That's not allowed :-)

Seriously, it's not. Instapaper's creator, Marco Arment, has a donate button on his website, but not in the app. That's because Apple's rules say that app purchases should go towards some sort of software feature.

I second this. When I read between the lines, Pausch is actually not at all affable or likeable. But somehow there's this intense love that he feels for the world around him, and it stays with him until the end.

Have you really found it influenced your life? I found it highly engrossing, but the whole motorcycle maintenance thing didn't really struck a nerve with me. What did impress me, was the plagued writer descending into insanity, and then coming out of it. But there isn't a whole lot to learn from that.

Yeah but 30% of these still runs Windows XP, I.e. these are old old machines. Meanwhile a smartphone gets replaced at least every two years. At least.

Thanks, yes, that's true. I did go the extra mile and got an SSL certificate after all.

Actually, it's all of the above. It's an open-source social network of migraine-inducing jews who all play the Battlestar Galactica game. Currently, there's only one member, Greg Egan.

The first problem was that for some reason, I had to re-run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificates".

Then I got an error "markerb ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII" after the command "bundle install --without development test heroku" tells me:

Using markerb (1.0.0) from https://github.com/plataformatec/markerb.git (at master)
ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII
An error occurred while installing markerb (1.0.0), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that `gem install markerb -v '1.0.0'` succeeds before bundling.

Solution turned out here to add the following to .bashrc:

export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"

I stopped at the point where you configure the webserver, because SSL is required and I don't have an SSL certificate yet for my private webserver.

Chrissake, this installation is a royal pain in the ass. The number of convoluted steps is just plain crazy.

First, I have to walk through a long, loooong installation instruction for Debian here. Then I turn to the Notes on installing and running, only to end halfway with a crazy error message.

diaspora@sirius:~/diaspora$ bundle install --without development test heroku
Fetching gem metadata from http://rubygems.org/......
Fetching gem metadata from http://rubygems.org/..
Fetching https://github.com/plataformatec/markerb.git
error: while accessing https://github.com/plataformatec/markerb.git/info/refs

fatal: HTTP request failed
Git error: command `git clone 'https://github.com/plataformatec/markerb.git' "/home/diaspora/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@diaspora/cache/bundler/git/markerb-6697fe76410a3ed08ce3f5fd8ee64ebddd200665" --bare --no-hardlinks` in directory /home/diaspora/diaspora has failed.

Compiling Ruby from scratch, installing cruft in /usr/local, installing something weird called RVM.... What the fuck happened to ./configure && make && make install?

I'm also interested in the reverse. Has the capability of kernel threads started you thinking about a girlfriend on the side?

Har har please someone mod that up +1 funny

Hi Rob,

God you really got out of this hell hole on time. That cocksucker from Dice Holdings walks around like he's the king or something. Chrissake he told me to come on time tomorrow! And of course sourceforge is acting up and the guys over there aren't so chummy anymore, we're just another user to them.

Say, do you remember where we put the design document on the private messages system? There's several bugs open, but CowboyNeal wrote that module so you probably have an idea of the "quality" of the code. He's a fucking monkey felcher and you know it.

Anyway, see you Saturday in town. We can talk about Kathleen and Jeff, and again, I'm sorry you had to go through her email to find out about them. I'm going to fucking kill that asshole.

Cheers
Timothy

If you're on the side of MS in this matter, then you are against the industry effort to create a Do Not Track standard.

All good questions for which one day, we will surely find a witty answer. In the meantime, my trustworthy soldier of code, COMMENCE THE DELETING!!!

Knowing Adobe, I would actually expect the service to get better.

Well, I remember yum hitting 1 GB allocated memory on RedHat 5 when updating. The lead developer told me that he couldn't do anything about that, it was just the size of the repository.

Yum is not bad, but far from a Python poster child.