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   by alanh 10y ago

   But, "archive dot org" is an entirely different and also noteworthy organization!
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   by alanh 10y ago

   As an owner of a Mac Mini from 5 or 6 years ago, I am fairly confident in guessing that this refers to what Apple calls “Mini DisplayPort with Audio”. My Mac Mini can use a Mini DP to HDMI adapter just fine — but it won’t include audio. New
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   by alanh 10y ago

   The End Of The World As We Know It. (I had to google. Interestingly, my Mac’s dictionary has TEOTWAWKI as an alias for “Survivalism”.)
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   by alanh 10y ago

   (“After me, the flood.”) Indeed, that is incredibly cool. Super tangential, but there is a very enjoyable Regina Spektor song titled “Après Moi” with the full phrase as a refrain.
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   by alanh 10y ago

   I asked my infosec friend today, and he said that “zero day” and “oh day” are interchangeable pronunciations.
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   by alanh 10y ago

   1) Make an argument. This isn’t one. 2) Why suggest a prompt that doesn’t give the user an understanding of what they are being asked and why it matters?
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   by alanh 10y ago

   But what if Chris Evans’ blog account were compromised after Chris Evans decided he was in the mood for some chiptunes? ;-)
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   by alanh 10y ago

   My work is blacklisting this domain (eyaltro.net) for malware — this URL works for me: http://colinoflynn.com/iotworm/ (Is it the same content?)
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   by alanh 10y ago

   Valerie Tarico has written about it, and she has her head screwed on straight (which I think means she’s reputable)! She's an excellent writer. However, maybe BuzzFeed needs to do a listicle on Vasalgel, or Cosmo needs to put it in Sna
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    by alanh 10y ago

    Where you are wrong, I think, is that “the presentation IS the content” is a common belief among “designers” but almost never the belief of users.
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    by alanh 10y ago

    This makes it all the more regrettable that Microsoft buried the competition and you are stuck with Windows forever: http://developers-club.com/posts/104034/
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    by alanh 10y ago

    Myopia is a good word for it. A quote I like on designers avoiding the actual experiences they create: https://wellfuckingsaid.com/2016/on-designers-ignoring-those... A thing I wrote urging you to test your own work in
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    by alanh 10y ago

    Yes, people who use “exponential” to describe the difference between two numbers are almost certainly illiterate in one way or another.
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    by alanh 10y ago

    Can I blame bitrot? Yes, thanks, of course I meant 2001.
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    by alanh 10y ago

    There is precedent for Microsoft to release patches on days other than Tuesday (they call this “going out of band”) when an exploit is being used in the wild, especially if it is wormable. (This was the case for the hole that was later expl
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    by alanh 10y ago

    Yeah… just a reminder: IE6 was released in August 2011.
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    by alanh 10y ago

    > I’ve spoken to some [WordPress] engineers… They even gave me a WordPress T-Shirt. OK, that sounds like permission to violate the GPL to me! Edited to add: My sarcasm would be dickish if either of these guys from Wix actually addres
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    by alanh 10y ago

    Not a good first impression, Wix: https://alanhogan.com/files/wix-blog-first-impression.png
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    by alanh 10y ago

    I believe Apple never used the blue convention on their MacBook Pros. I think they even mocked the competitors for uglifying their devices this way. Hell, I’m writing this on an rMBP with USB 3 and it uses a white plastic bit.
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    by alanh 10y ago

    This doesn't look like a GIF. I didn’t count the colors, but that looks like full/true color to me. I have no problem with that, but it says it’s a GIF…?
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    by alanh 10y ago

    I don't seem to have enough context to follow the point you are making. What are continental theorists? In what way are they apposed to the Less Wrong crowd?
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    by alanh 10y ago

    Here to say JSON is not a good place to encode logic because JSON doesn’t allow comments, and whenever you are encoding logic, you are going to have to clarify that $conterintuitive_rule is needed because $stakeholder decided $such_and_such
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    by alanh 10y ago

    There’s a distinct trend of YouTube commenters who believe that the Surface (tablet) is somehow a descendent of the Surface table, just because their names are the same. Interesting. Funny video — thanks for sharing.
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    by alanh 10y ago

    For the kids out there: “original Surface” isn’t what you think. It was a “smart table” and its most compelling use case was to present a menu right underneath your place setting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxk_WywMTzc
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    by alanh 10y ago

    You could call it “Claim Chowder” and put this linked list up on a domain like, i dunno, daringfireball.net :)
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    by alanh 10y ago

    This title really rubs me the wrong way. To say one person “is” someone quite different seems like a reductive and clickbaity way to say that they are alike in one or two small ways. Better title: “Cook, Ballmer, and the Problem with Naming
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    by alanh 10y ago

    > Somehow we've gotten into a cultural state where everyone expects the place they live to stay exactly as it is for their lifetime. I am trying to find a polite way to indicate that I find this to be a completely absurd reversal
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    by alanh 10y ago

    I, for one, am an enthusiastic paying customer of Fastmail.
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    by alanh 10y ago

    The government considers transparency a flaw and attempts to route around it.
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    by alanh 10y ago

    Good point: there are reasons to view Hillary as the unacceptable choice (not that I am saying these reasons are convincing reasons or not). Certainly there is a lot not to like, such as her scary and vague plea for an “intelligence surge”,