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by aprescott 14y ago
I literally just finished something today that attempts to solve a similar problem: http://copyfile.net/
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by aprescott 14y ago
I can think of two benefits beyond "gambling" on the price: 1. Dividends. 2. Stock buybacks.
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by aprescott 14y ago
When you reach a point where you have, say, half of your backup verification codes remaining and for some reason your timezone is that far out of sync that Google Authenticator no longer works (and for some reason you can't just sync your c
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by aprescott 15y ago
Tiny suggestion: the initial description disappears because the films load so quickly. Maybe make it available on the right or somewhere else?
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by aprescott 15y ago
I figured it would be obvious enough from what I outlined that the yes/no answers from the tails results gives you a proportion of "yes" answers, such as, say, 20/50, which is the proportion you want. The doubling is just 20/50 = 20*2/100.
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by aprescott 15y ago
Just to make this technique a bit clearer, since "subtract 50 and double" was a bit vague to me: you ask 100 people the question about illegal activity, and assume they're going to toss the coin and follow the protocol. That gives you 100 "
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Open-source attribution & contribution(aprescott.com)
1 points by aprescott 15y ago|0 comments
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by aprescott 15y ago
It's certainly true that not every browser supports CORS. But thinking about it, is logging out via a cross-domain request even that necessary in the vast majority of cases? Same-origin violation would block the POST. Plus it has nothing t
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by aprescott 15y ago
Yes: "the only way [...] to get a POST to fire cross-domain [...] is through JavaScript". The request would go against the same-origin policy, at which point CORS comes into play. Edit: Ah, but creating a form in the DOM and submitting it v
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by aprescott 15y ago
If Google required a POST to log out (as it should be, since logging someone out is changing the session state and therefore not a "safe" GET-able request[1]), we could fall back to CORS as protection which removes the need for a CSRF token
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by aprescott 15y ago
This should probably have a license added to it somewhere. Especially with those 21 forks hanging around.
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On Principle(me.veekun.com)
1 points by aprescott 15y ago|0 comments
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by aprescott 15y ago
While I agree, my complaint with it is even simpler: hit refresh and you can ostensibly keep adding kudos without limit. If that's not the case, then it's a UI problem because it doesn't tell you as much. If it is the case, then it certainl
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by aprescott 15y ago
How do you edit? Directly into the textarea or do you toggle between markdown and preview?
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by aprescott 15y ago
My guess would be that it's an attempt at making it very clear whose blog you're on, to disambiguate. http://svbtle.com/ now has colours for each member blogger, and it looks like they all have their own left sidebar slideout thing. Addit
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by aprescott 15y ago
I'm an idiot, I guess. I actually understood all along. I recognised that the initial score for new submissions would be monotonically increasing, but the graph's x axis was throwing me, by making it seem as though a single story over time
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by aprescott 15y ago
I think I might be missing something about the effect of submission time as described. t_s is a fixed value, and the post says, "The score won't decrease as time goes by, but newer stories will get a higher score than older." So why does th
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by aprescott 15y ago
Gordon Brown may have made an apology, but UK government recently refused to posthumously pardon Turing. http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolpinchefsky/2012/02/07/uk-de... The argument for not pardoning is mostly reasonable, I think. It was
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by aprescott 15y ago
Whenever submarine cables comes to my attention, the one thing I'm always curious about is what happens when they break? This article links to another they posted[1] and they then link to Wikipedia[2], and there's some exposition given on w
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by aprescott 15y ago
I'm so used to this being the engine behind, and so unique to, dcurt.is that it actually threw me a little when it wasn't Dustin Curtis's site. I don't know who is/are the developer(s) but my feeling is that it would sit better with a low n
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by aprescott 15y ago
Well, it seems I spoke too soon! When they first announced this on the official blog it wasn't available to me (an Apps user), but now it is.
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by aprescott 15y ago
Let's not talk about Google Apps users and this setting, shall we? :) Off-topic: fun to see that someone else got emails about Wave being sunsetted from the "Google Wage" sender.
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by aprescott 15y ago
I genuinely thought that all Nexus devices were stock Android without carrier modifications. Is this not the case?
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by aprescott 15y ago
Astonishing blog post. Imaging technology has been extremely effective in the field and has found things artfully concealed on passengers as large as a gun or nonmetallic weapons, on down to a tiny pill or tiny baggies of drugs. This remi
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The Role of Performance in Online Life(toolness.com)
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by aprescott 15y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/ is available! https HN links come up in Google results (at least from memory).
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by aprescott 15y ago
> The last time I was brusquely asked if I was a natural born citizen or had been naturalized at some point. If you're naturalised, my understanding is that you have all the rights of a person originally born in the country, with everyt
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by aprescott 15y ago
Thanks. I relied on Google Translate to do almost all of the translation!
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by aprescott 15y ago
As the comments on the article point out, this seems to be about the enterprise maps service to businesses which ordinarily is at a cost. From Le Monde[1]: "As such, it considered that Google Maps distorted the rules of free competition by
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by aprescott 15y ago
A related study into how long people spend reading words on a web page found that on average people only read 20-28% of the text. For 1000 words, the average visit duration was less than 70 seconds. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/percent-te

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