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by jarek 13y ago
It doesn't tab between the input boxes or even show the boxes until it's detected the card type based on first four digits. On initial load you get an input box with "XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX" and nothing else. It does not lo
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by jarek 13y ago
The number of people who don't know where the CVV code is located is dwarfed by the number of people who are roughly familiar with their card and would instead be confused by an unfamiliar-looking form. You learn where the CVV is the f
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by jarek 13y ago
Somewhat related example anecdote: For several years, Vimeo was sending me newsletter emails addressed to "Dear Jarek_PiÃ³rkowski" (previously "Hi Jarek Pi??rkowski"). The ó that should be there shows up fine on the Vime
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by jarek 13y ago
Yeah, and 1945 sure wasn't living memory in 1961, eh
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by jarek 13y ago
> We' have literally fought wars together. Don't think you can take that lightly. Well this is highest-level political commentary. Let's ignore the wars the US and UK fought against each other, and the times they allied wi
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by jarek 13y ago
Technically, the "red rocket" was Toronto's first subway train, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-series_%28Toronto_subway_car%...
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by jarek 13y ago
The streetcar ride is rather smooth FWIW.
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by jarek 13y ago
> My grandparents constantly re-located to where the work was. So... how often have you moved to where the work was?
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by jarek 13y ago
Germany and Japan were rebuilt from the ground up after 1945, France is now on the fifth republic, Spain, Portugal, and Greece shed dictatorships in the 1970s, some of Eastern Bloc now qualify as first world and have undergone a major chang
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by jarek 13y ago
I.e., "Health care is good enough, when you least need it."
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by jarek 13y ago
In slightly less words and with slightly less accuracy, you're unwilling or unable to wipe the slate clean and start from scratch. To an extent I wonder how much of that is due to lack of recent experience with starting from scratch. T
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by jarek 13y ago
For the record, the ASA in "Opera Software ASA" is short for Allmennaksjeselskap, the Norwegian term for a public limited company.
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by jarek 13y ago
And some of my university teachers simply made the exams so difficult and long, the scores had little correlation with actual mastery of material (Jim Barby, I'm looking at your midterm).
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by jarek 13y ago
> Does anyone know how this works in general? Here are obligatory Wikipedia links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack
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by jarek 13y ago
"I'm not seeing any animation?" "Try IE6," only a decade later.
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by jarek 13y ago
There's no value. It's basically junk food. Once someone comes up with the chemical/library, it's easy to include them in your product. It's noticeable, users like it, it provides straightforward talking points for
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by jarek 13y ago
Yes, and the Pixel and a handful of laptops from Asus and Samsung are the only 1080 px or higher small laptop options around. The mainstream has stagnated around 700-800 px for 12-13" for over a decade now, and when someone puts 900 ve
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by jarek 13y ago
It might be possible, but sadly it's rarely been done at any reasonable screen quality. And it seems like an overkill to choose a laptop based on its resolution when you could just have the app not waste space instead.
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by jarek 13y ago
And here I just want stuff to happen fast
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by jarek 13y ago
Yeah, it's almost like most people replace their standalone music player every 2-3 years.
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by jarek 13y ago
App albums remind me of the trend in the late 90s to build a lame Win32 .exe wrapper around a website and ship it out on CD-ROMs. It made some sense as a response to slow internet connections, but in retrospect it was an obviously time-limi
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by jarek 13y ago
Right, the only point I'm making is that ease of parsing JSON shouldn't count as a factor against RSS since RSS parsing is already more done than parsing any JSON-powered RSS alternative as the object model is already defined and
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by jarek 13y ago
But is parsing an RSS-like format that uses JSON a solved problem?
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by jarek 13y ago
I don't know about CDMA vs GSM, though I think it might work (there definitely are two-GSM-SIM phones, and GSM-and-CDMA doesn't seem philosophically different). Having a phone work on both AT&T and T-Mo, though, is easy, Galax
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by jarek 13y ago
Though not all of the bar/cafe networks are passworded, likely.
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by jarek 13y ago
Last year's model.
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by jarek 13y ago
It's mostly artillery, which is less likely to kill on a touch. Plus I'm sure one could spin an argument about this being an example of knowing how to break rules relatively safely, too.
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by jarek 13y ago
> the most likely reason for its existence is unreasonable paranoia Spoken like someone who's never walked across a minefield ;)
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by jarek 13y ago
I'd classify those under "refinements" ;)
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by jarek 13y ago
> Well when I type on a on a 10 inch tab - two thoughts cross my head A) This is not working B) This could work given a bit more size and refinement. A bit more size and refinement, a nice keyboard, and a stand gets you a 11-12" lap

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