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by dewitt 14y ago
"Can anybody think of any geo-tarded service that successfully rolled out in other countries later?" As someone living in the US, I can only imagine the frustration people must feel not having access to content in their home countries. It
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One of the more popular sites of this nature is rosettacode.org, which in their own words, "is a programming chrestomathy site. The idea is to present solutions to the same task in as many different languages as possible, to demonstrate how
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by dewitt 14y ago
The point the author is trying to make is perhaps a reasonable one, but what an inappropriate communication style. I don't know if the author realizes the tone is so off-putting, but I've found that supportive feedback and constructive crit
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by dewitt 14y ago
Hi Ryan, have you seen the recently announced support packages for the Google Cloud offerings? It's a multi-tiered approach, from Bronze (free, online) to Silver (premium, with email support) to Gold (premium, with 24x7 phone support), all
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by dewitt 14y ago
That pointer example is a little weird. A C/C++ pointer used that way wouldn't print "Leto" "Paul", either. All it would do is update the local variable to point to a new object, but the caller would still be pointing to the original. I thi
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by dewitt 14y ago
For some reason several of the commenters here are explaining this away as a protocol bug (specifically with OAuth) but the challenge isn't at all protocol specific. Rather, it's a hardship with all client/server apps, specifically in that
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by dewitt 14y ago
To save others the trouble of figuring it out, it's parody.
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by dewitt 14y ago
Hey Nate! The way I see it is that we're all guests in any new environment when we first get there. Over time, after investing love blood sweat energy tears, these places gradually become our homes. Sometimes it feels like it happens fast
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by dewitt 14y ago
Are you genuinely curious, or trolling? I'll answer sincerely if you don't understand.
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And judging from the other comments, people who have no first-hand exposure to this enviroment are simply eating the article up, believing they have the full story. I'd invite anyone who is prepared to generalize about street kid culture ba
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by dewitt 14y ago
Like another commenter on this thread, I've lived in the Haight for the past nine years. And while the article is interesting and informative, it doesn't quite paint a full picture (literally—the pictures aren't representative, that girl is
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by dewitt 14y ago
No. I suspect their email template was out of sync with this particular incident.
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by dewitt 14y ago
And for people trying to puzzle out who was impacted, several these accounts (all with random strings for passwords, btw) were barely ever used at all, often not for several years. The only thing they had in common was their early creation
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by dewitt 14y ago
If only the salt and the hash were stolen as is being stated, and you used secure (read, non-dictionary-word-derived strings) you're probably okay even if you reused passwords. But you shouldn't be reusing passwords anyway, of course, so go
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by dewitt 14y ago
This is the text of the message I received (once for each account, all created back around the same time January 2007): Hi, dewitt Twitter believes that your account may have been compromised by a website or service not associated wi
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by dewitt 14y ago
Having worked in both environments before, one thing that I observed is that working remotely can indeed be highly productive, but it's very difficult, perhaps even impossible, to do it successfully if only a few employees are working remot
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by dewitt 14y ago
That is a lot of Ephs on HN! I've created a new Google+ community for current students, alumni, and faculty of the Williams College CS program: https://plus.google.com/communities/103167291529744829090 Please ask for an invite if that's
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by dewitt 14y ago
Don't forget to send me your resumes, everyone: dewitt@google.com. : )
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Nice data visualizations. One thing I'd also like to see here is a representation for multiple majors (35% of Williams students are double majors). Tangentially related, I was a little disappointed to see the slice for Computer Science is s
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by dewitt 14y ago
The real innovation was getting Slate to run the infomercial.
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by dewitt 14y ago
Mike Bostock of D3 fame is basically unrivaled in data visualization using HTML, SVG, and JS: http://bost.ocks.org/mike/ Most of the code is open source, too: https://github.com/mbostock Awesome that he's working at the NYT alongside pe
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by dewitt 14y ago
By way of comparison, I ran the numbers back in 2009 using a similar sampling technique: http://blog.unto.net/sampling-twitter.html At the time, I estimated roughly 1,200,000 active and connected users on Twitter. This author currently e
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by dewitt 14y ago
Thanks for the link to HTTPS Everywhere. I recall reading about it at launch, but wanted to understand it better before installing. IIRC, it uses an explicit whitelist of URLs that redirect from http to their secure equivalent, which gave
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Ask HN: Why doesn't Hacker News use HTTPS exclusively?
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by dewitt 14y ago
The first things I install on any Mac (and goodness knows there have been lot of them): - Google Chrome (http://chrome.google.com) - iTerm2 (http://www.iterm2.com/) - Xcode (http://developer.apple.com/xcode/) - Homebrew (http://mx
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by dewitt 14y ago
I don't think you're trolling; Excel is certainly an option. But for two things: Excel for Mac - $129 (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003YCOJBC) Excel for Win - $121 (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0039L2XG6) And you need a Windows box or Ma
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by dewitt 14y ago
But what is Blit, you ask? Here's a vintage demo video put together 30 years ago, complete with warbly synth score: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwIAjB99ucw Enjoy with sound on.
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"Google+ is difficult design; it is not difficult engineering." Either dcurtis@ isn't an engineer, or he's a much, much better engineer than the rest of us. : )
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I agree that fewer editions is the way to go, but note that OS X has always had multiple SKUs as well: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/os-x-lion/id444303913 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/os-x-lion-server/id444376097 And customers f
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by dewitt 14y ago
Hi _ankit_, sorry to read that you and your mom had troubles with her initial Google+ experience. A few things sound like possible issues, and the whole thing is valuable feedback, so I'll file a few bugs, and pass the post along to our te

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