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by graue 14y ago
That might be more you who's changed. I've made friends via Hacker News, and I believe it's fairly common for heavy Twitter or Tumblr users to meet people that way, too. This article[1] (long) discusses how the same phenomenon happened on G
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by graue 14y ago
Why use Facebook comments, though? I thought what you wrote here was great, but the choice of commenting system seems to conflict with the (excellent) points you're making. Using a built-in commenting system like that of WordPress would be
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by graue 14y ago
> http://u2.fm/ (not sure why it's down atm?) You might be thinking of http://2u.fm .
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by graue 14y ago
I'm glad you posted this because I just realized Audiogalaxy does something very similar to the side project I'm working on. I want to solve the same problem of streaming music from a desktop (or, even better, a Raspberry Pi with large USB
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by graue 14y ago
This is way too paranoid. CloudFlare are a reputable company; they're not blackhats. I think my comment above was too paranoid, as well, but it's too late to edit. All I was suspicious of was that there might be analysis going on.
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by graue 14y ago
And yet, that's linked to an article[1] that basically discredits the Jam Study, showing more choices don't really make a difference either way. 1. http://www.freakonomics.com/2009/12/02/is-the-paradox-of-cho...
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by graue 14y ago
For jQuery, maybe. But if you're using, say, Backbone, that point is moot because only CDNJS has it. The Google CDN[1] only hosts 11 libraries, CDNJS hosts over 200. 1. https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/devguide
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by graue 14y ago
Yeah, that is an odd decision. Makes you wonder if the “secret” motive of CloudFlare in hosting this, other than to promote their service, is to track and analyze your visitors. I don't see a privacy policy on CDNJS.com. I'd definitely like
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by graue 14y ago
I got that too. Any screenshots or examples of what this looks like?
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by graue 14y ago
It would be really useful if you could run both PHP 5.x and hypothetical PHP 6 code in the same interpreter process, so everyone wouldn't need to move over to the “more correct” version at once. I wonder just how hard that is to do. The app
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by graue 14y ago
Agreed. There is an unofficial Python 3 port of Flask and Werkzeug, apparently[1]. And Armin says he started a “secret branch” a few months ago to explore adding Python 3 support[2], but no news since then. The sense I get from the essay[3]
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by graue 14y ago
Their FAQ says otherwise: https://www.ghostery.com/faq#q16 “When a user opts-in to GhostRank, Ghostery sends the following information each time a tracker is encountered: the tracker identified by Ghostery the blocking state of
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by graue 14y ago
BeautifulSoup is in fact still actively maintained. “The current release is Beautiful Soup 4.1.3 (August 20, 2012).” http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ I hear it recommended the most among Pythonistas, and it's plenty clean and
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by graue 14y ago
What do you expect? They aren't ready. I'm following the development of Rust with much interest. The design seems well-thought out, and occasional comments here by 'pcwalton, usually along the lines of “here's how we're trying to solve this
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by graue 14y ago
The charts show nginx has lower availability at 200 concurrent connections except for the large JPG test where availability is the same (97.55%). The labels are goofed up on the second chart (they're off by a column), so maybe that's what
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by graue 14y ago
This kind of already happened, in 2009: the URL shortener tr.im closed. Once in a while I still run across a broken tr.im link. https://www.macworld.com/article/1142188/trim_twitter.html
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by graue 14y ago
Not only that, it's such a processor hog it makes my MacBook Air fans whir at full volume. I disabled JavaScript on the site, hoping that would make it behave, and got... no blog, only this: > This blog uses a little JavaScript. Nothing
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by graue 14y ago
Read the article again. It's comparing Plus's growth rate to that of Facebook when Facebook had the same number of users (~100mil).
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by graue 14y ago
Quitting Facebook in 2007 must be the modern equivalent of quitting email in 1990. http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html
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by graue 14y ago
Moving away from all his friends, I'd assume.
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by graue 14y ago
That is exactly what happened to me after I moved from the east coast to the Midwest. Every login to Facebook was a reminder of the abundant (real-life) social network that I had left behind to be in a place where I knew virtually nobody. I
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by graue 14y ago
I should have put this in my last post: “Why not OStatus”, from the Tent authors themselves: https://github.com/tent/tent.io/issues/4 The tl;dr is that Tent is much broader in scope than OStatus while being, at its core, simpler.
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by graue 14y ago
Tent is at least equally proven. I'm following 157 people (maybe ~50 are consistently active users). Within only a few months of existence, Tent has attracted development of an Android app[1], two iOS apps in beta[2], a very smooth and slee
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by graue 14y ago
App.net isn't a solution. They are still a centralized social network, owned by one company. Sure, they treat users nice now, but what happens if the business model changes? Second, it's impossible to get on App.net's social network without
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by graue 14y ago
That doesn't give you privacy though because the content can still be intercepted and spied on.
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by graue 14y ago
This looks fantastic. Nothing will play for me, but that's not too surprising since I have neither Flash nor support for MP3s in <audio>. Just curious, which of the two does it use?
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by graue 14y ago
The TACK proposal would pin public keys to domains to prevent even this attack. http://tack.io/ Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4010711
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Private By Default(tbray.org)
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by graue 14y ago
> the difference is that back then much fewer people were aware that internet exists That's pretty much the point. In the time that Facebook got big, hundreds of millions of people were beginning to use the internet to socialize for the
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by graue 14y ago
> We also had "everyone" on MySpace. And before Friendfeed. And in times when most did not know what "internet" is, geocities. I understand where you're coming from, but people forget about scale when they make comparisons like this. My

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