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by fryguy 14y ago
I really wish this was around 2 years ago when I made a site that used openid in PHP. I've dealt with so many nighmares of it I just threw it all away and now send people an email every time they want to log in. How do you deal with support
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by fryguy 14y ago
Microsoft isn't even explicitly banning Firefox, from my interpretation of things. They just don't allow executing code in data-space for security reasons, which is a feature that firefox uses for its JIT for performance reasons, but can ju
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by fryguy 14y ago
I like to think that my job of writing software with .NET to control deep sea robots is interesting. How many ruby/python developers could you say the same thing about though? I mean, most web apps are simple CRUD things, which are not inte
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by fryguy 14y ago
At the avengers screening I saw at midnight, it was like an oven in the theatre. That's not the best idea with a room full of comic book nerds. In theory, as long as the lamp is as bright as the movie it would make the movies really dim for
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by fryguy 14y ago
It's not necessarily true that HBO is leaving money on the table. It could be that having a streaming service is against some contract term they have with the cable companies, and having one would lose them $x per customer. That amount coul
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by fryguy 15y ago
And my point is that the sexism in the workplace doesn't matter at all for what the analogy was saying. Ideally what would have happened is that they made the bot, then she asked for them to stop, and then they would have stopped. I mean, i
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by fryguy 15y ago
I'm not the person above, but I have an analogy that might help understand the point he's trying to make. Suppose that you are a software developer that sits in a communal area along with other developers. One day, someone decides to hook u
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by fryguy 15y ago
That's the whole point. Ender's Game has little to do with why the teacher was suspended, and the original article was wrong, as well. The original article was posted on /r/scifi a few days ago, and was pretty quickly debunked by the police
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by fryguy 15y ago
Headline is misleading. Teacher was suspended for reading a short story from the internet, not Ender's game. https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.graytv...
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by fryguy 15y ago
Presumably, the only cost in solar panels is their construction, so there are no recurring costs (other than amortizing their lifetime). It seems complicated to figure the number of hours it lasts for, and figure out the energy generated in
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by fryguy 15y ago
As someone that's never worked in rails before, the fact that rails allows you to take parameters from the url, and directly update a database object with them is shocking to me. That's like the first thing you learn about securing websites
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by fryguy 15y ago
I was in the D2 beta back in the day, and I had a similar feeling I did now in the D3 beta. It was kind of tiring that the best thing that could be done in the game was killing the countess I think it was (fairly early in act 1) and getting
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by fryguy 15y ago
As a lover of bazaar, how did you manage to do that? I always feel so dirty when I have to use git because everyone uses github.
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by fryguy 15y ago
Go to definition, Find all references, and variable rename are far superior to ctrl-f and ctrl-h because they operate on symbols rather than strings. When you highlight a variable and ctrl-f for it, you're going to find the 30 times the fun
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by fryguy 15y ago
Well, electricity is certainly cheaper to charge a car battery than it is to buy gasoline to travel the same amount, and cheaper price for a commodity generally implies uses less energy. Does your gallon of gas take in to account the cost o
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by fryguy 15y ago
I think you're looking at this the wrong way. Let me make an analogy to a different market - hobby r/c aircraft. 10 Years ago, the only practical way to get certain sizes of aircraft was to use gas powered engines. Nowadays most people use
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by fryguy 15y ago
So an analogy would be that Pirate Steve wants to put the entire criterion collection ( http://www.criterion.com/library ) on the pirate bay. However, he knows that Fox is really litigious about their movies, so he replaces all of their mov
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by fryguy 15y ago
A simple way to figure out how this works is to figure out another way to write it out. For the simpler case (1/9801) = 0.00010203... 0.00 + 0.0001 + 0.000002 + 0.00000003 ... -------------- Each row is equa
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by fryguy 15y ago
I've never had any problems with the copy of windows 7 I bought from the microsoft online store. I've had to redownload it two or three times now, and it's always been there (although the page is near impossible to find). I had a screenshot
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by fryguy 15y ago
10 years ago, I thought the same thing about DMCA passing. "There's no way this will pass." So, the answer to your question is yes, you are.
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by fryguy 15y ago
I think it will be more like the "self-checkout" stations we see already at grocery stores. Instead of 3-4 people cooking, and 2-3 people taking orders at the counter/drive through, it'll be a bunch of "robots" cooking the food, and a self-
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by fryguy 15y ago
Only 16 bits worth of ports, though.
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by fryguy 15y ago
The only problem with this, is that it requires everyone to trust a single third party with the authentication. Since the input space that you type in is small, any one-way encryption is easily reversible. This means for every site that the
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by fryguy 15y ago
That's why I added the "...and manufacturing technology" part at the end. What I've seen is that a company will have a whole line of cells of varying capacities all at the same discharge "C" rating. To be honest, I'm too worried about disch
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by fryguy 15y ago
Generally given a battery chemistry and manufacturing technology, the charge rates and discharge rates are given in units of "C" which means it allows 1A charge/discharge per Ah capacity of the battery. For instance, the lipoly batteries I
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by fryguy 15y ago
They really should. Should the 10 year old girl that posted a video on youtube of herself singing along with a Justin Beiber song be considered a felon and put in jail for 5 years?
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by fryguy 15y ago
Sure, just turn left on N 400 W. Took me a while to get used to when I stayed there for a summer.
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by fryguy 15y ago
I think they were paying a flat amount for an up to X million subscribers, not a per subscriber fee. Then they got close to the cap and needed to remove the people from the cap that weren't really using it, but the contract counted everyone
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by fryguy 15y ago
Did you read the sentence almost immediately before that? "We've never liked the DMCA's anti-circumvention language, so we'd be delighted to see the rest of the judiciary agree with Judge Marshall." I don't think it's insulting, but rather
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by fryguy 15y ago
I went and deleted my google apps for my domain account and just forwarded my email to my gmail account because of this. It was just too painful having two accounts.

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