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by commiebob 17y ago
Major points for hacking the game before playing it.
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by commiebob 17y ago
"We will provide an update by September 1, 2009 5:16:00" Hit refresh at 5:16 and it's back up. That was pretty impressive.
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by commiebob 17y ago
Part of the game is that he has to continue using Facebook, Flickr, his cell phone, etc. http://www.wired.com/vanish/2009/08/author-evan-ratliff-is-o... Otherwise, he would just go sit in the woods for a month and it wouldn't be much of a
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by commiebob 17y ago
Would be even nicer if it provided a link to translate or just showed a translation as well.
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by commiebob 17y ago
http://xkcd.com/292/
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by commiebob 17y ago
I understand that it's not a huge deal, but that's not really the point. Do we really need to update every page on the internet with a short url? Just in case it gets linked on twitter or a shorter version is needed for some reason? It just
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by commiebob 17y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the way I read this is on any page I own I would have to define a short url for it in the head section of the html. So with this standard no one could short link to a site I control without me going through and
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by commiebob 17y ago
I signed up for an app engine account when it first came out and I haven't touched it, so I think this is what I'm going to do. Thanks for the info and links! Everyone else that replied thank you as well, some stuff that I will file away fo
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Ask HN: I want to build/learn something this weekend - suggestions?
33 points by commiebob 17y ago|31 comments
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by commiebob 17y ago
What if you did something like (using the example from the article) A value which shares no bytes in common with the secret digest will return immediately; a value which shares the first 15 bytes will return 15 compares later. You keep tr
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by commiebob 17y ago
these are very pretty charts and graphs but none of them seem to actually convey the intended information very well.
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by commiebob 17y ago
how is that any different than in a busy coffee shop?
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by commiebob 17y ago
Amazing shoes, however I would recommend buying either the sprint or the KSO if you will be doing any running in them, the addition of a strap across the top of your foot helps a lot with keeping them on well when running.
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by commiebob 17y ago
I saw this post and decided to throw something together http://slice.20oz.net/ It will lengthen your URL and create a short url at tinyurl, bit.ly, and is.gd for you. So if you have some tr.im links to convert over you can just plug them
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by commiebob 17y ago
Seriously, enough with these threads already. The passwords aren't encrypted, he cries about it, they are encrypted, he cries about it. It's a news site, we're not controlling access to nuclear weapons here.
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by commiebob 18y ago
"dewey defeats truman!"