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by billpg 4y ago
"There's a problem. Some machines don't have some braces and vertical bars and such. We'll have to add keywords like OR and BEGIN and END." "Are question marks fine?" "Yes." "I'll come
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by billpg 4y ago
Fair point, but my lived experience of USB-C is that several of my Micro-USB cables dotted around now have little converter heads added. My tablets and battery packs (and other gizmos) still need the Micro-USB port so I can't just repl
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by billpg 4y ago
Around five years or so ago, I had lots of gadgets, all using Micro-USB. Life was good, I had purchased a job lot of cables and made sure every location on my house, car and desk at work had more than enough cables so any gadget would be re
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“My latest invention. I call it fruit.”(twitter.com)
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by billpg 4y ago
The UIDL command is specified as an optional command, but it's really required. https://billpg.com/pop3-uidl/ The workload required to poll is heavy. You need to reconnect TCP, TLS and login. Once you find you hav
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by billpg 4y ago
You can, it's just the answer will be "Someone using (ISP)". Even then, that ISP will be the one to contact.
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by billpg 4y ago
But why would I, a complete stranger to you, need to look up that contact information? We both hold a number of domains, but that alone isn't a reason for needing to contact each other.
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by billpg 4y ago
Why do domains have WHOIS records anyway? I get why IP blocks have it because machines actually do things from behind IP addresses, but the only thing I'm doing from a domain name is stopping other people from using it. Someone is
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by billpg 4y ago
"Serverless" comes packaged and optimized for this mode of operation. Everyone expects the VMs to be short-lived. I'm sure it's all a remarkably boring VM service underneath.
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by billpg 4y ago
A virtual machine that's spun-up for long enough to run your program and then disposed of.
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by billpg 4y ago
I've seen websites that use no cookies at all put up the banner. (Just in case.)
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by billpg 4y ago
They're sorta saying the quiet bit out loud there.
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by billpg 4y ago
Services like FeedBurner used to be needed for Podcasts because badly written podcast catchers would poll the RSS once a minute without any regard for caching or taking any indication of when the next episode is due. Is this still the case?
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by billpg 4y ago
I like WordPress.
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by billpg 4y ago
Absolutely. Abstract away those SELECT/etc and allow for someone to specify what handler is going to implement that abstract interface.
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by billpg 4y ago
Those plugins that don't work with SQLite will be replaced with plugins that do.
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by billpg 4y ago
I'd go even further and replace the database with a folder full of JSON files. (Or other similar structured text files.) Why? Then I could store my WordPress folder in git and realistically merge changes between copies of my website.
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by billpg 4y ago
"Welcome to the Soap-of-the-Week Club! Every week we'll send you some tiny bars of soap in a little stack. You may not revoke your membership."
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by billpg 4y ago
Why do I feel the urge to find this guy's address and arrange for an industrial crate of tiny soap bars delivered to him?
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by billpg 4y ago
"This is Bob, our human customer representative. His job is to agree with the robot while technically being a human."
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by billpg 4y ago
Not starting with "Hello World"? Is that even legal?
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by billpg 4y ago
To everyone mentioning 3D Secure et al, I've only used them on the payments side, but it doesn't resemble the 2FA systems that the original poster was asking about. What's going on when the browser does stuff just before the
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by billpg 4y ago
"That's very nice but can you email me a copy in Microsoft Word DOCX format please?"
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by billpg 4y ago
About time they standardised this protocol.
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by billpg 4y ago
There was a point in the mid 90s at university when I didn't have a phone number, neither a land-land at my rented shared house nor any sort of mobile. If I needed to call anyone I used the public phone on the corner a minute or so wal
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by billpg 4y ago
Old .net has become ".net framework". I'm just glad the number-space has been sorted out. It was annoying to learn that ".NET 2", ".NET Standard 2" and ".NET Core 2" are very different things.
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by billpg 4y ago
That surprises me. If you had asked me, I'd have said that with normal optimizations switched on, both programs would boil down to exactly the same single function call that copies a byte-array to the stdout stream. I would have to won
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by billpg 4y ago
In the story, The storyteller is tasked with maintaining Mel's code. He can't do it. Mel hadn't left any documentation. All sort of tricks. No explanation of what's going on.
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by billpg 4y ago
Some things never change. One of my first HN comments got me four down-votes for much the same comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=679208 Back then, I was so new it bumped me down into negative score. I almost mad
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by billpg 4y ago
I hope I never have to work with someone like him. He sounds awful.

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