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by bxr 16y ago
...then that just sounds like its a library of word processing and spreadsheet utilities that exposes nothing buy an API. Not that anyone who would use the root and assume is a library wouldn't already know better, but just sayin :)
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by bxr 16y ago
>I hope it's obvious to most people that Dropbox wouldn't be able to do stuff like reset your password if they didn't have access to the contents of your files at some level Those are pretty damn high hopes even for the average user fro
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by bxr 16y ago
Right now with the web we are prisoners of our own devices. We took a document fetching/presentation system and beat on it until we had an application platform, and we're feeling the pain. We have built workarounds on top of workarounds to
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by bxr 16y ago
Your experience was that you got low quality goods? Welcome to doing business with China my friend. A friend who does low-tolerance machining here in the States is making a killing and constnatly expanding his business even though he can't
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by bxr 16y ago
>bullshit video on there Yeah, that would never fit in at... youtube. In all seriousness though, I thought google video had shut down years ago. It must have just been a phase in its shutdown, but I could have sworn it was already gone
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by bxr 16y ago
Hey, I remember your company. You're the spammer who saw my email address on the website of a campus organization I used to run and figured that meant I would want to earn a pittance by doing your dirty work on campus for you. Oh, and than
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by bxr 16y ago
I would. I may even go as far as to say it makes then worse. Deleting my facebook account was probably one of the biggest improvements I've made to my life so far this year.
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by bxr 16y ago
Ok, and thanks for assuming from my post that I don't care about interface, but then show me _that_. All I see other than an generic iOS interface is a keyboard with a few convenience keys. Is that it?
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by bxr 16y ago
>Anyway, a lot of happy-sounding words for [...] I agree. I use ssh somewhere around 10 hours per weekday, have used a bunch of different clients, and really have no idea what sets this application apart from any other ssh client other
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by bxr 16y ago
I'm sorry if its not, but this whole thing really reads like a guide for spammers. And why post it to hacker news at all? I know you disclaim you weren't spamming, but you clearly don't spend time there. You spell out the things that anyb
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by bxr 16y ago
It seems possible for them to set up the block as a response to request rate/patterns, but as I am unfamiliar with EC2 I have to ask: how hard is it to get a new IP address? If it a matter of stopping an instance and starting another (or e
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by bxr 16y ago
I guess proprietary was the wrong word for what I was saying about the properties. It wasn't my aim to imply that they were proprietary features, just a lack of knowing a better term to refer to the property names.
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by bxr 16y ago
Between their development blog and github account, they appear to use both significantly. I'd like to know more about the proportions, but haven't seen any numbers about it online.
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by bxr 16y ago
Isn't the reason for the vendor tags that the features aren't part of the official spec? I'd guess the answer would be once they become official or you start generating your CSS. Doesn't even have to be that fancy, just something to run o
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by bxr 16y ago
>Pandora's not a charity. No, they're not. They provide a service for a price. In this case that price includes personal data. I don't want to pay that price. I would like to know that I'm paying that price so I can make an informed
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by bxr 16y ago
>I remember people using voice chat on the old XBox so much more than they do now. Not sure why that is. Its the kids and man-children who can't control themselves. Many of my friends either don't use it, or only for group chat because
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by bxr 16y ago
>Is it time to address to the elephant in the room yet? UIs are constantly ripping eachother off, all over the place. What would be considered relatively different UIs to us are in the big picture very, very similar. When a particular
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by bxr 16y ago
Is it normal? No. Ask yourself this: Is managing a single developer a full time job? Talking to one manager about why the process needs to change isn't going to get you that far because you have too many damn managers. At least start bri
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by bxr 16y ago
>to think a small subset of paying users will have any affect on the up-time of a major site is just a pipe dream You seem to rely on the assumption that every major site's budget is so lush that a small portion of the userbase paying w
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by bxr 16y ago
I'm going to guess PHP sessions. Off the top of my head its the only /tmp file creating thing I can think of in common web stacks. If that is the problem mise is facing, you can swap out the storage that PHP uses for sessions (to use somet
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by bxr 16y ago
I'm sorry that you're incapable of taking the 5 seconds to realize that the overabundance of specific Wikipedia policy pages are the reason why people have given up trying to fix it from within and are content to lob stones from outside wit
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by bxr 16y ago
Its not a counterpoint. Unless you're trying to pass off that new editor intimidation is caused by too many articles. Heres a tip: I'm not an editor anymore and it didn't have anything to do with intimidation from the size of wikipeida, it
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by bxr 16y ago
>thats what we've turned the education system into, at least in America This is in no part helped by NCLB testing. The school stopped normal classes for a week to spend time teaching us how to take tests so that the school could perfor