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My testing philosophy – don't use code coverage tools, more(alanhogan.com)
2 points by alanh 9y ago|0 comments
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by alanh 9y ago
Not affiliated with Keybase, but I’d love to get your perspective on those things. I don’t see a way to contact you in your HN bio. Send me a note? https://alanhogan.com/contact?reason=corporate%20IT%20dept%2... (Anyone els
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by alanh 9y ago
HN: “You have to be logged in to submit.” Doing it right!
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Never Say “Oops” (in your website/app)(alanhogan.com)
1 points by alanh 9y ago|1 comments
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by alanh 9y ago
Which markdown? :-P Some markdowns have some nice features: - Fenced code blocks, which I would prefer to prefixing with colons (update: oh I guess org-mode has an equivalent! good) - Footnote support - Definition list support (<dl>&l
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by alanh 9y ago
Indeed. I once built an “Active Desktop” web app — if you will — for my mom as a holiday gift. It just rotated through some pics of the family as wallpaper.
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by alanh 9y ago
Can you imagine how slow boarding might be if the information needed retrieved from a distant mainframe by the scanner before it would emit its _beep_ of consent? (I agree with you, though)
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by alanh 9y ago
12 possible answers… little better than a 1-digit PIN!
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by alanh 9y ago
i had to look it up: SWIM = Someone Who Isn’t Me
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by alanh 9y ago
Right, leave it blank when enrolling → Empty value coerced to number becomes 0 → Recorded in Unix timestamp format where 0 is Jan 1 1970 → Wow, everyone was born then?
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by alanh 9y ago
The irony of complaining that native, here portrayed as an alternative to a hopelessly multi-party web platform, won’t let you interject arbitrary parties between a link and its destination…
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by alanh 9y ago
There is a section heading that reads, “Why the web must die.” I almost stopped reading there. I value the web for its longevity, accessibility, and non-proprietary nature. There are some goods points made in this article, however: > My
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by alanh 9y ago
Impressively, QuickTime could play multiple movies in multiple directions simultaneously on Windows 98.
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by alanh 9y ago
Reportedly it took a lot of convincing to get Jobs to OK the release of iTunes for Windows.
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by alanh 9y ago
Related: Check if your browser is currently allowing third party cookies https://alanhogan.github.io/web-experiments/3rd/third-party-...
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by alanh 9y ago
I woke up in the middle of the night, seized by the realization that this meant that Adobe knows, down to the half-minute resolution, when I am using my computer (to do anything ).
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by alanh 9y ago
oh wow, what would that make it, 50ms? that's almost enough time to blink!
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by alanh 9y ago
you're not wrong. once i wrote a whole blog post about how to properly include Boost into C++ code using a particular IDE.
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by alanh 9y ago
I have multiple personal stories in which cabbies and cab companies (based in San Francisco and Austin, TX) colluded to defraud me out of hundreds and hundreds of dollars. I have told these stories too many times to get any catharsis out of
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by alanh 9y ago
Hmm. I was going to link the classic https://alistapart.com/article/emen (and I guess I just did), but I noticed a disclaimer at the top pointing out that it “is now obsolete.” And how! It proclaims that not enough tex
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by alanh 9y ago
not that HN needs more pedantry, but HN’s lightweight markup format is not in any sense a Markdown. I believe that literally the only thing they have in common is that a single set of asterisks yields italics. Bolding, headings, code, lis
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by alanh 9y ago
Careful — some of the Unicode pseudoalphabets won't render on mobile.
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by alanh 9y ago
not sure why you were downvoted. Your comment is relevant and the convention can be useful. (PHP worked exactly the same way as your first two examples, although the third would have produced <'15:22' is 15:22>.)
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by alanh 9y ago
I have to suspect the fatal flaw is that these code points don’t look like anything and can’t be found on the keyboard. Granted, that’s the whole point, but it also makes authoring and instruction harder. (And we all know how many programme
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by alanh 9y ago
While I can’t expect many to follow suit, I myself often type educated quotes and nice apostrophes. The macOS keyboard combinations (nearly-intuitive combinations of Option-(Shift)-[ and -] for “”‘’) have long been committed to muscle memor
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by alanh 9y ago
https://twitter.com/janamjohnson/status/900372990881402880 (linked from the article) is dead. Does anyone have a saved or cached copy of the image in this tweet? Or a similar screen shot? I don't have Faceboo
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by alanh 9y ago
In case others are wondering: Speed is shown in kt which means "knot," equal to one nautical mile per hour, approximately 1.151 mph.
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by alanh 9y ago
perhaps, but he transcended that. his visible and unreachable appearances at other times, combined with his bizarre diction, made his character capture the imaginations of many.
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by alanh 9y ago
The WSJ article includes NHTSA data indicating 'only' 35,000 traffic fatalities per yeah. Where are you getting this 1.3 million number from? That would be equivalent to a full 1% of US population dying on the road every 2.5 years
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by alanh 9y ago
Disturbingly, you would seem to be saying that any registrar business should cut off any customer that causes them any problems whatsoever. What if I’m hosting a pro-LGBT blog for Russians and the Russian government starts filing complaints

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