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by craigds 11y ago
Yes. The ads have urls like http://cmodmedia201.live.streamtheworld.com/media/cm-audio/c... whereas the song content is served from a different host entirely (m.cdn2.rd.io). Presumably this is just because the ads
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by craigds 11y ago
rdio.com stops playing music as soon as it tries & fails to play an audio ad. You can refresh the page to continue with the next song though. Since it seems to play an ad after every song (?!) this basically prevents ublock users from u
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by craigds 11y ago
As a counterpoint, I have a Samsung S3 that hasn't been updated at all since I bought it in 2012. It's still running Android 4.1.2. Next phone I buy will be a Nexus for this reason.
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by craigds 11y ago
Are there recent analysis/benchmarks of startup time? This is the major blocker preventing us switching to PyPy, since we run a lot of short-lived processes.
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by craigds 11y ago
Recently some fancy restaurants in NZ have started asking if I want to tip (tipping has never been common practice in NZ). I always refuse and state this exact reason. As soon as customers are expected to tip, workers get exploited. I'
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by craigds 11y ago
A common, very confusing one of these is 'granular', which means both 'fine-grained' and 'coarse-grained'. I swear someone uses the word 'granular' about once every fortnight and I almost always have
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by craigds 11y ago
Nowadays I refuse to fix anyone's computer without installing ad blockers in all installed browsers. I'd consider it professionally irresonsible to let a non-technical user loose on the web without a good ad blocker. It's jus
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by craigds 11y ago
Google Chrome is pretty close. Some extra things I'd like: * Fully open source, with clear and open licensing. * Extensions with a permissions system that works at multiple levels of granularity. So I should be able to trust an extensi
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by craigds 11y ago
If you need this in python 2.7, you can get it from pypi (pip install futures)
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by craigds 11y ago
I applaud the attempt, but this sounds much more annoying than regular 2FA. If it doesn't work, you'll have no idea why. With regular 2FA it didn't work because you typoed the code, and it's easy to fix that. Personall
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by craigds 11y ago
This kind of nonsense is why as a tourist, I would think very carefully before ever going to the US, and have little desire to. Based on what I know about the place, I'd feel uneasy the whole time I was there, as though I could be ar
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by craigds 11y ago
I don't think it's a myth, but it definitely is self-fulfilling (since it puts off users who would otherwise use Linux, but don't because they don't want to exclusively use the CLI) Personally I use a mac nowadays but st
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What lies beneath the surface of New York Harbor? (2009)(nymag.com)
54 points by craigds 11y ago|7 comments
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The raw milk revolution (2011)(theguardian.com)
3 points by craigds 11y ago|0 comments
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by craigds 11y ago
Not exactly a cryptography guy, but I don't think PKC quite works like that. Rainbow tables rely on people using the same password as each other. This happens a lot with passwords, but it's unlikely to happen with key pairs, assum
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The First-Ever Malaria Vaccine Just Got a Big Break(time.com)
2 points by craigds 11y ago|0 comments
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by craigds 11y ago
If I read correctly they're not recommending Tetris be played after every memory-forming event, just after distressing events.
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by craigds 11y ago
Never pay for wifi. This isn't primarily a budget concern, it's just that it's almost always far worse quality than free wifi. And hotel wifi is always worse than hostel wifi
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US time zones (1857)(en.wikipedia.org)
81 points by craigds 11y ago|36 comments
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by craigds 11y ago
Is parsing phone numbers really a common task for startups? (I've never needed to do it). Is the use-case just validating that the user didn't accidentally type their phone number incorrectly? (Seems if the user wants to give yo
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by craigds 11y ago
Probably cultural. Where I'm from (NZ) chairs sorta belong to the table; you wouldn't take a chair from a table or hang your jacket on it if there's someone else sitting there, at least not without asking first. I had a simil
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by craigds 11y ago
> Microsoft Edge provides no support for VML, VB Script, Toolbars, BHOs, or ActiveX. Years too late of course, but good to see this finally happening.
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by craigds 11y ago
I didn't quit my job, but arranged with my employer more flexible hours for six months while I travelled around Europe, working remotely (I live in New Zealand.) It was an amazing experience and I'd recommend it to anyone with a s
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by craigds 12y ago
I presume this is meant to be pronounced 'rapidscript' but the 'y' there makes the first bit sound like 'rape-y', which is probably not what you want in a project name :(
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by craigds 12y ago
How fast is it? To my NZ ears these prices sound fantastic, as we usually pay about 5-6 times that for unlimited internet (if unlimited is even an option; it only is in certain urban areas). But presumably it's quite slow?
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by craigds 12y ago
Does anyone know if bad debts are tax deductible in Croatia? If so, the government would have just needed to convince the banks that the chance of getting the money back was lower than the tax they'd be repaid by forgiving the debt.
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by craigds 12y ago
"Considered Harmful" Essays Considered Harmful: http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html I think the OP is being a bit naïve if they expect all users to upgrade to a new OS every year. Upgrades of Ubu
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by craigds 12y ago
Another map supporting the notion that New Zealand is a made up country. Submitted to http://worldmapswithout.nz/
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by craigds 12y ago
Sounds like the OP's problem is not so much the protocol itself, as the long tail of developers using it who have no idea what it can actually do. There are developers who do use most/all of HTTP. I'm one. I think I've u
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by craigds 12y ago
FWIW I'm using it as my default browser. Maybe it's just me, but a developer browser is more than just for debugging websites. I really like the way they've customised certain things to be power-user-friendly (e.g. no patroni

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