DougWebb

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by DougWebb 13y ago
The referrer header has always been optional, and nothing governs the specifics of its contents beyond the host and page. Google never had to provide anything beyond "Google search results page" as the referrer, and probably never
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Physical appearance... what else? That's hardly a wealth of information, and if the store owner is too obvious about documenting the physical appearance of customers who are just walking around they could get into some trouble. Securit
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by DougWebb 13y ago
How are people finding your web site? Who knows. Just because you own a web site doesn't make you a marketer or even looking to turn a profit. Owning a web site also doesn't give you any right to know how people are finding your
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by DougWebb 13y ago
SURESH PALDIA: a) Shouldn't be so proud of himself, and b) Should learn to use Version Control, which does a fine job of keeping track of who wrote what.
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by DougWebb 13y ago
I may have overstated IE7 support; sorry. I just tested my site using IE10's developer tools to simulate older versions (which isn't a perfect simulation, but I don't have VMs available atm). IE10 renders perfectly. IE8 and I
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Ah, good catch. It's 5.1 that doesn't support it at all. I was working on a new feature last week, and it looked great on Firefox and Chrome (my main dev browsers), but both my boss and UX designer use Macbooks so when I asked the
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That'd be the surprising bit :) Modernizr's no-flexbox detection, plus javascript polyfills where needed, work very well. The polyfill is an amazingly useful invention.
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A bunch of those demos don't work on the Android browser. I also happen to know that calc() doesn't work on Safari 6.x, among others. I've been updating my webapp software to use flexbox-based layouts, and I have to use a fai
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Test coverage is pretty orthogonal to code review. You might wind up with a large amount of fully tested freshly refactored code that does not meet requirements or edge cases the tests missed. I'd recommend at least reviewing the test
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by DougWebb 13y ago
They'd balk if you did that. But they could have been told "Create a wrapper API that adheres to this standard, or your product will not be available on the new national Healthcare site." Most of the insurance companies would
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by DougWebb 13y ago
I know a thing or two about economics, but I am far, far, far from calling myself an expert or even reasonably knowledgeable. With that prelude, can someone explain this: If China is getting lots of dollars from selling goods to the US, and
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by DougWebb 13y ago
It's also a fact that our country is collapsing in on itself. We're still on top in a lot of ways, but the trend is definitely downwards in too many ways. We'd hardly be the first "empire in decline", and like many
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But anytime you become close-minded and think that you are the best in the world, you close yourself to alternative ideas beyond your borders and will inevitably decline. I kind of have the feeling that's been going on here in the US
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Ironic: I use Ghostery to block website trackers, and it identified thirteen of them on that article.
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by DougWebb 13y ago
You should visit new and upvote the interesting links, and consider flagging the links that should not be here. Yeah, I know... I spend so much time on this site (it's my primary news feed) I really need to make more of an effort to
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I'm curious how many people who have the ability to upvote or flag stories actually do so. For my part, I'm very conservative: - I never flag stories; I may not find a story interesting, but I don't feel it's appropriate
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by DougWebb 13y ago
choult said that, as he/she understands it, mining will stop because there won't be any new bitcoins rewarded with new blocks. That's not an incomplete understanding, it's wrong. Granted, it's wrong because of an
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Your understanding is incorrect. The mining activity produces two rewards for miners: a 25 bitcoin bonus for being the first one to find a hash for a block, and a small percentage of each transaction included in the block. The bonus will be
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by DougWebb 13y ago
By flexible, do you mean "able to ramp up to meet demand and ramp down when not needed"? Any power plant that uses steam turbines is going to have a long ramp-up time to boil a huge quantity of water needed to produce the steam. N
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by DougWebb 13y ago
In most/all of the US states, you have to take an exam in order to call yourself a Professional Engineer, which is required for a lot of engineering professions and/or positions within an engineering organization. Your four years
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On the android browser, it creates a square that floats over the text and scrolls opposite to the page. Intrusive, useless, and made me skip reading the article.
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by DougWebb 13y ago
I've been to London twice and Berlin once. For the most part I felt safe in both cities, but one night getting off the tube in London on the way back to my hotel my friends and I were verbally accosted by a bunch of locals because they
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Where are you staying?!? I've lived in and around NYC my whole life and never had any experiences even remotely like that. Perhaps you need to choose nicer hotels? Every country has some bad areas.
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True, but to exchange cash you need to either physically hand it over or have it delivered. If you exchange in person, then the other person will see you, and that person or a third party can capture an image of you which can be matched aga
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by DougWebb 13y ago
The transaction history aspect is necessary though. Going back to my analogy, imagine that your bills were just a bill-sized piece of transparent plastic with a serial number on it and absolutely no other distinguishing marks; not even a sp
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Here's an analogy: every bill in your wallet has a unique serial number on it, right? Every bank account also has a unique ID number. Imagine that every wallet and cash register also has a unique ID. Now imagine that there's a sha
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by DougWebb 13y ago
That depends on the 3D printing technology. Some are perfectly fine with overhangs because the medium is self-supporting, and most can handle small overhangs at each vertical step without much trouble.
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by DougWebb 13y ago
In particular, rebasing is very hazard-prone if someone else may have checked out your branch. That's why you never rebase a published branch. This is easier to manage if your team uses a central repository as the 'official&#x
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I'm curious: did you use branches and labels in SVN? I've come across many svn repositories that don't use the trunk/branches/tags layout, and as a result the developers keep completely separate repositories for sli
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In case you ever see my reply: I was thinking that the F-16 is much larger and more powerful than a typical UAV, so it's built to carry more ordinance. But, I know next to nothing about the different military jet versions. I've si

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