itafroma

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by itafroma 13y ago
The response to that concern at the time was that most of the people who would know how to get around it wouldn't need to sockpuppet[1]. I suspect, if it were ever implemented, there'd be some attempt to obfuscate or hide what was
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by itafroma 13y ago
> What does something like PRISM have to do with an individual privately run site using information provided by the client software in order to prevent abuse? I feel like I explained the issue pretty clearly in the preceding sentence: &g
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by itafroma 13y ago
A couple of years back, I remember arguing with the moderators at Stack Overflow who wanted to implement this to combat sock-puppetry: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/113394/implement-som... Back then, the
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by itafroma 13y ago
To be fair, the license agreement to which Apple developers agree has the following clause (line breaks added by me): > Notwithstanding the foregoing, Apple Confidential Information will not include: > (i) information that is generall
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by itafroma 13y ago
Subbable is a new venture by Hank and John Green (collectively, the Vlogbrothers) functioning as an answer to the problem that advertisers seemingly only care about the quantity, not quality of views. Here's Hank Green's intro vid
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Subbable (Kickstarter for YouTubers)(subbable.com)
2 points by itafroma 13y ago|1 comments
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by itafroma 13y ago
> Pretty abysmal idea, really. Please keep toxic comments like this as far away from Show HN as possible.
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by itafroma 13y ago
> With Google Reader, you were locked in Google's ecosystem. Without Google Reader, you are free to use whatever RSS client you can find. This is (or was) a false dilemma. You could, with Google Reader, use a vast multitude of RSS c
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by itafroma 13y ago
As I recall, and it's been a while so things may have changed, Stack Exchange's Apple site has always been more forgiving of these types of "hidden features" lists, much to the consternation of the rest of the network (e
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by itafroma 13y ago
While your first point bears repeating ad infinitum, and everyone who has direct access to the DP and finds something off (however minor) should be filing rdar reports before blogging, the effects of your second point about the NDA is open
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by itafroma 13y ago
> I don't seem to be able to flag anymore so I guess that was picked up as abuse, so unfortunately I can't flag anymore of these stories. Same here, though I believe I lost my flagging ability after 2 or 3 Snowden stories. Defi
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by itafroma 13y ago
> As far as the subreddit, I subscribe(d) to several quite different ones so that wouldn't explain why my comments in all of those would be downvoted. Your comment history across all subreddits is one click away. To give you an exam
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by itafroma 13y ago
One thing that virtually every Reddit power user (e.g., the type of person who would want to go around down-voting everything you comment) has is an extension called Reddit Enhancement Suite[1]. One of its features is the ability to tag use
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by itafroma 13y ago
The purpose of the PSRs is to help support and foster collaboration between members of the Framework Interoperability Group (the people who draft and publish the PSRs: consists of medium-to-large PHP projects including Symfony, Amazon, Drup
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The one-two combo Sony used to knock Microsoft out of E3 2013(arstechnica.com)
7 points by itafroma 13y ago|1 comments
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by itafroma 13y ago
The Wii U didn't innovate on this: Sony has been allowing developers to self publish on the PS3 and PS Vita for some time now[1]. This is just a continuation of that policy into the next generation. Much of the news coming out of E3 fo
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by itafroma 13y ago
Let's say I want a two column layout that takes up the full width of my page with each column taking up half the space. Using tables and no grid, I'd have to do something like: <table width="100%"> <
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by itafroma 13y ago
I followed a chain of linked articles from OP and eventually found an explanation on an article for Ozyorsk[1]: > Until 1994, it was known as Chelyabinsk-65, and even earlier, as Chelyabinsk-40 (the digits are the last digits of the post
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by itafroma 13y ago
This is pretty cool. A few terms that immediately came to mind but are missing from this list as of right now are "network effects", "lifecycle email", "CPM", and "angel". Not strictly startup related
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by itafroma 13y ago
Ah, naturally: the part I didn't expand enough on and probably should've just left out! :P I think those are all fair points, and I appreciate you explaining your business model here. If I may make one suggestion: play this up a bit more on
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by itafroma 13y ago
The narrative wasn't that they spent a really long time building a framework so anyone could build Snowfall in an hour, it was that "the NY times spent hundreds of hours building Snowfall, we did it in an hour" implying that if you spend mo
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by itafroma 13y ago
I clearly failed at the point I was trying to make then. To be clear, and I should've been more emphatic about that in my original comment, this is a great demonstration of skill and ingenuity. The creator should be applauded for creating i
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by itafroma 13y ago
I think of an MVP as the least you need to do to demonstrate an unmet demand for a product or concept. For a game, that means demonstrating a gameplay concept that may be worthwhile to expand upon. Thinking about early Minecraft, the creati
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by itafroma 13y ago
Edit: I just wanted to preface this by saying I think this is a very cool demonstration and a great first step towards a game: I should've made that clearer in the rest of my comment which continues below. The state of the demo is about whe
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by itafroma 13y ago
There is a "greatest hits" list for each Stack Exchange site: just add /questions/greatest-hits to the end of the domain. Examples: http://serverfault.com/questions/greatest-hits http://stackoverflow.com/questions/greatest-hits http://
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by itafroma 13y ago
> Do you use iTunes? or Paypal? iTunes and Paypal are routinely cited (for good reason) as examples of services with too-long terms of service, but funnily enough, Media Temple's ToS puts them to shame: * iTunes's ToS[1] is a little ove
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by itafroma 13y ago
If you think you need a 44 page document to protect yourself that, realistically, mostly only lawyers would ever read in full that's understandable: most of the big companies do it. What I don't understand is why they felt they needed to be
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by itafroma 13y ago
This is the short blurb that went along with his sharing it today: http://www.marco.org/2013/06/01/my-2006-resume
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by itafroma 13y ago
This is pretty cool. One improvement that would be nice to see is strength checking on weak "spatial" passwords: I was able to eventually get it to say my password was strong just by walking down the keyboard (e.g., "qwertyioup..." or "qazx
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by itafroma 13y ago
The comments here, are for the most part, incredibly disappointing. I don't understand the point of bashing a guy, however public, for merely stating his preferences: I'm sure people could find some of everyone's preferences equally curious

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