Firehed

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by Firehed 14y ago
Hardly. I find Twitter's official clients' UIs atrocious, and happily paid for a third-party's implementation with roughly the same functionality (TweetBot, if you care). I don't find data mining of mostly-mundane content terribly interesti
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IBM.COM.X.SERIES.SERVER.SUCKS.A.LOT.BAOZUITUN.NET
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by Firehed 14y ago
If the domain lapses and is re-sold (not just transfered, but actually deleted and re-created), you can expect to see the newer created time. It could also be the registrar serving up wacky WHOIS info.
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by Firehed 14y ago
> \\brainiac.ad.safesecureweb.com\websites\192620cbc\dolekemp96.org\divider.gi Safesecureweb.com. Heh. Although other than knowing it's running IIS (which is in the Server header of the responses anyway), it's not particularly useful.
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by Firehed 14y ago
I imagine the only real thing at play here is the number of connections the server software is configured to handle. This site has a small handful of small static assets: there's no server-side render, and I'd put money on everything being
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by Firehed 14y ago
As technology improves, so does our standard of living. We also went for millennia without computers and cars, yet we have no problem discussing those. Heck, the species survived without medicine for the vast majority of its existence; yet
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by Firehed 14y ago
Not really. The Twitter API allows both read-only and read/write access. iOS, as a system-wide grant, has read/write permissions - but apparently does not allow users to specify per-app permissions to be that granular. Moreover, the app was
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by Firehed 14y ago
INTERPOL was involved in taking the site down. That's definitely reason enough to verify it wasn't bugged before hopping back on their tracker, and it doesn't sound like there's evidence that things _weren't_ tampered with, either. Sure, it
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by Firehed 14y ago
I'm going to assume you actually mean robots.txt instead of nofollow, since that's the only accepted way to automatically state "do not index this site" (or portions of it). The big difference here is that the site in question controls the
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by Firehed 14y ago
The point is that this kind of notification spam causes users to do just that, and it's having a negative impact on apps that use push notifications appropriately.
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by Firehed 14y ago
This is why it's best to avoid line-by-line negotiations. Wait until everything is on the table, see what the offer is, and go from there. If you aren't interested in the end result, you can save yourself a lot of time. If you are, it allow
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by Firehed 14y ago
Still, taxes on $9500 are way lower than the $10000 you originally owed, so it sounds like a win. Until everyone starts doing this and the whole system collapses, at least. That money isn't coming from thin air.
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by Firehed 14y ago
I don't think it's nearly that cut-and-dry. The most elegant code in the world is pointless if it doesn't solve a real problem (the end product), and the an unmaintainable and unscalable mess of crap that actually shipped on time is equally
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by Firehed 14y ago
The intensity of that heat is going to drop off rapidly with distance. I'm no physicist, but I'd bet it follows the Inverse-Square Law ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law ) just as light does. Meaning that at 20m from the cen
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by Firehed 14y ago
Nifty, although it's going to cause problems (or at least be harder to use) on sites that enforce password expiration and prevent re-use of previous passwords. But I use a proper password manager for those anyway.
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by Firehed 14y ago
I'll attest to the article's accuracy, but that's one data point. The highs from big wins are great, but the lows hit hard and often. Celebrating (even unreasonably so) small wins is particularly important to try to keep things in balance.
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by Firehed 14y ago
> Perfection is meaningless when it comes to material goods. They're always a means to an end. I think he's well aware of that. While some of the examples were kind of strange and materialistic, there's a lot of truth in the concept tha
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by Firehed 14y ago
That's my point - I expect it to get incrementally better between major releases[1]. That doesn't seem to happen - at least not on the response handling. Voice recognition seems to improve slightly, but that's the nature of having lots of t
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by Firehed 14y ago
This is what causes my love-hate relationship with Siri: when it works, it's a fantastic experience and gets little details like this spot-on; when it doesn't, it's off by a mile. More frustratingly, it doesn't seem to improve much between
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by Firehed 14y ago
I doubt that. How many people try cigarettes for the first time the day they turn 18 or alcohol at 21? Anecdotally at least, people first try these substances when they want to, not when it's legal for them to do so. I can't imagine this be
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by Firehed 14y ago
Yes - all major US carries do this as far as I know. AT&T and Verizon for sure (unless you pay $30/month for unlimited SMS)
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by Firehed 14y ago
Blocked the email-to-SMS gateway at your carrier? I did that years ago since I don't pay for unlimited SMS (which I consider a massive scam) and don't want to get dinged because I get charged for inbound (also a massive scam, thanks US car
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by Firehed 14y ago
If people don't care either way, they should be swayed by the massive cost savings by significantly reducing the scope of the war on drugs and the associated legal and penitentiary costs. I'm not opposed to taxing it like alcohol or perhaps
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by Firehed 14y ago
People could falsify the ballot to the buyer.
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by Firehed 14y ago
Which is trivially easy with the availability of camera-phones (just include your ID in the shot). I know it's not foolproof as you could request a new ballot, but I'm guessing those buying votes aren't the smartest folk. Plus you'd be craz
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by Firehed 14y ago
With everyone and their dog carrying around a camera in their pocket by means of a cell phone? Hardly. Anyone interested in selling their vote could easily take a photo of their ballot (with some identifying info added to the photo as well
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by Firehed 14y ago
This. Follow Apple's human interface guidelines and you'll get this for free. Don't treat them as sacred tomes, but it's no accident that the DPI on the iPad Mini is the same as that of the non-retina iPhone/iPod Touch, and they suggest the
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by Firehed 14y ago
I get the impression that Tesla is trying to improve more than just the drivetrain and create truly modern vehicles. While I haven't been in (let alone driven) one, I've heard a few tidbits that suggest it, unlike the few other all-electric
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by Firehed 14y ago
Virtual goods for Diablo II.
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by Firehed 14y ago
A friend and I did about 30k in profit at age 15 in '02-'03, and it would have been way higher if we weren't having issues with merchant accounts. I doubt it would have gone into the millions, but easily 100k-200k. Finding a market and ex

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