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by ecaron 14y ago
You're right, my formula analogy was poor because of the reasons you mentioned. Breaking in and filming the testing facilities would have been more apt. Certainly those facilities need watch guard groups advocating for the protection of the
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by ecaron 14y ago
At risk of being down-voted out of existence, this isn't First Amendment material in the same way that defamation (e.g. slander, libel) isn't First Amendment material - or how breaking into a pharmaceutical and publishing their formulas are
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by ecaron 14y ago
When using PHP and Nginx, you're going to become familiar with PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager). The briefest tutorial to get to working is at http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-nginx-with-php5-and-php... .
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by ecaron 14y ago
Unless you're using Windows 7, in which case that was on Feb 23 (30 days ago.)
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by ecaron 14y ago
A "Disallow:" (without anything after it) is saying allow all robots access to the entire server. (If you need something beyond my word on the topic, there's a thorough explanation at http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html )
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by ecaron 14y ago
I'm guessing you're using Windows 8, but suspect that the bug still crashes MSIE10 on Win7. The two browsers look the same, but I suspect there are some drastic differences between their innards.
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by ecaron 14y ago
They'll just tell him that he should fix his CSS ( https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/microsoft... ). The only thing publicly announcing a MSIE bug will do is subject the author to ceaseless attacks from "you're either with
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by ecaron 14y ago
The MongoDB staff had said they're mostly adding text searching to satisfy a repeat request that they've heard over and over - but they've said that anyone really wanting to do text searching at scale should use something like Sphinx, Solr
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by ecaron 14y ago
Are there any monitoring services, like Pingdom, that do external 3rd party auditing of current DNS endpoints for a domain and offer alerting whenever a change is made? That service (being external from the registrar or DNS provider) seems
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by ecaron 14y ago
Someone should update the "In the meantime, some extensions can be found here." link on http://windows.php.net/ , then.
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by ecaron 14y ago
Frankly, I'm irritated at them for dragging their heals on getting the PECL4Win back up and running (and the lack of updates to http://downloads.php.net/pierre/ doesn't help matters.) Since I've moved to the camp of "You developing PHP an
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by ecaron 14y ago
I feel like there are dark factors at play for dropping the XP support. Although the most thorough discussion of it is at http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/177732/why-wa... , the conspiracist in me says that Microsoft (pierre'
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by ecaron 14y ago
The new changes I'm looking forward to are the password hashing API, scalar type hints and generators. I'm also looking forward to 3 things that AREN'T going to be there: register_global, safe mode, and magic_quotes
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by ecaron 14y ago
You can try my original version of the site - crashie8.com
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by ecaron 14y ago
On an unrelated note, thanks for joining HN to participate in this discussion. It is really refreshing to know that Googlers like yourself and Matt Cutts are engaged in their community - it makes it much easier to have faith in the technolo
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by ecaron 14y ago
Most interesting point: http://www.thefancy.com/ (the promo site in the video) ISN'T EVEN USING THE SERVICE!!!
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by ecaron 14y ago
I'm anxious to know if http://www.crashie.com/ brings it down, it doesn't in Win8 but I suspect Win7 is still vulnerable...
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by ecaron 14y ago
And the follow-up to that even-better article ( http://ventspace.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/follow-up-on-direc... ): The message said “DirectX is no longer evolving as a technology.” That is definitely not true in any way, shape or
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by ecaron 14y ago
> When Ralph Nader does this sort of thing he is lauded, I don't think Musk's criticisms should be viewed in any different light. Just as a point of fact, Ralph Nader was hardly universally lauded when he entered the arena of public cri
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by ecaron 14y ago
For anyone making a shift from 1.7/1.8 to this, please don't overlook the jquery-migrate plugin ( https://github.com/jquery/jquery-migrate/ ). You/we don't have to suffer the headaches of "what the heck changed since the version I was using
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by ecaron 14y ago
The guys at Smarty did some pretty good analysis on the @ operator - specifically in cases where implementing it improved performance: http://blog.rodneyrehm.de/archives/12-Improving-Disk-IO-in-P...
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When Infinite Scroll Doesn't Work(usabilitypost.com)
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by ecaron 14y ago
I would have liked it the jQuery API documentation would be closer to the PHP.net documentation. For instance, I want to know the options for $.post - going to http://api.jquery.com/post/ would sure be nice (and even if it didn't exist, i
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The right way to write an API [pdf](sternbergconsultingllc.com)
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by ecaron 14y ago
Yet another great example of the problem with Twitter and not having any policy/business-plan for dealing with squatter accounts. They should, if account is unusued for 3 months, send an email saying "are you still using this" and just ask
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by ecaron 14y ago
How is this better than the decentralized Persona Identify solution that Mozilla's promoting: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Persona/Identity_Pr...
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How to use dummy features on your website (venturebeat.com)
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Wikipedia's list of common misspellings and grammar mistakes(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ecaron 14y ago
I'm encountering something similar this Christmas. We'd given my wife's grandma a Chromebook - and it has died of its own accord after just 14 months. After talking about the replacement, she nearly begged for a Windows or a Mac. By name. T
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by ecaron 14y ago
This "bug" has been resolved since 01-Mar-2012 when 5.4 was released, and there's a very straight-forward explanation of it if people would just RTFM. This is the worst part of the PHP community - all the in-fighting when the core developer

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