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by jxf 13y ago
Can someone clarify which parts of Chrome aren't open-source? Is it just the Flash, Adobe, etc. closed-source plugins that get distributed with it, or are there other not-open pieces that get compiled in?
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by jxf 13y ago
Almost any regex containing a common English phrase of a few words, like /of course/, would give you a very high accuracy rate on a large enough dataset and a very low false positive rate. English has low entropy per bit.
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by jxf 13y ago
Did everyone forget the lessons of Google Reader that quickly? I wouldn't use Google Keep.
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by jxf 13y ago
Equating "journalists" with "pundits" is completely wrong. Sarah Palin, James Carville, et cetera are pundits (among other things), not journalists.
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by jxf 13y ago
I guess it depends on whether you view Alpaca as (a) "it's a starting point for generating your API", or (b) "it's the authoritative source and the only way to generate your API". If you use it like (b) you don
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by jxf 13y ago
It feels like the people Phil's reacting to ("an industry with rather paranoid clients that contractually bar us from using Open Source software") are bad at convincing their clients. The solution isn't "learn to us
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by jxf 13y ago
Just tried this out and Alpaca is an awesome tool. However, I'd never want to release this in production without tests. Alpaca doesn't generate tests, so you're back to maintaining the tests for your N different platforms&#x2
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Information Architects promises to drop patents pending for Syntax Control(twitter.com)
4 points by jxf 13y ago|1 comments
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by jxf 13y ago
People in various forums (a couple on HN, SO, Egor's blog, Twitter itself) seem to be saying something like "this isn't really a bug". It's definitely a bug. Twitter requires clients to ask for the DM permission bef
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by jxf 13y ago
I don't think developers should do it, but there's no question that they're doing it. For example, Facebook requests almost every permission under the sun. But if you look at the average user's permission profile for t
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by jxf 13y ago
That's partially because developers are somewhat incentivized to "front-load" their permissions. If you think there's even a chance you might use a permission, even if your app doesn't currently use it, ask for it o
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Happy (Obfuscated) Holidays(asciinema.org)
1 points by jxf 13y ago|0 comments
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by jxf 13y ago
> When people are doing a physical task, it’s easy to assess how hard they are working. You can see the physical movement, the sweat. You also see the result of their work: the brick wall rising, the hole in the ground getting bigger. Re
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What does the expression ":-!!" mean in C?(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by jxf 13y ago|0 comments
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by jxf 13y ago
In case anyone sees the (rather derogatory) term "ASSFAGGOTS" and is wondering why it's all caps, it's ostensibly short for "(A)eon of (S)trife (S)tyled (F)ortress (A)ssault (G)ame (G)oing (O)n (T)wo (S)ides".
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by jxf 13y ago
Summary of events if you don't want to read the entire comment thread just to discover what the heck the title of this post is talking about: 1. Kickstarter campaign for a new high-tech smart-watch launches. The creator, "Vak&quot
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by jxf 13y ago
If anyone is curious (or lazy), FuckIt works by opening up the AST [0] and wrapping almost every statement (except those that declare functions) in a silent try-catch block [1]. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract
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by jxf 13y ago
That costs Kickstarter more money than waiting until the end. If Kickstarter deducts in advance and refunds later for a failed campaign, then it must do two credit card transactions: once to charge the money, and another to refund it. Addit
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by jxf 13y ago
It's probably a joke, implying that the Netflix video quality served during congested periods is so low that all you get is video artifacts.
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by jxf 13y ago
> Is it true that any random company I once did business with can call up a credit ratings agency and claim that I owe them money? Anyone can report to a credit ratings agency. However, you first need to be approved by the corresponding
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by jxf 13y ago
Formatted version of OP (I had a hard time reading the single giant paragraph): ================================== Hello Yahoos, Earlier this year we asked you to move to Yahoo Mail for your corporate email account. 25% of you made the swit
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by jxf 13y ago
If you look at the FDA's website, it's littered with dozens of communications begging 23andme to submit some documentation about their product so that the FDA can evaluate the medical claims they're making. See, e.g., this on
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by jxf 13y ago
"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." -- Thomas Jefferson (apocryphal; see [0]) [0]: http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/i-am...
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by jxf 13y ago
It's Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's "The Little Prince". Definitely worth a read!
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by jxf 13y ago
He didn't really fail; he stumbled, and got back up.
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by jxf 13y ago
As a non-designer, can I ask what about Open Sans makes it "inexcusable" as a type choice?
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by jxf 13y ago
I agree that git can be characterized as having some usability issues; I initially found the documentation obtuse in many places. My favorite git joke, by far: "git gets easier once you get the basic idea that branches are homeomorphic
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by jxf 13y ago
> (...) the biggest problem by far is that git is dangerous out of the box - it can destroy your work very easily or leave you in an unrecoverable state. It's almost impossible to leave git in "an unrecoverable state", s
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by jxf 13y ago
My understanding is that, generally, the moderators prefer article submissions to have titles identical to the articles themselves (presumably to avoid linkbait titles on the HN side).
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by jxf 13y ago
The actual answer for why firetrucks are red: > Before firefighting was a paid profession, most communities were served by volunteer fire departments. These firemen didn't have much money to spend on upkeep, and at the time red was

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