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by Xurinos 15y ago
Sure, copy-paste, but if you monitor the outgoing query via Firebug, you can get the raw password. (This is confirmed with the gmail password input.) I have also in the past used various Windows tools for finding the value of a text box o
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by Xurinos 15y ago
No. It is something of a sham. It protects you from one use case: people watching the screen over your shoulder. It does not guard against people watching your fingers on the keyboard. It does provide a sense of security. I have no pro
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by Xurinos 15y ago
Is this really a matter of discovering new patterns? Aren't those patterns just mutations and combinations of already-known patterns? In that case, wouldn't a better process be to expose yourself to new experiences, especially those that
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by Xurinos 15y ago
Some caution on this... WoW guild leadership was a good exercise in how to lead volunteers . There is a gulf of difference between leading volunteers and leading paid people. Yes, there is overlap, too, but it is much harder to motivate
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by Xurinos 15y ago
Yeah, Lisp is a really good mind-bender. If you picked up some good experience with CLOS, I recommend using the Moose packages in your perl work. Moose adds to Lisp's default CLOS with lazy attributes, roles, and a functioning type system
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by Xurinos 15y ago
The truth is that one should be concerned with how much memory is taken in our world of big-RAM consumer computers, too. To do otherwise is purely egocentric, being a bad citizen: he assumes that his software is the only thing running on t
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Much as we would like it, they can't. This came up in another HN thread a few months ago. The problem is that if they say the wrong thing regarding your rejection, you might be able to hold them legally liable, pull some kind of discrimin
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by Xurinos 16y ago
> Anything that ships is better than the best thing that didn't ship. Minor strawman... I did not advocate waiting to ship the "best". Rarely are things that ship "short term" systems. Watch the balance. If you have to maintain/upd
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by Xurinos 16y ago
> Usually it's the equivalent of a smash-and-grab job; break in, download everything of value within minutes Is that still the case? I was under the impression that these days, account/identity access has black market value. People
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I have come to the conclusion that communicators must present to different audiences in different formats. Slides used in public speaking are no different from hand gestures. Slides posted online for the same speech have to be touched up
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by Xurinos 16y ago
...so long as we balance the long term cost in future maintenance/extension work against the short term gain.
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by Xurinos 16y ago
As a regular vim user, I recommend vimpulse if you want vim-like keybindings in emacs. IIRC, it even introduces some ":" functionality. It is still a pale imitation, but it is better than wrestling with default emacs keybindings in typica
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Was the linked codinghorror article intended to be an example of a well-written, proofread article? It took a glance for me to see "that that" in the third paragraph.
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by Xurinos 16y ago
As a self-taught developer, college-graduate, and continual learner, I propose that exposure is the most important benefit of the college experience. We have to know what questions to ask before we can ask them. We can accidentally walk
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by Xurinos 16y ago
You are referring to the lowest OSI layer. It is easy to propose laying out new line (or network of birds), but the costs are huge. http://img.tfd.com/cde/OSI.GIF
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by Xurinos 16y ago
And I wonder if often better. There is value to having the motivation to learn something before being formally trained in it. I was not too impressed with some of my peers in CS, especially those who could not figure out how to open a fil
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I just want to attach an anecdote here and explain why I prefer confirmation emails. One day, somewhere in the last couple months, I checked my email box and saw a message from some craft site. It was informing me that my paid subscription
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Usability problem: the animation attracts attention, distracts the eye. The moving glow, mixed with the small lettering, makes it hard to read quickly. When the animation finally stopped on my system, I was suddenly able to read the lette
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Yeah. But maybe with multiple votes, we already effectively have this. The problem is that those votes are counted internally not as preference order but as total number of votes, adding to a user's general karma score.
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I think this is a promising line of thinking, the idea that there should be more than one kind of vote. There is confusion as to what the single up/down means, and this is not helped by the fact that the single karma value actually matters
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Hey guys, I disagree with codingthewheel's idea, too, but we need to get a little meta here: His comment is not spam. His comment caused discussion. His comment is an opinion, not a false fact. There are no personal attacks of any kind in h
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by Xurinos 16y ago
This is a very interesting point and should be highlighted. You said implementation artifacts (especially in reference to reducing code duplication), and for clarity, I think you are referring to the definition of operators on data (class
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I wish I had a good handle on that. There is much to functional programming I need to digest yet. But the hints are there (I noticed this in the timeline of when these various concepts were played with and integrated into standard specs),
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I have said that quote a lot in jest. :) But I always remind myself that it is based on the problem that there is actually very little theory going on -- that the developer is doing a lot of random fuddling around with little understanding
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Further into the comments, it is acknowledged that HTML + CSS is, in fact, not Turing Complete and that the original premise was incorrect. I want to also add that HTML lacks a fundamental feature of programming languages: means of abstract
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by Xurinos 16y ago
This comment struck me as a bit ugly. Here is why. First, it includes the word "evangelical", but nothing in the HR requirements says, "You must also spread the Word to those you help." I understand that some sects of evangelical Christia
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Unfamiliarity? Discomfort? The choice could be emotional as opposed to intellectual. Smart people can spend a lot of time and effort defending the status quo.
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Having recently used this book, I have to agree; it is still pretty valid. You have to be mindful of which UI you are looking at, but others running into similar problems made notes on the wikibook.
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Does anyone have a link to the full feature release list? I am still looking for "Support for NoScript" and "Supports JavaScript later than 1.5, which was released in 2000" ( https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/JavaScript#Ve...
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I didn't see any timings in his code.

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