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by alanctgardner2 14y ago
I'm not sure if I misunderstand your CDN remark, but your web server shouldn't be connecting to the Google CDN at any point. Your server provides the list of resources to the client browser, which is responsible for connecting to remote hos
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by alanctgardner2 14y ago
Best practice when storing passwords is to hash them, then compare the hash of the user input to the stored hash. If a user can compute all the possible input->hash mappings for a given set of parameters (salt, etc.) they can figure out
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by alanctgardner2 14y ago
It definitely benefits Nokia and MS to have more partners onboard with Windows Phone 8. I really liked the look of the 920, but I was worried it would never reach a critical mass of developer support with only Nokia building devices. If the
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by alanctgardner2 14y ago
The goal of $100 million isn't that Yahoo wants money. They want to be a sexy, ambitious, developer-oriented employer like Google. They want to experiment, and break things, and most importantly identify what is and isn't working. Rather th
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by alanctgardner2 14y ago
I would add not using the relevant cursor for things that are clickable. Its not perfect ( especially for mobile), but its a huge hint.
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by alanctgardner2 14y ago
I keep looking at this comment and wondering who "the right people" are. Do you mean buying outside talent, by aqui-hiring? Or dumping a million dollars on random developers within the company?
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by alanctgardner2 14y ago
> good apps often have short names: Skype, Spotify, Instagram, Twitter I think you mean 'well-recognized brands have short names'. If you're trying to discover a new Twitter client, it might help for them to have their name, and 'Twitte
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by alanctgardner2 14y ago
I don't think the work to be done to keep the data fresh is that much, since they're basically scraping publicly available data. Plus, as nice as the interface is, Google has already done this with Now, and presumably it'll be coming to the
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by alanctgardner2 14y ago
The only issue I have with this is that, AFAIK, the city is offering you this information for free. I can understand if you were paying a licensing fee to have access to the location data, you'd want to cover that fee. But wrapping up a str
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by alanctgardner2 14y ago
There is a danger to what Apple has as well, in that with every revision they reduce how much they can innovate. Users are willing to buy an iPhone 5 because all the changes are incremental. If the iPhone 6 has a new UI paradigm, Apple will
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by alanctgardner2 14y ago
All of these articles are full of the same stories: 'I spent 100k on a degree in sculpting, and now I owe 100k'. Does a hundred thousand dollar education in sculpting really provide value to you? I'm not saying people who are truly interest
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by alanctgardner2 14y ago
That's interesting, and I'm very grateful you didn't just LMGTFY (I was on my phone!). It sounds like it's only really employed in criminal proceedings, and even then only a small number, because the expense of employing an investigating ju
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by alanctgardner2 14y ago
What would an inquisitional legal system look like? No litigants, just aimless fact finding?
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by alanctgardner2 14y ago
I can't reply to the child comment, for some reason, but to expand on this idea: a jury's role is to basically decide if the facts as presented apply according to the law. The frustration technical people express is mostly that they want to
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by alanctgardner2 14y ago
You're mistaken, there are people in the industry who are engineers. In some lines of work (architecture, law) membership in a professional organization is required. But if you went to school in an accredited program (most university Softwa
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by alanctgardner2 14y ago
The point is, he brought his 'prior knowledge', which is expressly forbidden in the jury instructions. The parent basically proposed that every jury be made up of people like this.
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by alanctgardner2 14y ago
Unfortunately, the flies in the face of the principles of trial law. The goal,in a trial, is that the jury is a blank slate, which exists only to judge what the counsels say. The only facts they can consider are those they hear in the trial
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by alanctgardner2 14y ago
This has nothing to do with lawyers. If you talked every criminal lawyer in the country out of prosecuting murders, it wouldn't make murder legal. The system needs to be reformed through legislation, which has everything to do with politici
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by alanctgardner2 14y ago
There is a definite obligation, as a licensed professional engineer, to protect the reputation, and to an extent the scarcity, of engineering knowledge as a resource. I know for sure that, as an architect, it is unethical to do architecture
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by alanctgardner2 14y ago
Is there actually a legal basis for this? As in, if Stripe was, in good faith, processing payments for a company which is selling (allegedly) infringing products, they're obligated to stop processing payments immediately? It seems like ther
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by alanctgardner2 14y ago
It might be in their TOS, but they definitely aren't obligated to stop supporting these guys because of legal action. In fact, without a formal process in place they open themselves up to more risk by making judgement calls about whose fund
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by alanctgardner2 14y ago
At least for engineers, part of your professional obligation is not to dilute the value of your services by offering them for free. The equation is obviously a bit different for lawyers, who may work pro bono (only in criminal cases, perhap
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by alanctgardner2 14y ago
It looks really cool, but it's also going to be very expensive (time and money-wise) to get enough prominent ROI and street-level images. Is there a solid plan in place to scale this beyond giant metropolitan markets, or are you leaving tho
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by alanctgardner2 14y ago
I guess I tried to address two issues in this. Let's put it this way: one man drives an Audi RS4, and the other has a Toyota Camry. Nobody argues that the man with the Audi has the better car, but one might infer that he also has more dispo
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by alanctgardner2 14y ago
By this logic, is anything but a Macbook comparable to a Macbook? How would you compare build quality objectively? I think it's safe to say if you're paying extra for a backlit keyboard, you're throwing around money.
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by alanctgardner2 14y ago
Open-sourcing some games seems like a really good idea, but I think a lot of the Humble Bundle games typically fall into a category where design is much more significant than technology. It's one thing to allow modding on the Source engine,
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by alanctgardner2 14y ago
I actually really like this idea: If you're in an email and you open a picture, you go to Gallery. Now you can a) Go 'Up' to the main Gallery activity, or b) 'Back' to your email. That seems pretty intuitive, a lot of the time I've been fru
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by alanctgardner2 14y ago
> What's the deal with font rendering in Chrome? Some links appear bigger than others (on hackernews and reddit). This is actually a feature, to make it easier to read text when you're zoomed out. As you zoom in it reflows to the proper