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by bpatrianakos 12y ago
Depends on your definition of addiction. Addiction is a real medical disease. To be addicted in the medical sense you have to a) have a dependence on the object of your addiction (your body has a negative response when you don't get th
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by bpatrianakos 12y ago
Yes, maybe they should be encrypted but that's still a problem because most of the time the answer can be correct in context but wrong technically. For example, "what's the name of your first pet?". If you originally ans
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by bpatrianakos 12y ago
I think I'm missing something. I see how this would be great when it's build time but during development I don't want to have to keep running build commands each time I want to use a new package I'm development. Using Gr
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by bpatrianakos 12y ago
Right but site owners need to request inclusion on that list only after they've enabled HSTS on the server. I've done this myself and I must say I'd be pretty angry if browsers forced an entire TLD to require HSTS. The result
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by bpatrianakos 12y ago
I think it's all about context. It's been my experience that "developer" is mostly applied to web developers and "programmer" is most often used when talking about desktop application development. In this conte
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by bpatrianakos 12y ago
What part don't you understand? Why FedEx is in trouble or why the pharmacies are illegal? I'm going to assume it's the latter and it's a bit of a gray area. On the one hand, these pharmacies provide medications at a low
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by bpatrianakos 12y ago
What is it a step forward for? A popular opinion on HN seems to be that programming should be taught in schools because it's somehow a new basic skill everyone should have? I have to disagree and don't see it being a step forward
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by bpatrianakos 12y ago
If you want to be super technical, sure. But in the context of this article that quote rings true. The masters really are surprisingly few in our field. At least the sort of masters I think you're talking about. In my experience most p
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by bpatrianakos 12y ago
Before all the comments come flying in (or not, but just in case), here are some answers to questions some may have: This is my very first iOS app. I found it useful and so did enough people I worked with that I decided to charge a buck for
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Show HN: MoonWeather(moonweather.me)
3 points by bpatrianakos 12y ago|1 comments
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The Web User's Bill of Rights(userbillofrights.org)
3 points by bpatrianakos 12y ago|0 comments
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
This makes sense if you look at it through your own tech-centric lenses. It seems plausible that Linux is good for a normal user when you try to put yourself in their shoes but the problem is that you can't really do that without bring
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
Yes, we often say security and think it means total protection. It doesn't. Its rare to see any security feature that cannot be bypassed or broken by some means. This is why we implement security in layers. If it were a binary state th
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
I disagree although my first thought was exactly the same; how do you solve the problem of half of some text being on a dark background and the other half on a lighter area. I see three solutions to the problem. The first is not so elegant.
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
I thought I had addressed that. But you said it perfectly. I guess the short version of what I'm saying is that there shouldn't be a problem with a spy agency spying. The problem is that they've violated their own citizen&#x2
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
Actually Roger Ebert did make a movie in the 80's called "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls". And it's good too. But anyway, your point still stands aside from the small Ebert error.
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
I don't think he's saying it would be good for anyone for the NSA to continue snooping as they do. I think your first point is wrong, your last point is right, and the two are unrelated. The issue isn't the fact that the NSA
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
These are exactly the issues I'm dealing with in re-implementing two-factor auth in my own app. On the one hand you can easily roll your own SMS based TFA with the option to use Google Authenticator with a negligible amount of work. Go
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
Is this really how it works? I know many do go solely with the -webkit or -moz property name to experiment with new features but for any site that's important (not an experiment, needs decent cross browser support) what I see happening
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
I disagree and believe there is more upside to this than downside. You certainly can't say that the fact that different browsers and devices handle favicons differently is a standards issue. If you were to try to standardize this then
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
The author here makes a good point until he asks his final question. In the case of Dr. Martin Luther King I don't believe copyright would have had any influence on the likelihood of delivering it. The purpose of the speech was selfles
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
I'm with you but I think there are exceptions. To be clear, I don't think its ever okay to publicly shame a non-paying client like in this post but there are some things that are okay. A specific example is a situation I'm in
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
This is cool and certainly useful but I have concerns. Forgetting for a moment that this is a shim and imagining that all browsers support this natively, isn't this sort of thing outside the intended purpose of html. Html should descri
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
Thank you. I've always wondered what the correct spelling was. I've seen both ways here and now I have a firm answer.
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
It's MOS. Manufactured Outrage Syndrome and its what people in tech do. They see something they personally dislike, decide the world should work a different way, and then write a blog post arguing for it. The argument is that your conv
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
Are you sure that lists were added in response to G+? I remember having lists long before G+ was even a thing. I could be mistaken but I'm pretty sure lists and the ability to share things among certain groups of friends had existed fo
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
You shouldn't have been downvoted. But you should know that if you don't tow the party line on this topic you'll be marginalized no matter how valid, on-topic, or sane your comment is. You're right though. First off, I h
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
Tea is just as caffeinated, if not more caffienated than coffee. So what you're doing is no different than quitting Red Bull and switching to Monster without withdrawal. Some teas are decaf but in general the most common teas are caffi
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
I think you're debating semantics here. What if the person looks at it as doing the world a service by correcting wrong information? Then that would probably fit into the job somehow. In any case though, I don't think the ethics o
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
You have to believe some things you are told. Not believing anything you're told isn't really virtuous like some people make it sound. I'm not saying you're like this, but often times I hear people say things like &quo

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