RossDM

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by RossDM 14y ago
I see what you're saying, but how far do we take this? If I upgrade to Mountain Lion in July, am I no longer covered? Dual-boot to Windows? Seems ripe for abusing.
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by RossDM 14y ago
This makes me sad for the future of their chat client. The toolbar may suck, but their IOS client rocks. It synchronizes with their web chat interface, so that you may switch between conversations on mobile/desktop.
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by RossDM 15y ago
Valid points about bug fixes and outstanding issues. I think the Play 2 announcement was met with a mixture of trepidation and excitement from the community. If support for 1.2.x was to decrease further then I'd be concerned. For what it's
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by RossDM 15y ago
Looks promising! Definitely going to keep an eye on this one.
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by RossDM 15y ago
I'm a Dreamhost customer and haven't received any emails regarding this yet.
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by RossDM 15y ago
It appears that this was an authentic correspondence that was not meant to be seen by the public. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3291980
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by RossDM 15y ago
Well maybe something like 1) upload pic, 2) show full-size pic with crop preview in browser, 3) user confirms dimensions and saves to server.
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by RossDM 15y ago
I wonder how well this would work for automatically cropping user profile pictures. Anyone else try something like this?
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by RossDM 15y ago
Lolz. They implemented a simple autocomplete plugin and call it a redesign? It's not necessarily faster for a mouse user because it requires keyboard entry.
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by RossDM 15y ago
If you click on Soledad O'Brien's name in the second paragraph, you get this link: http://uncrunched.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/soledadobrien....
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by RossDM 15y ago
But only if someone goes back in time after you to make sure that the discovery does take place so that you can go back in time to prevent it.
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by RossDM 15y ago
Not sure why this was voted down. You make a good point about the possibility of mining all this data, but I'm not sure I want to give it away. We (well, some of us), go to lengths to maintain separate online personas. Why do I care if Face
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by RossDM 15y ago
Problem is that 'rewrite later' never happens because you're always busy. Setting up safeguards to protect against common attacks is quick enough that it can be done upfront. Efficiency and scaling can usually wait, though figure it out ahe
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by RossDM 15y ago
Seems to be a lot of immaturity in the Github thread, as interesting as the implications are.
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by RossDM 15y ago
No one is required to live in <country of residence>. If you don't agree with their policies, then vote with your feet. </sarcasm>
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by RossDM 15y ago
I think you're spot-on regarding bandwagons. With each new story there have been armchair critics speaking outside their areas of expertise. Not to diminish the value of well-deserved outrage, but it's a potent weapon.
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by RossDM 15y ago
Sure, maybe it will appeal to folks who aren't plugged in to those sorts of communities. I wonder if you would get a better conversion rate with an example of feedback data?
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by RossDM 15y ago
Interesting idea - I wonder why I should use something like this over another free service/community, such as Forrst. Okay, so you claim to have "average users" give feedback, but I wonder if that's of significant benefit, because it can ta
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by RossDM 15y ago
Very true - though look at some large companies and you see them make the same mistakes. It all trickles down.
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Imperva: web applications attacked every 2 minutes(imperva.com)
1 points by RossDM 15y ago|0 comments
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by RossDM 15y ago
Those look nice, but I still prefer Google News' two-column layout. I can't stand when news organizations try to force everything into a single Twitter-like stream (Google News included).
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by RossDM 15y ago
+1 for Richard Mlynarik reference and 'wastebars'.
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by RossDM 15y ago
GitHub UI is significantly better. It just works. Visiting SourceForge feels like going to RapidShare, with all sorts of ads vying for your attention. Each project has numerous sections which may or may not have been filled out by the owner
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by RossDM 15y ago
The Internet Explorer team sent Mozilla a whole cake for previous Firefox releases. http://www.openbuddha.com/2011/03/22/another-version-of-fire... What does this mean?! Perhaps Firefox 5's release is not as significant as earlier version
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by RossDM 15y ago
I hate labeling people as "easily offended", but to complain about something like this seems excessive. If your father died would you presume to insist that your mother take down all his photos?
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by RossDM 15y ago
Yes - but you could have just repeated the Fourth mistake four times. Facebook is the last organization that should be pointing out privacy issues at other companies.
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by RossDM 16y ago
Ah hah! Nice catch, didn't think of that.
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by RossDM 16y ago
I don't know if the poster was criticizing the owner's response; I read it as just an observation about the state of things. Also, you're right - the thief got off easy.
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by RossDM 16y ago
Speaking of Internet thieves - check this out: GearSpoke.com Derekfrye.com Badrobots.org Why would anyone copy a website consisting of a single picture? Automated bot scraper?
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by RossDM 16y ago
When I was working in the financial sector, I came across an email thread involving a certain software vendor who had been notified of a SQL injection vulnerability. To fix it, they created an IF statement that did a string comparison to ch

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