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by cobralibre 14y ago
I agree, and the practice of sending an Authorization header without first receiving a challenge is common enough that there's a phrase for it: preemptive authentication. See, for example, the Apache HttpClient documentation: http://hc.apa
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by cobralibre 14y ago
A great many people simply cannot fathom the idea of mature, responsible adults choosing not to procreate.
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by cobralibre 14y ago
"Musicians make money from playing live... This is the future of the industry." I see this sentiment repeated often. I don't buy it. It seems like a better way to put it is that if musicians are going to make money at all, then it must co
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by cobralibre 14y ago
The short, glib answer is that if you have to ask why you would want to pay for a dictionary, then you aren't the kind of person who needs to pay for a dictionary. The long answer is that good dictionaries, such as American Heritage Diction
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by cobralibre 14y ago
It's distressing to see such colossally poor judgment on the part of Enfour. Besides developing the ODE app from TFA, they also produce the American Heritage Dictionary app, which is one of the better if not the best name-brand dictionary a
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by cobralibre 14y ago
A problem with piping curl output through "python -mjson.tool" is that you can't include the response headers, which is sometimes useful. (This was enough of a problem for me that I wrote a simple curl replacement in Python so I could have
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by cobralibre 14y ago
Paris shouldn't be too surprising. While the city is quite old, it was reshaped and modernized in the mid-19th century. See, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmanns_renovation_of_Paris
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by cobralibre 14y ago
You're confusing up-and-coming , meaning "showing promise", with upcoming , meaning "forthcoming".
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by cobralibre 14y ago
It's called knowledge-based authentication, a kind of identity proofing. This could conceivably be implemented such that your personally identifiable information stayed with the third party (who already has it) and never crossed eBay's path
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by cobralibre 14y ago
In terms of aesthetics, form, weight, efficiency, and so on, there are obviously huge benefits to building computers that are not upgradeable or user-serviceable. It's important to remember, though, that serviceability/upgradeability is not
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by cobralibre 14y ago
"A great academic in any field should be articulate in expressing ideas, in at least one language." The idea that English departments exist primarily to produce skilled writers is a misconception. 'English' as an academic field is the study
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by cobralibre 15y ago
There is no maximize button in OS X; there's a zoom button. It's used to toggle between a window's "standard" size and position, and a user-defined size and position. http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/UserEx... Your
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by cobralibre 15y ago
I've always felt that gnashing of teeth over the NYT paywall was moot anyway, since any right-thinking person will have a print subscription to the Times for the crosswords.
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by cobralibre 15y ago
Jorge Luis Borges, a critic of the Peróns, was once promoted from his position at a municipal library in Buenos Aires to something like "Chief Poultry Inspector". He never filled the post.
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by cobralibre 15y ago
He started as a lawyer to an insurance company. To say that he "sold insurance" is a bit of poetic license.
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by cobralibre 15y ago
I would perhaps not infer too much about Tom Eliot's feelings towards his day job from a few letters to a worried mother an ocean away and a polite resignation letter. Even Eliot's letter to Ezra Pound, which expresses quite a different vie
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by cobralibre 15y ago
But that, too, would be overkill. From TFA, here is the issue: OK, if I go into the main menu, click "Operations", then click "Sales", then click "History" it takes me to the Sales History Menu. See?... Then I click on Sales History Displa
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by cobralibre 15y ago
True, Safari will present a warning dialog if you have entered text and you attempt to close the current tab. It will not do this if you initiate a Back action (easily verifiable with this very site). The latter behavior is fine in most cas
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by cobralibre 15y ago
With some web apps, you can actually lose data because it's so easy to inadvertently swipe back in Safari for Lion. This only seems to happen when the page tries to catch the unload event and throws up a "Leave or Stay" dialog. Choosing the
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by cobralibre 15y ago
I'm the same way. It began when I was an undergraduate: the sight of crowded bookshelves in a professor's office – one actually sagging under its load – flipped the crazy switch in my brain. After I got my first real job, the project of acc
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by cobralibre 15y ago
As an erstwhile wannabe literary scholar, I would be much more excited about ebooks if they were generally available in non-DRMed formats amenable to processing and analysis with arbitrary software tools. For example, I can't generate a con
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by cobralibre 15y ago
Note that Evan Priestley's post on Facebook and testing, linked in the article, ends with the statement "This process works for Facebook partly because Facebook does not, by and large, need to produce particularly high-quality software."
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by cobralibre 15y ago
It would be neat if we could do this without requiring me to provide my public transit bona fides. I live in Central Austin, where the public transit, pedestrian, and cycling infrastructure is about as good as it gets in Austin. And I would
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by cobralibre 15y ago
I've lived in a lot of major cities in my life, and SF is the first one where I've had to literally dodge human shit while walking on the sidewalk. As a longtime Austin resident, I'd almost consider that a nice problem to have, because it
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by cobralibre 15y ago
This looks very cool, but statements like "Suppose someone took every meaningful detail from all the books you love" are hyperbolic, given what this actually does, which is to reductively model a "storyverse" out of the people, places, food
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by cobralibre 15y ago
I haven't thought about rel="next" and rel="prev" since the middle of the last decade, but I recall that the blogging community used these attributes in semantically different way. Instead of marking parts of a single unit of content, rel="
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by cobralibre 15y ago
What this tells me is that the perfect work environment is a Catholic Mass.
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by cobralibre 15y ago
Roaches are unpleasant, and I empathize, but Texas is going through a historic drought right now. You can expect to find thirsty pests heading indoors. And I haven't heard of $500/month rent in Austin in over a decade. For rent that cheap,
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by cobralibre 15y ago
It would be especially nice if an ebook series such as this could automatically be delivered to my ebook reader of choice. I believe that Instapaper offers something like this for the Kindle; I wonder if this is doable with iBooks?
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by cobralibre 15y ago
It's not unreasonable to want our communications media to facilitate siloed interaction. I look at it this way: If somebody I know avoids talking to me about that things that bore me -- say, pro football or New York Times bestsellers -- I w

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