golden_apples

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by golden_apples 12y ago
I'm curious to see which companies were examined - if any were investigated and were found to be meeting regulations, or could be held up as exemplary. The paper details 30 companies investigated and found lacking, but no mention of ho
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30 US Companies Said To Be Violating EU Data Transfer Deal(techcrunch.com)
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by golden_apples 12y ago
I've never had that experience, but I've been turned down on a couple of home rental applications when past arrests have turned up when running a background check. I'd assume the type of business that cared enough to run back
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by golden_apples 12y ago
This is a really nice idea. I was working on a similar project a few years, audioname.com. The trick is in networking with larger social service and building integrations so that people can share their name's pronunciation everywhere t
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by golden_apples 12y ago
>> Interestingly, the "divisiveness" of this rug was apparently turned into an issue by none other than Julie Ann Horvath. I get that you're trying to take a cheap shot, but that wasn't the story as I remember read
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by golden_apples 12y ago
>> I [was] not contacted during my investigation either. ie, not necessarily related to the exact situation at github, but referring to a situation at another company.
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by golden_apples 13y ago
The analog to that goes something like: all participants in a hand of blackjack can win. And even the house doesn't ”lose”: it makes an expected payout, which incentivizes the players to continue in the game, which over time will enric
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by golden_apples 13y ago
I don't know about anyone else, but I still go looking for an expert when I need any of my Windows machines fixed: whereas when any of my Ubuntu machines have issues, I'm comfortable and motivated to look up the answers myself. Partly that'
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by golden_apples 14y ago
I don't know if i'm missing something, but I've seen very little introspection in the responses to the situation. The guy who was called out's apology notwithstanding, out seems like there's just been a mass venting of anti-feminist attitud
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by golden_apples 14y ago
It's not issue of being held accountable for something they said: http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/cowards-are-blackmailing-youn... Its an issue of protecting users who are using apps like these believing their privacy is safeguarded. Wheth
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by golden_apples 14y ago
Ha! By far the worst of the stackexchange network sites I've seen. My wife and I sometimes read it for laughs.... Funny that people who can come up with a dozen ways to solve a trivial programming problem, when confronted with a parenting i
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by golden_apples 14y ago
That's a good word for it. There was a short-lived trend in design a few years back that used the term ”maximalism” to mean something similar - covering every surface, layering metaphors on top of metaphors, mixing traditions from all over.
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by golden_apples 14y ago
As part of the 99% of developers who work for other people, I resent troll-bait comments like this. Twitter, in addition to being a genuinely interesting social phenomenon, has always posed technical challenges that were sufficiently inter
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by golden_apples 14y ago
What I actually found most interesting reading back over the book lately was the very 90's take on ethnic balkanization. I don't think that ever really came to pass in the way it was always assumed it was happening at the time, and I think
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by golden_apples 14y ago
Yes, since each ” pixel” is just an additional box shadow. Very clever. I've never experimented with the number of box shadows that can realistically be drawn on modern browsers, winner what that limit is? This technique could be used for e
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by golden_apples 14y ago
Who is the target audience who would have enough of these applications installed that they would "own the dock"? At most I only ever used maybe 5 programs out of the whole Creative Suite enough to maintain shortcuts for them. Even the peopl
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by golden_apples 14y ago
Latest Ubuntu has kernel version 3.2. What distros are still on 2.6?
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by golden_apples 14y ago
That looks surprisingly good for me in Firefox, but from my experiments making these tricks work in production, browser standardization is a long way from the point where we can do this at arbitrary sizes in the real world. The problem, mor
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by golden_apples 14y ago
Given that breastfeeding has been declining in America over the past couple generations, it reflects a misunderstanding of American sexual pathology, if, in fact, it was meant as more than a throwaway comment.
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by golden_apples 14y ago
Nonces, used properly, should be fairly decent protection against the kind of CSRF attack you're describing. They're not bulletproof, but, someone who knows enough about the internals of your site to generate a valid nonce probably has sev
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by golden_apples 14y ago
The php code would be inside a shortcode that looked like [php][/php], so no, that wouldn't protect you. The smart fix is to check for user permissions and nonce before rendering the shortcode preview, which I hope is what the Woo patch doe
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by golden_apples 15y ago
Have to ask what software you were using, that it was so easy to get his password from out of his login account. This must have been in the days before passwords were hashed or something?
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by golden_apples 15y ago
Tangential to the actual topic of discussion: what exactly has changed in Facebook's developer/app policies that an app like this is possible today, while a year ago something like Breakup Notifier was blocked from Facebook's API? Was it ju
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by golden_apples 15y ago
I thought I recognized this - wasn't something very similar to this used on the demo documents for the scripty framework a year or so ago? Its a nice looking finished product, I'd like to go back and see how the framework looks now...
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by golden_apples 15y ago
This is really nice. I've been working on a very similar project in fabric.js this past week (captioning a picture, dragging text around on it and posting to facebook and pinterest). The live updating as you type is a really nice feature, o
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by golden_apples 15y ago
I read this and thought "strike-breaker", was hoping to see some lurid tale of how he went from being a corporate thug to a creative hacker. Turns out its a video game. Respectable enough hacker hobby.
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by golden_apples 15y ago
The ars article a few days back said that he was essentially caught because he had claimed ownership of a domain that he had registered with Godaddy Domains by Proxy, and then Godaddy leaked his information for a couple days when renewing t
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by golden_apples 15y ago
I downloaded it for free only because I saw the link while sitting in bed and didn't feel like looking for my credit card. I appreciated that the followup email had info about paying for the book by buying another of raganwald's books.
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by golden_apples 15y ago
Well, the article plays on the "Coca-Cola spying on PETA" email, which is a little pathetic and hardly a smoking gun showing dirty behind-the-scenes tricks. But thats par for the course when it comes to corporate "intelligence" on subcultur
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by golden_apples 15y ago
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