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by bengillies 9y ago
If you store settings related to password system requirements on a per site basis then you're leaking the existence of your account on that site, which often needs to be private itself.
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Python Functional HTTP Testing with Gabbi(aalvarez.me)
2 points by bengillies 9y ago|0 comments
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by bengillies 10y ago
Ultimately though, we can only speak for our own moral choices. If you're happy with doing something unethical or illegal, then go ahead. If you're not prepared to, then don't. If you refuse though, then what happens afterwar
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by bengillies 11y ago
This isn't about deployment of broadband (though it's certainly related), it's about rollout of fibre, which can be used for other services (such as TV) as well.
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Persistent IRC Considered Harmful(anticdent.org)
36 points by bengillies 11y ago|59 comments
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by bengillies 11y ago
Right and as it says in the title, use of JIRA is often a symptom that there is a problem with management. Nowhere is it stated that JIRA itself is the problem.
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by bengillies 11y ago
> It is not the one-size-fits-all solution you are using it as. If your site has a dynamic form, you don’t need a freaking virtual DOM. The main benefit of virtual DOM afaict is that it makes rendering on the server trivial without needi
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by bengillies 12y ago
People interested in Hypercard should probably check out the new, improved version of TiddlyWiki http://tiddlywiki.com/
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by bengillies 12y ago
At the very least it clarifies with actual metrics how terrible the service is.
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by bengillies 12y ago
If they want to reach a billion people then starting off by targeting all 1 billion is probably the wrong way of going about it.
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by bengillies 12y ago
Getting banned from publishing apps to the Play Store is reasonable and proportional. Getting banned from all Google services whether related or not seems a bit much imho.
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by bengillies 12y ago
Without commenting on this specific case, it's often a lot more difficult and nuanced than simply what is best for that individual child. If you're in a class full of around 30 children and one child is misbehaving to the extent t
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by bengillies 12y ago
As I understand it the idea is that your email address is your identity so you only need to remember that (which most people are capable of) rather than having to a) remember your username/password (which can at least be stored in Last
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by bengillies 12y ago
The Russian revolution is a much more recent example I think.
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by bengillies 12y ago
Not to say anything about anything else that he's done, but is search and rescue not a worthwhile thing to do then?
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by bengillies 12y ago
It seems like you've thought about the experience for end users, but I can't see a way to actually try it out (from an end user perspective) from your homepage.
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by bengillies 13y ago
> "There's hardly a crime drama where a crime is solved without using the data of a mobile communications device." All you can really tell from that statement though is that script writers enjoy adding in wiretapping, etc
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by bengillies 13y ago
It's probably worth pointing out that open access, while important, isn't really relevant to this discussion as publishers like Nature already embrace open access. (disclaimer, I work for Digital Science, which is owned by the com
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by bengillies 13y ago
> "OSS as a hiring filter biases your selection process toward white men"... not sure what to say. OSS as a hiring filter biases your selection process toward people who are either paid to do it at their current job, or who hav
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by bengillies 13y ago
Pretty sure it's more to do with most people likely not ever needing more than 16/32GB over the lifetime of their phone, meaning adding a microSD slot would be simply a waste of time, effort and space.
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by bengillies 13y ago
Right and ClojureScript, for example, has full goroutines in it (i.e. core.async) if doing standard callback based async in JS isn't your thing. Functionally, it makes little to no difference whether you're writing something that
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by bengillies 13y ago
- GWT - Dart - ClojureScript
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by bengillies 13y ago
Well, theoretically IE9 users should all be automatically upgraded to IE10 anyway, so IE9 has less market share than IE8 at the moment (see http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpri... ).
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by bengillies 13y ago
right. undefined is falsy, but it's quite different to false (i.e. undefined !== false)
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by bengillies 13y ago
I get that it's supposed to be funny but if you want to, for example, do anything on Android, then the answer is most definitely yes.
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by bengillies 13y ago
The problem with pretending to be someone unfamiliar with touch UI (and computers in general) is that whatever you claim to be confusing is still just conjecture. You claim one thing, Apple claims another. If you'd highlighted the part
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by bengillies 13y ago
People generally won't be confronted with Nestle's questionable practices though, so it's likely a non issue. At any rate enough people either don't know, or don't care to make KitKat a popular enough brand for Goog
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That PE Thang(infrequently.org)
2 points by bengillies 13y ago|0 comments
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by bengillies 13y ago
At least override the scrolling in the right direction (i.e. horizontally)
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by bengillies 13y ago
TL;DR: NSA man claims Europe more likely to spy on citizens than US. Uses study done without knowledge of PRISM (presumably) to back claim up.

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