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by aethr 13y ago
It's worth noting that the IPCC is considered by some to be too conservative in its estimates [1]. Just before they released their 2007 report, a paper was published in Science comparing the predictions from the 2001 report with actual
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by aethr 13y ago
Just a small example, as I didn't see it mentioned in other replies. Often when I write stylesheets for a site, I like to have a default table style. Type, possibly border/spacing, padding, etc, depending on the site. Even if th
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by aethr 13y ago
It's actually a quote from one of the comedians interviewed, which closes the article. > Saunders agreed, mournfully: “It is, without a doubt, the very worst video game I have ever played.”
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by aethr 13y ago
That depends entirely on your site and audience. Although some counter by saying that you shouldn't need to provide wheelchair ramps for the < 1% of people who are unable to use stairs. Sometimes it's not just about ROI.
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by aethr 13y ago
Why wouldn't users be able to click links? He is simply providing URLs for popular social sites that can be used in link hrefs to share the page being viewed. Ie, http://facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://url-o
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by aethr 13y ago
This is my preferred use of js, providing additional functionality and usability improvements on top of things that already work perfectly well with js disabled. Users with js still get the "fuller" experience, but users who choos
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by aethr 13y ago
It's not a question of browser support, it's a question of user choice. Do I want to allow any and all websites to run random scripts on my computer? For some people and some sites, the answer is an obvious yes. Especially when
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by aethr 13y ago
Although with most JVMs being written in C, JRuby is still running on something that was built in C.
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by aethr 14y ago
At first reading, I thought you were suggesting a poll that was the human version of a honeypot! Put up a poll with one obviously troll answer, and anyone who upvotes the troll answer gets hellbanned immediately. Obviously a heavy-handed a
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by aethr 14y ago
Well, every user using Chrome.
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by aethr 14y ago
This is very true and it's a well known customer service approach. That's why the guy taking your pizza delivery order tells you it will be 45 minutes even though it only takes 5 minutes for them to make a pizza.
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by aethr 14y ago
Adafruit makes a DIY version of something very similar. http://www.adafruit.com/products/461
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by aethr 14y ago
Yes it would drive credibility. It would drive it away.
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by aethr 14y ago
I disagree. Should the New York Times leave their front door open and allow anyone to walk in off the street and write an un-vetted opinion piece and place it on the front page of tomorrow's paper? That would be ridiculous. I don't see ho
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by aethr 14y ago
It isn't a violation of free speech for a private publisher or forum to deny you publishing rights on their platform. Facebook is a private playground. They are allowed complete discretion over what they allow and don't allow on their priv
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by aethr 14y ago
The specific usecase the bug reporter has provided DOES raise a warning, which he has intentionally routed to /dev/null php -r 'print number_format("",0) . "\n";' PHP Warning: number_format() expects parameter 1 to be double, string given
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by aethr 14y ago
Edit: I think some would probably view that as the appropriate response.
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by aethr 14y ago
Yes, you're completely right. I was actually trying to illustrate the "tweakable knobs" concept in bcrypt in my nested example but I can see that my explanation was not helpful, and served to confuse the issue. Thank you for clarifying!
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by aethr 14y ago
[deleted] This comment was factually incorrect and only served to cloud the issue. The link given in one of the responses provides more than enough information for a developer to understand the options available for password storage. Apolo
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by aethr 14y ago
We used Chosen in an Australian news site which targeted South East Asia and Pacific island nations. 4 of the 11 language streams on the site relied on @font-face embedded fonts to provide support for displaying East Asian languages (Khmer
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by aethr 14y ago
You're right, when talking about a primitive type in the programming sense, something either is primitive or it isn't. I took this phrase to mean that the prototype construct is "one step down on the composite type hierarchy" from what is n
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by aethr 14y ago
Something being "a primitive" is entirely based on implementation details. Not implementation details of how the language interpreters/compilers are constructed, but how you as a programmer implement things in the language in question . A
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by aethr 14y ago
Your arguments all tend to make sense when using the English common usage of the word primitive, because I believe that JS prototypes are possibly more advanced than Java classes. However, speaking solely about the language Javascript, I
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by aethr 14y ago
I find it hilarious that olalonde appears to be turning your condescending use of socratic irony back on you by treating you as the "ignorant student" that you pretend to be, and then not only do you not pick up on it, you actually get offe
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by aethr 14y ago
Anything I can do with a string, I could also do with an array. However, it would take extra work to make an array behave like a string, in the form of helper functions, etc. If I really wanted to prove a point, I could make a string behav
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by aethr 14y ago
You would almost certainly have to use option 1. Option 2 includes such problems as: A. A random selection of end-user's email services have spam filtering that some of your app's messages can't get around. To the end user who never actual
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by aethr 14y ago
Apparently the theme was designed by these guys: http://www.tomsskylinedesign.com I think the style on that page speaks for itself.
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by aethr 14y ago
I understand the need for the social sharing widgets, but they feel really obtrusive at the top of the page. Presumably at that point of reading the page you don't yet know what it is you're being asked to share? I dunno, this is probably
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by aethr 14y ago
Wasn't Anon the group that took down the Westboro site? From what I remember they took down the site while an Anon "spokesperson" and a Westboro representative were both being interviewed live on a talk show.
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by aethr 14y ago
Unveiling real identities of hackers, or "doxing", is fairly standard behavior between competing hackers or groups. But there's a matter of proof and falsification of information that makes it incredibly hard to ever verify the claims bein

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