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   by conroy 13y ago

   I don't see this working out in the long term. Unlike Firefox, which auto updates on it's own, these Firefox OS updates will be provided to partners, meaning it's up to handset manufacturers to push them out. I'm skeptic
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   by conroy 13y ago

   Every year at Comic-Con, Savage hits the convention floor in full costume, tweeting out hints to his fans. "Adam Incognito" is his version of Where's Waldo, and the first fan to find him wins a prize. Here are some photos of
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   by conroy 13y ago

   I wonder if Coursera/Udacity/edX will catch up. I can't imagine there is much demand for graduate level math courses on those sites.
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   by conroy 13y ago

   > It sounds like Malcolm Gladwell's publisher never bothered to fact check the piece with an actual airline pilot before publishing. "Why did I fail to interview a Korean pilot? If you had bothered to ask me before your publish
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   by conroy 13y ago

   Instead of just watching lectures, I'd suggest taking one of the many available math courses: Coursera (23 courses) https://www.coursera.org/courses?orderby=upcoming&lngs=en&ca... Udacity (5 courses) https:&#x
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   by conroy 13y ago

   What's the legality behind web scraping? Can you sell access to data that isn't yours?
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   by conroy 13y ago

   I'm not sure about other domain registrars, but mine (NameCheap) has support for URL redirects.
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   by conroy 13y ago

   For anyone confused, this is a parody article. The main premise seems to be "What if we treated all plants the way we treat cannabis?" Nike ran a very similar campaign in the late 90's that asked a similar question: What if w
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   by conroy 13y ago

   As a young web developer, I had been using tables and frames to organize my layout. CSS Zen Garden taught me to separate style and content. I credit this site for making me a better web developer.
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    by conroy 13y ago

    It doesn't matter if you don't find yourself, as long as your search term (your name) matched. So as long as some one knows your name (and that you might Google yourself), there is a good chance you'd see it.
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    by conroy 13y ago

    From the Fastmail thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6070070 Fastmail has servers in the United States ( https://www.fastmail.fm/help/overview_about.html ), which means the NSA can still reques
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    by conroy 13y ago

    Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6068873
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    by conroy 13y ago

    Agreed, I can't think of any tech company naming a project PRISM again, even if it's internal.
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    by conroy 13y ago

    Other companies with projects named PRISM: Palantir https://docs.palantir.com/metropolisdev/prism-overview.html Mozilla (inactive) https://mozillalabs.com/en-US/prism/ CriticalBlue htt
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    by conroy 13y ago

    My guess is that it has to do with the Nissan.com story also on the front page.
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    by conroy 13y ago

    Why not just open source the code?
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    by conroy 13y ago

    There is also the HTML 5 Gamepad API[1]. Sadly, only Chrome and Firefox Nightly implement the spec. [1]: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/doodles/gamepad/
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    by conroy 13y ago

    I'm waiting for this too.
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    by conroy 13y ago

    I was a vocal critic when GitHub discontinued their downloads product earlier this year. I work on open source projects with compiled binaries. GitHub's answer to distribution had been "Use S3" which I never found satisfactor
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    by conroy 13y ago

    It's pronounced "en-grock".
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    by conroy 13y ago

    I'm going with BS until they provide more details. They don't even mention what version of Chrome and Firefox they are testing against.
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    by conroy 13y ago

    I need an email address
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    by conroy 13y ago

    I need an email address.
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    by conroy 13y ago

    I need an email address
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    by conroy 13y ago

    I need an email to invite you
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    by conroy 13y ago

    I need an email address to invite you.
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    by conroy 13y ago

    If anyone would like an invite, send me an email or reply here.
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    by conroy 13y ago

    As a developer of open-source, downloadable software (a video game), the removal of download sections from source hosting websites (GitHub, Google Code) is really frustrating. Instead, I either have to commit my binaries to a repository, or
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    by conroy 13y ago

    Very fun little game. My first try http://www.geoguessr.com?v=eyJ0b3RhbFBvaW50cyI6MTIyNTMsInZlc... (12253 points)
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    by conroy 13y ago

    Flagged as fake. This story is an IReport, which means it's user submitted, and it has zero sources.