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   by illumen 14y ago

   More diversity in things like this does improve software. I learnt this at one of the fastest growing software companies in the world. Do men know best what women want? No. Get women involved, and there is a better result. If we don't be
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   by illumen 14y ago

   You win the award for the best comment on HN ever.
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   by illumen 14y ago

   More than 50% of app purchasers are women, so there's definitely plenty of women who would be interested in doing this.
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   by illumen 14y ago

   Ubuntu could do better here to have a more representative voting panel. 0% female judges is pretty bad.
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   by illumen 14y ago

   All the people on the review panel are men. Could be better.
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   by illumen 14y ago

   Now make the site design pretty, and tell us why it's useful?
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   by illumen 14y ago

   Also, avoid doing as much work as you can inside event handlers.
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   by illumen 14y ago

   I find it funny that it is now shown as www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html in one of my browsers, and http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html in another browser. On my mobile it is shown as http://www.w3.org/Provider/Sty.. .
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   by illumen 14y ago

   Are Google ranking websites with ipv6 higher in search rankings? It makes sense that they should, so ipv6 users can be sure they will get the best ipv6 experience of the links presented.
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    by illumen 14y ago

    ipv 6 launch, on the 6th day of the 6th month. 666 Yes, the nerds are still in charge of the net. Thank satan.
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    by illumen 14y ago

    Yeah, fairly obvious. Design is about delivering to a brief. Not necessarily discovering a problem, or necessarily a problem many people have. "(noun) a specification of an object, manifested by an agent, intended to accomplish goals, in a
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    by illumen 14y ago

    It's great the option is there, and thanks SO much for pointing it out. Now for me as one of the 5-8 tab people, restoring tabs will be a good experience. You get 39 hero points, and 72.55 gold stars. However, I'm of the opinion that opti
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    by illumen 14y ago

    Interesting. Putting in the work to just improve the speed is the hard fix usually. But I guess firefox and chrome are fairly optimized for loading already. However, some good heuristics might help. Things like number of tabs, most common
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    by illumen 14y ago

    There's definitely different groups of users here. Without being able to spy on firefox users, I'd guess the 5-8 tabs people are a decently sized group. The one tab people, and the 50-400 tab people are probably other sizable groups. The
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    by illumen 14y ago

    Yeah, it's definitely an improvement for you 50+ tab peoples. Not so good for the 5-8 tab people. I think both groups should get a good user experience though.
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    by illumen 14y ago

    Threads and processes can be given a lower priority. Edit for @barrkel: you can also do more advanced resource shaping on some OSen. Like limiting the number of network connections per second, and limiting the bandwidth. There are also cp
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    by illumen 14y ago

    Discussion on "Why new firefox 13 'load tabs on demand' is bad UX.", some solutions to the problem, plus comments from a chrome developer on why they moved away from this behaviour can be found here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=406
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    Why new Firefox 13 'load tabs on demand' is bad UX. (renesd.blogspot.co.uk)

    14 points by illumen 14y ago|26 comments
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    by illumen 14y ago

    Python has Abstract Base Classes, and also widely used zope.interfaces. These, along with simplicity, convention(pep8, frameworks), a stable base(stdlib), packages, a standard unittest framework, and a strong internet community help python
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    by illumen 14y ago

    Table names, and field names are not possible via prepared statements in sqlite. Some language wrappers do not expose the required functions to escape them either. Please see this, just posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4061387
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    SQL Injection via table names and field names. Case study.(renesd.blogspot.com)

    22 points by illumen 14y ago|3 comments
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    by illumen 14y ago

    Plone should do something for this, it sounds very well suited? Any plone people about? I guess moinmoin/trac too :) What about some Django or pyramid teams? People from the PSF will probably also put in a proposal, since lots are web pe
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    by illumen 14y ago

    They can't even remember all their names. Not sure how they can guide all these companies properly. Time will tell. It'll be interesting to watch none the less. Bubble?
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    by illumen 14y ago

    I wonder which of these will turn into billion $ companies?
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    by illumen 14y ago

    Smart working people can just go elsewhere. The hardworking people can make use of recycled computers scavenged off the street. If you can't wait 10 minutes for the test suite to run, things to compile or files to finish transferring - th
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    by illumen 14y ago

    "Best search engine" https://duckduckgo.com/?q=best+search+engine No where on that list is Duck Duck go. Obviously that query is not working well. I was expecting an easter egg javascript game of some sort. Or a clever witticism on how
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    by illumen 14y ago

    !g yeah, goodbye and hello google.
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    by illumen 14y ago

    Troll.
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    by illumen 14y ago

    I'm guessing this is not complete? I'll review it like it is complete though, since it doesn't say anywhere if it is or not. I hope no one uses this in production. Handling SMTP well is all about the edge cases, and this doesn't seem to h
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    by illumen 14y ago

    box: rectangle select, alt+e s s circle: circle select, alt+e s s I guess it's not intuitive if you haven't done a gimp 101 tutorial for 30 minutes. Here it is in pictures: https://pbs01.wordpress.com/2007/09/30/145/