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by Paul-ish 10y ago
It can be any of those or all of those things you mentioned. They all fall under some concept of optimal.
542.
by Paul-ish 10y ago
You may see a framework programmer try to apply their framework when it is not necessary. Look at the javascript questions on stack overflow; sometimes people recommend jQuery for problems where it isn't required or even optimal to use
543.
by Paul-ish 10y ago
>X is common and a well vetted practice, I don't know the security implications of Y. What isn't concrete about this? Does your boss invent his own HMAC schemes?
544.
by Paul-ish 10y ago
If I include and run a script from example.com, doesn't that already happen? How else would using a CDN for, say, jQuery work?
545.
by Paul-ish 10y ago
We see that % share is going down for Firefox, but is there any indication that total number of users is dropping for Firefox? I suspect that as more people have been getting on the internet, the absolute number of FF users is actually goin
546.
by Paul-ish 10y ago
Someone on reddit[1] was suggesting that the judge and the sheriff were buddies. * https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/4wapuz/sheriff_...
547.
by Paul-ish 10y ago
This is overly idealistic. Many people are afraid of technologies they don't understand, and self driving cars will certainly be a technology people don't understand. I can already imagine the scaremongering headlines about self d
548.
by Paul-ish 10y ago
If you use Firefox and search for your Amazon product through the search bar in the right hand corner, Firefox gets a cut of that purchase. You can see the string "Mozilla" in the URL in fact. You may be able to combine this with
549.
by Paul-ish 10y ago
Does anyone knows what happens if you select "Nudist" as a persona?
550.
by Paul-ish 10y ago
There is hubris in thinking you are immune to marketing, and if anything it makes you more vulnerable to it. Celebrity isn't so easily defined. What if Bruce Schneier, who you could consider a "celebrity" of sorts in the secu
551.
by Paul-ish 10y ago
Although I disagree with most software patents, I don't think you're last assertion is correct. There is some hindsight bias going on here. What is obvious in 2031 may not be obvious in 2016. Just think how much the technology lan
552.
by Paul-ish 10y ago
That is too much friction, it creates a non-monetary transaction fee that is too high. People don't want to think hard about whether each article (or even website!) is worth reading before they read it. I think this is why Netflix and
553.
by Paul-ish 10y ago
Could a competitor legally use the word "Olympics"? Could such an old concept be trademarked?
554.
by Paul-ish 10y ago
Are you saying the high paid executives cannot be replaced themselves? That if you tried, the Olympics would be less successful?
555.
by Paul-ish 10y ago
I think we need to think two steps ahead here. Say everyone starts using ad blockers and disables flash. Then what? Websites still need to make money. In this case Brave is betting that websites will want to ask for money from their users,
556.
by Paul-ish 10y ago
Why would the US govt ask twitter to leave them alone? Genuinely curious.
557.
by Paul-ish 10y ago
Could a professional organization of speech therapist come together and fund a competitor? Obviously you would need to deal with the free rider problem somehow.
558.
by Paul-ish 10y ago
If the numbers include older people who undergo the usual loss of near sight vision, it isn't so hard to believe. I think a lot of web developers are young and forget that older people use the internet and that older users may have a h
559.
by Paul-ish 10y ago
Rather than a solid magnet, I wonder if a ferrofluid tattooed into the skin would have a similar effect.
560.
by Paul-ish 10y ago
Additionally, doesn't this mean that the code is very sensitive. If the opponent were to get their hands on the code it would be easy to predict what these things are going to do.
561.
by Paul-ish 10y ago
Do these buyers use the same shipping address multiple times? That seems like a good way to track them. Alternatively, if they use something like a PO box, you could disallow new accounts from shipping their first few things to a PO box.
562.
by Paul-ish 10y ago
It is probably the case that in the US, choosing not to leave gracefully means you will get the boot. In countries that make it hard to fire, someone could say "No thanks" to the resignation package and keep working for a signific
563.
by Paul-ish 10y ago
> I don't feel that celebrity dating life is ok to publish, actually. It's very seedy and not in the public interest in the average case. Freedom of the press and freedom of speech is not about evaluating everything said and de
564.
by Paul-ish 10y ago
> You're the expert, but I don't see the harm of "maintenance". > The key rule that Gawker broke here was "Don't make powerful enemies" This seems like a terrible basis for a justice system. Do you n
565.
by Paul-ish 11y ago
Most programs designed by committee probably don't come out so well.
566.
by Paul-ish 11y ago
Companies that have complex ecosystems like this ought to start giving more though to mechanism design[1]. I would bet there are academics out there who would have a field day optimizing this sort of system. * https://en.wikipedi
567.
by Paul-ish 11y ago
> If you're comfortable browsing the internet, this level of reporting on a Kindle seems almost quaint by comparison. Yeah, I'm not okay with that other tracking either. In addition, I am paying for my Kindle and my Kindle book
568.
by Paul-ish 11y ago
I don't see how this make a difference. Workers shouldn't have to accept abuse and poor treatment from others. Saying that someone treats everyone equally poorly too doesn't excuse their behavior. If we can effectively fight
569.
by Paul-ish 11y ago
Although copyright technically is limited in term [1], it is practically forever, as in I will never see a work created today go into the public domain. Next time a bill is introduced to extend copyright term, I think the community should s
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by Paul-ish 11y ago
Grant giving institutions could adopt something like NIH's NIH Public Access Policy[1], which requires articles to be available to the public within 12 months of publication. It isn't perfect, but it is a step in the right directi

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