ProblemFactory

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by ProblemFactory 14y ago
> It sounds vague and artsy but that's how I find it: "harmless" little ugly things add up to an aesthetic carnage. Yes, it's "premature optimization" if you look at things like a programmer, but the "designer mind" can't really separat
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by ProblemFactory 14y ago
This is a much better comparison. Most programmers code to a "spec" - what they were asked to do. Only a small minority would voice their opinion if the spec is badly written or the product is not a good business idea.
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by ProblemFactory 14y ago
The problem with interfaces that learn from user behaviour is that they have to be almost perfect to be usable. Simple, predictable interfaces that the user can understand and control are okay. Self-learning interfaces that do what the user
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by ProblemFactory 14y ago
> For whatever reason-- probably tenure-- he was allowed to stay. I attended a very good university (by various rankings), and even there were a few terrible lecturers. They are allowed to stay not because of tenure (they could stop lec
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by ProblemFactory 14y ago
More likely it's a generic error page that shows up due to the traffic load, and has not been updated to match the "unscheduled" nature. A mistake, not a "lie as a matter of policy".
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by ProblemFactory 14y ago
Picasa Terms of Service are much more limited. They ask for a license to store, display and publish your content, but this is explicitly limited to the use of operating the service. They need that license so that some user does not sue them
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by ProblemFactory 14y ago
GMail has a nice 2-factor scheme. While the SMS might need external services, the app-based verification keys are based on open standards and open-source code, and can be added to any web application with about 10 lines of code: http://cod
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by ProblemFactory 14y ago
Does anyone have comments or thoughts on point #4: "complete the paperwork"? Obviously, it makes sense to formally quit, and finish any tax and payment related papers. But is there a good reason why the employer should request signing any
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by ProblemFactory 14y ago
> 2) I'm surprised they chose to use Google Authenticator. The favourite in this space seems to be Authy; off the top of my head Cloudflare and DNSimple both use them. Any thoughts on the pros and cons? Briefly looking at Authy, it seem
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by ProblemFactory 14y ago
Userspace programs already can choose what very vague preferences they have, using the taskset (processor affinity), nice and ionice commands. But the main problem is that workloads are very complex, and often changing. A single userspace p
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Ask HN: What's the easiest way to set up email forwarding on your own domain?
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by ProblemFactory 14y ago
No, not at all. To put it simply, profit is cash flow over a long period. A business might have customers on a monthly plan, paying $2000 over their entire lifetime. If it costs $1000 in sales and set-up expenses to get a customer, they are
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by ProblemFactory 14y ago
> The long version is that during user creation sometimes you have fields that for whatever reason are not required by the database but are required for the user to enter in. This is because user creation is often more complex than it s
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by ProblemFactory 14y ago
As some other commenters have mentioned, and I've experienced myself - there are a lot of "small but profitable projects" in the internet marketing and advertising space. The best approach might be to join or partner with an online marketin
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by ProblemFactory 14y ago
Because it renders acceptably in common browsers, and that's what actual users care about. If a website does not validate, only an extremely tiny subset of users who test websites in validators is going to care about it. Google's home page
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by ProblemFactory 14y ago
You cannot dismiss arguments as marketing-speak just because they don't fit your high-performance viewpoint, and "marketers" have made similar arguments in the past. The first two paragraphs are about one benefit: using otherwise idle resou
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by ProblemFactory 14y ago
That tagline may explain the benefits of REST, but it doesn't really explain at all which problems REST is well-suited for and which not. I've found that REST design is great for problems where the most visible abstraction is a document or
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by ProblemFactory 14y ago
It's difficult to say what Anonymous stands for, because it's not a single organisation or group. Anyone can take the label of Anonymous when advocating a cause, and "become part of it". Before Anonymous got "good guy" publicity for support
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by ProblemFactory 14y ago
I disagree with the whole idea that the "Like-gate" is a problem. Fans of Facebook pages are not necessarily fans. They are people who have happened to click "like" on the page at some point. There are various reasons why people do so: * pe
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by ProblemFactory 14y ago
Apple gets away with it because they launched the SDK a year after the first iPhone, by which time it was extremely popular. Developers wanted to jump on the coolest platform at the time with millions of users, so a $99 fee wasn't too bad.
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by ProblemFactory 14y ago
> Epilepsy Foundation was widely speculated to be a Church of Scientology false-flag operation. A curious thought: are false-flag operations even possible with Anonymous, which is a label anyone can take, not an organisation? If Church
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by ProblemFactory 14y ago
Bootstrap as a "free design template" is great, when hiring a professional graphic designer and CSS expert are not an option. And even when it is, most restaurant websites in the world would be better off with a standard Bootstrap template
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by ProblemFactory 14y ago
I'm not familiar with the specifics of Falcon9 redundancy. But in theory, losing many engines can be completely recoverable, because all 9 engines share a single fuel tank. Outside of atmosphere, a rocket's final speed and orbit depend on t
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by ProblemFactory 14y ago
The problem with most recruiting sites is the lack of (competent) candidates. And this is because highly competent candidates are never deliberately looking for a job. They get recruited to a pretty good job before they have even started th
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by ProblemFactory 14y ago
The startup GuardTime offers exactly this service: http://www.guardtime.com/signatures/ You hash your data, and send the hash to them. They embed the hash in a long hash-chain, and publish the current head of the hash chain in Financial T
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by ProblemFactory 14y ago
Yes, both of these UI features would reveal the fact that this username or email already exists. But isn't it impossible not to reveal it on the signup page anyway? You want users to have unique usernames (or emails acting as usernames),
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by ProblemFactory 14y ago
It's also important to note that "no one else" includes your friends, coworkers, family and partners - if you save passwords in the browser or forget to log out of Facebook on a computer they can access. It is obvious that Facebook has this
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by ProblemFactory 14y ago
The .ssh/authorized_keys contains public keys. Technically, these can be completely public, as it is infeasible to compute the corresponding private key to get access. However, keeping it secret may be useful, in case a hacker compromises
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by ProblemFactory 14y ago
Lockers for packages is certainly not a novel idea: various postal services and companies have been running similar schemes for a while: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packstation#Similar_systems