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Blizzard continues to innovate on the security front(rc3.org)
39 points by blasdel 16y ago|24 comments
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by blasdel 16y ago
There were other accounts too that are still active but that he may be locked out of. That particular account got silently hellbanned for sarcasm: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=551664 Some historical threads: http://news.ycombinato
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by blasdel 16y ago
s/strong/static/g http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2010/08/what-to-know-before...
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by blasdel 16y ago
Because it's so much more ironic to brutalize the language with classicist inheritance and call it 'Prototype.js'
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Javascript: is 'this' a code smell?(markbernstein.org)
27 points by blasdel 16y ago|28 comments
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Dr. Felten Goes to Washington(freedom-to-tinker.com)
2 points by blasdel 16y ago|0 comments
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by blasdel 16y ago
Do you know who Dave Hyatt is? He invented XUL, contributed to Gecko, wrote the initial version of Chimera (now Camino, one of the first real embeddings of Gecko), started the Firefox project, and started WebKit He had a pretty fucking go
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by blasdel 16y ago
Screw that, they've got their priorities straight. It's awesome that they don't treat 'uncaptured synergy' as a release blocker like Microsoft would have.
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by blasdel 16y ago
Office 2011 just came out in the last month and restores support for VBA and much else. You could always run XP in VMware and use the Windows version of Excel.
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The VLC-iOS license dispute and how it could spread to Android(arstechnica.com)
3 points by blasdel 16y ago|0 comments
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by blasdel 16y ago
If you loved this you'd love http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/ The older stuff is pretty stellar, I wrote an post on Metafilter about it a few years ago: http://www.metafilter.com/66006/The-Unqualified-Reservations...
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by blasdel 16y ago
> For optimization, the idea is that each shopper in a grocery store solves some complicated problem in nonlinear, integer, stochastic optimization just to get the groceries. This nonsense is part of their rational assumption. I do th
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by blasdel 16y ago
My old roommate knew he'd really aced his interview to be an assistant english teacher there when they asked him who the prime minister was and were flabbergasted that he could reply off the cuff.
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by blasdel 16y ago
No need to make it that complicated — just require a one-time $5 fee to create an account. Metafilter has done this very successfully for the last 6 years.
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by blasdel 16y ago
That's awfully rich coming from someone posting under a carefully-maintained pseudonym.
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How not to recognize free hardware(lwn.net)
1 points by blasdel 16y ago|0 comments
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by blasdel 16y ago
I used to jailbreak my iPhone solely to get a rotation lock — now in iOS 4 you can double-tap the home button to bring up the task list, swipe from left to right, and lock the current orientation with the button on the left.
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by blasdel 16y ago
Someone who thought using a 3 megabyte png of wood-grain texture with a pointless alpha-transparency gradient was a good idea. Just composite it with the body background to obviate the transparency, make it a jpeg, and halve your page load
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by blasdel 16y ago
You're right, the orthogonally-useless https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6622/ is what I was remembering, it was bundled vaguely as "Developer Tools" in the installer until Firefox 3. Obnoxiously hard to google for, I ended u
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by blasdel 16y ago
On the iOS device you're moving the document, on the WIMP computer you're moving the viewport.
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by blasdel 16y ago
The Firebug team is worried because Mozilla have been passive-aggressively antagonistic towards them for a long time. Mozilla heavily promoted their abjectly useless "Web Developer Toolbar" extension for years, even bundling it with the bro
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Paper: Netflix’s Transition to High-Availability Storage Systems(highscalability.com)
13 points by blasdel 16y ago|8 comments
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by blasdel 16y ago
PHP-the-implementation is pretty spectacularly shitty too — it'd be even worse than MRI for persistent processes of any sort. What's good about PHP is the execution/dispatch/deployment model, which papers over massive deficiencies in the in
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Adobe's down the Memory Hole - Flash memory? We love flash memory.(jeffrock.com)
2 points by blasdel 16y ago|0 comments
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by blasdel 16y ago
I found the memo from 2003: http://web.archive.org/web/20030210024427/http://www.interna... -- this blog thread discussing it is enlightening: http://www.advogato.org/article/624.html
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by blasdel 16y ago
http://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm
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by blasdel 16y ago
For what? Selling games for Symbian / J2ME / WinMo phones through the carriers five years ago?
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by blasdel 16y ago
Indeed — Sophie had to choose which of her children would be murdered by Nazis .
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by blasdel 16y ago
It embeds TinyLISP for the policy framework — check out the config files for the stock sandboxed daemons in /usr/share/sandbox/
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by blasdel 16y ago
s/jailbreak/root/g

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