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by alanh 13y ago
Written by one of weev’s lawyers. Weev, the absolute cyber-douche who threatened Kathy Sierra’s family and precipitated her years-long avoidance of Internet and speaking appearances. Who absoutely deserves punishment. If the “crackdown on
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by alanh 13y ago
http://peg.gd/ is basically that :)
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by alanh 13y ago
It would, it that were an automated process. Can we satisfy your quibble by using the word "automated" before "extraction"?
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by alanh 13y ago
genwin, I’ve invented a secure system. If you can tell me what this message says, you win $200k: jo You don’t know what the message says, because it’s so short. You will never win the prize. But my system was not so secure. My cipher
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by alanh 13y ago
They are not redundant. Any string of one or more exes is going to constrain a substring of exes of length 2^n (consider n=0 for a trivial proof), so you do need those anchors!
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by alanh 13y ago
I’m not arguing “against English” or “against HN;” I’m arguing against diluting the power of one specific word. You are, of course, free to disagree.
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by alanh 13y ago
Yes! True. And it’s easy to do this with Sass (here, shown in SCSS syntax): .my-class { font-weight: bold; // use "placeholder selector": & > .other-class { // selector compiles to
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by alanh 13y ago
> just because we don't want the extra weight of a new syntax Sass defaults to .scss syntax, which is exactly CSS syntax. Okay, exactly a superset. Since it merely adds $variables and other features, you are free to ignore the
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by alanh 13y ago
Yes. This should be the top-voted comment, IMHO. Myth is fairly misleading!
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by alanh 13y ago
I know 90%+ of the HN crowd sides, with good reason, against Elsevier, but I’d like us to not use the word “war” unless there is mutual, systematic murder between enemies. War is a terrible thing. We shouldn’t water down our only real word
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by alanh 13y ago
In a weird way, it would seem that every song on RapGenius starts off nearly naked of annotation, and — it would seem — essentially illegal, but may end up heavily annotated and “transformative.” You can’t start at the end, though. One is r
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by alanh 13y ago
very humor enough wow still doge homepage again stop now done shibe
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by alanh 13y ago
iOS devs, please submit radars to Apple for iOS support without jailbreak. (IDGAF whether it’s native or third-party support for changing the whitepoint, I just don’t want my phone to blind me at night.)
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by alanh 13y ago
My own SMBC (non-?)coincidence was finding out that a former classmate (from my tiny high school in rural Pennsylvania) is part of SMBC Theater (in LA). Very cool. Apologies for being so tangential here.
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by alanh 13y ago
Well, that’s less surprising than announcing steam-powered AMD machines.
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by alanh 13y ago
I get an empty download file… is that expected? (Must be a Wayback Machine glitch, maybe caused by the surge of popularity, I figure. It was supposed to have content about school shooters)
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by alanh 13y ago
I remember PC World started doing this back in like 2003. Makes sense, I think. But how are you solving the problem any better than a reader can armed with (1) the date on your cover, (2) the original URL, and (3) the Internet Archive Wayba
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by alanh 13y ago
Off-topic and flamebait much?
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by alanh 13y ago
“5 figures” hardly seems notable…
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by alanh 13y ago
“Drastically?” The vast majority of the web developers I know use OS X. And, I guess, most of the marketers, too.
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by alanh 13y ago
> lack of XHTML support I believed IE8 reads XHTML just fine — are you referring to its inability to handle HTML content delivered with an `application/xml+xhtml` Content-Type header (IIRC)?
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by alanh 13y ago
This is not really newsworthy. As jonknee helpfully pointed out, this is only the admin interface. And anyone still using MSIE8 honestly has no business in your Google Analytics! Now, if this were Gmail, this would be news
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by alanh 13y ago
I knew I’d see this comment before I opened the HN discussion. Yes, it is fallacious to reject arguments to do the source. No, it is not unreasonable to use known facts about a speaker to weight the trust placed into their statements!
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by alanh 13y ago
Here is a mirror / cache: http://peg.gd/3pI
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by alanh 13y ago
Do you have a lawyer on speed dial? I don’t.
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by alanh 13y ago
Ah, this may help explain why so many sites have +1 buttons while they get so little use (often on the order of 1% of the Facebook Like activity). So Google uses its search monopoly in such a way as to incentivize site operators to advertis
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by alanh 13y ago
Our relatively simple Angular app was regularly consuming 100% CPU for literal minutes and ate up 600MB of RAM until we dramatically reduced not-actually-that-crazy number of API calls we made on load (from less than 100, mostly prefetching
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by alanh 13y ago
I’m not a NoSQL expert, but everyone I know who is considers Mongo a joke in production. And I would never use Angular in production apps (“painfully slow” is reason enough but I have ideological differences as well). That makes saying “no”
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by alanh 13y ago
Holy cow! Seriously? You cannot use the internet, at all, without it being tied to a real-life ID?
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by alanh 13y ago
That’s true for `ng-model` but is it true for parameters passed in to directives?

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