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by jere 14y ago
Wow, this is interesting. I love how it was used as a party trick for centuries. I could see this being used in a sci fi story to great effect.
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by jere 14y ago
>Better advice: Use a long password rather than a random password. facepalm . You can't use both? I do. This is horrible advice if taken on face value. To be fair, the author mentions things like KeePass. Use that. Make very long, rand
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by jere 14y ago
What you have created is clearly A Very Bad Idea. A readable sentence isn't necessarily inane. And this gem really makes me laugh "Conversely, some of the most inane comments of all can escape this filter by not using any punctuation (the s
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by jere 14y ago
tldr: I wrote a JavaScript "virus" for our school's (unofficial) message board. I was banned for years. In a thread about that webcam, I made the above facetious apology. Longer version: premium users of The Wolf Web were granted full html/
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by jere 14y ago
Neat. Raleigh, NC was on the first page and I think I remember that exact camera. We used to post webcam feeds when I was an undergrad at NC State. In fact, this one time was pretty amusing (and there's a long story associated with it): ht
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by jere 14y ago
One of the successful 7drl entrants this year was made in excel. If I remember correctly, one of the devs was an accountant: http://7drl.org/2013/03/16/7drl-completed-excelent-rogue/
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by jere 14y ago
I wouldn't avoid the book because of that, but I don't know about others. Such mistakes might make one think the author is uneducated, sloppy, or both. In a free ebook and with english as a second language (guessing that is the case), it's
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by jere 14y ago
>1. Modern web applications: a overview An overview, please. Sorry to nitpick grammar, but seeing that in an early header leaves a bad impression.
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by jere 14y ago
>If you literally just use 4 or 5 dictionary words, someone is going to crack it fast. Bad people can write a program to try a kabillion combinations of words and it will run fast. xkcd uses math and I don't see much wrong with it eithe
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by jere 14y ago
>A caller should dial a number and then push “send.” That way, the mobile caller would be less rushed; Makes sense. I hate landlines for this reason.
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by jere 14y ago
Good explanation. I always thought this was a good one too: http://kestas.kuliukas.com/RainbowTables/
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by jere 14y ago
Yea, no kidding. It helps if you wipe off your screen, make sure the brightness is up, dim the lights, pour yourself a glass of wine, etc.
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by jere 14y ago
A lot of racial slurs are based on a caricature of people's skin colors. Selecting a color that has historically had that problem and then intentionally assigning it to the target of those caricatures seems, if not malicious, at least compl
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by jere 14y ago
They seem to be confused. From wikipedia: >As can be read in the Olympic Charter, the Olympic symbol represents the union of the five regions of the world and the meeting of athletes from throughout the world at the Olympic Games. Howe
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by jere 14y ago
That ship left a long time ago, but thanks!
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by jere 14y ago
Reminds me of a (dumb) idea I had for a social networking site that was inspired by the million dollar homepage: show 1 million user accounts on one page, no scrolling. Every user can choose the color of their pixel. With zooming in or mult
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by jere 14y ago
Am I misunderstanding? It's not that hard for a lot of colors. Grays, reds, blues, and greens are obviously the easiest.
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by jere 14y ago
Did you ever consider maybe some endeavors in life are pursued for reasons other than profit?
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by jere 14y ago
I'm surprised by how good the copy is. >Viaweb Store is the fastest, easiest way to open an online store. You create your site on our server, using nothing more than the browser you're using to read this page. So you can build a store a
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by jere 14y ago
Sorry, a distraction: is anyone else reminded of the copper bowl in Anathem?
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by jere 14y ago
It's not too surprising that google dropped the ball. This entry that she describes doesn't even have her birth year shown, but instead lists a dozen other years. That's rather odd for a short bio. Maybe Joel was trying to be polite... neve
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by jere 14y ago
Wait, you're saying Adria traded her job for a few page views and death threats?
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by jere 14y ago
Really? >[Update/Correction (Mar. 19, 2013): I wrote the piece below after reading a press release from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and after reading the professional science journal paper announcing the results. Just after pos
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by jere 14y ago
Fair enough. I may have read that incorrectly by focusing on him saying "shipping code", but he's still not the part of management at the very top making company wide decisions that have the power to crush large swaths of innovation (i.e. e
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by jere 14y ago
Just dealt with some of these issues last week in 7drl. >image-rendering: optimizeSpeed; In some cases, you will want to scale the images drawn to the canvas, but not the canvas itself. This causes a lot of headache because of image smo
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by jere 14y ago
The article is all about the difference between the innovation being created by low level employees and the stupid decisions by top level management who want to shut it all down. The author is among the former and even says he doesn't like
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by jere 14y ago
Well, cool. I'd appreciate any feedback. Almost everyone has commented (mostly negatively) on the movement, but I do think people get it after a few seconds. If I hadn't used this movement, you would always know which way is which easily
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by jere 14y ago
>Edit: Do you mean? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5385857 The game is kind of odd. The way you move is somewhat confusing, though I did figure it out after a second. Having a hard time figuring out what I'm supposed to/can do.
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by jere 14y ago
Thanks for the tips, assuming you're being serious. I tried it again half an hour ago. Chose the time carefully and added a little profanity based on a few posts analyzing HN. No votes at all within the time it was on new and 1 comment comp
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by jere 14y ago
Yea, seeing both. Not sure what problem you think you have.

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