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by BoppreH 15y ago
The filename could contain enough information to be a big breach of privacy by itself. Think "microsoft bankruptcy proposal.doc"; "google downsizing plans 2012/2.xls"; "ipad 3 presentation draft.ppt". Temptation can be resisted, but in this
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by BoppreH 15y ago
For that I prefer the ActionScript3.0 solution: methods that imitate attributes. You replace public var myAttribute:int; with public function get myAttribute():int; The caller uses both with the same "object.myAttribute", so y
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by BoppreH 15y ago
The data in the QR code could be encrypted and include geographical position that can be checked by the car. This way you can't make your own and copied QR codes won't work.
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by BoppreH 15y ago
The "YouHaveDownloaded" webiste had, until a few days ago, a list of downloaded files for impossible addresses like 0.0.0.0 and 192.168.0.1. Isn't this addresses easy to spoof? I thought they were only suited for scaring friends, not basing
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by BoppreH 15y ago
Funny how people use "$winter_holiday_of_choice" to avoid religious bias, but end up ignoring the literal half of the planet where the holiday happens during summer. Not complaining, just pointing out the futility of the exercise. It would
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by BoppreH 15y ago
One unmentioned feature I loved is the ability to hide the chat and "invite" sidebars. On the lower left corner there's two unobtrusive buttons to toggle chat and invite (does anyone use that?) visibility. I'm still waiting for a UI where I
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by BoppreH 15y ago
Reminds me of "Nobody knows how to make a pencil": http://alexbarnett.net/blog/archive/2006/11/18/Nobody-knows-... It's the same thing at every human technology. And this in turn reminds me of Mostly Harmless, by Douglas Adams, where the
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by BoppreH 15y ago
Aren't those index exclusions done by algorithms? If that's the case, just telling you why they removed you from their index would be a huge disclosure on Google's technologies. Example: "Your website has been removed from our indexes becau
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by BoppreH 15y ago
If you buy only the Kindle, it's actually over 100%.
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by BoppreH 15y ago
I came here to comment the same thing The cheapest Kindle is $255.57 with shipping and taxes. Now remember that the Brazilian Real is worth half a dollar, but has approximately the same buying power. In the end the cheapest Kindle costs 472
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by BoppreH 15y ago
The problem is not typing speed, but word size. It fills the screen with garbage and is typo-prone. Small reserved words means I don't have another failed compilation because I typed "fucntion", or the small but significant mental pain of b
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by BoppreH 15y ago
I'm not sure, but I think it represents uncertainty over the last digits. So 1.000051(29) would be equivalent to 1.000051 +- 0.000029.
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by BoppreH 15y ago
You are missing the point. What the author wants is a composable toolbox. He knows it's possible, he can wield them proficiently, and the gains are numerous, but the system doesn't give him the means to do that. You can't pipe iPad apps.
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by BoppreH 15y ago
Reductio ad absurdum is not necessarily a fallacy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum
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by BoppreH 15y ago
Buildings are expected to last, and cutting corners (on multi decade support, for example) is not exactly a "mistake" like the one that would spring a leak. Aside from that, where do you draw the line? If the software doesn't work with acce
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by BoppreH 15y ago
>1. Stealing Scripts Could be coincidence. The universe of possible scrips is limited and dependent on historical context. Now think about how many writers send their scripts to Hollywood. Of course there's going to be some overlap. And
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by BoppreH 15y ago
Opera has an about:about, but it doesn't list all about:X pages. It does gives version information, browser identification and folders where it has files (that one is very handy). And a few pages of licenses.
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by BoppreH 15y ago
In Brazil, the best colleges are public. They are so good it's bad: the rich kids take a semester or two of specific courses to pass the entrance exam, leaving the poor people out.
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by BoppreH 15y ago
As a developer who sometimes have to send a zipped project with a compiled build inside, I find this "feature" extremely annoying. I usually end up renaming the file from .zip to .lol or similar.
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by BoppreH 15y ago
Very similar to http://yourworldoftext.com/ , but that one was text only. I love the concept, but I'm more inclined to Your World of Text because of the ASCII drawings and anonymity.
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by BoppreH 15y ago
You are right about the language in Brazil, but the articles are written in Spanish. Dead giveaways: "los", "más" (with the accent), "uno" and the letter "ñ". And I'm not sure it looks more like French than Spanish. As a native Portuguese s
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by BoppreH 15y ago
There are hundred of thousands of Flash games on the web. None of the issues raised by the article apply to them. Though I hate Flash websites as much as everyone else, the title is misleading and harmful for game developers.
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by BoppreH 15y ago
Yep, that would be me. Sorry if I broke something, it started as an attempt to remove the random lines obscuring the drawings and text. When I noticed the fade out effect on the lines, I had already erased everything D:
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by BoppreH 15y ago
Quit hint: it's too easy to make a DOS by quickly drawing hundreds of lines in the same spot. It doesn't take more than two minutes and regular writing or drawing is too slow and ends up erased before finished. Maybe limit the number of lin
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by BoppreH 15y ago
I used the Readability bookmarklet: http://www.readability.com/bookmarklets Here's how the page looks like after activating it: http://i53.tinypic.com/2whfjhj.png
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by BoppreH 15y ago
The contents of that page were changed without notice some time ago. The part you quoted was included later: http://web.archive.org/web/20090615065558/http://www.minecra...
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by BoppreH 15y ago
The browser is more important than the websites it renders, up to where preferences are concerned. Would you like websites to override your pop-up blocking preferences?
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by BoppreH 15y ago
There's a button on every keyboard to do exactly and exclusively that: Page Down. And it even works with the standard scrollbars. Yet people still prefer to scroll. Think about that.
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by BoppreH 15y ago
Counter point: I configured my browser (Opera) to heavily use single-letter shortcuts, such as Q/E to navigate to next/prev tabs, W/S to scroll up and down, T to open new tabs, etc. This and mouse gestures were a great improvement in my bro
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by BoppreH 15y ago
Brazilian college student here. We get a lot of job offers, and 11k is what most internships pay. Sure, my jaw dropped on the number of people earning 60k+, but R$ 11k is really low. And I would like to point out that the consumer electro

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