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by aristus 15y ago
It was a good effort, Peter, and fwiw your advice caused me to step up my game. You're a good editor and I'm sure the next thing will be big. Good luck!
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by aristus 15y ago
Credit should go to the Google "IW10" team, which did the hard work of testing this over years and (even harder) patiently convincing people one by one that this is a good idea. I caution against fiddling with this number too much. Bandwidt
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by aristus 15y ago
This is interesting but as a general rule I'd advise against giving a third-party, non-HTTPS, obfuscated Javascript the ability to rummage around inside your Facebook session.
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by aristus 15y ago
I loved that book but you're right. The punny names for things were too cute and did not translate well from the German, despite heroic effort. I gather that they are a bit strained even in the original, eg calling a square root a "radish".
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by aristus 15y ago
Thank you for the response! Some general comments: this book does not try to explain all of computer science. There's already a guy working on that book, and it's taken him 50 years so far. Laurie does learn some programming in the book.
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by aristus 15y ago
It's a joke. :) I should try to dig up a country that does have year-round school.
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by aristus 15y ago
Even better, go donate blood and sign up for the marrow program there. Whole blood is always in demand. I donated marrow a few months ago. I had been on the list for fourteen, fifteen years before I came up as a match. Can't say it was a lo
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by aristus 15y ago
There is no perfect size any more than there is a perfect sized glove, shirt, chair, etc. We programmers have gotten away with ignoring anthropometric variation till now.
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by aristus 15y ago
You know, I don't know. IIRC some of the larger sites like Wikipedia and WordPress were looking at it. The dev mailing list is pretty quiet. Ah, well.
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by aristus 15y ago
You are right that I/O is usually the first bottleneck. I assure you that being CPU bound is no picnic, not least because most optimization knowledge and experience out there relates to I/O. :) Even if you are not CPU bound, HipHop is stead
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by aristus 15y ago
I'm surprised that you didn't mention HipHop, especially if performance is your biggest gripe. It really is the bee's knees and will only get better. I spent a good chunk of my day looking at PHP code and profiling data. Assocs are terrible
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Lauren Ipsum and the Wandering Salesman(carlos.bueno.org)
20 points by aristus 15y ago|1 comments
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by aristus 15y ago
You might want to check the credits at the end of the post ahupp linked to. :)
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by aristus 15y ago
If you cannot entertain the possibility that employees of the company who work with the code in question are telling the truth, and put more faith in a paraphrase by a journalist, then we don't have much common ground to have an intelligent
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by aristus 15y ago
:( This meme has been refuted so many times I don't know what else to do. We do not track logged-out behavior. The datr cookie is for phishing and spam protection. http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=186325668085084 http://www.zdnet.com/bl
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by aristus 15y ago
I think you're making two good points, and thank you for engaging. 1) The permission model, ie "ask for everything up front" may be broken. A few times I've forgotten that I approved some app or another and was surprised when it pops up. It
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by aristus 15y ago
Fair enough. I will follow up. FWIW, the act cookie is always set to session only.
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by aristus 15y ago
We've gone far off the topic now, but I hope we can come back to it someday. "I've never heard from any of you on this forum until recently" I've been an HN user under this handle since it was called "Startup News", and I've seen your usern
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by aristus 15y ago
"devil’s bargain" "it preys on our children" "covert influence by their engineers on forums" Seriously, Andrew? How about this: instead of spending a nice Sunday afternoon with my wife in the park, I, secret blackops covert Facebook emplo
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by aristus 15y ago
Normally the security@ team is very responsive, and not that hard to find: https://www.facebook.com/security As for your specific claim about cookies, there is a little checkbox labeled "Keep me logged in" or "Remember me" on the login pa
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by aristus 15y ago
It's like a captcha. You have no idea how many spammers and scammers want to attack Facebook users and their data via trojan horse apps. Srsly. For a taste, here's a paper by the FB security team: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projec
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by aristus 15y ago
Nothing is wrong with having a good product. The question at hand is whether dominance in one market is being used to kill legitimate competition in others. It was the same with Microsoft 15 years ago, though AFAICT Google are nowhere near
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by aristus 15y ago
The remedies tend to be forced divestiture (eg, Google forced to some portion of DoubleClick, I forget which one), full breakup (a la AT&T), or huge fines (as with Intel in Europe). None of those are surgical. The breakup of Ma Bell may
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by aristus 15y ago
Congress is spending time investigating whether this company has become so successful that it is a defacto a monopoly and has abused its position. These two questions are not settled. Gibson was investigated along with other companies for
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by aristus 15y ago
You are offended because Google is being held to a different standard, and you are right. That's the whole point. Monopolies are held to a different standard. This exercise is about determining whether a) Google enjoys a monopoly and b) has
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Lauren Ipsum: Computer Science for Kids(carlos.bueno.org)
7 points by aristus 15y ago|0 comments
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by aristus 15y ago
You want thousands of people to die because you don't like their website? How did you get into grad school?
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by aristus 15y ago
Trolling journo on a deadline. I worked at Yahoo for 4 years, off and on. I have worked at FB for almost 2. The companies are almost nothing alike, inside or out. And does he really think that Facebook and Skype slapped together an integrat
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by aristus 15y ago
Tip to the poster, and to anyone: Google (and Facebook, and others) have bug bounty programs. You can get paid tens to thousands of dollars if you report vulns to the vendor first.
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by aristus 15y ago
It's a sendup of mootools, I believe. Evan is an interesting character and a master troll. Last week he added the "hacked by Chinese" banner to see if anyone would notice.

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