TorKlingberg

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1231.
by TorKlingberg 17y ago
This graph is very confusing. On the X-axis are dates, and on the Y-axis are some unspecified numbers, perhaps price.
1232.
by TorKlingberg 17y ago
No mention of non-ASCII characters at all? Punycode in the host name may still be uncommon, but passing non-ASCII in the query is important. There is also nothing about the encoding of space as + rather than %20 that happens a lot.
1233.
by TorKlingberg 17y ago
This metric puts a high advantage on companies that outsource people-heavy parts to other companies. Buying your customer support from an outside company greatly increases your revenue/employee even if the cost for support is the same or hi
1234.
by TorKlingberg 17y ago
Because there is nothing Firefox can do to prevent it. I suppose Mozilla prefers they do it with a documented interface rather than modifying the Firefox install directly. If you want to prevent applications from installing plugins into ea
1235.
by TorKlingberg 17y ago
Care to clarify?
1236.
by TorKlingberg 17y ago
This part is cute: "Familiarity with web servers and HTML would be helpful but is not necessary." Shows just how new the web was in '94.
1237.
by TorKlingberg 17y ago
Unfortunately there are also real crackpots, and they all claim to be marginalized by the establishment. If I have to look at the numbers and charts and figure it out myself, then I would rather also find the data myself. Then I avoid getti
1238.
by TorKlingberg 17y ago
The problem is, there are always a lot of people seeing a crash coming. The difficult part is telling if they are right or just being crackpots.
1239.
by TorKlingberg 17y ago
I suspect what you are comparing is people with high/low education, not busy/free.
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by TorKlingberg 17y ago
I wonder why prepackaged foods are always so bad. If I make a big homemade meal, I can put some of it in the freezer. Then I can take it out and microwave it later and it is still a good meal. It stays good quite long in the freezer too. Wh
1241.
by TorKlingberg 17y ago
"But you DO need a copyright notice to collect damages for infringement." Really? I would need some kind of source for that claim.
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by TorKlingberg 17y ago
One-way tagging. People occasionally upload party pictures and tag you in them. It is good that people watching the photos can see who are in them, and go to their profiles. The problem is that it also shows up under "Photos of X" where pot
1243.
by TorKlingberg 17y ago
I am thinking of trying DuckDuckGo for serious use, but I have still never seen it mentioned outside of HN. It may not be fully rational, but think it is a method many of us use: When you hear about something from two completely independent
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by TorKlingberg 17y ago
No, he put a || where I think it was meant to be &&: if (($.browser.name == 'msie') || ($.browser.name == 'firefox' || $.browser.versionX < 3)) {
1245.
by TorKlingberg 17y ago
As Kejistan said, you don't buy an iPhone instead of a computer. Most people are used to phones that can make calls, send messages and little more, so the iPhone is more capable. Tivo is also not a replacement for a computer, but for less c
1246.
by TorKlingberg 17y ago
I read posts like this often, and I think the author makes the common geek mistake of assuming that the way normal people use computers is a subset of how geeks use them. Take out all the programming, modding and even file handling and you
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by TorKlingberg 17y ago
I think his idea is to measure how much tax income the government has per person, which basically means how much money it can spend on services per person. The problem is that goverment costs for the same services differ. I imagine a doctor
1248.
by TorKlingberg 17y ago
Impressively made, but I find the user interface rather confusing: * Middle clicking a link to open in a new tab does not work. * Where is the search box? * How can I find a list of recent questions in a topic?
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by TorKlingberg 17y ago
To select a word. For example I double-clicked to select 'TextMate', so you search and find out what it is. Turns out it's a Mac text editor.
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by TorKlingberg 17y ago
This is the most convenient solution. "sponge reads standard input and writes it out to the specified file. Unlike a shell redirect, sponge soaks up all its input before opening the output file. This allows for constructing pipelines that
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by TorKlingberg 17y ago
This Coral Cache link actually works: http://www.ashmaurya.com.nyud.net/2010/03/bootstrapping-a-le...
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by TorKlingberg 17y ago
It is possible the Chinese government will only partially block google.com.hk. This it how it has often worked with Wikipedia. You can browse the site, but as soon as any forbidden phrase is passed over the TCP connection it is cut. Then al
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by TorKlingberg 17y ago
This is a very interesting topic, but the linked article does not add much. It can be shortened to one sentence: Japanese are conformists, and therefor unlikely to be entrepreneurs. While certainly part of the problem, Japan used to be far
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by TorKlingberg 17y ago
This shows a particular farm. Is it representative?
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by TorKlingberg 17y ago
I spent some time living in Japan, and I recognize a lot in this article. When I came to Japan I was surprised by how people are really not computer savvy in general. Most families have a computer, but only one, it's in the kitchen and nobo
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by TorKlingberg 17y ago
JSONP is great for browser-facing APIs, because it can be loaded from anywhere bypassing the browsers same origin policy. However, those policies are there for a reason. Only use JSONP for public data, never for any kind of secret or access