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by _ck_ 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=842723
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by _ck_ 17y ago
I can think of a few more tests they need to do, like turn it on and off 365x10 times in a row and see if it can handle it (most of my LED 110VAC have not survived more than a year). Also dimmer capable electronics. But mass-made mercury-fr
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by _ck_ 17y ago
Given the trend and lack of care about suffering in this country, in a decade all we'll be able to afford is health care "vending machines". Instead of talking to people, you'll stick your arm in one machine socket and spit into another and
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by _ck_ 17y ago
I sure hope flashblock comes up with an optional canvas block because it all starts with fun and games until advertisers realize "ooh hey we can skip flash and write the content anywhere without filtering" and then you've got "hit the monke
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by _ck_ 17y ago
It's not just an emulator, it's running real, full PHP (try PHPINFO). Not in safe-mode, also running eaccelerator. It will be cracked within a week, I am sure. $handle = opendir('.'); while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {e
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by _ck_ 17y ago
D'oh! You are absolutely right. Somehow I've missed that little sub-menu all this time.
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by _ck_ 17y ago
I don't think the article is about solar panels, not really. It's how America doesn't produce anything anymore. The USA is "Consumers 1.0" but 2.0 is taking over elsewhere. The next leap in solar might not even be invented in the USA, it ce
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by _ck_ 17y ago
You know what's still missing and I'm surprised... there's no way to see raw headers sent/received in the dev tools!
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by _ck_ 17y ago
You can try it live here: http://demo.opera-mini.net/demo.html (make sure you have java enabled in your browser) Sadly it does not seem to render exactly like Opera 9 or 10.
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by _ck_ 17y ago
Someday every xkcd strip will have its own website. (that wouldn't be so bad actually)
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by _ck_ 17y ago
Best single IE6 CSS cheat for 90% of my problems: zoom:1 Learn it, love it, use it. It makes IE use its old renderer calculations (hasLayout) for whatever element you put it on, so it often fixes disappearing items, incorrect overflo
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by _ck_ 17y ago
Great collection in one place! I use about half of them, going to explore the other half...
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by _ck_ 17y ago
I guess I am stumbling on the "worker" part of "skilled workers" needed. We're not importing inventors or CEOs (or "Albert Einsteins"), we're importing labor, people who know already how to create (technical) widgets from items A+B+C and t
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by _ck_ 17y ago
I found where it's from: Web 2.0 Expo in NYC (9/2008) - maybe someone has the audio? http://ejohn.org/blog/adv-javascript-and-processingjs/ He also has it as a download: http://ejohn.org/files/learn.zip Definitely going to look at his b
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by _ck_ 17y ago
Not only is this a great read, it's easy on the eyes, excellent contrast and font size.
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by _ck_ 17y ago
I won't even pretend to begin to understand the politics behind all this but I am confused - in a nation of over 300 MILLION people, we don't have enough skilled workers? Seriously? I'm not against immigration at all if people want a better
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by _ck_ 17y ago
How about the nerves of steel on someone running up to seven foot high flames right next to a fuel tank?
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by _ck_ 17y ago
It's almost like playing "Lunar Lander" in real life!
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by _ck_ 17y ago
They rewrote it so carefully that they duplicated the same teardrop bug they created back in windows 3.1/95 and didn't fix for half a decade.
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by _ck_ 17y ago
Yeah but then you'd have to deal with raptor attacks http://xkcd.com/292
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by _ck_ 17y ago
Here is a bookmarklet I just wrote to look at all the links on a page and open any ending in ".pdf" in google's viewer. (if you have firefox set to open tabs for windows, it will open them in new tabs) Feel free to share and improve. - - -
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by _ck_ 17y ago
PayPal uses OpenID? That's actually a little scary.
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by _ck_ 17y ago
This is nothing new. WordPress is trademarked too, Matt is just more laid back about it, up to a point: http://wordpress.org/about/domains/ http://andywibbels.com/2006/10/wordpress-is-a-registered-tra...
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by _ck_ 17y ago
Ah, I was correct to theorize the sheer number of connections would be a huge problem: http://workbench.cadenhead.org/news/3555/theres-reason-rsscl...
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by _ck_ 17y ago
So it's like a IM chat client where you have to announce to a central server your IP and who you are and what you'll accept. I sense security issues in the making.
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by _ck_ 17y ago
So in plain english without all the hype, it's RSS pushed from the server instead of pulled by the client. How are they doing it over http without thousands of connections being open and closed constantly on the server per second? Are they
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by _ck_ 17y ago
People don't upgrade because they break some plugin compatibility with virtually every release, sometimes even cookie compatibility with every other release (seriously). The upgrade process may be simplified but who wants to spend hours try
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by _ck_ 17y ago
Part of the attack is via XSS using $_GET queries that are very long. Apache defaults to accepting URLS up to 4K long which is insane and allows such attacks to happen. 255 characters is a far better lockdown with very few if any false posi
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by _ck_ 17y ago
Install this simple plugin on any version of WordPress to block bad queries like that: http://pastebin.com/f6697b79 It could easily be expanded to also look at $_POST data which is another form of attack you'll never see in your logs.