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by freditup 12y ago
Hmm, perhaps you're right. But he seems to me to be in that category of authors who takes small bits of evidence and draws much to large of conclusions. (And yes, I'm doing the same thing with this very comment)
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by freditup 12y ago
He seems like a sensationalist who has certain vendettas against specific companies and entities. I'm not sure why he's taken seriously at all... (As in, I really don't understand why he keeps getting posted on HN, not just s
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by freditup 12y ago
I like these tips: - Holding your wallet also helps you be sure to put the card back in your wallet and not someplace else. - I think everyone agrees that the dotfiles one is useful - I personally need a better shoelace know as oppose
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by freditup 12y ago
I personally like this kind of submission. If it's something I was familiar with, then it's a good review/reminder; if it's something I was unfamiliar with, it's a good lesson.
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I haven't used d3 but I used chart.js a little while ago. At the time is was relatively simple but lacking some features (like support for interactions). Looks like this newest version has added some of that which is great. My guess is
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by freditup 12y ago
Good reminder I think that we should never pressure anyone to drink. Whether for health, family, religious, personal, or any other reasons, there's absolutely nothing wrong with choosing not to drink alcohol. I enjoy a drink now and th
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by freditup 12y ago
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but assuming you're not... But first, 5 drinks in 2-3 hrs for men vs. 4 drinks in 2-3 hrs for women isn't that different. Second, women on average weigh less, so that contributes t
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by freditup 12y ago
There's a CSS color named 'Gainsboro', and a color named 'NavajoWhite' that's not super close to white. 'RebeccaPurple', from a pragmatic sense, is easier to understand than those two in my opinion.
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by freditup 12y ago
Fair points, I think you're right. I actually think it's probably a combination of what I mentioned and you mentioned. And definitely don't mean to make little of people who are in tough financial situations. But as you said,
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by freditup 12y ago
Sure it's fun to find $100, but why does this cause such a big commotion? I think it's the inherit bias our brains have towards 'free'. People who find they money fell like they got money for doing nothing, and get extra
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by freditup 12y ago
Maybe? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect Apparently the science of water freezing is still not that well understood
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by freditup 12y ago
My 'biggest' technological nightmare in the latter years of high school was that regular schools would have enough online presence that snow days would become mandatory 'learn from home' days. Teachers would still hold c
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by freditup 12y ago
I've only used Haxe a couple of times, but I think if you give it a try you'll find that it's a much nicer language than Javascript! FlashDevelop[1] is a great IDE for it if you're using Windows (and apparently Sublime T
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by freditup 12y ago
Being conservative with alcohol doesn't reasonably imply being conservative with everything else in life. Plus, alcohol does have many realistic potential dangers - so being somewhat cautious is appropriate.
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The requirements are reasonable in my opinion: the length range prevents too short of passwords, and the variety of characters range prevents some of the weakest passwords: 'password' for example. Not allowing whitespace in passwo
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by freditup 12y ago
This feels sensationalist to me. Password requirements, a captcha, and (optional I think) phone verification are common on many sites. I was able to create an account in about 30 seconds. I think if the author wants to, he will be able to l
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by freditup 12y ago
I remember reading this article when it first came out - it's biting and does a good job criticizing things that probably deserve some criticism. But, I agree with that top comment - the real value from coders come from solving real pr
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by freditup 12y ago
Is rate limiting by IP the best way to handle something like this (other than the obvious, allowing better passwords)? You could obviously rate limit by account, but then you make it easy for anyone to lock anyone else out of their account.
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by freditup 12y ago
I have Virgin Mobile in the US (it's one of the cheapest options with good quality phones), and it seems the same. It made me set a 6-digit PIN as my password, and my phone number is my username. Here are the requirements listed on the
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by freditup 12y ago
Neat to see the community and parental support a kid who's willing to go outside of the usual methods of learning (school) and do things on his own. Not a real fan of the article though, seems unnecessarily patronizing to me: "His
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by freditup 13y ago
Interesting article, I agree with it generally. The constant stimulation culture of today really can mess us up - we have some sort of an addiction to entertainment/stimulation, whether it's checking email or twitter, reading shor
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by freditup 13y ago
Ah, don't give me too much credit haha, was more of a side-project thing for me, definitely wasn't a professional, especially at the animation side of things (as opposed to the programming side). I was also more involved with the
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by freditup 13y ago
If I had to pinpoint it, I'd say Flash's primetime was around 2005-2008 perhaps, and FlashDevelop was available then. Guess we probably define it's prime differently haha, I'm thinking more of when it matured - AS3 as a
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by freditup 13y ago
Used to to do a good amount of flash development - you could actually do it with just a text editor and a compiler (which was free). There were also quite nice free IDEs, like FlashDevelop.
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"A couple of weeks later, when faced with more opportunities to give and share, the children were much more generous after their character had been praised than after their actions had been. Praising their character helped them interna
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by freditup 13y ago
In the 911 call audio, he states that the accident victims asked him to call 911. In a situation like that, I'd say it's proper to call 911.
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I think you're right that this is the actual question. Perhaps to my original posts detriment, there obviously does come a time when holding a particular position on an issue is unacceptable. For example, as pointed out many times her
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by freditup 13y ago
The problem with blacklisting someone for a political view is that it can always be done. Right now, it's popular to call people who oppose gay marriage laws 'homophobes' and throw them under the bus. (In this thread, a lot o
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Help Test the New Firefox Beta: Faster, Simplified and Easier to Customize(blog.mozilla.org)
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by freditup 13y ago
I've used http://weice.in/ivory/index.html before and liked it. However, I don't do much web-design, so I can't really comment on how good or bad it is, just that I've found it useful in the past.

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