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by asg 15y ago
It was a documentary investigating online bullying. Not a 'news' story of the day.
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by asg 15y ago
And so it begins. While this leaves me with an icky feeling, being a java developer, I'm also cognizant of the fact that one of the major criticisms of Sun from the financial markets was that they could not monetize java very well. It'll be
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by asg 15y ago
The title on HN seems to have converted the 'not equal to' in the original into 'equals'
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by asg 15y ago
I get your point, but I'm still uncertain about whether to feel happy or disappointed at the fact that everything goes in circles. We (the internets :D) spend all this time getting out of the AOL walled garden, only to go back to the Facebo
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by asg 15y ago
I've not had a formal CS education. So the first time I had to write a mini compiler, I decided to do it by hand, for its educational value, rather than use a parser generator. Google got me Crenshaw's paper (Lets build a compiler), and I r
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by asg 15y ago
Yes, in the long term, printing money will lead to an inflationary spiral. The expectation of that will cause higher interest rates. But the fact remains, that in an emergency, it is a possibility. And the possibility of creates greater saf
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by asg 15y ago
Sure, it can cause inflation, but it is incontrovertible that governments can always replay local currency debt by issuing currency (except the EURO, where priting money has been offloaded to an external entity). Which is why sovereign debt
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by asg 15y ago
There is an option on facebook to prevent anyone else from tagging you in their photos. Its in you account privacy setting. Google+ lets you approve all tags.
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by asg 15y ago
Here's the original source for Uwe's email: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201107... Not sure why a third level reference is being passed around.
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by asg 15y ago
This assertion (among many other gems) was originally stated in the Mythical Man Month, by Fred Brooks, published in 1975.
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by asg 16y ago
OK, I understand why creating specific handlers might warrant a heads up. I suppose I'm unsympathetic since every authenticated web app I've done in the last 10 years has been SSL only. But that was too 'enterprisey' perhaps :). Also I imag
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by asg 16y ago
I'm sorry, but this is a cop-out. Even five minutes of thought on how you authenticate your users would have shown that it depends on one string being a secret. Most people acknowledge that passwords shouldn't be passed in the clear. So wha