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by finnw 15y ago
Today I would recommend that anyone who plans to learn JS learns Lua first. It's similar enough, but simpler and you don't have to be concerned with all the browser-specific functions right away.
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by finnw 15y ago
There is also a local proxy server (cannot remember the name but it has been around since the late 90s) that can do the same for any browser. Last time I looked at it, it was not intelligent and would preload every .html link on the page,
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by finnw 15y ago
That could have interesting unintended consequences - ISPs being pressured to ban users who post blog comments with spelling errors.
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by finnw 15y ago
> ... but that's probably an intractable cryptographic process. Not always. Algorithms that append a hash to a file, preserving the same hash, i.e. hash(s) == hash(s ++ hash(s)) http://stackoverflow.com/q/4823680/12048 A prog
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by finnw 15y ago
I will be surprised if it continues at all.
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by finnw 15y ago
> Farewell Stack Exchange When I first saw the title I thought "Oh no, why is Stack Exchange closing down?" Maybe the title should be changed to the more accurate "Jeff Attwood quits Stack Exchange"
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by finnw 15y ago
I've always been slightly surprised that founders accept vesting at all. What is to stop the VC from firing you the day before your options mature? Then you would effectively have worked for them for free for 2 years, and for a low salary f
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by finnw 15y ago
I cannot recommend Comodo. I paid for one of their certificates (through a re-seller) but they refused to issue it on the grounds that they could not verify my phone number. It was true that it was not in the directories they referred to,
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by finnw 15y ago
> Only UTF-8 and UTF-32 are really big enough to hold the world's characters So is GB18030. Edit : and UTF-16, of course (just don't confuse it with UCS-2)
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by finnw 15y ago
I haven't used Mail.app since an incident about 2 years ago where it deleted a bunch of my messages. I was moving them from one folder to another when the connection to the server dropped. I don't know why this should happen with IMAP (it
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by finnw 15y ago
Interesting - are Facebook users really better-behaved than average blog commenters? Or was it just that the lazier trolls gave up when their old cookies stopped working?
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by finnw 15y ago
I hope that means "10% get it right first time" and not "only 10% can do it at all, even given a computer and a whole day to do it." Couldn't resist that challenge (although the thread is nearly 2 years old.) I think mine works, at least i
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by finnw 15y ago
Almost the same bug: http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/issues/detail?id=61...
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by finnw 15y ago
That reminds me of the 2005 ICFP contest ( http://icfpc.plt-scheme.org/spec.html )
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by finnw 15y ago
The only trouble I've ever had with MSE is that if you edit your hosts file to block the Facebook "like" button, MSE will pop up a warning and delete the www.facebook.com entry.
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by finnw 15y ago
> It's a HUGE security hole That's not entirely accurate. Most vulnerabilities do get patched quickly. It's still not worth enabling it in your browser though, because so few sites use it.
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by finnw 15y ago
- separate by a significant interval in time the detection and any consequences of detection Why?
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by finnw 15y ago
> There. Now you just have to worry about the bugs the Agents put all over your house. Physical bugs are expensive. Malware is cheap.
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by finnw 15y ago
That's probably not feasible these days. Commercial porn sites only offer licenses for streaming, not downloading.
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by finnw 15y ago
Sounds great. Do they take Amazon gift vouchers?
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by finnw 15y ago
> The same cognitive dissonance arises when talking about collateral damage of capitalism: "well, that sucks, but capitalism is good, so it's not responsible for those effects." Are you referring to the Halo Effect? ( http://lesswron
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by finnw 15y ago
All that will tell you is that humans will anthropomorphize anything. I would agree with the dog owner, but then you sometimes hear owners of non-social animals (e.g. snakes, octopuses) claiming their pets have empathy. A few people even c
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by finnw 15y ago
Wouldn't your individual risk be lessened by leaving the other rat trapped, so that it is easy prey and more likely to get picked?
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by finnw 15y ago
Maybe that kind of complex question would be better suited to StackExchange instead of HN?
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by finnw 15y ago
Not quite. Surrogates ( http://stackoverflow.com/q/5178202/12048 ) are UTF-16 code units but they are not UCS-2 code units.
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by finnw 15y ago
> I'm also a supreme night owl, doing my best work around 6-9pm ... Me too, and I get 6-7 hours of sleep a night, yet I do not feel "sleep deprived" at all.
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by finnw 15y ago
Whether this will work depends on who writes each of these sections. For example if you ask the sponsors of the bill "who will hate the bill" they will always say "terrorists", so the field will not actually tell you anything and will quick
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by finnw 15y ago
> 100mb a page which is not all that amazing today 100mb is probably enough to hold all the code you will write in your lifetime.
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by finnw 15y ago
I would just have bought the CD - I don't really understand his objection to that.
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by finnw 15y ago
The only bit of "piracy" I have done in the last 5 years was an episode of QI ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QI ) They decided not to air it for political reasons - Jeremy Clarkson was on the panel and they wanted to keep him off the air

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