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by garethadams 12y ago
There's no reason it couldn't mean that anyway - if a device is open to the Internet then the URL it serves via Physical Web could easily be its own. But it allows for less-smart devices too. The biggest problem I can see, as with
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by garethadams 12y ago
That would be valid, but '0' is a shorter substring that appears consecutively
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by garethadams 12y ago
The browser knows about the device it's running on, and specifically its display density.
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by garethadams 12y ago
You can also ask this query directly into Google's knowledge graph[1] - but the point still stands that Google doesn't have a way to formulate that query directly from a natural language sentence. [1] http://www.freebas
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We Experiment On Human Beings(blog.okcupid.com)
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by garethadams 12y ago
Has someone told Fox News?
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by garethadams 12y ago
Rails 4 includes that as a default header[1] and has done since August 2012[2] [1]: https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/guides/source/sec... [2]: https://github.com/rails
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by garethadams 12y ago
That assumes that every user gets the same "long" URL for a particular "short" URL (and that every 30x corresponds to a short-to-long redirect). It falls down where a URL depends on geolocation or time sensitivity.
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by garethadams 12y ago
People complained that cookies were being used by advertisers to track them. The EU decided to take action by mandating that companies make it visible when this was happening, in the Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications[1]. Si
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by garethadams 13y ago
From what I remember from the old API site, it is information freshness.
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by garethadams 13y ago
Posting good answers to get rep is not exploitation of the reputation system; it is the reputation system "exploiting" users
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by garethadams 13y ago
//text()[contains(.,'Dull needles')]
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by garethadams 13y ago
Has PHP decided whether it's a language or a framework yet? EDIT: To clarify, a framework like Rails definitely has a place for including a web server. Now Ruby has a lightweight web servers in its standard library (but not its core li
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by garethadams 13y ago
All of the links in the footer are also at the bottom of the right-hand main column
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by garethadams 13y ago
The take-away from the article should be "…because now I understand the issues", and not "…because Google says so"
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by garethadams 13y ago
I think you may have got the wrong story here
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by garethadams 13y ago
I think I'll apply Betteridge's law[1] to this one. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines
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by garethadams 13y ago
See for yourself - https://github.com/guardian/frontend
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by garethadams 13y ago
If it was this leadership page[1] (linking through to an individual profile[2]), seems like it's back already. [1]: http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/ [2]: http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/jo
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by garethadams 13y ago
I forgot that no one works on a Sunday
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by garethadams 13y ago
The difference here is the difference between just seeing how something works and feeling how it works. There are a lot of people who are able to just read things and absorb them into their mindspace, but I feel that for the majority th
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by garethadams 13y ago
> Are there really people who check Stackoverflow every single day of programming? http://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/83/fanatic
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by garethadams 13y ago
Christian men too. Call the small-sample police!
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by garethadams 13y ago
And any interview technique that involves "real world" problem solving is criticised for being too contrived. And any interview technique that involves the candidate actually working on production code it criticised for being expl
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by garethadams 13y ago
Based on Airbnb's trends[1], the only way the number can be "vanishingly small" is if an even greater number of people are deliberately stopping these behaviours. Where are you seeing that happening? [1]: https://w
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by garethadams 13y ago
Bill Gates already won all the Monopoly in 2001
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by garethadams 13y ago
I guess she's not important. What let you to suspect her?
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by garethadams 13y ago
The best part was when he copied it from your quoting of his message, but removed the "not" that came before it
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by garethadams 13y ago
Depending on your definition of "decentralised", open sourcing the code would enable other people to set up servers that they can trust is running that code.
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by garethadams 13y ago
You might have put [2011] in the title in that case. But it's still an enjoyable article :)

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