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by aneth 15y ago
> If you could measure them perfectly, there would be a loss Again, how do you know? Below someone says diet follows the laws of thermodynamics. That's hogwash. While our bodies certainly follow all laws of physics, that has nothing to
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by aneth 15y ago
While I have complete respect for @raganwald, I find it somewhat disturbing that he would even begin to implement or go along with this policy. I can't imagine asking an interviewee to login to their private facebook account, any more than
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by aneth 15y ago
> It's true that you don't lose weight without caloric deficit. Are you sure? I've lost plenty of weight following a low carb diet while eating tons of high calorie dark chocolate and oily meats.
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by aneth 15y ago
It's already possible to write templates this way. render 'template', :locals => {:wombat => 'foo'}
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by aneth 15y ago
This is an interesting analogy, yet laughably impractical and wrong. Paid business models do not guarantee success. If they did, Posterous would have charged. It seems land is so cheap, landlords have concluded the best possible chance to f
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by aneth 15y ago
I don't argue against having multiple ways of accomplishing the same thing - that should be limited but is certainly useful in many circumstances. The issue I have is designing different interfaces for the same feature because you can't thi
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by aneth 15y ago
I've worked with designers who justify making multiple interfaces for similar functions. Frankly, this approach is almost always wrong and results in confusing interfaces and repetitive, difficult to maintain implementations. Simplifying an
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by aneth 15y ago
I don't understand the debate about the stylus. You can buy many models of styli for the iPad. The fact that the thing doesn't ship with a $5 peripheral is hardly a detriment. In fact, it's an advantage - you get to pick your style of stylu
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by aneth 15y ago
Or perhaps it should be renamed, "Why the cloud IS for your startup." This explains how it's cheaper to deploy on metal for high traffic sites, as if $1000/month in server costs in the event that my site gets massive traffic matters. With H
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by aneth 15y ago
What could possibly be worse? Anything actually malicious or greedy. For all that GitHub has given to the developer community, an innocent mistake even of this proportion of incompetence is still should not evoke such hatred. And those upse
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by aneth 15y ago
I agree there are a number of complex issues here, however that line of code still obviously takes ALL content from the outside world and directly updates a model with it. Any developer who does not spot that as a security issue is probably
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by aneth 15y ago
Totally agree. The problem is the idiom of using mass assignment, which IMO should almost never be used. This is not a bug or a security hole in Rails, but an issue with programmers not paying attention. If Rails had no attr_accessible feat
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by aneth 15y ago
Interesting. I work with Rails every day. I understand and explain the source of the bug, and why it has nothing to do with some oversight by Rails. I'm downvoted. Every other answer, often admittedly, is written by someone who doesn't know
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by aneth 15y ago
This has been Rails behavior from day 1. Rails seems to assume that people will make some level of effort to secure their application before deploying to production. There are many ways and places to protect models, and mass assignment prot
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by aneth 15y ago
The response to this makes me feel that HackerNews is now populated by a bunch of pretenders. This "bug" has been in Rails since Day 1, and any remotely experienced Rails developer is aware of this functionality. You can argue for a differe
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Demonstration of Diebold voting machine hacked using balancing negative votes(youtube.com)
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by aneth 15y ago
The first one on the list has not been updated since 2010, when it proclaimed itself "super buggy." This article seems part of the recent trend of "top x" articles with zero research backing them up.
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by aneth 15y ago
Because lots of people like to shop together with friends, and most ecommerce sites don't provide a good or even any experience for social shopping. Facebook or someone will eventually get this right. Pinterest is a down that path. OTOH, I
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by aneth 15y ago
This is the first iteration of something I'm sure Apple will refine over the coming years. It's not surprising they haven't addressed the concerns of some applications, particularly power user and developer applications. Instituting a sandb
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by aneth 15y ago
It's time for a widespread revolt against domain name seizures and suspensions without due process. Where do we start? This path will undermine the internet economy and sets precedents for horrible oppression and control by large interests
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by aneth 15y ago
> Even if you pinpoint my building, you don't know my name. Is your name not Swizec Teller, as it says on your website and supposedly real name policy following G+?
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by aneth 15y ago
Is there a reason to use any of these services given how trivial it is to set up an open source alternative? You can push errbit to heroku in 5 minutes and you're done. Perhaps there is a level of service here and a business I don't see, an
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by aneth 15y ago
Not to be uncool, but I enjoy Facebook. I find it to be a fun way to stay in touch with connections, discuss, share, chat, etc. Sure I want data portability, but I believe that will come in time from competitive and user forces, and my lif
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by aneth 15y ago
Any evolutionary biologist have theories on why our brains would be so underutilized? I wonder if there is a disadvantage to certain kinds of intelligence. Perhaps society works best when there is a variety of levels of intelligence, so the
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by aneth 15y ago
If anything ever reaches "11 out of 10 on the pain scale," your body is probably telling you something. For those of you in San Francisco or New York, I highly recommend One Medical - you can make same day appointments and they are super ef
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by aneth 15y ago
I do hope Google Plus is not the future of blogging. Much better to have stylized, distributed hosting with distributed syndicated commenting than the monotonous (and Safari on iPhone crashing) Google Plus.
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by aneth 15y ago
It doesn't directly claim that, however calling these "The Five Stages of Hosting" implies that an application will likely progress through these stages as it grows, and that application platforms will be quickly outgrown when any sort of s
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by aneth 15y ago
Why is it that a well written site can't scale quite large on heroku? (or similar - I use heroku so I'm biased) Perhaps I'm naive, but I feel one can go from heroku to stage 5 if you truly have a blowout. According to their website ( http:
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by aneth 15y ago
Really? If we waited until nuclear explosions were proven to consider ethical implications we might be in a very different place. Ethical considerations don't need to stop scientific advancement, but they always must be an ongoing part of t
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by aneth 15y ago
Belittling others' successes is bad form and indicative of a a sense of entitlement and superiority. Oink is interesting and beautiful, Kevin Rose is smart and decent. Your app is neither and you sound bitter. It is not surprising to an obj

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