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by blasdel 16y ago
magamiako didn't delete his own comment — he was banned several months ago, all his contributions since then are [dead] on arrival
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by blasdel 16y ago
Except that the way the typical renfaire-attending dork interprets 'chivalry' is obnoxious in its own right
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by blasdel 16y ago
Does that mean you're only going to use them on the brochure side of the site? There is no way I'm going to be your customer if you intentionally leak my financial actions to two third-parties to get analytics or grant full client-side acce
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by blasdel 16y ago
Do they have it embedded anywhere past the login? I sure as hell hope not, and I trust Google a hell of a lot more than I trust MixPanel or TypeKit.
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by blasdel 16y ago
U MAD? Seems like a great way to both pad out your citations and troll your readers!
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Global pool of IPv4 addresses set to run dry in weeks(arstechnica.com)
2 points by blasdel 16y ago|1 comments
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Analysing a Touch-to-Desktop UI port using Fitts’s Law: Reeder for Mac Beta(danielkennett.org)
3 points by blasdel 16y ago|0 comments
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by blasdel 16y ago
It doesn't matter how scrumtrelescent MixPanel is, cross-site javascript inclusion from third parties is extraordinarily unwelcome on a site that exposes full access to my banking to the DOM. How you can not understand this and still work a
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by blasdel 16y ago
I saw the trollface in the sprite and went sourcedigging :)
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by blasdel 16y ago
Is AWS allowing custom kernels for users that are neither paid AMI partners nor big prominent customers?
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by blasdel 16y ago
There is a fundamental difference — PHP is one of the only programming environments for any system in which the minimum viable deployment mechanism is nothing , and for which that approach scales to considerable heights. Other environments
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by blasdel 16y ago
No, but getting lower latency javascript with tab-level independent parallelism makes a lot more CPU available. Firefox simply runs all javascript in one physical thread, so it can only ever use about 100% CPU, while Chrome can use N00% CPU
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by blasdel 16y ago
So go to chrome://plugins/ and disable the Java plugin!
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by blasdel 16y ago
It's a bit hasty to read that into his comment and break out the copypasta keyed under "credit unions" There's plenty of small local banks that are non-evil, at least until they get swallowed up by progressively more dastardly banks in a lo
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by blasdel 16y ago
If BankSimple is really going to be immediately contactable via " Phone, chat, FaceTime, Skype, email, whatever. ", then they're bound to be innovating on the internal stuff too. Can they realistically contract out the call center to any of
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by blasdel 16y ago
So you're trying to do the iPhone of the retail banking industry? Get the weaker but competent operations to cede control over fees and the user to you, to do something other than the short-term diphittery that's plagued the industry foreve
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by blasdel 16y ago
The unminified js with comments is public: https://www.banksimple.com/js/brawndo.js
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by blasdel 16y ago
That's just canvas, it's no surprise. The four seperate webfonts as data URIs are bigger than that canvas would have been as an image anyway. Try typing <script into one of the signup fields for the real easter egg!
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by blasdel 16y ago
In both of those cases the government was very much listening to the electorate, and giving them exactly what they wanted even if they did not ask for it or even refused it by name. People wanted the government to fix the banking crisis, an
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Meaning of Hack(yaxu.org)
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by blasdel 16y ago
OmniGraffle is even better for this — it implements all the same alignment tricks and more, plus it can take Graphviz dot files as input.
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by blasdel 16y ago
Wow, that does a lot to confirm my initial impression of them: Neither 'open' nor DNS
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by blasdel 16y ago
OpenDNS has a whole bunch of other opt-out (per IP) features that depend on DNS-level hijacking. By default they point NXDOMAIN to their own landing page, blacklist 'known phishing sites', and proxy some Google requests through their own se
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by blasdel 16y ago
What's keeping him from working primarily in Public Health and getting NSF grants? Does he need access to industry for his research?
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by blasdel 16y ago
I think it's solely based on recent comment karma, with at least the high outliers discarded.
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by blasdel 16y ago
For starters they use mercurial, those repos are still up for now, not every project they host is open source, and the open source projects are not all freely licensed for the older versions. For the stuff that a theoretical community can l
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by blasdel 16y ago
Well it's better than 'social promotion', taking your most accomplished and most experienced workers and peter-principling them into incompetent newbie managers just because that's the next title in the series.
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by blasdel 16y ago
Is he really shelling out for every git operation, or are those binaries just extra roughage for technical users?
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by blasdel 16y ago
How would that even work in practice? What's the use case that's not already possible via http://graph.facebook.com (besides hoovering up emails). Besides, if they did somehow integrate further you'd all be crowing about how Facebook was
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by blasdel 16y ago
physical sciences != physiology You're right that for the last couple decades, the life sciences have been increasingly dominated by women, but that's not what was being discussed.

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