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by jonchang 13y ago
I wouldn't say the explanation is "poor." The article details one of the reasons behind the lack of n-key rollover. Note how the text explicitly limits the scope of the article. > Typically, ghosting is the result of one o
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by jonchang 13y ago
s3r3nity, you are hellbanned for some reason. These four posts of yours are marked dead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7243851 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7246436 https://news.yco
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by jonchang 13y ago
Says that advertising targeting will be based on their preferred pronoun.
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by jonchang 13y ago
There is helpfully a PATENTS file that clarifies this text: https://github.com/facebook/liblogfaf/blob/master/PATENTS
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Web accessibility showcase: Microsoft Office web apps(marcozehe.de)
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Race, Class, Fear, and Shame: Transit Barriers(kcet.org)
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by jonchang 13y ago
> They explained that this was the schedule we were using for "social networking broadcast". At my given hour I was supposed to push our product to my social networks. Is it common for startups to sacrifice their employees&#x27
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by jonchang 13y ago
The silver lining: As more of these kinds of DPI scaling issues crop up, hopefully developers will starting taking accessibility seriously, in order to make their applications usable for people with visual (and other) impairments.
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by jonchang 13y ago
This is a somewhat extreme overreaction to a level-headed opinion piece in the New York Times that has a linkbait headline, as is typical of journalism these days. I encourage you to read the full article and judge for yourself. http:&#x2F
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by jonchang 13y ago
It's the recent TIFF code execution bug found in Office 2010 and earlier. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6678957 for discussion.
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I agree. Facebook needs you to tell it which posts from friends you want to see. I've found the friend organizer really helps with that: https://www.facebook.com/friends/organize You're basically asked wh
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by jonchang 13y ago
Here's a Mozilla mailing list thread discussing dropping MathML support. The linked post explains why MathML is desirable (e.g., accessibility, performance, accuracy of rendering, standards compliance, necessary for ebooks). https:&#x
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Surface Pro 2(penny-arcade.com)
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@shit_hn_says
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by jonchang 13y ago
Here are copies of the paper and supplementary material: Paper: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8859543/papers/Kidd-2013... Supplement: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8859543&#x2
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Want To Read Others' Thoughts? Try Reading Literary Fiction(npr.org)
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by jonchang 13y ago
So is that the point you were originally trying to make instead of discussing etymology? While we're quibbling prescriptively about terminology, I'd argue that the IE exploit patched earlier this week was in fact a zero day since
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by jonchang 13y ago
The article isn't trying to explain the origin of "zero day". The article is defining it in the context that it's used for the benefit of their readers. > That vulnerability in Internet Explorer was known as a “zero-d
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by jonchang 13y ago
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247%28VS.85%29.... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1880321/why-does-the-260-... http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006
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by jonchang 13y ago
Pretty much this. Note that other government websites are also shut off or otherwise not updating, e.g.: http://www.aoc.gov/ http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/ http://www.loc.gov/today/pr&#
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by jonchang 13y ago
Sarcasm can be difficult to express online; I'm glad you explicitly pointed it out in your reply.
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Another unfortunate example of the necessities of contributor agreements.
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Evolving systems and pushing the reset button(rachelbythebay.com)
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Rick said, "There is a defect in your empathic, role-taking ability. One which we don't test for. Your feelings toward androids." "Of course we don't test for that." "Maybe we should." He had never th
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by jonchang 13y ago
I suspect that HTML was not mature enough back then which is why XUL was created and used instead.
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by jonchang 13y ago
Anyone know what Apple's timeline on patches for bugs like this are? TFA says that they've known about this for 6 months now.
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Because people who smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol couldn't possibly write a technical post-mortem.
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Feds proposed Apple e-book remedies include antitrust monitor (latimes.com)
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Yeah this also works quite well in IE10.
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by jonchang 13y ago
I've been effective with Markdown and pandoc backed by git or Dropbox for my own work, but with shared documents it's always Word with track changes. I think part of the problem is that everyone you're working with needs to b

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