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by ZoFreX 14y ago
> So I think the media focus on drug-resistant bacteria is oversimplified. This article is from the UK. Our media's focus on drug-resistant bacteria isn't oversimplified, it's FUD. The whole nation is scared stiff of MRSA because the pa
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
These ones do appear to be real. I don't know HOW, due to the reasons you give. Most sites that claim to be revenge porn are "fake" (in the sense that - thankfully - everyone in the videos has consented). You can tell 'cos the submit page r
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Yes, I realise that, I just would have ordinarily assumed that a choice to use EC2 also included consideration for scalability, automatic spin up, etc.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
> I think these sorts of articles are asking the wrong question when they ask "why aren't there more women in CS?" or "how can we get more women in CS?" Agreed. But I think the right question to ask is "how can we stop driving women out
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
They're using EC2, so I'm not sure why it takes them so long to add new servers.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Alright... what if they could only change the CSS, and not the HTML and JS? (Obviously not a solution for Github pages, but workable in some scenarios)
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
It's in the OED, that's good enough for me!
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Thanks for the rec, this looks really good! Reminds me a lot of XHP.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
"The browser plug-in is the security problem in question, but the Java runtime has its own annoyances—like constantly nagging you for updates, taking up space in your system tray, and (when you first install it) because it likes to install
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
I've started doing this whenever a company pulls a bait and switch (pet hate of mine). I got an email offer saying a site was $9.95 for 1 year, limited time only... ok sure, big savings and I had been thinking about signing up. Click throug
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
What about only letting users customise CSS and HTML? Can that be secure?
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Not for mistaken so much but if you can prove mal intent, yes there are penalties.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
What?
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Java the language is not insecure, nor is having the JVM installed. The issue comes from the Java browser plugin, which has been a security disaster to the point that it's being disabled in browsers automatically.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
I wish more projects would document the more "macro" knowledge about their code - the infrastructure and organisation, for instance, or the metaphors used throughout the code.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Another way to achieve this goal is to include a ticket number in any commit relating to it. That way you can easily find out why the changes had to be made at that time (assuming your tickets have good descriptions - they do, right?)
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
> You may be proud to have mastered a little-used feature in your language of choice that saves you a line of code here and there, but if the cost is that 80% of the people reading your code later are confused, you're not winning. What
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
FWIW you can actually migrate between most major VCS systems without losing your history.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
> Whenever I interview for a job, I'm never able to demonstrate this skill. The Fizzbuzz problem doesn't allow me to show off my commenting skills. A good interview process does let you show off your commenting skills. FizzBuzz is usele
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
The signal is probably stronger in what they search for than in what they read or post in forums (which far fewer people do than search for things, anyway).
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Thanks for sharing this Rob, it was actually very informative about Ember to a newbie!
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
I have Opera installed on my Ace for two reasons: 1. Speed 2. Size If it's slower than stock and takes up a similar amount of space to Firefox... then there's no reason for me not to use Firefox.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
How about the "scrolling guides" when you're zoomed? Not sure if there's a proper name for that, but with Opera when I zoomed and the text reflowed, it would lock me to vertical scrolling only as long as I don't wiggle too far horizontally.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
My 2011 MBP also hisses clicks and pops, but tbh it's no different to the audio on any other laptop, or the integrated audio on most desktops.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
People tend to enable images on newsletters because many of them are unreadable without them.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
> I built my own because their design, and I mean literally the way they visualize the data, isn't very good. Or rather, it's not as good as it could be. I love your approach :) it's very helpful!
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Can't find the article right now (help?) but Blogspot (now Blogger) can create blogs instantly - the loading spinner and wait are completely artificial, to assure users.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
> But since this is my blog I will write whatever the hell I please Of course. But I hope you would care that what you wrote is upsetting to a lot of people, and that we believe the advice is actually harmful, even though you didn't int
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Thank you so much for sharing, Paul.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Note to people that know me IRL: This comment is quite personal. Feel free to read it but please bear that in mind. I've really been trying to bite my tongue in the last 2 months but the number of articles about depression on HN is overwhel

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