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by hughw 11y ago
Why would anyone put up with feeling hungry any of the time, if you could get similar benefits without doing so? For the character building experience of it?
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by hughw 11y ago
No joking on HN!
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by hughw 11y ago
Well sure, but we're twenty years older, too.
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by hughw 11y ago
Serious question: Why do screen readers not evolve to run js and build a DOM? (I agree blogs should be accessible to text only UAs)
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by hughw 11y ago
I would rather use any bare bones library, or no library at all, than Angular.
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by hughw 11y ago
> like saying you chose lodash.js over Angular. It's a valid comparison, if you feel Angular tries to solve problems you don't have, and in doing so, causes other headaches.
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by hughw 11y ago
Does Paypal ameliorate the problem? Is there less fraud if you accept Paypal only?
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by hughw 11y ago
A microphone is one of the defining features of a telephone.
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by hughw 11y ago
> If you ask me "how does the internet work" and what you really want is details on the underlying protocols, at around the range of TCP/IP, why aren't you actually asking for that? To see if you know what "how t
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by hughw 11y ago
Your rant is three years old. MS now supports WebGL in IE 11 and Edge. WebGL is quite useful, if inelegant. If you are waiting for the elegant version to do some 3D programming, you'll miss the opportunity.
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by hughw 11y ago
Without giving details, the author says Diebold machines are 100 time more secure.
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by hughw 11y ago
You can't print out a person's vote on a receipt an admin could see; that's not a secret ballot. And, using that receipt, the voter can do little to verify his vote was counted. Edit: the timestamp gives the voter away
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by hughw 11y ago
e.g. Angular
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by hughw 11y ago
Would archive.org typically honor a robots.txt for a resource it already retrieved? I never understood the intent of a robots.txt to be retroactive.
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by hughw 11y ago
As I am not American. My forebears came here as settlers.
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by hughw 11y ago
More than 140 characters, unfortunately.
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by hughw 11y ago
HN is chock full of self-righteous hall monitors. They usually don't progress to the point of calling the cops.
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by hughw 11y ago
I just read this Duke law paper[1] saying that in 2012 Greek creditors took a 64% haircut. I had not realized they had received such debt relief already. From the report: "Within the class of high- and middle-income countries, only th
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by hughw 11y ago
Apple is on record as opposing the spec. https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2012-December/... A bit more context here http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2015/02
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by hughw 11y ago
I didn't say, and didn't mean to imply, that all other browsers already have implemented it. They all, except Safari, have announced plans to implement it. (IE and Edge support it now; FF in two releases... Chrome has announced t
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by hughw 11y ago
Unlike all other browsers, Safari refuse to implement Pointer Events. So you cannot use Pointer Events (easily) in your webapp; you have to polyfill for Safari. That was exactly the situation with IE in the 2000's. Edit: I mean with IE
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by hughw 11y ago
Well, I'm glad he asked, because I didn't know all these languages mentioned in the responses, were supported on iOS and the App Store.
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by hughw 11y ago
It's not practical, but it's a worthy goal for blockchain computing, or some descendant of it. So I am glad you brought it up.
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by hughw 11y ago
It never occurred to me before to ask, but aren't Emscripten asm.js programs vulnerable to the same exploits C programs are? e.g. I could exploit a buffer overflow in some trusted js code to get some sensitive information from the site
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by hughw 11y ago
So many comments here, on this topic, are in the sense of "Oh great we're talking about a symbol, while not fixing the root causes like guns and racism". I have a sense that's a POV of West Coasters, simply unable to fat
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by hughw 11y ago
nginx is the first thing that occurred to me?
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by hughw 11y ago
Now, what kinds of V8 vulnerabilities can we exploit to get inside Google? Said every intelligence agency everywhere.
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by hughw 11y ago
It's both. I'm a poor typist, and more importantly, the terser the better. The less screen noise you have to filter, the clearer the picture becomes. I also put high value on DRY.
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by hughw 11y ago
And by the way, hackinthebochs, your line of argument down through this whole thread has been to call me a two fingered typist (accurate) with whom something is seriously wrong; a Luddite; and you erect straw man arguments like this, as if
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by hughw 11y ago
Well, first of all, I am not against IDEs. I use one most days of the week, and I'm productive in it. Some of the above discussion has misinterpreted my remarks. I only ever said, that a language making itself amenable to IDEs isn&#x27

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