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by codeka 14y ago
I've seen plenty of crappy ISP DNS servers ignore TTL values and cache DNS entries for many hours longer than they're supposed to. Unfortunately, it's all too common.
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by codeka 14y ago
For me, the most noticeable thing is the time it takes to load that enormous .png file. It's only 500KB but it still took 2 or 3 seconds to load for some reason.
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How To Win As Second Mover(blog.eladgil.com)
1 points by codeka 14y ago|0 comments
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by codeka 14y ago
"If the universe changes and they [viewers] want us to bring the content directly to them, then we can." What does he mean if the universe changes? I'm also not entirely sure that people would continue subscribing to "ESPN" in this new wo
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by codeka 14y ago
If I were writing a PHP parser, then I would convert double-quoted strings of the form "foo $bar baz" to 'foo '.$bar.' baz' when the script is first parsed. So executing the string concatenation in a loop would have no performance differenc
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by codeka 14y ago
Security is all about trade-offs. When I've used mod_status, I've just used a simple username and password that everybody shared. I've also served it from a different URL than the "well-known" /server-status. I realise that the IP address
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by codeka 14y ago
I'd say it worrying that its open to the whole internet. Usually when I've used mod_status, its been password-protected.
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by codeka 14y ago
I wonder if they're going to issue the same recommendations to Microsoft: http://marketingland.com/microsoft-privacy-change-google-att...
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by codeka 14y ago
It seems quite understandable that there'd be breaking changes between version 0.9 and 1.0, I don't see how you can extrapolate that to "OpenSSL doesn’t offer API compatibility between versions." I also don't see how the advice to include y
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by codeka 14y ago
I definitely think it was useful and thank you for writing it. I understand the point that its like saying "you'll understand when you're older", but I also hope we here are wiser than the children who resent their parents for making that a
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by codeka 14y ago
For all I can see, it could be the Android app with an iOS status bar photo-shopped in at the top...
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by codeka 14y ago
Studies[1] have also shown that competitiveness of the game is a better predictor of aggression, rather than violence. This study does nothing to control for that, as far as I can see. Its certainly a fact that most violent games are also q
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by codeka 14y ago
Just to give a little context for my comments, I'm from Australia and we've just this year finally introduced an R rating for video games (after 10 years of lobbying - previously, MA15+ was the highest available). To be honest, I'd love t
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by codeka 14y ago
This is exactly the kind of emotionally-charged comment that is not conducive to a rational discussion. Let's not "throw science under the bus" at all. In fact, there have been studies[1] which show violent crime decreases as access to vi
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by codeka 14y ago
The big problem I have with this kind of thing is the Grade 9 to Grade 12 age group. Violent video games are generally not meant for children, so why study their affects on children? I understand that you want parents to be informed about
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by codeka 14y ago
They just wrote down $6.2 billion on their aQuantive purchase, so I wouldn't be too quick to say that...
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by codeka 14y ago
Plus, Gmail lets you be logged in to two accounts from two different tabs in the same browser. Though usually I actually set up two separate browser profiles entirely, it's really not that hard to keep business and personal separate.
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by codeka 14y ago
The actual transcript (which you can find on Groklaw) shows that there was no "10 year" limit, he completely made that up.
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The Browser You Loved to Hate(browseryoulovedtohate.com.au)
3 points by codeka 14y ago|0 comments
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by codeka 14y ago
The main difference here is that he bought the domain after it was known Apple was sending requests to it. But I do agree that any (hypothetical) legal ramifications would look bad for Apple.
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by codeka 14y ago
I guess I don't really understand the problem here. If the ad is just as relevant (and if you're going to click it, thinking its part of the results, then I assume it is), what's the problem? If you don't like ads, use an ad blocker.
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by codeka 14y ago
> Plaintiffs were only winning 20-40% of the time. They were winning 20-40% of appeals , it doesn't say how often they won overall. It's hard to say whether 20-40% of appeals is a good number in an absolute sense (percentage of success
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by codeka 14y ago
I'm really not a fan of these ads. I'm sure it's very schadenfreude watching what's happened with Apple's Maps from the other side, but I would have liked to see Google/Motorola take the high road on this one and not come out with ads like
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by codeka 14y ago
Usually, though, they're quotes from other people, not the author's own writing (maybe possibly if you have an editor, like in a magazine, it's not so bad). Doing it with your own quotes seems kind of pretentious. And it's usually not place
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by codeka 14y ago
Apple are already the largest company in the world, and they don't have TV. Its not like they're losing anything, so even if they don't "win" TV I don't se how it spells their demise.
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by codeka 14y ago
They could have rolled it out as a standalone app first, with the clear goal being that they want users to try it out and report issues. There's no reason the first version had to replace the google-backed one. I'm sure there'd be thousan
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by codeka 14y ago
I don't think it's that simple. For example, currently Google Docs doesn't support merged cells in tables. If they add support for that in Google Docs, it means they would need to add support for it in all of the exporters as well. So even
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by codeka 14y ago
Google also lets you see the Chinese names (at least, in the web interface of Maps, you just uncheck "English" in the settings drop-down).
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by codeka 14y ago
As far as I can tell, the original report doesn't actually say whether there's no Cache-Control header at all or whether it set to max-age=0. I would still argue that caching a POST response with max-age=0 (and no max-stale) is a bug becaus
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by codeka 14y ago
The problem is, they work (for a certain definition of "work"). On one website that I work on, implementing one of those stupid "like us on Facebook" popups (in the lower right of the screen) almost doubled the number of likes the page ha

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