grrowl

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by grrowl 10y ago
...should know better than to use products and services online? Your comment is as toxic as the acquihire culture itself, and only makes users feel less "part of the internet" when companies treat them as disposable.
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by grrowl 10y ago
Emailing a single-use "sign in link" to a user (Slack calls these "Magic Links") is the way forward. Yes, it move the single point of failure to the user's email account, but expecting the regular user to use (and r
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by grrowl 10y ago
It feels like you should phish one of the Google Security Team to really get the point home.
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by grrowl 10y ago
Quake3's PAK (.pk3) files were actually .zip files -- renaming them would let you extract them (in WinZip trial version, probably)
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by grrowl 10y ago
Buying something is the strongest marker of interest in a product. The fact that you bought it might be an invasion of privacy, but a strong indicator of interest in a product isn't, per se.
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by grrowl 10y ago
I disagree — there were hundreds of scientists working in the era of Einstein, and without them Einstein would not have reached the conclusions he did, despite them thinking he was destined to fail. His peers weren't crazy, they were t
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by grrowl 10y ago
A bit more complex, it uses Google's protobuf protocol so it likely reimplements the API using reverse engineered data structures. See: https://www.fknsrs.biz/blog/reverse-engineering-pokemon-go.h...
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by grrowl 10y ago
Business stuff
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by grrowl 10y ago
Hacker News actually only has one bit of javascript on it, which sends the request when you click the "upvote" button (and does so with `new Image(endpoint)`, not XHR). If you view the source of this page, it's at line 3.
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by grrowl 10y ago
for me, opportunities + i give a shit = happy relationship; Lets work on awesome, compelling problems together, and if (as an employer) you enable me giving a shit, we'll have a happy relationship. Like, "the enemy of my enemy is
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by grrowl 10y ago
the parameter is `playbackRate`
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by grrowl 10y ago
or unless you are a multinational corporation. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jun/10/obscure-leg...
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by grrowl 10y ago
You can also insert a "?" at the start of the URL which will search Google for that URL, the article itself is the first result.
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by grrowl 10y ago
I feel like this leads down a dangerous path of no signal-to-noise ratio and destroys your hope of finding relevant TODOs. Better to, as part of revisiting them, rewrite the comment to explain the de facto behaviour for yourself (and others
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by grrowl 10y ago
As mentioned in the grandparent, iPads/iPhones/iPods have native hardware H.265 decoding. The iPods have have dedicated MPEG decoding hardware since the early days (one of the advantages of copying/transcoding all music via i
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by grrowl 10y ago
I've taken to writing swears in personal project code comments or variable names instead of TODOs or hacky workarounds. It's easy to grep the codebase for them and I'm constantly just a little worried someone will pull me up
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by grrowl 11y ago
They'd probably be worried about "watering down" the player counts on their One True server.
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by grrowl 11y ago
THAT would definitely draw the ire of the law. They're even limited in how many regular orders they received to ranges of 500.
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by grrowl 11y ago
SoundCloud does an excellent job of finding "similar tracks" which autoplay after your current, and I often find myself in the same boat (or bookmarking a track because the related tracks are so good). Spotify comes from the other
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by grrowl 11y ago
Unfortunately, because of browser support "ES5" itself is a moving target. With the release of Babel 6 they've dropping automatically polyfilling for Promises, so you'll need to include an additional polyfill or it will
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by grrowl 11y ago
Worth noting, the score is intended to be an objective measure of correctness — well sourced, clear, and reasonable comments aught to add to the score, rudeness, questionable sourcing/factualness should not. Ideally.
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by grrowl 11y ago
As you can see, their current strategy is on a trend for not making any money at all. Personally I abhor LinkedIn, use it sparingly when I'm looking for work and wish it were deactivated the rest of the time.
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by grrowl 11y ago
The code is usually terrible in various ways (mostly due to the culture in game dev studios). Even Quake's code, which is quite good, includes various "what the fuck?"[1] comments [1]: Literally https://blog.dave.i
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by grrowl 11y ago
How about that week where they said they were sorry and things were gonna be different from here on out?
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by grrowl 11y ago
This is the choice of the group so, of course, the content is not publically available via API. If a user logs in to your app with facebook credentials, you can access private group contents via API. What's the problem here?
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by grrowl 11y ago
I've started chiding those at work who preemptively implement features before they're required, and not scoped. Commit the simplest code that will do the job, and if you like, create a ticket for a future sprint with cool new feat
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by grrowl 11y ago
The media is sensationalist as ever — I would worry about any CTO or Engineering Lead who based such a huge important decision on a Business Insider article.
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by grrowl 11y ago
He couldn't have just "uploaded" images to a page, since facebook would output the original path (B1GL0N6H45H.png), where this relies on the .html extension. Easy enough to link people through Messenger or another site to tha
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by grrowl 11y ago
It is weird. I suppose as a result of storing file content by hash only (without extension), then determining the Content-Type header based on the user-supplied extension. Unless they're storing the original filename, they'll have
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by grrowl 11y ago
Did you read the article? He particularly calls out applications which use HTTP and/or are vulnerable to MITM attacks. They're not really "sexy" bugs to fix and many older open source projects are languishing, since it&#

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