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by dictum 10y ago
I look forward to the "we couldn't foresee the security risks, we cannot be held responsible" non-apology in 2022.
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Notes on debating for the web development community(baldurbjarnason.com)
1 points by dictum 10y ago|0 comments
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by dictum 10y ago
> ([s]he praised documenting concepts, not the documentation as a whole) Exactly. I wish I could help with docs for Webpack, but personally I'm willing to trade extensive documentation for a friendly community. These aren't mut
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by dictum 10y ago
> Webpack: The most popular bundler for standard JavaScript look for simple starter kit/boilerplate config examples to get things running fast Unless you're already familiar with a tool, I'd suggest starting with the very
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by dictum 10y ago
> This incident was due to human error. This is why we believe so much in making the roads safer by building self-driving Ubers. My new side project is a The Aristrocrats joke, except it ends with "The Gig Economy!"
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by dictum 10y ago
Hey Sean — I've been away from JS for a while and I'm just getting back, so I used Webpack for the first time this week. I always felt indifferent about it, and the config style felt a bit like Revenge of Grunt , but after using
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by dictum 10y ago
This is such a minor nitpick, but I'm bothered by it because I see so much performance-shaming coming from some Googlers: The site loads large pictures for all viewport widths (ideally they'd load downscaled images for smaller v
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by dictum 10y ago
> Seriously, put down the proletariat pitchfork Sorry for continuing the off-topic thread, but I'd like to point that a system where the non-1% can have big houses is rather more proletariat-friendly than one where only the top elit
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by dictum 10y ago
Digital Ocean's pricing has remained the same since 2013. It'd be nice if they bumped the $20 plan to 3GB RAM (or go full Linode at 4GB)
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by dictum 10y ago
I keep waiting for the day cynical businesses will cut out the middlemen and make a point using only their own resources. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Qu...
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by dictum 10y ago
As a former member of the non-US audience who don't know what exactly is this Cards Against Humanity, I can confirm it's better to remain under the bliss of ignorance.
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by dictum 10y ago
Hijacking the thread: was the cause of the GPU glitch with mid 2011 iMacs ( https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203787 ) ever determined? Mine had this problem. I've been obsessive about keeping all temperature readin
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by dictum 10y ago
From https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics.... : > As far as we can tell it would be impossible for Google to match the randomly generated Homebrew-only analytics user ID to
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by dictum 10y ago
Bad news for https://howtoopenanumberedaccount.com visitors (Host header in plaintext) and people who click on links to http://ponies.net from https://reddit.com/r/LaunderYourCash (Referer heade
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by dictum 10y ago
> I've reverse engineered script kiddie malware far too many times to find them shipping "iStealer" and similar, which basically just dump browser password stores and send them to a gmail or FTP account. Meet the guy behin
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by dictum 10y ago
I'm sorry. I don't like this argument either (it's used for every minor annoyance related to Apple) and I'm not comfortable ascribing intentions to a deceased person.
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by dictum 10y ago
Wireless routers don't sell like hot cakes, but this was never the point of Apple making them. Just try to imagine Steve Jobs setting up a generic router. * * * Now imagine him searching for a wireless router and seeing some Google pro
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by dictum 10y ago
From that 1984 quote, > Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would k
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by dictum 10y ago
CNN's wording is incorrect indeed: Trump essentially said most Mexicans in the United States are rapists ("some [...] I assume" implies a minor percentage of the whole), not that all Mexicans in the US are rapists, or that
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by dictum 10y ago
Public Slack rooms. Most teams don't archive their messages, and non-pro teams can only see the last 10k messages.
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Watching the Eclipse (2014)(newyorker.com)
3 points by dictum 10y ago|0 comments
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by dictum 10y ago
I expected that, but that's an unfortunate side effect of coupling the new browser app with the previous content blocker app. (Just found out that it's not compatible with my iPad 4)
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by dictum 10y ago
Can you confirm that? If true, is it at least opt-out?
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by dictum 10y ago
So what is the complaint against "post-truth" again? (context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12972415 ) Is spreading a hoax to make a point ("raise awareness") not post-truth too?
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by dictum 10y ago
> the USA Right in general has completely broken with the idea that there is any such thing as "fact" that matters This viewpoint is being thrown around lately, and it's bugging me but I still can't quite explain why.
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by dictum 10y ago
I can't blame you for wanting to feel the same rush from promoting cruel radical ideologies with a postironic wink that the aforementioned alt-right leaders feel, so... good luck.
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by dictum 10y ago
Oh man, Black Mirror is becoming the highbrow version of Harry Potter/Game of Thrones metaphors.
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by dictum 10y ago
Literally the unicode character for hammer and sickle (U+262D)
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by dictum 10y ago
The irony is that NSA's mandate stems from the same problem of revealing true things by unorthodox methods: it often takes a dirty and ugly tool to perform the tasks necessary to obtain information of interest to national security. Spe
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by dictum 10y ago
> check out the #hnwatch hashtag on Twitter I didn't know that hashtag and was not surprised to see that one of its regular users is someone who likes to use autism as a metaphor for men working in tech.

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