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by daxelrod 14y ago
Shouldn't that be a browser feature, rather than every website creating their own different implementation?
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by daxelrod 14y ago
No, that's not necessarily what /tmp is for. Consider a browser cache. /tmp is not guaranteed to be preserved between program invocations[1]. /var/tmp [2] might be a better place. /var/cache [3] is intended for exactly this kind of thing. U
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by daxelrod 14y ago
No, it's annoying when HN submission titles don't clearly state what jurisdiction articles about law apply to. I would personally have the same objection regardless of the article's nationality.
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by daxelrod 14y ago
I am intrigued! Please consider adding a screenshot of the iPhone Comments view to either your site or the App Store listing. The Comments interface would be the deciding factor for me - I still haven't found a HN app that gets this right.
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by daxelrod 14y ago
Sorry, but I don't think they're giving you free icons to use for your website. The article says Octicons are "a custom icon font for use on GitHub.com and GitHub products". In their companion Making Of post, they answer a question about li
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by daxelrod 14y ago
Permalink to this post: http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2012/04/where-modules-go-to... (The current article link goes to the front page of the author's blog.)
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by daxelrod 15y ago
In the US, everyone has pretty much standardized on "the Big Game" as a euphemism to refer to the Super Bowl. This article proposed a euphemism for the London Olympics (although satirically). Seems like a good idea to me.
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by daxelrod 15y ago
This is actually an ingenious idea. HTTP content negotiation seems like it would come close to doing this well.
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by daxelrod 15y ago
Worms and botnets can steal passwords just as easily, and session cookies almost as easily. What do you consider appropriate for online banking?
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by daxelrod 15y ago
This leads to a wonderful idea: is it possible to make Bash syntax-highlight the Bash code you type at the prompt? I'm guessing the answer is currently "no".
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by daxelrod 15y ago
You've expressed an ivory tower viewpoint. Forget the "industry". These people are learning to code for themselves, to scratch their own itches. I encourage you to think less like a software engineer and more like a hacker. These people are
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by daxelrod 15y ago
This commit [1] seems to indicate that it's possible to change the font. However, I can't actually figure out a way to do so; ":set guifont" doesn't appear to work. [1]: https://github.com/applidium/Vim/commit/be572d759e857de58453...
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by daxelrod 15y ago
Also see Apple's mini-site about this: http://www.apple.com/supplierresponsibility/ (which has apparently been around for about a year[1]). I'm very pleasantly surprised by this news. This is way more transparent than I'm used to seeing A
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by daxelrod 15y ago
While I can't be sure, I believe that my TomTom Go 730 gives left turns a higher penalty than right turns when calculating a route. I've seen it pick different roads to go A->B than to go B->A where the only reason I could discern f
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by daxelrod 15y ago
The distinction is that, in many peoples' eyes, "shrill" as a personal insult is almost always directed at women. There is a stereotype of a shrill woman.
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by daxelrod 15y ago
Others have answered that this is technically possible. I'm guessing, however, that it would violate your agreement with either Apple or your mobile carrier. Since there are lots of mobile carriers, does anyone know whether it would violate
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by daxelrod 15y ago
I'm guessing that it's the other way around; there are qualities that are desirable in a person GP would date that are not found in people who would still be great friends.
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by daxelrod 15y ago
Ugh. Rentzsch is a braver person than I. I wonder how many days of backups he keeps. If his drive were to start silently corrupting data again, how long would it take him to figure it out? Even if he did have an extensive archive, hunting t
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by daxelrod 15y ago
EDIT: I see now that you say "It read back the data like his stresstest program does" and probably mean "It won't read back data..." While your command is a good way to quickly write random data to a drive, note that it doesn't match the
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by daxelrod 15y ago
Forum accounts are not linked to Steam accounts at all. The fact that the first sign of the intrusion was in the forum software doesn't necessarily mean it originated there. It's certainly possible that their entry point was the forum softw
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by daxelrod 15y ago
I was actually talking about requests to the website roots of various porn and p2p domains. EDIT: Please contact me at the address in my profile if you'd like me to send you a list of URLs that my browser accessed when I loaded that cached
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by daxelrod 15y ago
Be careful clicking that Google Cache link. The page appears to make a bunch of requests to shady sites.
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by daxelrod 15y ago
JUSTIN BAILEY is not hardcoded; it is an emergent property of the password system: http://www.metroid-database.com/faq_metroid.php#metfaq35
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by daxelrod 15y ago
This project made a lot more sense to me after reading this introductory article: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/CosmosUnderHood.aspx In short, it's a way to develop operating systems, rather than being a particular operating system.
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by daxelrod 15y ago
>"Files stored in Library" >"Scrolling behavior opposite of expected" >These are not 'issues', this is by design. I would imagine that their support people have gotten questions about both of these, and they are here
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by daxelrod 15y ago
For me, the indirection of pointers was one of the fundamental CS concepts that required real effort to understand. Before that point, I had never clearly separated the concept of a variable and its value. It took a huge conceptual leap to
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by daxelrod 15y ago
Starbucks already has wifi. Don't most payment processors use some sort of Internet connection these days?
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by daxelrod 15y ago
This just means that these attributes (sharing, copying, etc.) are not something inherent to the medium. They are precisely inherent to any digital medium. That's what some find so galling. Part of the point being made here is that you
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by daxelrod 15y ago
Microsoft sued TomTom in 2009 for patent infringement[1]. One aspect of the suit concerned infringement in the implementation of the FAT filesystem in TomTom's Linux-based GPS navigation devices. The two parties eventually settled[2]. [1]
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by daxelrod 15y ago
If it had a daemon or a setuid binary, you'd only get the password prompt once.

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