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by ecaron 14y ago
This project was recently discussed on HN at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3899829
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Microsoft sends GitHub DMCA shutdown for Skype open source project(github.com)
189 points by ecaron 14y ago|90 comments
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by ecaron 14y ago
It may not be a big market that the masses are clamoring for, but it will soon be similar to services encrypting passwords in the database. The outside world shouldn't be expected to know about the existence of rainbow tables and the futili
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by ecaron 14y ago
An excellent recruitment program to find talent for their own projects.
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by ecaron 14y ago
The comments in this post really demonstrate the widespread pain points that everyone has when dealing with CSS sprites, and the existence of 30+ solutions indicates that nobody has really figured out how to fix it yet. The lack of attentio
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by ecaron 14y ago
Is this different than the Dabble that TechCrunch covered in 2006: http://techcrunch.com/2006/07/23/dabble-launches/ . Looks very different (platform and project concept), but the similar name makes me wonder if the same team was behind bo
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by ecaron 15y ago
Much more interesting is the link to their complete styleguide - http://www.starbucks.com/static/reference/styleguide/
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by ecaron 15y ago
That depends a significant amount on if you're interested in the "I want to work for company X" crowd.
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by ecaron 15y ago
I have a real hard time taking advice seriously from a company that doesn't have a career page on their own website. It feels like taking stock-market advice from somebody that only buys bonds.
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The Photographic Science of Detecting Fake Lottery Tickets(hackerfactor.com)
254 points by ecaron 15y ago|49 comments
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by ecaron 15y ago
According to Gizmodo ( http://gizmodo.com/5893031/aim-is-unofficially-dead ), AOL's official statement on the matter is "they have no official statement on the future of AIM."
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by ecaron 15y ago
I think it depends heavily on your industry. Out of our weekly distribution to 20,000+ opt-in subscribers, on average we get 400+ out-of-office replies.
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by ecaron 15y ago
Modern browsers have begun deprecating the a:visited because of the privacy problems that allowing it exposed. (More details on http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/03/privacy-related-changes-com... , but essentially I could have the CSS set your
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by ecaron 15y ago
Yes, I get that. That's why I said "stop losing money." It seems like their only solution would be to transfer the images of the data to cold storage and then find some source to recoup the cost of the cold storage devices (which is why I t
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by ecaron 15y ago
At that price, it would only take them 150 days to stop losing money if they started building some Backblaze servers ( http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v... ). 25,000TB / 135TB * $7,384 = $1,367,407 minimum cost of
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by ecaron 15y ago
I would propose more people just become familiar with irony punctuation ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation#Irony_mark ), because these linguistic inflections have a bigger impacted when they're realized AFTER reading the point
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by ecaron 15y ago
As having personally worked to tell the IE team about a severe bug (crashie.com), I can tell you that their process, community and bureaucracy are by far the worst part of Internet Explorer. You'll get ignored, told that the problem is with
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Server names in the business world: Putting the fun in functional(itworld.com)
3 points by ecaron 15y ago|0 comments
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by ecaron 15y ago
There is no standard for this. Beyond that, why would you want to be standard - the point of an interview is to come across as exception. Figure out each individual person, and send as many as you can remember/find/track a hand-written, mai
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by ecaron 15y ago
Talk about HN title link-bait. The article's actual title - 11 Google Analytics Tricks to Use for Your Website - is much more accurate (namely because the article has 1) nothing to do with startups and 2) nothing "advanced".)
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by ecaron 15y ago
For the last 7 years I have worked at a company that does specialized job listing web scraping. And on nearly a weekly basis I encounter other programmers who say, "pssssh, I could do that in a weekend." It does seem disgustingly easy, but
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What Oracle plans to do with Taleo: Kill resumes(readwriteweb.com)
4 points by ecaron 15y ago|1 comments
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by ecaron 15y ago
The only "why" that I've been able to surmise is for people using PHP to scrape/interpret content from existing webpages. But I only make that assumption looking at the itches that Jani (the lead behind the PHP v8js) has been scratching rec
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by ecaron 15y ago
Native on Mac & Windows, Chrome-only for Linux (which just isn't the same experience as AIR offered)
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by ecaron 15y ago
It is providing a mechanism to make it significantly more difficult for the end-user to directly copy/retain the video as it is being streamed to them. 7.3 in the spec is the best example demonstrating how the license model of this implemen
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by ecaron 15y ago
Adobe killing AIR for Linux didn't impact/slow AIR's growth in the slightest, so I would have to assume this change will also have zero impact.
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From the IE Team: Google Bypassing User Privacy Settings(blogs.msdn.com)
313 points by ecaron 15y ago|174 comments
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by ecaron 15y ago
I kept pushing that solution too, largely because I love the "here's another legal reason for torrent technology" proof that it gives, but it was important to datassette to be able to directly stream from the site and that isn't possible wi
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by ecaron 15y ago
When this was posted 2 weeks ago, I tried to step up and do the hosting with Amazon's Cloudfront. 72 hours and 3TB later, I sadly acknowledged that I didn't have the checkbook size to properly meet the download needs. Since then, @datassett
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by ecaron 15y ago
True, but what other registrar has publicly stated that they won't do what GoDaddy is currently doing? Because until I can find the registrar that makes that promise (all the alternatives I've found are just customers making that claim on b

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