brianr

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Fedora 7 64-bit.
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I think you're confusing CompSci with Calculus. CompSci just has A and AB--see the list of courses at http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/courses/teacher... . It's a shame that they're discontinuing AB; it was actually pretty good
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Mastering Regular Expressions is by far the best-written technical book I've read. It's amazingly concise and well-explained.
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I seem to be getting logged out more frequently than usual (i.e. once a day; it used to be never). Perhaps that would explain the higher amount of anonymous requests?
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Message queuing in php... ak.
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You're right, it might be possible to get an insecure application to give you API-accessible information about some other user (e.g., the application contains a page that spits out your entire profile on the screen, and you pass in your tar
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The client libs handle everything for you if you use fbml, since every request is proxied by facebook and has its own signature. If you use an iframe, like the Moods app and many other popular apps, requests go directly to your server, so y
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This isn't really hacking Facebook... they're hacking the Moods app, which is made by HotOrNot.
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This is really cool! The main problem right now is that since the market is long-biased and there's no concept of time in the rankings, it's easy to get to the top by always clicking "Buy". It would be cool if you could make the rankings ac
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Another good one: http://lolinator.com/lol/lolinator.com/
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Actually, I hit the back button because I thought it was a live stream... my thinking was that whatever had been interesting earlier (when the link was posted) had probably long passed.
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For founders and employees, salary without question. Contractors are different and usually paid on an hourly basis or given a retainer that's supposed to correspond to some set number of hours. But if your core team wants to be paid hourly,
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One of the more interesting pieces of this story is how different Vischer has dealt with failure than a more typical startup founder. It seems like failure is usually quite acceptable, if not even applauded, but Vischer seems to feel a sign
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I think what it comes down to is focus. I work as hard as I can on the project at hand and (usually) know when it's time to take a break, but the focus remains on the project, not the break. If I cared more about snowboarding, for example,
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Suppose my company is worth $5 right now. If you give my company $1, it is now worth $6. ($5 assets before + $1 cash). $1 / $6 = 1/6th of the company; you have 1/6th and I have 5/6ths. If you pay $1 for 20% of the stock, that implies a $4 p
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It would be cool if you indexed the sites people are tracking (with their permission) or at least had an index showing changes on the top N sites on the web. I'd like to be able to browse changes across Facebook, Google, etc., without havin
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As for the theory being obvious, as far as I know, no one has proposed it before. Some interesting things come up for a Google Scholar search for "election charisma" (sans quotes). See "Charisma in the 1952 Election", The American Politic
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The next time you're designing the backend for a high-traffic site, I think you should give it another look. As jbert pointed out, the MySQL query cache is emptied every time you make any change to the table, making it pretty useless unless
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I'm actually quite impressed with Weebly's usability. My mom asked me to help her make a website, so I pointer her to Weebly and she was (almost) able to do it all herself.
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rooosta
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I voted this up because I thought it was interesting. As has been said elsewhere in this thread, it's uncommon for a comic author to endorse a candidate. For me the news item here is not the content of the endorsement, but the fact that it
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Correct, the application code generates correct image URLs which are then embedded in the HTML source.
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For performance reasons, we wanted to serve everything directly from the filesystem instead of dynamically using a script. If an image requested is not found, the 404 handler generates it, saves it to disk, and sends it back. The legitimate
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OK. Thanks for your help!
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People requesting random images. A captcha won't work because the images are in <img> tags in every page in the application... I don't want to make users type in a captcha before each pageview.
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OK, this makes sense. How long should the secret key be?
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XOR with the secret key sounds like a good idea... hashing the whole file won't work though, since I want to check the hash before generating the file--I'm hashing the URL to prevent an attacker from asking the server to generate billions o
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Ask YC: Suggestions for a hash algorithm?
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I used Endicia for a while a couple years ago (selling textbooks on Amazon), no complaints. They do have an API, but we used an out-of-the-box order tracking/shipping system, so I don't have any experience coding with it.
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Fedora 8

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