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by bxr 15y ago
I could trudge around in my databases to read direct user to user messages. Should I? Should I sell a tool to facilitate doing so? edit: re: downvotes, Yes I was using argumentum ad absurdum, but I was trying to show that just because y
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by bxr 15y ago
>It's not actually loaded, it's prerendered. And how exactly does the browser render assets without loading them? Is there some sort of time-traveling HTTP google is hiding under the curtain with this feature?
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by bxr 15y ago
>it can make life difficult once you start straying from "their way" even if you know exactly what you're doing for even simple things like mapping to a legacy DB with schema intact (not gonna happen) Yikes, unfortunately this knocks ra
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by bxr 15y ago
> Or security on all of these websites really sucks Yup. The status quo / baseline of security online is terrible . Slashdot rumor has it they've got themselves an Apache 0-day, but other hypothesizes have then SQL injecting or otherw
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by bxr 15y ago
Thank you for making "You just don't get it" point number 1. I like to know early on when I should bail out and stop reading something.
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by bxr 15y ago
You have very funny definition of "solve". In my day we would have called that a workaround.
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by bxr 15y ago
Ugh, I hate it when people ignore their comedic ineptitude just because they happen to be discussing involving comedy. I much rather this article over an unintentional cringe-fest because they author decided to venture into comedy.
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by bxr 15y ago
I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes. It may not be the tool that replaces the current html/css set, it doesn't even have any mention of how javascript fits in, but its very encouraging to see that it is getting worked on. We do
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by bxr 15y ago
You can block specific applications from ever being shown to you. If it wasn't for that feature Zynga games would have made me quit facebook a few times already. Game updates are annoying, but they aren't much better than anything else any
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by bxr 15y ago
It is USB, and the host could lose power at any time (it doesn't have to be a laptop). Communication interruption is a likely case they should plan for. A more probable explanation is that even with a magnet the devices are light enough th
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by bxr 15y ago
The strain to break the bond of the magnet is much more than the strain needed to bend the cable to an angle that will (over time) damage the wire. Ios transfers should prepared for a disconnection anyway, it is usb, plus power failures cou
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by bxr 15y ago
I didn't say that they should have tested it on every target, just that they didn't. They accepted the risks and were bitten by it.
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by bxr 15y ago
Have you tried emailing them? They don't have a way to let you do it but might be able to do it manually. And either way you let them know that there is a desire for a feature they're not going to magically know about just because they hav
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by bxr 15y ago
>They never actually came out and said it in the article, but it sounds like the thing that shut down was just squeaking by and distracting their core, profitable, business. I sure hope that is the case. The only other take-away I saw
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by bxr 15y ago
>which I'm not sure you fully understand. Ah, condescension, now that is a perfect example of a typical HN comment.
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by bxr 15y ago
>he is testing one aspect in isolation of others. This is a good thing, and is generally the way in which scientific tests advance knowledge. Yes, maintaining constants and only altering one variable. But this test has an 2nd variable,
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by bxr 15y ago
Testing software before shipping found to help reduce undesired behavior in the field, film at 11. Also, unconditionally opening a connection before finding out if they even have data to shoot across?
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by bxr 15y ago
The attitude towards android in general is dismissive. You need look no further than this HN thread. Imagine how different the posts would be if the numbers had broken in the other direction, in the iPhone's favor.
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by bxr 15y ago
>A test might have prevented the typo for the second argument to calculateLine(). If the compiler didn't puke on it in the definition, or if that was the line in the test it would just be a bug in the test. Of course that all depends o
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by bxr 15y ago
Oh, 'talent Wars' not 'Talent Wars'. A war makes me think of competition over obtaining the big name tech talent, not statistics about the volume of kids hopping around the west cost to the current popular thing. Thanks TechCrunch.
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by bxr 15y ago
Thats not a documenting test though, thats good choice of names. You don't need tests to have a good choice of names. If I said: slope, yintercept = calculateLine(x1, y2, x2, y2) You wouldn't be using the test as documentation at
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by bxr 15y ago
But my documentation runs during the hourly and never raises any red flags! That means its right, therefore better than a comment. edit: You did kind of prove my point by asking for documentation outside of the test. If this "documentatio
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by bxr 15y ago
I had written a really long response here, drawing on my experience as a software tester. I've deleted my post and have decided to argue my point in another fashion. Please enlighten me to the meaning foo(), here is the documentation:
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by bxr 15y ago
Ah yes, the old "Don't rock the boat, because the gov't says that now freedom is only for people who don't rock the boat" argument.
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by bxr 15y ago
ssshhhh. This is a technological revolution, don't tell them that the war is already over.
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by bxr 15y ago
>iCloud heralds an era wherein all of your data is decentralized You are correct, for all definitions of "decentralized" that are "rigidly centralized, almost appearing decentralized because centralization is so far outside your control
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by bxr 15y ago
HTML emails already offer both, hidden in the mime message is a plain text version. Clients just usually don't show the plain text one when there is an html version.
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by bxr 15y ago
>PG mentioned that his firm never managed to get a NYT article. At the same time though, this is an airport and government bullying, not some tech startup. I know we have our heads deep in this tech world, but come up for air for a min
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by bxr 15y ago
>iOS devices all have to ability to create playlist on the fly to. The classics don't. It is the single feature that has me using a 3rd party firmware. >endless playlist building is not a solution to the problem of quickly populati
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by bxr 15y ago
I'm sure plenty of end users would have taken the offer, thats just because they're corporate customers. They never want the brand new thing. Not only is the supporting an os upgrade a pain in the ass long process that will also involve

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