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by k3n 14y ago
For those interested is an honest discussion about the state of Google Alerts, I found this article to be very informative: http://thefinancialbrand.com/28346/google-alerts-broken/
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by k3n 14y ago
It's usually best to be honest about your intentions -- the title makes it sound like an investigative piece, or at least a digression on the state of the service, while the piece itself really is nothing but a "buy me" write-up. In essence
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by k3n 14y ago
The weakest link is always the user. In the event that an account was compromised, I'd put money on it being 100% due to a naive user.
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by k3n 14y ago
Security through obfuscation is not security. I'd never want to depend on that for anything, it's really just a novelty; a simple regex will nullify any effect you'd gain for using that.
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Time is money, and the larger your team is the more that the costs of learning a new tech are amplified. Using his off-the-cuff, totally subjective "a few days" estimate, and assigning 'few' at a conservative 2 days, that would mean my team
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by k3n 14y ago
I have a domain with a catch-all address, and so I just makeup addresses to use on the spot, but I know people like me and you are in the vast minority; none of my non-tech friends and family would ever do this. Also, sites like mailinator
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by k3n 14y ago
Good points, and you're probably correct. However, to your last point, I can see how it'd be challenging to convey your stance that you won't allow uncivil discourse other than how he did so. If you go ahead and respond normally, you're jus
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by k3n 14y ago
Even worse is that many times you can't delete your account, or if you can, it's just a soft-delete -- and now that site has your email address (at a minimum), and sometimes may have much more information about you. Call me paranoid, but I
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by k3n 14y ago
That site is very good at Q&A, but UX wise it's terrible. It's as if they've only ever tested it with their own devs, and never done any real hallway or external usability testing. I've tried to participate in their "meta" site, but the
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by k3n 14y ago
I see, thank you for the explanation. I have mixed feelings about it; on one hand, if an author titles a piece of work, then in the interest of honoring their creative expression (e.g. their work) then it'd be best to use their titles. Exce
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by k3n 14y ago
Been around here awhile, but mostly on the fringes, so I'm not sure what you mean by that...?
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Although he's already replied to you, I wanted to point out that a refusal to respond to a post in no way indicates whether or not the communication has been received. In other words, he's not ignoring the feedback, he's just refusing to en
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by k3n 14y ago
It doesn't matter what Rails decides to do if your HTTP server doesn't support it. With that said, it looks like many do already support it (from the same article you linked): Apache, nginx, Phusion Passenger, Unicorn, Thin, and WEBrick.
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by k3n 14y ago
Right, but is this a concern for most JS? I realize that JS is becoming more popular for various tasks -- not always relating to the web -- but still, I kind of doubt that 99% of the JS out there is going to run up against these types of pr
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by k3n 14y ago
Seeing as the page's title has "fun.js", I thought this was yet another 'functional JS' lib... but I was pleasantly surprised to see that this is actually a book that covers different aspects of FP within JS. Now I'm looking forward to rea
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by k3n 14y ago
That would highly depend on if you're writing performance-sensitive code, and I doubt most JS would be greatly affected by these paradigms.
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by k3n 14y ago
For background tabs, Reader doesn't require an extension. All links should be normal <a> tags, just middle-click (or right-click > new tab) and it opens behind Reader.
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by k3n 14y ago
They might as well have said "we can't hear your complaints over the sound of money rolling in".
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by k3n 14y ago
Yeah that doesn't make much sense, because most MMO's are going to run you at least $50 initially, and then you pay the monthly fee in addition. I highly doubt that's what anyone would want at least with the game in its current form -- it
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by k3n 14y ago
Wow, at first I was thinking that this was their first shutdown that really affected me, but looking at your list there's many other services that I really enjoyed and utilized very frequently. * Code Search -- how did I forget this awesome
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by k3n 14y ago
D: I'm sure that's going to be a phantom pain (pang?) felt by us for sometime to come starting 7/1... I highly recommend the blog though, it does a really good job of keeping an eye on all things Google beyond the normal press releases. Tod
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by k3n 14y ago
I'll bet you anything the catalyst behind this is in some way related to G+, the introduction of which has led to a steady removal of features from Reader. This news is really rubbing me the wrong way; I've been a long-time Google customer,
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I think it's worth noting that older versions ran completely fine executing the totality of the required code...
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by k3n 14y ago
Very good point, and touches on a potential piece I'd like to write sometime. Used to, bookmarks were like a collection of good books -- easily filed away, organized, and still as good when you opened them a year later as when you last touc
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by k3n 14y ago
But this has been discussed ad nauseam, and it's unproductive to keep complaining about it. The fact should be obvious, at least by now, that sandboxing uses more resources. If you're fine with that, great! If not, do something to fix it or
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by k3n 14y ago
Originally you explained the problem as if you always had 100+ tabs open, but now it sounds like an occasional occurrence. I was mainly speaking to if you always had 100+ open -- as if that was your normal workflow. I do understand at times
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I'd argue that a majority of users aren't running with 100+ tabs open, though.
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There's no way you could effectively work with 100 tabs open, and that is surely a smell for inefficiency. For any given task, 5 tabs is probably reaching the upper limit on what's actually _required_, with around 10 being the upper limit.
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by k3n 14y ago
> in PHP you can just use arrays ^^ Which thankfully aren't as painful now! $cfg = [ 'path' => '.', 'mask' => 655 ]; Otherwise, if we still had to write "array" each time, I'd be more supportive of t
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by k3n 14y ago
Suspiciously, the chat log doesn't include the agents greeting, and seems to pick up mid-convo. Why would someone include part of a transcript and not the entire thing? Makes me think there's something embarrassing to the OP that was omitte

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