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811.
by alanh 14y ago
Consider using a bookmarklet like this for an instantly-improved reading experience. http://peg.gd/2Ix
812.
by alanh 14y ago
Wow, I hope everyone reads the article before commenting. It’s still amazingly successful. There was a 95% chance the satellite would have made it if they tried, but they were obligated not to try if there were less than a 99% chance of suc
813.
by alanh 14y ago
I love that the underscore doc for `has` links to the submitted article.
814.
by alanh 14y ago
I think you are missing something. If I understood the article’s example, he’s suggesting the (perfectly plausible) use case of a new blog post named, e.g., `hasOwnProperty`. Then they would want to set a key named `hasOwnProperty` in the `
815.
by alanh 14y ago
That’s a really interesting anecdote, but not fully thinking through the security implications of the Web in 1996 is not the same thing as royally screwing up in 2012.
816.
by alanh 14y ago
My Dropbox isn’t big enough for the file I would want to send to Glacier. Does Amazon provide a fairly decent interface? Or, failing that, are there clients that can work with AWS Glacier already, the way some FTP clients can speak to AWS S
817.
by alanh 14y ago
I haven’t played their annoying game in quite a few months (despite being addicted, despite myself, initially). I got a Draw Something email yesterday (contents: “Please? We know you love us! Here’s your username! You forgot, right? Haha! L
818.
by alanh 14y ago
It’s awkwardly sexist (and violent, but okay, it is a game company).
819.
by alanh 14y ago
If you read the linked thread, it’s clear they did not, in fact, register or otherwise control the domain.
820.
by alanh 14y ago
Nik, your articles would seem to be of a much higher standard (and, accordingly, posted with greater infrequency) than most others on TC. Plain and simple, it seems that most of the time, most of TC’s homepage is not investigative, but sens
821.
by alanh 14y ago
Hmm, yeah, what happens when people ignore the survey? Does it default to 1/n or perhaps weight by some calculation of usage frequency?
822.
by alanh 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App.net#App.net > It is designed to be similar to Twitter, but have no advertising, instead relying on user and developer subscriptions. They began directly crowd funding it on July 13, 2012, with a goal
823.
by alanh 14y ago
mnicole, you do not need to approve extension updates unless they ask for more permissions. In the ancestral thread, the assumption is those wildcard permissions were already granted.
824.
by alanh 14y ago
Okay, linkbait headline, then.
825.
by alanh 14y ago
Really glad they dropped the protocol from user IDs! Looking forward to being ^alanhogan.com or ^ajh.us one day :)
826.
by alanh 14y ago
> (until they catch on) Assume they already have. Crackers do implement common patterns & substitutions. And even if they don’t yet, your password could be cracked in 10 years to gain access to an account you never updated or data y
827.
by alanh 14y ago
"buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo" is a well-known phrase (meaning that buffalo [animals] from Buffalo [place] fool [buffalo as a verb] other buffalo from Buffalo). "eight six…" are lyrics from a popular song (a.k.a. “Jenny”)
828.
by alanh 14y ago
Wouldn’t there be a prohibitive number of false positives? It sounds like the poster child for this sort of calculation: http://lesswrong.com/lw/2b0/bayes_theorem_illustrated_my_way...
829.
by alanh 14y ago
I mis-spoke. I didn’t mean “rat race.” I meant process. I am not saying there are too many Windows updates; I am saying you are far more likely to have problems after upgrading Windows than you are a Mac. For example, I literally cannot ins
830.
by alanh 14y ago
Thanks for the objective fact, dear sir. While that may be true w.r.t. stability, the functionality, graphics, and polish have only gotten better. Security, too: consider FileVault 2. That’s what I like.
831.
by alanh 14y ago
Perhaps in theory, but 10.5 is a small slice of OS X users (and three versions behind, now, which means more than it does in the Windows world.)
832.
by alanh 14y ago
I love updating my Mac. Each new version makes it better, and problems seem to be minor and rare. It’s worlds different from the Windows upgrade <del>rat-race</del> <ins>process</ins>. That said, yes, the har
833.
by alanh 14y ago
Actually, there are now more Chrome users than IE users (depending on which country you are dealing with). German users have been huge Firefox users since 2005. And the Webkit supergroup (add all the Safari, iOS, and Android browsers to Chr
834.
by alanh 14y ago
Oh no, he reduced the attack space from 20% to 80%! Oh wait…
835.
by alanh 14y ago
That’s the same thing.
836.
by alanh 14y ago
So what, exactly, is no longer compressed? Merely the headers themselves, and the content is not affected?
837.
by alanh 14y ago
Is this a disabling of compression on both ends? No DEFLATE on either requests or responses? Will a site using HTTPS be able to serve compressed assets (like javascript & css)? If not, we’ll urgently need a way for site devs to whitelis
838.
by alanh 14y ago
Or posts older than a day or two, I believe.
839.
by alanh 14y ago
I sent feedback@quora.com a message to let them know I am very upset with this gross violation of privacy and Web norms. I encourage you all to do the same. (Or call them, if you know someone.)
840.
by alanh 14y ago
I think that is a list of conjectures.

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