iamnotacrook

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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
My problem (with Skype, so ok that's two problems) is people just put "hi" or "hello" and then the choice is to either ignore them and hope they'll get around to actually asking the question, or give in and say
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
Not resemblance though surely, only an exact match.
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
"the way you've put this sounds to me like it implies a site-wide perspective" No it doesn't. He literally refers to one entry.
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
Ah, but you can also speak English. There's something about speaking any number of languages but not English which predisposes one to crime.
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
"For instance, case-insensitive passwords." "Why can't it have spaces?" They don't want to deal with angry customers who are "definitely entering the correct password but it's not letting me in".
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
"Password cannot "resemble" username or past password" So they're storing passwords in plaintext somewhere then? Otherwise how would they know?
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
Loads of places do that (both methods). What's wrong with that? It provides (some) protection against keyloggers and means you have to type in fewer characters.
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
I literally couldn't apply for an American Express card about 15 years ago because my (ISP) email address was too long. I wonder why they chose to restrict it rather than go with the standard email max length; they had to put effort
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
I thought Burger King. As in, they couldn't afford to eat anywhere else.
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
If the DRM stopped it working then it was not a CD (aka "a defective CD), as a CD - as per the Red Book standard - does not support DRM. You should get your money back.
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
I hope this goes further than app.net ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App.net ) did.
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
I like how the availability of each file is 0%. "Yeah, we focused on the amazing UI first - we'll handle downloading later".
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
Thank you for your help in how to have a conversation online. It's been very useful.
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
It links to this page (from 2011 - any day now, right?): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3401376
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
Or that they are different operating systems. Perhaps iPhones ship with shazam enabled, for example (given Apple bought them).
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
Is it possible that there's a missing step where before any of this happens there's a story on google about the footballer which your wife read/saw so when someone says "buy a book about football" and that name appe
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
No rewriting. Program must be migrated as-is with as little manual change as possible. If the customer wants to make changes later that's up to them.
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
Like most internet conversation, I was responding to the person I was responding to, not the person they were responding to. Different people have different opinions, surprisingly.
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
I literally just found one without looking. Short gifs don't animate on Android Firefox but work fine on Chrome on the same phone. Actually, I'm having the same problem on desktop Firefox too, again fine in Chrome on the same pc:
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
Some sites need NoScript disabled to work. Even using the "temporarily trust everything" option doesn't work. Since it's easier to just paste the URL into chrome than disable a plug-in and remember to re-enable it late
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
We're 247/365 through.
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
"I mean, there are only really 4 options. 1, 5, 10, and 25 cents." Really 5 - I got a dollar coin. Apparently they're rare although I didn't handle a lot of cash and I got one on the second or third day I was there so..
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
"Is it even a good idea to access the same database from two codebases at all?" Yeah, if you're migrating code between languages and platforms and want to run both simultaneously so you can go live with a subset in the new pl
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
As an ex-customer why would I care? Do you know how many sites there are on the internet? I'm sure browser support will come up in a meeting at some point if they ever consider increasing sales. I left an online bank because it was
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
"Firefox performance just doesn't feel the same as chrome, from constant small freezes, to using 100% CPU pretty often" I don't get those problems, but even if I did, it would be well worth it as opposed to seeing ads
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
"you know what fuck it I did just switch my default browser while typing this. :middle-finger-emoji" Hell yeah! Stick it to the man! Totally consume that content with a different browser!
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
Yeah, Project Treble is great and everything, but phones not being updated to the latest version of Android when they're less than 2 years old is a marketing/roadmap limitation, not a technical one.
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
I'm not sure I could tell you which version of Android is on my chromeos pc. The apps are each in little Windows. Are some apps not supported because the version of Android is too old?
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
"Is this considered professional journalism nowadays?". No, it's just how that site uses English. They probably think it's funny or something. It's trivial to find an alternative sites for the story.
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
"I would have expected more concern" From the public? Everyone carries a phone, pretty much everyone is on Facebook. Given a yes/no box to tick you're going to get a lot of "yes" to "do you think you sho

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