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by dmethvin 14y ago
> But what if you want to share a story? In Desktop, I’d right-click, copy the URL, and send it over. Metro News doesn’t have URLs. So I go to the right side of the screen and choose “Share.” I have two real options — I can send an emai
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by dmethvin 14y ago
It all comes down to consent. I should be able to install a browser plugin that blocks ads entirely, or a plugin that replaces their ads with ones more relevant to me. This is not a new technique, there have been adware/spyware apps for nea
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Sorry but I just can't follow the logic here. The Flash whitelist is only for the formerly-called-Metro immersive browser that will primarily be used on touch-based tablets. It does not affect desktop IE10. Many Flash apps were designed for
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by dmethvin 14y ago
I co-founded a company a decade ago that spent most of its marketing budget on AdWords, on the order of $120K a month. We were constantly running into issues with the credit card company triggering their fraud algos and killing our campai
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by dmethvin 14y ago
In that case I think "little or no certification" would be more appropriate. It does seem kind of strange that doctors, lawyers, electricians, plumbers, and barbers all have to take tests to get into (and sometimes remain in) their professi
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I'm one of those guys programming in my 50s. Technically my jobs involve project management and consulting as well but I still love programming the most. Saying that programming "requires little or no education" is from the perspective of e
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I never thought the .NET Framework did enough complexity hiding to justify a 60MB installed size, especially if it was just providing a bit of plumbing to get you back down to the COM level. Most COM interfaces support late binding, so you
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At least in the US, this already falls under Section 508 guidelines [1]. Most government web sites are already expected to follow this. I wouldn't call it "catering" though, because often it doesn't involve anything more than semantic marku
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by dmethvin 14y ago
That's the way it seems to me as well. With the second one that has no tag line I'd think that Dwellable might be a competitor for Trulia, Zillow, or Redfin.
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I knew Ed Curry and worked with him at his home north of Austin for some reporting I did regarding bugs in the Cyrix CPUs. He was a friendly and kind-hearted person, was deeply devoted to both his religion and family. With respect, however,
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by dmethvin 14y ago
Look at it this way, click fraudsters are parasitic to advertisers but actually symbiotic for web sites and ad networks. So how can you expect them to aggressively prevent it? As long as the fraud doesn't rise to the point where the adverti
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by dmethvin 14y ago
I think you're referring to the warning about unsigned files? Signed code generally improves security, incidents like the Adobe cert theft are rare. My only complaint is how expensive the certificates can be. Then again, if they were cheap
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Actual reports are here, downloadable as PDF: http://www.nsslabs.com/reports/your-browser-putting-you-risk... http://www.nsslabs.com/reports/your-browser-putting-you-risk... The methodology is (vaguely) described in the first document.
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by dmethvin 14y ago
> Apple gets it, Nokia does not. If by "it" you mean customer devotion when faced by evidence that Apple's camera is not technically as good as Nokia's or Apple's maps are not as good as Google's, then I agree. They call it cognitive di
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by dmethvin 14y ago
> It’s clear that had I gone through with this payment it would have come out of WATSON’s account and not mine. No it's not clear. You're just looking at some HTML on the screen, it may have come out of some stale cache and have nothing
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by dmethvin 14y ago
That's not quite true about security. There is a very bad practice some ajaxy sites have where they select parts of the page using `$(location.hash)` [1]. Since that string is in the URL and entirely in control of outside code, it's pretty
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by dmethvin 14y ago
That's what 1.8.2 is about, and we'll do minor releases as needed. The reason 1.9/2.0 is happening only about 6 months after 1.8 is that there is a lot of demand for an oldIE-free version for mobile and modern web apps, as opposed to public
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by dmethvin 14y ago
You're at Hacker News, just about every startup is obsessed by growth because that's all they have on their side. To your analogy, it's more like selling a horse to the petting zoo for kiddie rides because it no longer has enough stamina fo
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by dmethvin 14y ago
Many profitable businesses tail off very slowly over years, throwing off excellent revenue in the process. Last year, for example, AOL made $175 million off 3 million customers who still subscribe to its dial-up business.[1] Those busines
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by dmethvin 14y ago
Agreed, for languages like C. It's not just error paths, either. For example, to break out of an outer loop inside an inner one you can label the outer loop with OUTER and use `last OUTER` in Perl or `break OUTER` in Java/JavaScript. But in
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Maybe for documentation or source-comment fixes, but most code fixes should have one or more unit tests to accompany them. To me, a pull request represents something that should be pretty close to finished work. There may be a few style iss
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At least some of their hesitation was because they were selling very expensive systems like Displaywriter and DataMaster [1] to word-intensive corporations and didn't want to cannibalize that revenue. For example, most big law firms still h
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The CLA formalizes that you intended to contribute the work and that any other people with an interest in it (your employer for example) is okay with it. Here's a worst-case scenario: Imagine that some employee of a company writes some nift
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by dmethvin 14y ago
I hope the people upvoting this are doing it to encourage discussion, not to agree with this totally inane post. There is no controversy. Dual licensing confused people for no good reason. Some people thought that including jQuery in their
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Did any of the previous commenters actually watch the video? Ignore the title, it's not about to-do lists. If you ever want to be successful at a startup, watch the video. Understand what he's saying about those three things that are requir
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They do come in handy, if only they were supported everywhere. Right now it's just Chrome and a small number of tools.
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I don't think the assembler analogy holds with jQuery vs. JavaScript/DOM. There's a reason why an event handler has a DOM element and not a jQuery object as its `this` keyword. At the time jQuery was designed, we thought everyone understood
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by dmethvin 14y ago
Yes, but at the first point where the user performed an action relevant to their desires, you have requested the associated permission. The connection is clear in their mind and the app's request for that permission makes sense.
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I think these are all Opera quirks. It is saying there are unhandled exceptions when all the ones it identified are inside a try/catch. It looks the -o- warnings are coming from the internal feature detects that we use in jQuery 1.8, we r
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by dmethvin 14y ago
Why request the kitchen sink on startup? For example, if I have an app that posts on my wall when I perform certain actions inside the app, why not check and ask for that permission at that point? As a user the cause-effect will be clear si

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