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by garethadams 14y ago
Windows Live Messenger is XMPP - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/live/hh826554.aspx
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by garethadams 14y ago
You're not wrong. I'm surprised my answer's got so much attention to be honest, because it's so common in Rails apps.
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by garethadams 14y ago
True, but encryption is merely a computationally unfeasible form of obfuscation
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by garethadams 14y ago
Ok, so how do you fix many people's problems without first starting with one?
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by garethadams 14y ago
Sure, I mean `me@yahoo` is an RFC-compliant email address, it refers to a local server 'yahoo'. However in your online app it's almost certainly an error if this email address turns up in a registration form. Don't test for an RFC-compliant
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by garethadams 14y ago
An app that can "idle out" can only be running on a free plan, and is therefore not considered a "production" app by Heroku - https://twitter.com/blakegentry/status/220456696068321281
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by garethadams 14y ago
> Borodin says Cupertino is transmitting its customers' Apple IDs and passwords in clear text, although he notes he can't see credit card information It sounds like this means "If you point your iOS DNS servers to this guy's IP addresse
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by garethadams 14y ago
It means that a 300px wide image won't fit inside a 300px wide box any more. You need to decide whether your sizing for each element depends on your layout or your content, and choose accordingly. If one way is more useful to you nearly all
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by garethadams 14y ago
On the other other hand, it takes 83 bytes of HTML to represent the image tag which requests that 100 bytes of image. It only takes a couple of bytes to represent the Unicode character.
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by garethadams 14y ago
I've got a fantastic idea: Why don't you make a list of all the pages on the internet that don't interest you, and then tell HN about it. Then I can use that as the starting point for my list.
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by garethadams 14y ago
Yes. Tonga turned their TLD `.to` into a domain shortener, although because of the browser issue you mention it generally had to be accessed via http://to./ However, it hasn't been available for a long time now. EDIT: As pointed out below
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by garethadams 14y ago
Hey, if I search for "foobar" - https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=foobar then there's no yellow box, google doesn't have any relevant ads! But if I search for "life insurance quietly" - https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=life+insurance+qu
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by garethadams 14y ago
Does what? Is this region specific or am I just missing what's going on here?
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by garethadams 14y ago
"proof" - I do not think that word means, what you think it means.
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by garethadams 14y ago
If you're violating the laws of physics in your assumption ("on a perfectly efficient machine") you can't expect them to hold for your hypothesis.
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by garethadams 14y ago
`if not... else if not...` Sounds like you could simplify that a lot by reversing the order of those statements: http://i45.tinypic.com/votkcw.jpg
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by garethadams 14y ago
Of course by doing this, you remove some of the error correction. Your mutated QR code is less likely to be scanned by a camera which is lo-res, at an angle, in dim light or affected by some other imperfection. People who test customised QR
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by garethadams 14y ago
It seems to me this article has been pitched badly. It does come across as "If you're shy, you're broken", where in my opinion it's actually trying to say: "If you're worried that your shyness is stopping you enjoying yourself/making the mo
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by garethadams 14y ago
If Facebook used SASS they may still appear to have the Facebook blue defined 261 times and have 548 unique hex values. The redundancy is only removed in the preprocessed files, when the files are processed the values are transformed and
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by garethadams 14y ago
That would be a perfect counter argument, except the point mentioned in the article specifically related to getting passwords sent to you from other services.
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by garethadams 15y ago
Tell that to the Japanese, whose glyphs are always 3+ bytes in UTF-8!