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by highwind 11y ago
Irrelevant might be too strong of a word. Yes, it might not be as significant as your own problem solving skills but they are still important. You have to remember that tools chosen by you to solve problems. You wouldn't say what tools
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by highwind 11y ago
It's OK to have similar/duplicate things on the Internet. (It often is the case.)
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by highwind 11y ago
I think they just inject iframe into the actual DOM. It's not an UI element that's part of the browser.
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by highwind 12y ago
Actually they link to the Diagnostic page for the malicious site.
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by highwind 12y ago
Then again, one cannot expect all of any website's client devices to have a correctly calibrated displays. Unless you have control over entire stack (from your service hardware all the way to client displays), you have to start your de
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by highwind 12y ago
Ugh... just scrolling through that page adds TON of baggage in the browser history. So much for the back button. If I didn't click a link or a button, don't add things to history. Please.
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by highwind 12y ago
The part where Cosmos, the player, manipulates the memory to execute arbitrary code starts around 8:06 mark.
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Arbitrary Code Execution in Symphony of the Night(youtube.com)
5 points by highwind 12y ago|1 comments
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by highwind 12y ago
Know More is a pre-Bezos product. Bezos took over on 10/1 and know more was launched on 10/7. Meaning planning and development on Know More must've started before Bezos' control.
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by highwind 12y ago
I'm not sure if I like introducing computer science with a physical "computer". A physical "computer" is an application of computer science. I rather start with an abstract idea of computation, but my view point is
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by highwind 12y ago
Why is the password limited to 16 characters long? I don't understand this limitation on any of the sites.
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by highwind 12y ago
Then, I'd argue that writing iOS app in Objective C is not native because there are several layers between Obj-C and the Apple A7 cpu. There might be more layers on Firefox OS than iOS, but I'd take more abstraction layer than wri
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by highwind 12y ago
This is usually how you codify a dynamic programming algorithm. Good to know that there's a name.
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by highwind 12y ago
Try this query: https://next.duckduckgo.com/?q=whole+foods+falls+church+va
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by highwind 13y ago
Using "this" to generate response might cause lot of confusion.
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by highwind 13y ago
What is the benefit of creating a web app that only works in 1 particular browser? Or is this not a web app?
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by highwind 13y ago
If you believe that the only role of schools is to teach useful skills, then you are correct. But I believe that the role of an educator is more than that. School should teach our kids to see the world for its beauty and to understand how i
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by highwind 13y ago
You can download bootstrap, modify their variables and compile it yourself. That way you don't have load more than one files and have rules that will never get used.
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Why I dumped my smartphone for a 7-year-old Motorola Razr(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by highwind 13y ago|0 comments
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by highwind 13y ago
Can you give an example of an opposite way?
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by highwind 13y ago
What if I wanted to just display a calendar and not a date picker?
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by highwind 13y ago
Problem is that if the browser doesn't support viewing of the file, then both links will cause a download, which can be confusing to the user. I think we need a way to see if a MIME type of a file is supported by the browser (including its
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by highwind 13y ago
Yeah. I remember TL;DR meant wall of text, kinda same way RTFM was used. It was a response to something not a tag to indicate what you were doing. How things change so fast on the Internet.
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by highwind 14y ago
Mar 05, 2008
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by highwind 14y ago
True. But you cannot expect that their boiler plate is good for everyone. As you become more familiar with a technology, you probably want to create a boiler plat that works for you. I find that tools like Yeoman keeps me from learning a to
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by highwind 14y ago
Actually, it says clearly on the article that the next version is HTML 5.1. Here's the draft of it: http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-html51-20121217/
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by highwind 14y ago
So when Apple decides drop Google Maps as their default, they probably thought that it'll bring more value to their iOS platform. But obviously that didn't happen. Now that Google Maps is back on iOS, I agree that it's a win for Apple as we
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by highwind 14y ago
Still, the article says "Microsoft is in danger of becoming a small player in today's global computing market". Which is not backed up by the data provided by the article. Unless we have the raw numbers, it could well be that Microsoft has
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by highwind 14y ago
Does anyone know how long it took for operating systems to implement ipv4 in a secure and stable manner?
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by highwind 14y ago
We'd first need to somehow revive him before we can take him on a Delorean ride.

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