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by dperfect 9y ago
I got started with Flash when it was still FutureSplash (FutureWave), and I think a lot of the credit we give Flash can be attributed to FutureSplash. It didn't have ActionScript yet, but if I remember correctly, it did have the abil
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by dperfect 9y ago
I've been burned by the Amazon Affiliate Program on three separate occasions, and as a result I would not recommend it to anyone else. All three cases were for completely legitimate, high-quality websites that I created (all original c
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by dperfect 9y ago
I wonder if the outcome of the study could also be affected (in part) by emotional states associated with past uses of acetaminophen. In the past, there have been people close to me that used aromatic "remedies" like essential oil
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by dperfect 9y ago
Assuming there's a practical limit to the number of sorting categories that rules out separation by color and function, I'd much rather have them separated by function as shown. Is it easier to find the functional piece you need
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by dperfect 9y ago
Since it's not clear from the blog post or the other HN comments: the vulnerabilities are fixed in OpenVPN 2.4.3 and 2.3.17. OpenVPN users are advised to upgrade[1] "as soon as possible." [1] https://openvpn.net&#x
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by dperfect 9y ago
> You can now experience Enhanced Autopilot features including Traffic-Aware Cruise Control, Autosteer, Auto Lane Change, Parallel + Perpendicular Autopark, and Summon Scary stuff, really. No consumer wants (or needs) autopilot "fea
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by dperfect 9y ago
From my understanding, the anti-pattern is related to creating an API that requires a call to super when overriding a method. super.tap may be used when interacting with an API that employs the "call super" anti-pattern, but cal
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by dperfect 9y ago
It's pretty simple and useful; instead of def my_method super_result = super ... (do something with super_result, or simply after super has been called) ... super_result <== to make sure your method returns t
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by dperfect 9y ago
> the employee came back with the news that the registration of the domain had triggered the ransomware meaning we’d encrypted everyone’s files... Even though this fortunately turned out to be false, what if it had been true? Would the
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by dperfect 9y ago
> Music production software is home to some of the most complex and inventive UIs out there Complex and inventive, yes. I would also add that most of the time (for me at least) it goes too far. For example, there are a fair number of syn
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by dperfect 9y ago
The second paragraph mentions a couple of reasons: > ...we created a model that potentially has many applications, from assisting the creative process of an artist, to helping teach students how to draw. For vector output, there's a
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by dperfect 10y ago
Wow. That copy is all over the place. I have to give them credit for this (unintended) piece of irony: > Great experiences don’t just happen. And nobody knows that better than us. I have a strong suspicion Adobe doesn't even know wh
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by dperfect 10y ago
Except for a lucky few (who get all the attention as if they've cracked a secret code to producing wealth), no one really gets rich from investing. There are two ways to get rich: (1) be smart and work your tail off, or (2) get lucky
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by dperfect 10y ago
> China has been working up to getting a space capability to send people to the Moon with the full backing of the government funding, by 2035[1]. They started in 2003. SpaceX was founded in 2002 and they are saying they will fly someone
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by dperfect 10y ago
I agree with this point, but with laptop battery life, unfortunately the alternatives are all significantly worse than simply having a slightly thicker/heavier laptop. They almost always involve carrying additional devices (needing t
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by dperfect 10y ago
> Reducing mA (power draw) rather than increasing mAh (power storage) is the most effective way to increase battery life, which would go a long way to explain manufacturers’ obsession with thinness (which, in electrical terms often direc
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by dperfect 10y ago
If I remember correctly, the web panel allows installing packages from custom repository sources. I'm not saying that's inherently secure (it obviously makes other vulnerabilities much more critical), but how is it realistically d
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by dperfect 10y ago
> Web panel allows root code execution on the device (every XSS is full RCE!) I assume this is only true in the context of authenticated sessions within the web panel, right? If that's the case, is there really a lot of damage an
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by dperfect 10y ago
I agree. Passive home 3D is great, and it's a shame that so many people have made up their minds about 3D before experiencing it on a passive 3D TV at home. The petition page quotes LG as saying "3D is just no longer a big selling
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I really like the concept, and I want to use it in full-screen mode (to make it feel more like a first-level OS experience even if it isn't), but sadly once you open a website in full-screen, the rest of the browser chrome goes away. O
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by dperfect 10y ago
HandBrake offers a really nice GUI for many one-off transcoding tasks. If you're looking to automate transcoding tasks with some scripting, handbrake-cli (or ffmpeg directly) are very powerful, albeit overwhelming at times. For somethi
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by dperfect 10y ago
If you work with AWS infrastructure in a VPC, sometimes it makes sense to use a VPN to access/manage VPC instances that don't have a public IP (e.g., app servers behind an ELB). Of course, one could also just tunnel through an exp
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by dperfect 10y ago
This is great. If it had some basic drawing tools integrated (+ a bit more polish on the UI), it would be a killer tool for kids and non-programmers to get their feet wet with some core programming concepts and visual creativity. It's
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by dperfect 10y ago
That's a fair point. I definitely had the wrong expectations going into the game, but that's part of the frustration. It looks, sounds, and moves so much like the Mario games I've enjoyed in the past that my mind naturally ex
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by dperfect 10y ago
The graphics are nice (similar to New Super Mario Bros.), gameplay is smooth, and I really wanted to like this, but I just can't get into it. I think it comes down to this: My favorite games are the ones that embody some sense of fre
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by dperfect 10y ago
> Wouldn't the 24 gram loss of sugar mean a 24 gram loss of mass in the candy bar? No. That's what I'm trying to explain. Let's assume they're going to make the candy bar the same size regardless of ingredients.
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by dperfect 10y ago
If they're claiming a 40% reduction in sugar (by weight or by volume - the same principle applies) without affecting taste , then no, apparently you wouldn't notice the missing sugar. They're saying that an altered structure
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by dperfect 10y ago
A 40% reduction of an ingredient doesn't mean that somehow there's a void in anyone's product (they could reduce the product size also, but that's a separate matter). It just means that the other ingredients together w
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by dperfect 10y ago
> I've been a designer for 12 years or so... I would get frustrated designing logos for small businesses because (a) it was so time-consuming to create 30 mockups, (b) it would take weeks to do those small back-and-forths, and (c)
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by dperfect 10y ago
> Because private blockchains are a solution to a network problem Would someone mind explaining more specifically how private blockchains do anything that a traditional shared database or network doesn't already do? Without the ince

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