ScottWhigham

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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
Why is that a "question to Americans"? I would assume that any "elected official" would be subject to this. The question, as worded, implies that American elected officials are less trusted than elected officials elsewhe
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
The problem with questions like this is that, if you actually did get people sharing quality responses of where to go (and there are good alternatives), there's no way to filter who sees those links. In other words, the people who yo
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
Yeah, actually. It's called Hacker News. You may have heard of it. What an absolute snot-nose way to talk to people, not just as an opening sentence but in general. There's no need for that here or elsewhere.
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
I laughed. I'd guess you were downvoted by either (a) someone with no sense of humor, or (b) someone who knows nothing about Zynga's history, or I suppose (c) a Zynga employee.
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
That's so funny - just like @joshdance said, I always read it as "Codeacademy". At least you have both URLs. I'd love to see a blog post one day that explains why you've chosen this name vs. that name. Co-decademy i
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
Wow - me too. If you actually go to http://www.codeacademy.com/ , it forwards you to this URL. I don't know if this is "new" or not.
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
I'm trying to understand Google's thinking here. The first thing I thought was, "If I'm sending mass emails, I already have tracking URLs set up through whatever mass email company I'm using, right? So what's t
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
Could be a bug in your web browser. I got that part, I'm talking about your first sentence. ... anyone who has run an email server... would say the same. This reads as though you agree that "IP blacklists are a waste of everyo
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
I think we'd all rather "sift through a little spam than lose something I wanted" but my guess is that you've never run an email server. "a little spam" is not what you will get - it will be orders of magnitude
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
I can't tell whether you agree with the OP or with my comment. Your first sentence argues that OP is right - "IP blacklists are a waste of everyone's time". Your second sentence though is "it is clear that blacklist
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
This sort of vague comment with no substance is just opinion stated as fact. If you have more information - hell, even a more expressed opinion, I'd be interested. As expressed, however, it's a garbage comment that waste's ev
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
With the new search engine, you can easily add "ask hn" to any keyword you want and just use that as a filter - https://hn.algolia.com/?q=password+manager#!/story/forever/0...
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
But lots of users say things like "Galaxy S5? Is that the new Droid?" I have a hard time with that. The question itself implies that there are lots of users who know what "Droid" is but don't know what a Samsung
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by ScottWhigham 12y ago
Here's one issue that Microsoft has to deal with - my Mom asked me, "What is Windows Phone 8.1 - is that the new Windows phone?" Stop and think about that question from a non-tech perspective. My mom (or yours) likely has no
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Ask HN: Heartbleed password reset emails: do I *really* need to change them?
5 points by ScottWhigham 13y ago|1 comments
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by ScottWhigham 13y ago
You might want to also check the site search for past entries. This question comes up at least monthly here in an Ask HN: format. Heartbleed hasn't changed which password manager I've used but that's b/c mine is offline.
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Ask HN: How fast do PCI scanners scan your site(s)?
2 points by ScottWhigham 13y ago|0 comments
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by ScottWhigham 13y ago
Can you explain what led you to post this on HN? Maybe the Skype team are regular contributors here - I don't know.
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by ScottWhigham 13y ago
I think that, if HN was split into subforums where I could choose to visit a particular topic, that would be fine. For example, if there were five subforums (like below), users could either visit those subforums or not as per their choice:
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by ScottWhigham 13y ago
I did read it. The usage is correct and the dictionary entry shows that "fallout" is indeed a noun showing "a bad effect or result of something". Sorry - I think you need to read it again because you've clearly down
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by ScottWhigham 13y ago
Not entirely true, as indicated by the link to Webster's Dictionary provided.
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by ScottWhigham 13y ago
I don't really know how to "answer" here. Do what you want in the manner you want to do it. At some point, you have to question the "Why am I interested in doing this?" question. Is it ego? Is it to be helpful? Is i
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by ScottWhigham 13y ago
Good luck! Congrats on the launch. A couple of things: - I couldn't find anything on pricing. Why hide it? I couldn't find it anywhere. - The red button with the lock at the top - is that really the right color choice and icon for
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by ScottWhigham 13y ago
Yes, I trust my own self-signed certs and I might trust the self-signed certs of certain sites. However, telling me that "There is nothing wrong with self-signed certificates." is irresponsible IMO. Who runs "peereboom.us&q
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by ScottWhigham 13y ago
Another "I had to disable it on my phone" here. I love to watch soccer and, once Google Now learns your favorite teams, it pushes those scores to you on your notifications tab by default. "Well, damn - I recorded that game so
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by ScottWhigham 13y ago
I would assume no one has mentioned Tinderbox because (a) it's $250, and (b) is Mac only. I'm just guessing that this has served to self-filter a lot of folks here (Linux/Windows/open-source-only folks have no idea of it
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by ScottWhigham 13y ago
I don't really understand the how and why of this, I guess. I have two "issues" with it: 1) That's a large, 8.3GB download - how are they making money if "anyone, anywhere, even if they aren't logged in" c
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by ScottWhigham 13y ago
Yes, that's true. When you set up the campaign/ad group, you can choose to optimize for clicks, or optimize for conversions, and at least one other optimization. I burned through a few grand choosing optimize for clicks myself...
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by ScottWhigham 13y ago
I think it's either (a) a voting ring, or (b) the changing demographic here. Ignoring (a) (because we can't prove/disprove as we aren't admins/mods), we can discuss (b). 5-7 years ago, this place was "mostly fo
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by ScottWhigham 13y ago
Did you not understand or did you have a legitimate follow-on question?

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