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by jamestnz 12y ago
I've developed for the web (ranging from small one-script hacks, up to large commercial applications) for about 15 years. Much of this work has been in PHP, often using the CodeIgniter framework [1]. As far as PHP goes, I do like CI; i
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I can assure you that the iPhone as originally announced was never going to allow third-party native apps; it was to be web-apps only forever, and this was not intended to be a temporary position. Even though their language was often cagey,
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The coca-cola company sure does like to claim this! Snopes has an interesting analysis http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/santa/cocacola.asp
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It's not necessary that most other drivers have had an accident for most people to have had below the average number of accidents. Consider a population of 100 drivers, none of whom have ever had a traffic accident. The average number
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Here is one, http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/155/8/732.full A reduced risk for Parkinson's disease (PD) among cigarette smokers has been observed consistently during the past 30 years. Recent evid
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>How to migrate from DigitalOcean to Linode? Did you try this article? It is a tutorial for moving a wordpress blog from a Linode VPS to a DO VPS (the opposite of what you're asking), but contains many steps and general tips that yo
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There is a tool named TotalTerminal (formerly "Visor") for the Mac which extends Terminal.app and does exactly this. I even have control-~ mapped to the behaviour. It seems pretty configurable, and hooks nicely into the prefs wind
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Another interesting example is the fact that Burger King is known ubiquitously as "Hungry Jack's" within Australia (but here in New Zealand we get the real BK branding). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungr
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Well saddle-up, my friend ;-) In seriousness, recall the weev/AT&T case[1]. As I understand it, the attack was roughly of the sophistication of making a totally unauthenticated request to: get_user_email_address.php?id=N (where N w
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It’s better. We have things like fibre and VDSL2 with unlimited caps now. Like properly unlimited ones (not just "unlimited"). You can get a gigabit internet connection -- or even dark fibre between private premises -- in many cas
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"I'm not sure how that guy got the CEO of the company to intercede on his behalf" Well, he did so by raising a public fuss about it, that much seems obvious. The OP of this thread seems (quite reasonably) to be attempting t
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@greenfieldprod: You seem to have made multiple high-quality replies in this thread, but nobody is seeing them (and nobody can reply to them) because your account seems to be 'hellbanned'. Some people (like me) will see your posts
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In fact, storage-area density apparently increases more rapidly than does transistor density (i.e. Moore's law). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kryder#Kryder.27s_Law A PhysOrg.com article reports on a 2009 s
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> What's Bush's interest in protecting the Saudis? Perhaps not so much protecting the Saudis, as protecting the established pretext for the administration's response? For instance, it has been reported that within mere hou
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Yes. Each new airplane type that you're going to pilot requires you to first attain a Type Rating[1] in it. For instance, I picked a random link to a flight school that offers a B777 type rating course[2] - which takes 14 days of groun
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Indeed, the Wikipedia page on the Vortex Tube mentions it has been successfully used with water when input at high pressure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_tube In 1988 R.T.Balmer applied liquid water as the work
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by jamestnz 13y ago
Interesting article for me, being that I have no experience with the ISP industry in America at all. "The best solution, I think, is to lay fiber in all the municipalities and have consumers choose their ISP, with service delivered on
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This got me thinking, as I have many primary-school clients ("K-6" schools) making extensive use of Google Apps for Education to give the students access to various services like gmail, drive, sites, blogger. So I just did a searc
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Something that might be considered an "intrinsic" value of bitcoin is its ability to instantly and securely transfer wealth across large distances at zero or near-zero cost. This is an feature not present in some of the incumbent
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The numbers for this, sadly (or gladly, for holders of bitcoin), don't work out. Even if you had the most powerful supercomputer in the world and could try trillions upon trillions of keys per second, you'd need, on average, more
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I think this is good advice. I researched this very subject some months ago, and came across an interesting article by an Aussie guy named Yaro Starak, where he discusses his ideas about selling blog ad-space directly, and his pricing model
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by jamestnz 13y ago
Not really related, but your comment reminds me of a fantastic exchange from a Seinfeld ep, with Kramer advising Jerry on how to get to Coney Island. Kramer: Ok, you can take the B or the F and switch for the N at Broadway Lafayette, or you
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>Without searching I have no idea what that is supposed to mean. I guess it is something related to free speech in the USA? He was a British philosopher from the 1600s, an important Enlightenment thinker.
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You were probably kidding :-) But: from the screenshot in TFA, they require you to provide biometric identification and then they appear to apply a $1001 per day usage limit to this identity, and this is specifically in place to comply with
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> and that it was illegal for him to pick anyone up from the airport and that Uber had specifically given him guidance not to pick anyone up from the airport This potentially has some truth to it. Many times, to operate a passenger servi
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I experienced similar frustration when trying to buy bitcoins. I ended up using localbitcoins.com, and had an excellent experience. The site matches up private users (by geographic location by default) wishing to buy bitcoins with those wis
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>is there a typographic standard for labeling typefaces italics and oblique As I recall it, oblique type uses the regular glyphs just slanted, whereas a 'true' italic typeface employs modified glyph versions having additional c
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>UI's _need_ discoverability and plane cockpits do not Interestingly enough, Boeing has a world-class ergonomics research/implementation department focusing on solving problems just like this within the cockpit. You see, it tur
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That's a fair point. And just to clarify (since you mentioned "instructions"), my references to MC above were referring just to the colored circular non-buttons discussed in the OP, and not to the "A quick primer" a
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Such 'instruction buttons' and other notices/signs sprinkled through the UI can be an indicator of bad design, an insufficient consideration of 'affordances'[1]. Which is to say, a good user interface (and not just

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