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by handelaar 18y ago
The actual link, which this comment doesn't have any relevance to at all , describes (in rather too shallow detail for my taste) what the iPlayer's built with and how they scale the front end. The link's about code and development and depl
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by handelaar 18y ago
Trying to be more specifically helpful, since I don't think I conveyed exactly what the objection was the first time (or at least not so well that you understood): It's not that you quoted. It's that the quote is wrapped in <code>
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by handelaar 18y ago
This is the second time in a row that I've been unable to read a page on my laptop because you insist on posting quotes like that. Cut that shit out, please.
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by handelaar 18y ago
If you can spare her, Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington. She was a VP (if my memory's correct) and in charge of developer relations at Real when I remember talking to her about ten years ago. And she's been a US senator for a while now,
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by handelaar 18y ago
As a Brit who was actually an adult when she was in office (your answer suggests incredibly strongly that you weren't), and one whose legitimate non-violent political activities (and snail mail and telephone) were subject to monitoring by a
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by handelaar 18y ago
Quite. They have me tied by email address to Facebook and I'm 200% certain that my email address there is not "publicly-available information". Facebook permitting this app to operate will give it serious legal trouble in the EU.
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by handelaar 18y ago
As others have said, Craigslist has an enormous audience which is a self-reinforcing factor. It also has a practically-unimpeachable reputation as a company which doesn't seem to have much interest in making as much money as it can - only a
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by handelaar 18y ago
I have Simon Willison's personal site in Google Reader. Lots of Django there too. http://simonwillison.net
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by handelaar 18y ago
It doesn't validate because breaking my preferences and opening a new window which I didn't ask for is (apart from being an obnoxious thing to do) a 'behaviour'. The "Strict" standard, rightly, enforces a division between content (XHTML), d
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by handelaar 18y ago
Surely this can be mitigated in software outside Amazon's services? Very low TTL/expiry values in DNS and name servers outside the cloud would get you the right result via a different route. At the cost of having to pay close attention to
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by handelaar 18y ago
"Firefox 3.0b5 hasn't crashed once on my laptop (Ubuntu)" You've disabled Flash then, I assume. I can't keep the browser on for much more than an hour here without Flashblock. Beta 5 is certainly faster and less memory-profligate than 2.0
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by handelaar 18y ago
Currently: 500 Internal Server Error. (With an HTTP Status header being dumped to the screen instead of, you know, sent as a header.)
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by handelaar 19y ago
>>And the cheap chairs are always the most >>comfortable, believe it or not. >Surely spoken by someone who has never sat >in an Aeron... I've sat in many an Aeron. It's the Slackware of chairs. IMHO it takes week
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by handelaar 19y ago
Surveys where people say what they will do in the future, and an empty sack, are worth about the same as a sack. Come on, you measure what people do, not what they claim they'll do. And if somebody came to YC with a piece like this in her