josh_blum

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by josh_blum 14y ago
Google cached page: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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by josh_blum 14y ago
As a student I don't think its very frustrating. I only visit the main MIT site when I see posts like this really or news articles. I am surprised by how ready people are to exploit given a reason though.
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by josh_blum 14y ago
What were your reasons for not using jQuery? Not that everyone has to use it, but it seems your refresh.js script could have been reduced a fair amount using library functions. Just wondering if there was a specific reason you don't use it
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by josh_blum 14y ago
I think you're missing the point. Expressing your 'creativity' is absolutely something you should do in public, because that's the only way you can learn. As a programmer Bootstrap is the easiest way to get an idea, not a product off the
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by josh_blum 14y ago
I don't think the effort is so much to hide it as it is to make the site more your own.
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by josh_blum 14y ago
I don't think that the author is saying to "un-design" at all. She's saying to use a basic framework as a starting point and learn how to make it your own. Adding the fonts/colors/images that you feel add to the site are your own creativity
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by josh_blum 14y ago
seems like a very cool idea! i'm exciting to use it and see where it goes. You do have some bugs to work out though, the UI isn't very consistent throughout the site and somehow I got redirected to here: http://interviewpractice.herokuapp.
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by josh_blum 14y ago
How can this differentiate between users though? Can the frequency be replicated?
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by josh_blum 14y ago
Similar service but allows you to have dynamic pages http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4025901
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by josh_blum 14y ago
Here is a good article discussing some of the tradeoffs with various password schemes, the fix is necessary but far from trivial. http://css.csail.mit.edu/6.858/2012/readings/passwords.pdf
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by josh_blum 14y ago
How are they inefficient? I'm designing an app right now and am looking at different frameworks to use. Any recommendations?
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by josh_blum 14y ago
The scaling for the number of points was set before the hack took place. Not sure why Dropbox made it so much harder for MIT vs CMU. Also, creating the mailing lists was actually one of the biggest bottlenecks and actually ended the progres
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by josh_blum 14y ago
Its hard to compete with a school who has about the same number of undergrads as MIT does people (undergrads, grads, and faculty) Enrollment statistics of National University of Singapore http://www.nus.edu.sg/registrar/statistics.html or
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Hacking the Dropbox Space Race(blog.burtonthird.com)
54 points by josh_blum 14y ago|40 comments