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by elehack 15y ago
Yep, lots of them are known to some subset of people. However, if people find one or two really useful ones that they didn't know about previously, the list has done its job. For me, the major winner was dstat. Did not know about that tool
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by elehack 15y ago
Sadly, most of those people don't realize this is what is happening, or what the implications of such control and ownership are.
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by elehack 15y ago
Think of the potential alternatives. One is everything can be crawled with no way for the site owner to say "no, please don't crawl this." The other major one is to legally bar all crawling without express permission. The current de facto w
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by elehack 15y ago
If you use the Tweet button, either embedded in a page or installed as a bookmarklet, it will run through Twitter's own shortener. A long version of the URL will then be displayed in the Twitter UI.
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by elehack 15y ago
The really difficult thing is that, while in many cases the demand letters are legitimate and appropriate, in some cases like this they aren't. If Zephoria sued danah for trademark infringement, I would certainly hope they would lose since
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by elehack 15y ago
P?=NP doesn't have anything to do with possibility - it has to do with feasibility. The point is, with sufficient hardware, we might be able to just do the NP problem. Also, brute-forcing creativity is not P==NP. Brute-forcing is NP. If P=N
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How to build toddler app UIs.(gabrielweinberg.com)
164 points by elehack 15y ago|43 comments
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List of identity facets, revised (response to Ev Williams)(25hoursaday.com)
6 points by elehack 15y ago|0 comments
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by elehack 15y ago
I spent a semester in Oz in college. It forever changed the way I think about parallelism, to the point where it's not uncommon for me to implement a very rough equivalent of dataflow variables in other languages. Some of its concepts do sh
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by elehack 16y ago
Because by some other standards, such as Fitts' Law, it's a good move - it gives the menu infinite vertical size. Also, it is an effective way of conserving vertical screen real estate. With the increasing prevalance of widescreen displays,
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by elehack 16y ago
Because, at the end of the day, you still need your tax return or whatever it is, and the bribe-requester is preventing you from getting it. Going through the legal system, if it even works, would take quite a while.
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Nothing much happened(roughtype.com)
42 points by elehack 16y ago|13 comments
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by elehack 16y ago
Is part of the problem that a lot of professional media is from a print-oriented perspective, so that in the journalistic/editing mindset and initial target medium hyperlinking isn't possible?
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by elehack 16y ago
Even if they just put in the author, venue & volume/issue or, for annual venues, year, that will generally be enough information to find it without a full citation.
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by elehack 16y ago
Interesting. I've been using rsnapshot for a while for a similar purpose, although its de-duplication is limited to keeping unmodified files as hard links. It'd be nice to see a brief comparison of ddar, rsnapshot, and other things that mi
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by elehack 16y ago
hg branches are entirely different from git branches, so resetting them in that way doesn't make sense. The closest approximation - bookmarks - can indeed be reset (hg bookmark -f). histedit does a variety of things; I'm not sure if it cov
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by elehack 16y ago
They are not incompatible messages at all. This article says that SSDs delete stuff fast; the other says you can't reliably delete particular things. Basically, they're unpredictable. You can't reliably expect a particular file to be pur
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by elehack 16y ago
I don't like the "licensed not sold" line. A copy was sold, U.S. law (generally) backs that up, and that means there are certain things you can do with it such as loan it out or give it away/resell it. You can't copy it, but that's because
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by elehack 16y ago
I'm speculating that the CDN servers are running stripped-down, static-file-only HTTP servers that don't integrate with a more complex user-identification and logging infrastructure to help with throughput. I could be completely wrong.
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by elehack 16y ago
The "Like" button infrastructure (images, JavaScript) is loaded from Facebook's servers via a cross-domain request. Those servers can theoretically use cookies or IP addresses in conjunction with referrers to do tracking even without click
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by elehack 16y ago
If the bill was just what the Times is portraying it to be, it does sound terrible. However, the poorly-written article seems to grossly misrepresent the bill in favor of a scare story. Reading the bill summary and Patently-O's run-down,
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by elehack 16y ago
My understanding is that yes, Apple wants them to.
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by elehack 16y ago
The Zebra F-301 is awesome - I keep both blue and black at my desk at all times. Reliable pen, good feel, and eminently affordable. Zebra also makes an F-301 Compact, a non-retractable that's about 4" long, fits in your pocket without pok
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by elehack 16y ago
You can use a wysiwyg-ish editor like LyX or TeXmacs, but eventually, you'll likely want formatting it doesn't make trivial, particularly for something like a resume. If you're comfortable with Vim or Emacs, both of them have good LaTeX sup
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by elehack 16y ago
But they make it very clear that the iTunes store is the only authorized/approved means of doing things on the device, and try to make it illegal to do otherwise (although the Library of Congress put a temporary stop to that agenda). And wh
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by elehack 16y ago
They own the infrastructure, but they do not own the device. The customer does. They bought it. Apple comes along and says that anything you want to use on the device you bought and paid for needs to go through their infrastructure. That'
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by elehack 16y ago
I think it'd be a little different if they didn't lock down the device so that their App Store is the only (supported/permitted) way to install applications. If it was only "you sell through us, you pay", that'd be one thing; as it stands,
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by elehack 16y ago
Maemo/MeeGo, but its future is, err, uncertain. WebOS might be good in that regard, but its supported development model is limited to web apps so far as I know.
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by elehack 16y ago
For me, Wave had one very strong use case: collaboration and discussion intended to result in a persistent document. Forums, mailing lists, e-mail, etc. are great for discussion, but they are generally ephemeral. Documents are persistent, a
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Coding Horror: The Importance of Net Neutrality(codinghorror.com)
16 points by elehack 16y ago|0 comments

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