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by azov 15y ago
This is a horrible solution. I don't care what security experts say about two-factor authentication. I'm not about to start stuffing my pockets with a pile of security tokens. I have more than enough keys on my keychain, thank you. Unless
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by azov 15y ago
The article could be more properly called "Using dancers to illustrate a short photography 101 course". As to dance-related tips. Unless you're planning to set up an external lighting kit (in which case you probably know what you're doing a
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by azov 15y ago
In principle I doubt anybody thinks that "trick you into paying for books, close your account, and run away with your money" is Amazon's new business model. Obviously it is some sort of mistake/miscommunication and they will eventially sort
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by azov 15y ago
What happened to the books on his device? $1000 worth of books should easily fit on one Kindle, even if he can't login to his account - how did he get locked out of his content? Did Amazon remotely wipe out his purchases? Did he buy books o
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by azov 15y ago
Think of it in context. A few short years ago nobody had e-readers because books that people wanted were not available, and nobody cared to publish books in electronic format because nobody owned e-readers. That's why Amazon and others had
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by azov 15y ago
"Whatever was there" was removed before the bunker was declassified. As far as I understand from the original text (english translation on the blogspam site is incomplete at best), the monitors were installed by the company who now manages
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by azov 15y ago
You can say truth 90% of the time and still be considered a liar. The value of your feedback goes through the floor if it doesnt accurately reflect the state of the system. Telling the user that something is done when it isnt is plain and s
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by azov 15y ago
There's a difference between a non-blocking UI, and the UI that hides progress of an operation that actually takes time. I'm all for non-blocking UIs, sure, let me do other things while I wait. I'm not so crazy about hiding progress. Call m
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by azov 15y ago
I don't have any references to academic research, but my own experience interviewing people supports the claim. When presented with a simple coding problem, some people just breeze through it, others take most of the interview to finish it,
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by azov 15y ago
OS X is technically correct, but it's 202M hits on Google for OS X vs 82M for OSX. As far as I'm concerned both are widely used by technical and non-technical people and mean the same thing. It's a tiny mistake that could be fixed in one se
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by azov 15y ago
That's what the developer of marrow.org might have thought. And then: > I fussed around with the website to update my contact data If someone did a better job designing or testing the UI on that web app, who knows how many extra lives
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How Instagram’s Filters Came About(thefader.com)
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by azov 15y ago
I'm not sure I agree with the "work of beauty" statement. A browser plugin? Rendering all pages on the client via some massive JS framework? Intercepting all page loads and hooking into browser navigation? Compiling templates into Python &#
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by azov 15y ago
> JSON.parse is a library function. How can it judge whether the caller can continue or not just because the JSON cannot be parsed? Don't make assumptions about the caller, throw if your library can't continue. > So although try/ca
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by azov 15y ago
> You can't reasonably argue that this: try { foo = JSON.parse(input) } catch (er) { return "invalid data" } is more lightweight than: foo = JSON.parse(input) if (!foo) return "invalid data This is like say
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by azov 15y ago
it's unfair to compare professional human athletes to caged chimpanzees in a zoo. Compare poor chimps to some pizza-eating couch potato human spending most of his time in front of TV (or computer monitor) instead, lifestyle matters! :-)
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by azov 15y ago
I think the title is highly misleading. It's not about busy vs not busy, it's about doing the right thing vs doing something that doesn't matter. The A-group was doing three times more work that matters. And work that doesn't matter doesn
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by azov 15y ago
Huh? This memo doesn't seem to have much substance in it. Is he just brushing it all off basically saying "WSJ is lying, now forget about it all and go back to work" or am I missing something?
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by azov 15y ago
> tools that make web apps look and behave more like native apps [will somehow help web apps kill native apps] You can't kill anything by trying to imitate it. Especially when you have constraints that ensure that your imitation will
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by azov 15y ago
Judgement is indeed an important part of being a great developer, but I don't think the article is doing a good job of explaining why, or what kind of judgement. First of all, the story about Jack & Dianne doesn't illustrate much. Why J
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by azov 15y ago
Am I the only one who doesn't get this UI? If I have to scroll anyway, what's the point of those next buttons? What is the purpose of page numbers at the top when there's already a scrollbar showing where I am? I think it does nothing but a
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by azov 15y ago
Atlassian also has bitbucket, which is a direct competitor to github and priced at $10/month for 10 developers or $25/month for 25 developers. So, it's only $240 a year for 20 developers ( https://bitbucket.org/plans ). It may not have all
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by azov 15y ago
AFAIK, military maps are still secret in most places. This is because they contain information that cannot be easily derived from hi-res satellite imagery. Stuff like "how much weight can this bridge support", "how deep is this ford", etc.
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by azov 15y ago
Do you realize how long the process of getting an employment based green card takes? Oddly enough, it is possibly the longest way to obtain US residency. 5-7 years from the start is probably the average, and 10+ years is not unheard of. Mos
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by azov 15y ago
I wouldn't say that Thrift is clearly better then Protobuf. It's more like they solve slightly different problems and make slightly different tradeoffs.
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by azov 15y ago
JSON does not work well for binary data. BJSON tries to fix this, but in languages like C++ you will still have to deal with clumsy parser syntax when you deserialize your stuff. It's much more convenient to have native classes representing
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by azov 15y ago
there's a lot of value. A chunk of text is in many ways much easier to deal with then a bunch of fields in a form. Changing the order of items is trivial, you can copy and paste stuff, it's easy to email the whole thing to someone for revi
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by azov 15y ago
it depends on what you're planning to do with the picture. For example, if you're a designer working with a stock photo, the ability to refocus based on the context where you plan to use the picture could be huge.
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by azov 15y ago
Even a minor fender-bender will probably cost you more then all traffic fines you can collect before losing your license. So, you're increasing the chance of blowing well over 100% of your disposable income on dealing with an accident (not
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by azov 15y ago
Indeed. "I've been doing X for Y years" doesn't tell me anything about how good someone is at X, but it does set expectations about how much their level may change in the near future. If you've been writing C++ for a year, there's a good ch

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