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by dbloom 13y ago
I don't accept the premise here. But even if cell phone radiation was actually harmful, you could just leave your phone in airplane mode while you slept.
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by dbloom 13y ago
iOS has a built-in accessibility setting to flash the camera LED for alerts and calls: http://www.cnet.com/how-to/ios-5-tip-how-to-enable-led-flash... (Anecdotally, I don't actually know any deaf people, so I don&
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by dbloom 13y ago
I'm happy to see that the article (briefly) mentions the current regulations requiring side mirrors instead of side cameras. Side mirrors are the bane of aesthetic and aerodynamic design. They even cause excess cabin noise, especially
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Google Gadgets For Your Webpage (2008)(google.com)
1 points by dbloom 13y ago|0 comments
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by dbloom 13y ago
Go to https://hightechemployeelawsuit.com . If you were affected, you should have gotten a (snail-mail) letter.
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by dbloom 13y ago
Practically everyone would agree that the status quo is not just YC's fault. For example, the STEM gender gap plays a big role, and that's not something YC is directly responsible for. So it's easy to conclude that YC shouldn
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Malaysian 370 and the Land of Oz.(jethead.wordpress.com)
1 points by dbloom 13y ago|0 comments
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by dbloom 13y ago
According to Julie, GitHub's HR department is aware of the problems, and has been for a while: https://twitter.com/nrrrdcore/status/444887201935945729 . GitHub knows about the problems. I hope GitHub makes an
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by dbloom 13y ago
"You'd best be served by writing a thoughtful, accurate summary of the events that occurred, and let the reader decide for themselves how to respond." Maybe she doesn't want the story to be about the specific events in h
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by dbloom 13y ago
If you were so hurt by constant harassment at your workplace that you decided to quit, how would you feel about publicly describing those experiences? What if you want to remain friends with some of your former co-workers? What if those for
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by dbloom 13y ago
"Cookies are delicious delicacies" https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213186
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by dbloom 13y ago
From the article: This table command instructs TeX to put the table in the page, here, where the table is declared (h) AND at the top of the page (t). PrinceXML, an XML/HTML + CSS to PDF renderer, can do this using a "float:top&
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by dbloom 13y ago
While we're on the topic of layout thrashing... The reason layout thrashing happens is due to cached layout metrics being invalidated, causing information to be re-computed over and over. But the layout cache isn't global for the
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by dbloom 13y ago
For everyone linking to a certain Twitter account saying that Dropbox is compromised: The Twitter account is lying. This is almost always the case (especially when there is some sort of Anonymous affiliation). Anyone can make a Pastebin of
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Reckonings; A Rent Affair [2000](nytimes.com)
2 points by dbloom 13y ago|0 comments
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by dbloom 13y ago
Why not just use Uber via http://m.uber.com , or via SMS? (see http://support.uber.com/entries/22340336-Requesting-a-Ride )
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by dbloom 13y ago
Based on my secondhand knowledge, a "tuna" was a way to attach a wall (comments) to anything with a unique ID.
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by dbloom 13y ago
It's worth surfacing the fact that California's FasTrak transponders beep when they are being read (although it certainly might be possible for the beep to be suppressed). By the way, in addition to LAX, this also happens when you
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by dbloom 13y ago
Barnaby Jack "jackpotting" an ATM at BlackHat USA 2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-dS4UFomv0&t=5m47s
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by dbloom 13y ago
The "grep test" doesn't just help humans and IDE's. Closure Compiler's ADVANCED_OPTIMIZATIONS mode ( https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/api-tuto... ) only works with J
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by dbloom 14y ago
Writeup from the demo's creator: http://www.romancortes.com/blog/furbee-my-js1k-spring-13-ent...
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Apps.beta620.nytimes.com(apps.beta620.nytimes.com)
1 points by dbloom 14y ago|0 comments
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by dbloom 14y ago
Unfortunately, I don't know details that specific (I'm not familiar with the codebase either). Maybe ask on IRC? http://www.chromium.org/contact/-chromium-irc
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by dbloom 14y ago
That's right -- Chrome uses the same process when there is a JS reference between the windows. (In addition, Chrome will sometimes make windows/tabs share a process if there are a lot of tabs open, to save memory. There is a limit to the to
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by dbloom 14y ago
The author claims that windows in different processes communicate slowly in Chrome. My claim is that windows in different processes cannot communicate at all in Chrome. Only same-process windows can communicate -- and that refutes the aut
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by dbloom 14y ago
The circumstance I described that Chrome doesn't support is very rare in real-world web pages. It's pretty unusual to use window.open to get a JS reference to an existing window, and not supporting that makes Chrome's renderer process mod
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by dbloom 14y ago
"This is because the synchronization needs to occur over a low-throughput, queue-based IPC subsystem, accompanied by resource-intensive and unpredictably timed context switches mediated by the operating system. To understant [sic] the scal
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by dbloom 14y ago
Does the management tool run as Java web page plugin, or as a standalone Java application? If it's the latter, just disable the Java plugin in all of your browsers and you should be safe.
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Protecting People On Facebook(facebook.com)
58 points by dbloom 14y ago|15 comments
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by dbloom 14y ago
This has happened at Google, too, to similarly hilarious effect. An excellent writeup of the incident (by someone else): http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/01/16/replyall/

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