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by gioele 15y ago
Cache management is hard to get right. Make sure the data you send is cacheable and let the browser manage it. Browsers have complex mechanisms in place to deal with broken firewalls, high-latency links, non-conformant servers and proxy. An
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by gioele 15y ago
A master of XSLT once explained me that if your XSLT files are longer than 100 lines, you are doing something wrong. For years I struggled to create 100-line XSLT files; it looked impossible. Then I realised what the problem was: I was tryi
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by gioele 15y ago
> Skype is an exception but the PSTN is not? You, as an individual, can choose to run and use Skype or an alternative communication system. You, as an individual, do not have the chance to force your telco to change to another communica
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by gioele 15y ago
Actually I hope that developers start using less powerful machines with less screen estate, less memory, less CPU power and less battery. That should make them care about things like focused UX, memory consumption and power-aware programmin
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by gioele 15y ago
The structure of strings like email_with_name = "%s <%s>" % [user.name, user.email] can be easily identified even when many fields are added. On the contrary, strings like email_with_name = "#{user.name} <#{user.email
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by gioele 15y ago
Examples of different uses? The only example I know of is DataMapper that uses bang methods such as `save!` for the methods that change data bypassing the validation mechanism. But I would argue that this use fits the original definition qu
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by gioele 15y ago
I wonder what is the problem with hard-tabs. I enjoy 8-space indents, fellow programmers prefer 4-space indents, some others 2-space indents. With hard-tabs each of us is able to use their preferred settings without messing with the commits
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by gioele 15y ago
> the new for will work on any higher-order function with the appropriate signature In the end this makes Rust loops look like Ruby loops. May I restate that «widely used programming languages are modified until they resemble Ruby» ( ht
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Love hotels and Unicode(reigndesign.com)
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Technically unsound: RDF is a relationship model and a meta-model (think XML Infoset), SKOS is a vocabulary (think XHTML) and JSON is a serialization format (think XML or RDF/N3). The question is which schema, ontology or vocabulary will th
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by gioele 15y ago
What does it mean "a very widely-adopted standard in the world of open data"? "standard" of what? There are meta-format standards: XML, RDF, HTML and lately JSON. With these four you are probably covering 80% of the world published open dat
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by gioele 15y ago
> I'm assuming Facebook, Twitter and Myspace are not paying Bell Mobility It is quite likely that they are, see the nice error message you get from http://0.facebook.com . I suppose the deal requires Facebook to pay ISPs; the ISPs are
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> My cell phone service by the way (Bell Mobility) offers free unlimited access to Twitter, Facebook and Myspace that don't count against my mobile data plan cap. If you consider that against net neutrality, then net neutrality died a l
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by gioele 15y ago
I do not like this trend, but my fears is that Wikipedia is being used in a similar way. You can argue against free XBox traffic, but can you argue against free Wikipedia traffic? Past HN topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3505922
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Tail call optimization in Ruby(timelessrepo.com)
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First release of BSD screen via Usenet, 1987(groups.google.com)
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Are there surveys of what are the most startup-friendly non-US countries? I suppose that the things that matters are mostly monetary and boil down to "how much money do I need to pony up in the beginning stages?". On the other hand, if I ha
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by gioele 15y ago
I wonder if the producers of the content they distribute will ever get that such a high level of quality. DVDs are often full of interlaced content (even for short movies), broken subtitles, letterboxed pictures, jerking menus; sometimes th
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by gioele 15y ago
> Kirsten likens Pinterest to Napster as an enabler of illegal activity. It wasn't just Napster that went down -- 12 year old girls who downloaded music were sued too. > > She concludes: > > "My initial response is pro
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by gioele 15y ago
So a lawyer discovers _only after reading a random TOS_ that almost everything you do on the internet (social websites, email forwarding, bookmarks) is illegal? Aren't courses on copyright compulsory in US law schools? It is discouraging to
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by gioele 15y ago
You have to disable the CSS as well. The CSS stylesheet will hide everything except the first page, letting the JS code change visibility when the user presses keys. If you see the HTML code, all the pages are there, delimited by <artic
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by gioele 15y ago
And the content is still fully accessible if you disable JavaScript and CSS.
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> Normalize.css is modular That is a strong claim given that the "modularisation" is realised adding banner comments in the CSS. I think it would had been better to have separate @import'ed files. Those worried about performance could u
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by gioele 15y ago
A nice and tidy way to generate a ssh key for a single service: http://retrieve.tumblr.com/post/228790418/create-ssh-key-for... I have one for github, one for gitorious, one for each of my remote servers, one for for my university lab box
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> There's the bug in your logic: A packet to London may touch less routers Regardless of the number of routes, the ISP knows before relaying your packet that certain destinations require the use of paid traffic while other can be access
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> I don't understand. Your local DNS resolver still needs an upstream No, not a single upstream. When my browser asks my server on 127.0.0.1 to lookup news.ycombinator.com it will first contact the root DNS server, then `com` DNS server
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by gioele 15y ago
In the post-Singularity world depicted in the novel Singularity Sky [1] the IETF has taken over the UN because the concept of nation or money or army is now meaningless. It would be a nice thought experiment to think for a second of a UN or
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by gioele 15y ago
The grandparent said "use Google DNS" not "chrome doing its own DNS lookup". If you use Google's DNS (or anybody's DNS) you are basically telling them which sites your are visiting. If you have a local DNS resolver you will not leak all tha
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by gioele 15y ago
> "Your ISP (network administrator, ..) is intercepting and manipulating DNS requests. Do you want to use Google DNS instead?" I would prefer "Your ISP (network administrator, ..) is intercepting and manipulating DNS requests. Do you wa
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by gioele 15y ago
> Look to Britain. What happened to UK libraries? The poster says > Today, California cuts the funding for interlibrary loan (oh, sorry young, rural, LGBTQ youth who was hoping to get an anonymous loan of a book that might tell you

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