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by highwind 6y ago
I'm posting this because fans used the Twitter's password recovery process which reveals only part of the account owner's email to determine that several Twitter accounts are owned by a single entity. Can this be considered s
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Fans Uncover Super Mario Anniversary Twitter Account(videogameschronicle.com)
1 points by highwind 6y ago|1 comments
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by highwind 7y ago
Mozilla tried that once and failed. I really miss it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Persona
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by highwind 7y ago
Biggest thing that needs to be taught as one of the fundamentals for software engineering is approaching problems with scientific method. Design, testing, and debugging (which takes up more resources than writing code) require skill in form
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by highwind 8y ago
I belive I said the first quote many times during my college years.
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by highwind 8y ago
You can't beat serving useful data to the user on the first payload (base HTML), no matter how fast or clever client-side rendering gets.
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by highwind 8y ago
Business days/hours are currently labeled using the time system based on solar time: We are open Monday~Friday 9AM~5PM Saturday 11AM~2PM etc. Without timezones, this would be really confusing. You'd have to say something like &quo
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“The Accent Gap” – voice reconition software has a bias problem(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by highwind 8y ago|0 comments
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by highwind 8y ago
Maybe this? https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/07/16/amazon-pr...
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by highwind 9y ago
You could ask people to flag the ones that are not humming and if a user is flagged multiple times you ban that user.
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Salon.com wants to fight ad-blockers by using your PC to mine cryptocurrency(washingtonpost.com)
9 points by highwind 9y ago|5 comments
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by highwind 9y ago
Being a consumer product and a museum (art) piece is not mutually exclusive. Lot of classical music and classical paintings were commissioned with a price to be "consumed". > But archeologists aren't going to use it in 500
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by highwind 9y ago
I'm confused. Can you tell me how your comment relates to the article? The author of the article is sharing his experience with Haskell, explaining ups and downs. He concludes by > Haskell is a great programming language. It require
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by highwind 10y ago
I personally find using two hands for pressing key combinations more comfortable than holding a modifier key with a pinky and reaching for the other key.
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by highwind 10y ago
Maybe he means in browser Java Applets. But they are pretty much dead anyways.
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Analysis of Clinton and Trump Wikipedia Article Edits(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by highwind 10y ago|0 comments
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Impossible Coin in Super Mario 64(youtube.com)
187 points by highwind 10y ago|24 comments
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by highwind 10y ago
It could be a style choice. Being more specific makes it feel more real, at least for me. Making it general sounds detached.
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by highwind 10y ago
It's definitely not a proof of concept. > Our long-term plan is to: > - Incrementally replace components in Gecko with ones written in Rust and shared with Servo. > - Determine product opportunities for a standalone Servo brow
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by highwind 10y ago
I guess the changes happen too slow for a single person to notice within a span of single generation. So I guess I'll have to die in hopes that I have done my duty to change the world for the better and the next generation will carry t
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by highwind 10y ago
As far as I know, all CoffeeScript did was add bunch of syntactic sugar on top of JavaScript. I believe Kotlin actually adds programming paradigm that's not in Java on top of terse syntax, i.e. real closure, operator overloading, pure
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by highwind 10y ago
> I'm not buying you couldn't make a decent, self-contained, off-line speech recognition system. I agree. It's not a problem of technology, it's a problem of incentive. There's no money in developing self-contain
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by highwind 11y ago
All x should be y is a bad statement to make, especially if you are an engineering. Every problem domain is different. And every choice has pros and cons.
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by highwind 11y ago
Doesn't principle of optimality state that if a solution is optimal than any of its sub problem must be optimal as well?
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by highwind 11y ago
Why not both? Learn from highly specialized experts. But since even the experts are not free from their personal biases, supplement the knowledge with 'wisdom' of the crowd.
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In the battle of Internet mobs vs. the law, the Internet mobs have won(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by highwind 11y ago|0 comments
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by highwind 11y ago
Could you provide some examples of other choices that you speak of? Thank you.
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Selecting EC2 instances based on bandwidth limitation(developer.washingtonpost.com)
2 points by highwind 11y ago|0 comments
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New Washington Post Engineering Blog(developer.washingtonpost.com)
3 points by highwind 11y ago|1 comments
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by highwind 11y ago
Tell that to Oracle. https://i.imgur.com/fQ6pQLn.png

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