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by gavinpc 13y ago
I love that! All the more reason why the search should function properly with cookies disabled. Just disable cookies in your browser, load Blippex, and search. I searched for "shakespeare" in Firefox 22 (where I have cookies tur
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by gavinpc 13y ago
Doesn't work at all without cookies. Meaning, it doesn't work, and doesn't tell you why. If you're targeting people who are looking for an alternative to the major search engines, there's a better-than-average cha
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by gavinpc 13y ago
Wow, you taught me something. I've heard of the "Fourier transform" many times and it never clicked what it was for. Thanks!
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by gavinpc 13y ago
I agree with you about the design issue. I've had to create one myself ( http://tenjin.ie ) -- although I think the laws in Ireland are slightly different than elsewhere in the EU. Regardless of the laws, though, when a site
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by gavinpc 13y ago
Try disabling cookies. This exactly describes the effect, except that it's not mysterious once you're used to it. If something doesn't work, I open it in Chrome (where I have cookies enabled), and it works. In many cases, I
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by gavinpc 13y ago
Yes, this is eerily lifelike.
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by gavinpc 13y ago
> I've always thought Facebook was from the devil. But you can't stop using it . Why? I quit Facebook about two years ago, when I stopped liking it. Too many political arguments and misunderstandings. Guess what? Life goes on.
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by gavinpc 13y ago
A true "kick starter."
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by gavinpc 13y ago
Contrast with Murdoch's blunt use of weasel words: "price-points you don’t like." "does that give you enough comfort?" "we are worried more about the absolute holdback of product elsewhere... than we are about the actual haggle over what th
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by gavinpc 13y ago
Obligatory XKCD reference http://xkcd.com/977/
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by gavinpc 13y ago
This is great, especially for an "alpha" (ha ha). My wife will love this for creating transparencies (she does serigraphy).
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by gavinpc 13y ago
This was all just too irresistible. Well, I was here for the same reason.
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by gavinpc 13y ago
And when this site is down... there's a joke in there somewhere.
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by gavinpc 13y ago
Somewhat off topic, but I recently found this article about Google Web Fonts (and the comments) very interesting: http://www.typographyforlawyers.com/?page_id=3207
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by gavinpc 13y ago
Along the same lines, Chrome (maybe just webkit generally) does not fire DOMContentLoaded until external script requests have resolved or timed out , even if they are async . Also, I don't understand why people feel so strongly about repo
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by gavinpc 13y ago
Ha, I also have two kids and two dogs and a wife. Take a moment to thank your parents, everyone, if only because you ruined about a year of their sleep (at least).
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by gavinpc 14y ago
Love the stuble title.
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by gavinpc 14y ago
Notwithstanding the critics, I've read many explanations of Monads, and I found this one helpful, especially coming off of Eric Lippert's: http://stackoverflow.com/a/2704795/4525 I get it now, so thanks!
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by gavinpc 14y ago
On the contrary, "corporation" in a hundred years will mean exactly what it means today: "person." Ergo, this is how robots will get around the Turing test.
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by gavinpc 14y ago
Besides, it's a false dichotomy. Even rms knows that you can "have kids" without procreating. We have two adopted children — from the same mother — and believe me, you get the full experience. We were also lucky enough to be present for
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by gavinpc 14y ago
Brilliant way to collect mp3's :) Seriously, though, I am impressed. Is a non-minified version available?
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by gavinpc 14y ago
> I have this day issued orders for your being shot through the body with a Leden Ball God forbid one do the ugly business manually !
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by gavinpc 14y ago
Sarcasm aside, it's curious that lawmakers (even in Europe) thought it better to make a requirement of O(N^N) site owners rather than "require" that O(5) browsers implement a feature which they all do already. I always use cookies on a whit
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by gavinpc 14y ago
To those who don't see the point of this, I would place it in the context of a larger move towards code "babel" (for lack of a better term), i.e., a unified interface for common abstractions. Imagine that (as Steve Yegge suggests) the tool
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by gavinpc 14y ago
I like Chrome, too. But I'm not ready to see Firefox abandoned. My hope is that the demo projects I've seen here are just bleeding-edge experiments that people were too excited about sharing to bother with the grunt work of browser compat
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by gavinpc 14y ago
If I had a thousand dollars for every HN post that works in Chrome and not Firefox, I'd feel somewhat better about what that suggests.
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by gavinpc 14y ago
My mistake. It just seems broken because when you press "Enter" on an incorrect answer, nothing happens. I guess I had better luck after enabling cookies.
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by gavinpc 14y ago
Dear sir, my children are black. Should my wife and I arrange to leave our home? My concern is that we are nonblack. I also wonder where we should take refuge, and where should they? O, rationality, thou art a hard master!
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by gavinpc 14y ago
Requires cookies. If it doesn't work at all for you, it may be because you need to whitelist the site. But I wouldn't bother.
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by gavinpc 14y ago
Take my wi-fi — please!

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