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by cognivore 11y ago
>> If the site generates the ad, it’s suddenly a lot harder to block. << Seems to me that this is the loophole in the entire ad-block plan. Seems like it'd be relatively straightforward to make a system that pulls in the a
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by cognivore 11y ago
I like how his idea of the optimal machine shows just far we have to go when it comes to our computers.
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by cognivore 11y ago
"However, web apps also allow organizations to write once for many platforms in a much more seamless way than most cross-platform native toolkits I've seen." Does it? I used to think that. Until every medium-complexity or w
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by cognivore 11y ago
HOST file ad blocking. Bang! Problem solved. http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm This works so well I have a vastly different user experience than other people. I rarely see ads and pages load fast. Of course, you can&#
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by cognivore 11y ago
No, I don't think they did. I think they're just taking their old awful unmaintainable source, adding more to the hot heap of slag, and then using some clever compiler optimizations to make it run better. No love for the actual
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by cognivore 11y ago
PowerPoint doesn't kill presentations - people do.
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by cognivore 11y ago
Why is it I feel like this is just something that is designed to get me more working hours? I like going to the store, socializing, finding things to try, being a human. Pushing a button doesn't do it for me.
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by cognivore 11y ago
I'd be curious to know what the answer to that is as you cycle through the ages. What percentage of people at 30, 40, 50 & 60 are able to have a career in programming? There going to be people who won't be able to at all thos
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by cognivore 11y ago
>> There is no justification for this kind of violence. << This is what I'm talking about in my previous post. It actually ignores that it happened - regardless of how justified or wrong or morally outraged you might feel
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by cognivore 11y ago
I find it disconcerting that Lancey's comment is down voted. It's the the only post so far that actually addresses the problem directly and honestly. You can wring your hands about how terrible it is that they rioted, looted, va
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by cognivore 12y ago
Lots of money means lots of asshatery. When the cycle comes around again and Apple finds themselves scrambling, this will all go away, because such people are useless.
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by cognivore 12y ago
Is it just me, or is Shiraz Shivji the spitting image of a young Steve Jobs?! Separated at birth?
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by cognivore 12y ago
>> It has awful parts that should be avoided. Once you learn to avoid them you can have a great time. << Oh, I imagine my copy of Crockford's "The Good Parts" is more well thumbed than most, and I do my utmost bes
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by cognivore 12y ago
Might be one of the saddest things I've read linked out of Hacker News. As developers we're doomed to a future of using a awful language because it happened to be at the right place at the right time and was good enough. Now we&
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by cognivore 12y ago
Busted!
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by cognivore 12y ago
>> I always wondered how much is in the interest of Twitter to get rid of fake accounts. << Mr. Eden there found out how to identify them quite nicely without having access to internal Twitter tech, so my guess is Twitter could
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by cognivore 12y ago
"...companies like Google try to push for the greater glory of their profit margins. It is /very/ bad for customers in the mid- to long term." Oh, I'm right there with you. I just think that, as a company, you spen
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by cognivore 12y ago
I sometimes wonder if browsers are going to become runtimes. For Google services you obviously use Chrome. For others they choose to support runtimes Chrome and Firefox. Microsoft supports IE as the runtime for there services. It's
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by cognivore 12y ago
Uh, what? Why in the heck is this on Hacker News? Maybe if there was some angle on how this could make you a better developer, but no, I don't see that.
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by cognivore 12y ago
"Inbox is great for consumers..." That was the main point I took away from looking at the Inbox website. The top three categories it uses are promotions, purchases, and trips. It's an inbox for someone who's a consumer
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by cognivore 12y ago
"Now, if we can make schools schools by default, then maybe we can skip the prison step altogether." That's the best quote on HN I've read in a year.
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by cognivore 12y ago
You make some excellent and valid points, to which I don't necessarily disagree. I just think the inertia is towards the use of native apps over web browsers as delivery mechanisms for software - both mobile and PC. A couple of points
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by cognivore 12y ago
Well, yes, that'd be nice if we had a "interoperable universal interaction standard." But now the majority (and soon, almost everyone) will be using the internet on tiny personal computers (smartphones) that run native apps.
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by cognivore 12y ago
There's not really a good reason for Google to make applications they create work outside their own run-time environment - Chrome. Any technical reason they might offer (sparse array performance) is just facetious. They have the tech
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by cognivore 12y ago
"From my PoV neither Java nor .NET is the first choice for UI. HTML and JS is. Especially for large multi-million dollar software." Yes, it's multi-million dollar because that's the budget it takes to make anything compl
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by cognivore 12y ago
Oh, look, I don't have a single Apple product in my possession. I already voted with my money and this stupid crap doesn't even matter to me. You can do the same, too!
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by cognivore 12y ago
I find it curious that people seem to think "freedom of speech" somehow equates to "freedom from consequences." You can say what you want, but if you tweet racist, homophobic, and sexist remarks, or say them out loud fo
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by cognivore 12y ago
>> I do not see any hint of the sexism you describe here. << Okay, more simply, in other cases of mass murder/"terrorist" threats, regardless of targets, the federal government gets involved at the drop of a hat.
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by cognivore 12y ago
"But on Tuesday, the director of the centre and others received an email threatening a "massacre style attack" if the talk proceeded." There is an inherit sexism even in the response to this. If this was an email threat
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by cognivore 12y ago
Well, I can't even take it seriously, because I fully suspect that 3 to 5 years down the road Google loses interest in the product and decides to drop it. Then all the investment the schools and teachers have made is lost. If Google d

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