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by dos1 14y ago
While I understand that you do not believe this is a big deal, I do not agree. I think this is a major problem. I too am a Minnesota resident and have always felt our state was very educated and progressive. This makes me ashamed to be a
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by dos1 14y ago
The SpaceX webcast has a great video of the whole process, as well as some good stills: http://www.spacex.com/webcast/ Watching the video gave me a massive appreciation for what these guys are able to do. I work on a software project whe
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by dos1 14y ago
Imagine you hear a story about a guy whose house gets burned to the ground. All of his possessions are destroyed. My thought is that you'd naturally feel sympathy for the victim. Now say you found out the victim was himself a serial arson
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by dos1 14y ago
>I cannot afford to take white people’s shit anymore. That’s been my mantra this year, and I’m still on it, even if that means getting the law involved. From the comment above (and several other parts of his article) he certainly appea
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by dos1 14y ago
I agree that the programmer shortage is overblown. I'm a contractor and am currently putting out feelers for my next gig. My resume and background are "very good" from a recruiter's perspective, and even I have issues getting in the door
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by dos1 14y ago
Well, the last time I used OSX for daily use, it was constantly pestering me to upgrade to various point releases. Those were usually massive downloads that required a reboot. Maybe things have changed? Along that same vein, it seemed lik
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by dos1 14y ago
Apple's incessant need to obsolete their old operating systems is surprising to me. I would think this would hurt their overall adoption rates (especially long term) as people get sick of constantly upgrading their OS and dealing with any
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by dos1 14y ago
This looks fantastic. The "Gibson" view is also an awesome little bonus for those of us who still love the movie Hackers.
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by dos1 14y ago
Are there any security concerns with this? Is the URL of a GET request over SSL encrypted as well as the payload? I assume it must be if they are sending credit card information that way?
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by dos1 14y ago
Yes! Totally agree! There should never be a person whose sole job is "UX". I've encountered many of these people and have never seen one add value to a project. As a further aside, I also despise "information architectures" which these U
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by dos1 14y ago
> I'm the security researcher in question (and author of this post). What a company does when pressured by their customer base and what they do when no pressures exist are two very, very different things Totally agreed. > Had I appr
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by dos1 14y ago
Wow look at that - once made aware of the vulnerability Onity responded with a fix. The last post I saw on this mentioned that the security researcher did not responsibly disclose the vulnerability because he just knew they wouldn't do anyt
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by dos1 14y ago
But imagine, if he had told them a year ago, perhaps the locks would be mostly replaced with a fixed version by now! I think it's unbelievable that he wouldn't disclose this information because he "just knows" they wouldn't do anything. H
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by dos1 14y ago
I'm not sure why SO feels the need to delete posts like this. I get that the "question" isn't keeping with their stated objectives, but I find the answers to be enlightening in some respects. I've learned about many new technologies and fr
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by dos1 14y ago
Thanks for the explanation! Having never dealt with internet advertisers I didn't realize there was as much to it as there is :)
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by dos1 14y ago
Could you maybe explain some of those acronyms you used?
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by dos1 14y ago
Good point - I guess my biggest complaint is that companies like Facebook and Twitter pull some of the most brilliant minds. These minds, in my opinion, could be better spent finding solutions to big problems like cancer, space exploration
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by dos1 14y ago
Everything I've read about Elon Musk recently has really made me root for the guy. He is disrupting two very difficult industries. This was posted on HN a few months ago, but I really thought this interview with him was exceptional: htt
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by dos1 14y ago
I do not like Android tablets for the simple reason that the web browsing experience on them is sub par. In my mind a tablet is a luxury item that sits on a coffee table and answers my questions of "what movie was that actor in?" or "who's
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by dos1 14y ago
Totally agree. I'm all for the big life changing move - when there aren't people depending on you for their survival. Also - you're building a house? If I was going to quit my consulting gig to do startups (which I'm strongly considering d
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by dos1 14y ago
Why is Microsoft so hell-bent on destroying the desktop OS that made them what they are today? The Metro stuff is fine for tablets, but it's a TERRIBLE user experience on a traditional desktop computer. I don't even understand this "everyt
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by dos1 14y ago
I'm not entirely sure that data binding is a good approach in general. I spent quite a bit of time on a Silverlight MVVM project too, and the data binding there got to be more trouble than it was worth as well. Seems like data binding sep
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by dos1 14y ago
I can't quite tell why someone would want to use this framework over Knockout. The Knockout documentation is quite a bit more thorough and the two way binding looks to be more robust. Also, both Knockout and Angular require that you add no
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by dos1 14y ago
I have a hard time drumming up sympathy for these guys. They're mad because they couldn't make a quick buck. Isn't a hedge fund just gambling? It's high time Wall St. learns that it's never a good idea to put more in the pot than you can
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by dos1 14y ago
I can already buy something with one click on Amazon.com from my laptop and desktop. And have been able to for some time. Adding that feature to a mobile phone will help, certainly, but that alone would not make a better shopping experien
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by dos1 14y ago
I love my iPhone. As an appliance it works great. But I must be in the minority when it comes to using apps. I use two, maybe three, on a monthly basis. Safari, Maps, and sometimes a weather app. I was floored when he said he spends $5
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by dos1 14y ago
The debugger is great! Until this came along I was really struggling to figure out how to write any kind of code for this DCPU thing. I don't have a background in assembly or really any sort of low level programming. The debugger makes t
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by dos1 15y ago
But why? Why drop the semicolons? What is the benefit? If the net result is exactly the same, why try and be tricky? What is the point, other than you can do it. But there are many tricky things we can do with programming languages,
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by dos1 15y ago
After reading this, I just want to say that I do not think semicolon-less javascript is, in general, a good idea. Development projects are almost always team efforts. And, unfortunately, there's almost always one or two team members who ar
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by dos1 15y ago
Wow, great story! I especially like the fact that Lenny realizes how lucky he is to have healthy children and be financially stable. There are so many people who are smart and work hard, but to become rich beyond necessity always takes

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