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by blasdel 16y ago
I use Level3's DNS servers also, but they're also distributed with anycast routing and would likely suffer from the same interaction.
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by blasdel 16y ago
The problem is that Apple's CDN is being extremely naive about DNS — 8.8.8.8 is not "Google's DNS server" at a particular geolocation, but many servers distributed around the world, with different routes advertised to different destinations
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by blasdel 16y ago
Especially since bad actors (including governments) have been running exit nodes and sniffing the traffic — Wikileaks got its start by doing it, and the Chinese got access to a bunch of embassy webmail accounts that way. Tor exit nodes are
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by blasdel 16y ago
You not only got that backwards, but Godwin's law is not one that can ever be 'broken' — just because you haven't used Hitler in an analogy yet doesn't mean you aren't asymptotically approaching such a comparison. Using der Fürher in an int
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by blasdel 16y ago
Archos didn't care about classical music either. The reason it works for tzs is because Archos didn't give a shit about metadata at all — they implemented the crappiest thing that could possibly work. Apple's use of a metadata database preb
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The industry as a whole makes its choices on the basis of folklore(raganwald.posterous.com)
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by blasdel 16y ago
Don't worry, this is Wakemate! There'll be a new HN thread soon enough, and they always blunder just enough in each that their company stays at log(n) on the Cuil scale (where n is the number of threads).
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by blasdel 16y ago
It is to laugh! https://p10.secure.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/ssl/wikil... Assange has repeatedly let his SSL certificates and PGP keys expire, had has had a series of completely insecure submission systems that have been disabled mo
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Memo: ‘Gawker tech team didn’t adequately secure our platform’(poynter.org)
5 points by blasdel 16y ago|1 comments
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Microsoft releases Firefox Extension enabling H.264 support for HTML5 video(interoperabilitybridges.com)
1 points by blasdel 16y ago|0 comments
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A funny thing about developing software is demand(waffle.wootest.net)
4 points by blasdel 16y ago|4 comments
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by blasdel 16y ago
It checks submissions against the links that are cached in memory -- you can resubmit the same URL if a page containing a link to it has not been requested since the server last crashed. You can submit links that nobody's looked at recently
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by blasdel 16y ago
Yahoo has actually put their full weight behind Flickr -- they even shut down their original Yahoo Photos site while Flickr was still smaller and forced the users to migrate or leave! The product has improved significantly over the years, e
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by blasdel 16y ago
I've been a huge fan of you for years, I've read almost everything you've written online a couple times over, and I'm asking you to please stop listening to Jakob Nielsen. Please. The most fundamental kernel of usability is "does what I e
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by blasdel 16y ago
The Schwalbe Marathon Winter would be appropriate. A couple of the models from Nokian (spun off from Nokia) would be good too.
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by blasdel 16y ago
I've done it before on bikes with coaster/drum brakes and on the rear wheel of a fixed gear, they do actually give you a bit more traction in snow. You can put the heads on the tread side for studdedness but then they break right the hell o
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by blasdel 16y ago
S3 is not the best AWS for the functionality you seek: http://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/usecases_logging/
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by blasdel 16y ago
w3schools is the single worst 'developer' site on the entire web. The very worst. If there was a single site I would have delisted from google, purged from caches, and it's maintainer burned at the stake, this is it. I'd settle for him just
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by blasdel 16y ago
But Arduino isn't hardware in that sense — it's a shitty microcontroller rebranded as a standard building block. It's software! The thing that chaps our asses is that it's almost exclusively used where a simple circuit would have done fin
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by blasdel 16y ago
The misclicking is mostly due to the fact that the targets are square images with extra padding, combined with sloppy nested tables and piles of inline elements that freak out further in mobile webkit. If you're going to use tables for layo
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by blasdel 16y ago
Assange is getting the heat because he's purposefully seeking it out — even with the case in Sweden he fanned the flames earlier this year so that it could blow up now
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by blasdel 16y ago
We build our computer systems the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins. — Ellen Ullman
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To Test Housing Program, Some Are Denied Aid(nytimes.com)
5 points by blasdel 16y ago|0 comments
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by blasdel 16y ago
Thank you, it's nice to have another member in the REST sanity brigade: http://searchyc.com/comments/%252Brest+hypertext
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by blasdel 16y ago
EC2's API is awful, inconsistent, and the subject of the article.
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by blasdel 16y ago
What evidence is there of skillful people helping out? All I see is total technical incompetence: https://p10.secure.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/ssl/wikil... Wikileaks: It's not a wiki, and you can't leak anything through it
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by blasdel 16y ago
They decided it was a problem when they figured out he'd pulled the same bullshit with both of them!
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Amazon Route 53(aws.amazon.com)
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by blasdel 16y ago
I'd assumed that at first but your statement about how absolutely every rich site should be using MixPanel hinted at something so unreasonable that it made me "take you down a peg in my estimation". I don't trust Google that much, I just tr
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by blasdel 16y ago
Unfortunately, yes: http://stallman.org/extra/personal.html

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