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by bjxrn 13y ago
"But is this even a real problem? No, not really." If you have that luxury then that's great. For you. But if you're doing client work you likely don't have the luxury of never having to estimate. And even if you're not doing client work th
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by bjxrn 13y ago
That's largely due to taxes though.
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by bjxrn 13y ago
I just want to point out that anyone can help the Archive Team by running an "Archive Team Warrior". It's a virtual machine which scrapes things that need to be archived. Currently Posterous, Formspring, various URL shorteners and of course
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by bjxrn 13y ago
You want to know why people worry about older versions of IE? Because a large enough chunk of their visitors still use those browsers. It's that simple.
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by bjxrn 13y ago
It's not just going over a blacklist though. If you do any form of checking/rejecting a password, you're probably infringing something. And it's not just the checking, the article also mentions "recovery of forgotten passwords, secure passw
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by bjxrn 14y ago
Yes, to be fair, Gillette still manufactures and sells older versions. They even make & sell double edged razor blades. But they definitely push for whatever is the newest (and usually more expensive) option.
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by bjxrn 14y ago
There's no issue with the Mach3, or whatever came before it. They just want to push their consumers to the newest version.
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by bjxrn 14y ago
Google Sidewiki?
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by bjxrn 14y ago
Gmail blue made me think of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsi_Blue
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by bjxrn 14y ago
Pssst. I don't think that was seriously a post from a D&B developer.
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by bjxrn 14y ago
One of the main reasons I switched away from Opera was because so many neat little projects made with new HTML5 technologies would not work in Opera. This goes both for small side projects as well as business ventures. I do understand the l
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by bjxrn 14y ago
And I'm not saying that being wrong in the past makes you wrong in the present.
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by bjxrn 14y ago
Yeah. They have a litte bit more information on their own blog about it: http://www.artisopensource.net/2013/03/17/incautious-porn-a-...
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by bjxrn 14y ago
Just ignoring the rest of the article and whether or not he is right, I'm just going to pick on this quote: "So many of [Apple's competitors] complained that Apple's music player lacked features like FM radio and was overall too simple. But
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by bjxrn 14y ago
"White noise" is not just the title of the post, it is also a link to a page where you can play an audio snippet of the coin noise.
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by bjxrn 14y ago
Trying things out might teach you the sort of things you do and don't like in a reader. If all you've ever used is Google Reader then you might discover new preferences by being exposed to other solutions. You still have to switch soon, so
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by bjxrn 14y ago
What!? No mock classes?
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by bjxrn 14y ago
Looks like they have up to 4 cores in their standard plans, and up to 24 on their larger plans, all SSD: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing
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by bjxrn 14y ago
What was wrong with setting a max-width to (for instance) 70ex for p elements?
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by bjxrn 14y ago
You forget "The joys of having a Forever Project"! Currently on the HN front page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5096009
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by bjxrn 14y ago
Definitely. I find it hard to find any reason why something like Babylon (one of the things I remember that IM might install) should not be called "crapware" or malware. Babylon hijacks your browser and then becomes practically unremovable
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by bjxrn 14y ago
That 30k is the total prize package. The 1st place prize is still 10k. More on the prizes here: http://community.topcoder.com/tc?module=MatchDetails&rd=...
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by bjxrn 14y ago
I don't have the numbers at hand, but I've heard of a study saying that suicide very often is a very impulsive action. Saying that in most cases there's less than an hour between deciding to commit suicide and the action itself (numbers mig
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by bjxrn 14y ago
Everything is easy if someone else has to do it, isn't it.
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by bjxrn 14y ago
I think they missed a good one by Samuet Beckett: Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No Matter. Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better.
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by bjxrn 14y ago
Oh wait! It doesn't show up when using the App Store app! So even if you put a link there you need someone to be aware that such a link exists, to believe there might be something useful at the end of that link (which you point out, there r
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by bjxrn 14y ago
I've heard it before: "Locks are there to keep honest people honest." The lock on your front door won't stop someone breaking into your house. Or rather: your lock likely isn't the weakest point when it comes to keeping people out. However,
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by bjxrn 14y ago
This is a weird article that pretends that Github is the only git hosting service that exists. Bitbucket would probably suit their stated needs.
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by bjxrn 14y ago
But that wouldn't make sense either, the post isn't about them using their own service in any manner.
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by bjxrn 14y ago
There are certainly lots of iOS apps with stability issues. With iOS 6 even Apple's own apps have started crashing on me (App Store & Game Center). But you're right about the error messages, when thing go wrong there are very few apps t

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