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by aethr 9y ago
If Google's spam filters block an IP or subnet that happens to be where you host your self-hosted mail server, it will be almost impossible for your mail server reputation to ever recover. Your emails to gmail users (a vast percentage
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by aethr 9y ago
https://medium.com/@ji/the-react-license-for-founders-and-ct... TL;DR - In 2012, Yahoo sued Facebook over 10 patents, "general sentiment in the industry was that the lawsuit against Facebook was without merit; som
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by aethr 9y ago
That is the conflict of interest. It's hard to see how this isn't going to strengthen their position in the ad serving market. Google being able to define where the bar for "badly behaving" is set means that only their
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by aethr 10y ago
They would have called it "The Matrix".
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by aethr 10y ago
Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:k1NGo0q...
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by aethr 10y ago
Monkii | Front End Developer | Melbourne, Australia | ONSITE Monkii is a leading Australian digital agency doing great work for some of Australia's leading cultural institutions and high profile commercial brands. We're looking fo
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by aethr 10y ago
As someone at in an agency still working in a "waterfall style that was popular in the 90s", how do we convince clients with a fixed budget and a list of "must haves" to go agile? We have PMs with agile experience, all t
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by aethr 10y ago
Valve released a complete engine rewrite for Dota 2 only about 12 months ago, Dota 2 Reborn. They also release major game updates regularly. Aside from Steam, Valve (the developer) seems to be putting a lot of focus on esports right now.
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by aethr 10y ago
Probably deemed to be off topic according to the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Although personally, it struck me as very strange that someone who's just witnessed her partner being sho
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A Fascinating 3D-Printed Light-Based Zoetrope(thisiscolossal.com)
2 points by aethr 10y ago|0 comments
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by aethr 10y ago
No, I don't "stereotype 100% of wealthy people". I am talking about a single wealthy person, and I'm basing my opinion on his actions . He can and will say whatever he needs to say to get support. Looking at the histo
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by aethr 10y ago
You think that Donald Trump, the very definition of wealthy elite, is seriously going to do anything to fix income inequality? As a business owner, having access to cheaper labor is absolutely in his best interests. Any policy he backs on
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by aethr 10y ago
From my anecdotal experience, I would agree that most cannabis is consumed by smoking. For casual recreational users though, this might amount to as little as the equivalent of one cigarette a month. Still not good for you, but probably no
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by aethr 10y ago
There are plenty of ways to enjoy cannabis without smoking, including vaporising or ingestion.
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by aethr 10y ago
Excessive consumption of cannabis is probably not good for your health. Like alcohol. Or sugar, coffee, social media, or watching TV. Granted, people probably have different opinions on the definition of "excessive" in each of the
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Rube Goldberg machine in HTML forms(sebastianlyserena.dk)
407 points by aethr 10y ago|49 comments
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by aethr 10y ago
There is no "perfect system" in the same way that there is no "perfect algorithm", unless you can define the goal. What is the best sorting algorithm? Is it the one that sorts a random list in the shortest time? Or the
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by aethr 11y ago
less is great, and I'm certainly comfortable using it (nice snippet btw!). Other devs on my team who are more web focused would probably find rtail easier to use. We also have a Vagrant box for each project, and rtail would be trivial
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by aethr 11y ago
I can start using this immediately for debugging the backend of a web application during development. For some kinds of debugging, it's preferable to log output to a file or tty instead of printing on the page during a request or step
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by aethr 11y ago
AKG studio range (consumer range is just ok) and audiotechnica both have very high quality options at several price points. Best way to tell AKG studio range is (generally) the cable is detatchable. If the cable is not removable, it's
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by aethr 11y ago
I guess, like every form of advertising, you have to know your market. This tool seems targetted specifically at designers and front end devs, a distinctly visual group with a high level of overlap with the "appreciates cool front end
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by aethr 11y ago
A lot of developers originally used jQuery as a cross-browser compatibility library when that was still a major concern. Along the way, jQuery has added tons of extra helper functions and wrappers (ie, .ajax(), .post(), event binding helpe
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by aethr 11y ago
http://superbad.com/robots.txt # Dear Robot, # # How does it feel to be a robot? # # I used to wish I was a robot. # # And a friend of mine when I was # growing up used to think that #
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by aethr 11y ago
Very interested to see your blog post. I was under the impression that if the data is collected in an iframe with a same-origin policy, that malicious JS in the containing page wouldn't have access to form elements (or anything) insid
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by aethr 11y ago
You generally don't need to load any JS from the payment processor to use a transparent redirect, although I'm sure some work this way. Transparent redirects just require setting the form action property on your payment page to a
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by aethr 11y ago
Does anyone know if using transparent redirects actually waives your responsibilities for PCI compliance? Even though the credit card details aren't sent to your backend, they are still collected on a form hosted on your infrastructur
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by aethr 11y ago
When Steam is hosting mods for free, then they are effectively just hosting files. They transfer so much data, I can imagine this would be effectively zero cost for them. Once they start charging for something, the entire payment infrastru
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by aethr 11y ago
Would this be the modern equivalent of "Press 7 to hear a duck quack"? :) http://everything2.com/title/If+you+would+like+to+hear+a+duc...
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by aethr 11y ago
Does anyone here have experience using easter eggs as a social traffic-driving tool? We have a client with a great product (well respected in their field) and one of our developers spent a weekend voluntarily building a very cool easter egg
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by aethr 12y ago
That's true, but as slimsag pointed out below, long GC pauses (which are what we're trying to avoid) are caused by large numbers of heap-allocated objects, not by the size of the objects.

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