud will be faster than an SSD. A couple of people called “BS” on the SSD part, [...]
Continue Reading →Google continues to integrate their in-house social media product Google+ into search results under the guise of “making search social.” But, they’re excluding and demoting results from many other social networks. Having a Google+ account active, even if you don’t use it, means you’re telling Google that this behavior is OK. It means you’re telling Google [...]
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This was super non-obvious, and I lifted code from a couple of different places. If you’ve got Django view code that gets & sets session values, you’ll want to test it properly, and the standard “self.client” from Django’s TestCase doesn’t really give you a usable session. So, here’s the method I’m using: def stuff_session(client, dictionary): [...]
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I use emacs for all my text editing. When editing code, I also like to use dabbrev-expand, but I find the default binding of C-M-/ really hard to press and remember. I’m used to TAB expanding everything. But, I also want TAB to indent the current line according to the current mode. So, here’s a [...]
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I just logged into Google+ and deleted my account. I’ve also uninstalled the application from my phone. Here’s why: The red notification box in the upper right of virtually every Google product these days is incredibly annoying. To me, this box says “stop working, and start using our social network”. It drives me crazy, and [...]
Continue Reading →Here’s a simple question: When am I going to be able to buy a Robot that can drive me around in my car? It sounds appealing, doesn’t it? If such a thing existed, we’d never have to drive our cars anywhere anymore. We could just tell our personal robots where we want to go, and [...]
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This post is just for collective notes on Rails development under Ubuntu 11.04: Use rvm. Really. http://beginrescueend.com/ “sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev ncurses-dev” before you rvm install 1.9.2, otherwise you’ll see weird issues when rails code says “require readline” (rails console, for example) If you had previously installed ruby via rvm, you’ll need to “rvm remove [...]
Continue Reading →Wow, this is a beautiful color theme. If you use Emacs and color-theme, you should check it out. It’s here on GitHub. Thanks @bbatsov! Here’s a screenshot for the interested:
Continue Reading →Woah, Joel & Jeff. This is NOT your fault. Want to know something? People don’t care as much about StackOverflow as they did in ’09. Back in ’09, it was the model success of how to bootstrap a scappy idea into a programmers utopia of canonical, purist information retrieval. In 2011, StackOverflow is a “network” (yes, I correctly [...]
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