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by arantius 16y ago
Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1859417
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by arantius 16y ago
> Try a few examples where someone writes a couple of paragraphs and your bottom reply is below the fold. Most people will think you didn't reply, not that they have to scroll to find it. Then you're quoting incorrectly. (Notice how I
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On The Usability of Passwords(baekdal.com)
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by arantius 16y ago
Obviously, the emphasis is based on the _length_ of the road, data that is easily accessible. Castle Ridge Rd. is long. Given data laying out connected points, it's harder to say what's an intersection, but easy to say how far apart the p
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by arantius 16y ago
> As this is a product page and not a comparison matrix, why ... Because you're wrong. It is a comparison matrix, and not a product page. http://www.google.com/phone lists many different android phones, by many different manufacture
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by arantius 16y ago
The article talks about simple sharing to online services, then says "Apple and Google still do not have this functionality." But that's not true. My android phone has a 'share' button in the gallery, from which I can choose a variety of d
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by arantius 16y ago
There is, however, a proper solution to this problem: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-y... Or even simpler, if you're going to go reconfiguring apache, just set up your virtual hosts right, so that only the name
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by arantius 16y ago
Let's assume the data in the article is perfectly representative, or that it is chosen "almost 18" percent of the time. I'll say an even 18 to make this easier: "I'll bet that if you pick any random number from 1 to 20, I can guess it. If
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by arantius 16y ago
I don't know what point you're trying to make, and I don't have a snappy anecdote to back it up. But I know I've observed similar (and similarly unnoticed) slips of pronunciation. It's not like the spoken word is infallible.
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by arantius 16y ago
That bet would fail. (I, at least, use about:mozilla .)
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by arantius 16y ago
It is not (directly) dependent on the manufacturer. It's dependent on how many barriers your manufacturer and/or carrier put between the original Android source, and your phone. In the case of HTC phones with Sense, they have to add a lot
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by arantius 16y ago
Blogspam. Original (2007): http://ask.metafilter.com/55153/Whats-the-middle-ground-betw...
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by arantius 16y ago
Honestly, it's just the way things work. It's not specific to this phone or provider. You get a subsidized phone when you sign up a _new_ plan. It's part of the cost of the service you're agreeing to. If you're already a customer, in th
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by arantius 16y ago
> The last 6 purchases I've made through eBay resulted in products delivered that were not as represented. Wow, really? Six in a row? I've participated in hundreds of transactions through eBay (over the years) and I can only think of
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by arantius 16y ago
> Not exactly. It updates the file to the state from the index. Whoops, you got me. I of course meant "in the working tree" when I said local. It's just easy to be close, but not quite, right with the terminology.
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by arantius 16y ago
> they have a lot more inertia than most other tools because they are, by nature, shared by groups. The term you're looking for is "network effect". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
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by arantius 16y ago
> 'git checkout <filename>' == 'replace <filename> with the version of <filename> in the index' (if the index is empty, then index == HEAD) Well, really: "git checkout foo" means: 1) Switch the branch, if foo is
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by arantius 16y ago
> The title is "Scroogle has been blocked". How does this imply Google is evil? The title of the post on HN is "Google scraper may have to be permanently retired, thanks to a change at Google". Big difference.
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by arantius 16y ago
Wow. I'm surprised at the one-sided-ness of comments here at HN. I read the article and totally agreed. I've been trying to deal with all the complexity of working copy/index/local repostory/remote repository/other remote repositories, m
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by arantius 16y ago
This is an _alpha_ release. This is the exact same software as written for Maemo, not yet customized for the Android platform. So the menu and back buttons aren't hooked up yet. Rome wasn't built in a day. The address bar is not always s
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by arantius 16y ago
> Well, evolution doesn't always mean improvement. I think you mean: evolution doesn't always mean _adding things_. Taking away something that causes a net loss is evolution. Much like, say, the tail in certain higher primates. Or th
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by arantius 16y ago
Yes, and it's very simple. Don't type anything important unless you also typed the URL into the address bar. Plenty of real mail from reputable, very phishable, sites actually say exactly this in their real emails-to-customers sometimes.
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by arantius 16y ago
> Like it or not, in pretty much any retail environment, this practice is unacceptable. Why? Can you explain the rational reason why a retail store would want to keep someone from paying full price for their items?
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by arantius 16y ago
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#3... Specifically: What happens when Content ID identifies a match? If Content ID identifies a match between a user upload and material in the reference library, it applies the us
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by arantius 16y ago
> EDIT: I am intentionally not including the " http:// since: And I am intentionally not clicking the link because ... it's not a link. I have a greasemonkey script that automatically turns plain text URLs into clickable links. But t
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by arantius 17y ago
For all the naysayers ("this will break so many sites!") a challenge: Can you find even one site that applies a non-color style to visited links? Two? Ten? How long do you have to look to find it/them? Are any of these 'broken' besides
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by arantius 17y ago
They've probably thought about this, but what about siblings? a:visited + .sneakydiv { /* ... */ }
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by arantius 17y ago
> Is the upper left pixel in this (RR G BB), which the article seems to assert, or (RR G BB G) ? Take a look at the photo vs. the debugger snapshot of the "3G" text. The uprights in the G are 3 pixels wide, and display as one of either
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by arantius 17y ago
What a pointless misunderstanding. They're all simply better than the metaphor. Obviously a physical magnifying glass held over a piece of paper cannot create or remove information, only scale it. "Zooming in" in software, however, involve
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by arantius 17y ago
He specifically talked about the fact that when the brain has a "strong enough" bias, that's when it ends up telling you that its false error correction data is indeed fact.

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