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by alttag 15y ago
So.. it's click tracking. Big deal. The magic of HTML is that the link that's displayed (the original if shorter?) doesn't have to match the actual href. To use the zombo.com example above, why can't Twitter use the "shortener" to track red
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by alttag 15y ago
More helpful (to me) was the two-month-old YouTube video preview. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p92QfWOw88I
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by alttag 15y ago
Seems like an awful lot of words to say (a) computing has changed much in the last 15 years [you don't say!], and (b) we're going to start talking about changes early so the market isn't surprised or apprehensive. Not much meat in there.
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by alttag 15y ago
You mean like http://fafsa.gov ? They tell users to get the latest browser version, and then block them if they're running anything higher than Firefox v3.6. (Complaints are met with "install 3.6" or crickets. Same problem with running an
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by alttag 15y ago
Efficient for whom? Most grocery stores I frequent have replaced several lanes of "efficient" cashiers with the much slower (for shoppers) self-checkout systems. Yes, the lines may be shorter, and the store needs fewer checkers (one can cov
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by alttag 15y ago
Yes, it's irresponsible to _only_ excoriate the line workers. But wholly absolving them does no good either. Surely, there's enough blame to go around. (With an added helping for Congress, perhaps?)
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by alttag 15y ago
No. As I understand GAAP, the projected inflation and projected income (including interest) are taken into account at least annually. The company then pays the delta (or underpays the next installment by the delta, if appropriate). A proble
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by alttag 15y ago
Great quote, thank you. A buddhist blog [1] attributes it to Shirdi Sai Baba, and notes the phrase is also attributed to the Quakers. [also, 2] ("Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it true, is it necessary, does it improve upon
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by alttag 15y ago
Short version: Guy complains he can't find good gitignore files. Starts project. Comment links to active list of gitignore files on git hub, which solves initial problem: https://github.com/github/gitignore Nothing to see here. Why not li
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by alttag 15y ago
Nope. Works for me. ... but I've had an account there for a while.
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by alttag 15y ago
A legislative body can't force a segmentation of funds on their own! (I always laughed when my state legislators promised to do this.) Such a decision is overridable by 50%+1 of the legislative body--that same number that is would take to s
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by alttag 15y ago
I've had similar concerns with many articles as the GP (as clarified in the sibling comment): namely that so much of it is a clash of ideologies, and it's inconstant with my own. I don't have the time or inclination to deal with ideologues—
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by alttag 15y ago
Perhaps it's not your cup of tea, so to speak, but the internet has enabled a great deal of collaboration, digitization, and distribution of genealogical research and sources as well. Other internet-focused "charities" include post-disaster
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by alttag 15y ago
Knights can make it everywhere. The only position you'd never see is pawns on the first or last rank (their movement is forward and they promote to stronger pieces when reaching the other side). EDIT: Another feature ... in a properly set u
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by alttag 15y ago
In support of your comment, I think some are forgetting how horrible Netscape 6 actually was to use. (Or am I just getting old? It wasn't that long ago!) Compared to earlier versions it was incredibly slow—even by the standards of the time—
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by alttag 15y ago
Interesting (for U.S. residents), considering SCOTUS' 2002 opinion in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, which upheld depictions in cases where actual children were not involved. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashcroft_v._Free_Speech_Coaliti
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by alttag 15y ago
It doesn't seem to me that the candidate's response for #2 is "correct" (as you say). The most simple refutation being a 5:12:13 primitive triangle scaled 199,999x (such that the smallest side is less than, but not equal to, a million). Res
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by alttag 15y ago
Mmmm... I think it's more than that. It's been my experience that questioners don't always ask the right question. For example, consider the (not entirely) hypothetical "How do I implement drop-down menus?" What the person typically needs
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by alttag 15y ago
Perhaps part of his point if it's "just for fun", which in the broadest interpretation could be taken as "without any basis whatsoever" then it doesn't belong in front of a crowd of people who expect logical explanations for things. Let's b
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by alttag 15y ago
Of course it is. XKCD explained this a few weeks ago: http://xkcd.com/927/
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by alttag 15y ago
Typing words into the "sloggle" challenge, oftimes the textbox won't clear after hitting enter (but are accepted after a short delay), so the first few letters of the next word are removed along with the previous word.
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by alttag 15y ago
Most people don't use chrome—thus, most people aren't used to it. It's good Mozilla is moving forward at a rapid pace (particularly with the memory issues), but as long as the remainder of the software world is still in either the 90's slow
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by alttag 15y ago
It's not just that. Having upgraded to 5 just a couple of weeks ago, I clicked the link wondering if this was a reprint of an Onion article.
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by alttag 15y ago
Interesting. It would be neat if you could find a way to display prior users' submission with more than just hue and saturation and include luminosity or brightness too.
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by alttag 15y ago
Same here. Safari 5.05, OS X 10.6.8. (Tested in Firefox 5; same problem.)
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by alttag 15y ago
Same problem with a string of just spaces. It seems the string being hashed isn't URL-encoded first.