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by kanzure 14y ago
Something doesn't add up. They are claiming a dec14 shutdown. Regular app approval delay on iOS is maybe one week, but really two during the holiday season. Let's be generous and say that publishers will take only one week to implement the
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by kanzure 14y ago
> I have been asked to defend my habit many times, so here it is: I use open tabs as a volatile bookmark. There's a Firefox extension called "toomanytabs" that tries to improve the "volatile bookmark" experience. Frankly, I think it sho
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by kanzure 14y ago
> For sites with big ticket items where the transaction doesn't take place online, it can be trickier to try and attribute the sale to a certain ad campaign. How do they do it? One method I can think of is to show different phone number
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by kanzure 14y ago
> Javascript has no way to output data that is then saved to disk. First, there's HTML5 window.saveAs which apparently nobody has implemented. Second, you can always fall back to some swf. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2897619/usi
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by kanzure 14y ago
> You have to somehow determine the use of all variables and functions and what proper names for them would be. True, but in the mean time you can amuse yourself with hilarious variable names: http://media.admob.com/gmsg.js => ht
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> Who here cringes every time they hear "personal brands"? Some professors really do have "brands". How do you think George Church has his hands in so many companies?
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by kanzure 14y ago
> I simply checked how long time it took for reading my article, writing and submitting a comment. Less than 10 seconds = block with a friendly message Some of the bots simulate mouse movements, some of them even inject letters/words in
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by kanzure 14y ago
> I did something like this, but using xpath queries, only problem is when they decide to change these That's a strong reason for going with a library that is used by multiple users (more people to distribute the workload over). But mor
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by kanzure 14y ago
> then it's likely distributed directly through apk , there's no way to identify them using a centralized way. You can identify them via md5 hash of the apk, the "versionName" attribute and the "versionCode" attribute.
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by kanzure 14y ago
> but I've been wanting to rant about this UI failure for a while now. And don't even get me started on Launchpad. After five years or whatever of being tricked into clicking Launchpad links, I just noticed the other day that they have
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by kanzure 14y ago
> and the results you get back from it are incredibly varied. Can you show me? I haven't noticed.
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by kanzure 14y ago
I see, it's based off of: http://github.com/chadrem/market_bot Edit: I would like to point out that Google Play actually does have an API. It uses protocol buffers, if you check the Google Play apk. http://github.com/kanzure/android-mark
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by kanzure 14y ago
> What will be the second site to hit that landmark, does it even exist yet? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent "As of December 31, 2010, there were 647.6 million active Tencent QQ IM user accounts,[1] making Tencent QQ the world's
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by kanzure 14y ago
> IRC channel #startups currently serves this purpose. For those unfamiliar with IRC: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23startups or pick up an actual IRC client: http://irssi.org/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/add
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by kanzure 14y ago
> Some people are completely useless. Remember, there are people out there who can't write Fizz Buzz yet still apply for jobs. They can easily fake a GitHub. So you're saying they can use git-filter-branch, but not write Fizz Buzz? Soun
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by kanzure 14y ago
At Open Science Summit 2010, there were a few individuals proposing some prize funds and reforming the patent system. The transcripts are a little rough (I was typing), but here goes.. Knowledge Ecology International: http://diyhpl.us/wiki
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by kanzure 14y ago
> Yes, "show me the github" is one of the worst trends for software developers' careers. On the other hand, there are benefits to posting code online that they can review. Instead of spending hours writing code for each company that yo
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by kanzure 14y ago
I don't recall seeing patents in any of my alerts. I have a few hundred on different topics/keywords, some of which definitely show up in patents. I could just be wrong, but it's possible that they are filtering out their patent search resu
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by kanzure 14y ago
> Unfortunately you do have to pay some money. Godaddy offers certs for 12.00 USD a year, which is probably less than you're paying to host the site. Wtf guys? Didn't we /just/ do this about GoDaddy? Just say NoDaddy. free certs: https
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> Something being open != you cannot make money with it. This notion is stupid, false and dishonest. In fact, open source is the money-making arm of free software.
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by kanzure 14y ago
> Invariably there is a fork just around the corner. MakerBot was a fork of RepRap. RepRap is still open source.
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by kanzure 14y ago
thingiverse scrapers and alternatives are a hot commodity these days, it seems! Have some toys: https://github.com/grevaillot/thingscrap https://github.com/punkmanufacturing/thingiverse-backup http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/thingiverse/bl
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by kanzure 14y ago
Wow, I didn't know that the government compelled Quinn Norton and Alec Resnick on this one too. What exactly is aaronsw's defense going to be?
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by kanzure 14y ago
How did you get a /48?
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by kanzure 14y ago
I once worked with Cody (daeken) when he was reverse engineering the Emotiv EPOC headset, he's definitely top notch. It turns out he does other things: http://demoseen.com/portfolio/
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by kanzure 14y ago
> To put it bluntly, for most programmers, it's our job to put others out of a job. Maybe, but a cheaper production process means that a business can also scale up production for the same amount of input due to the efficiency we added.
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by kanzure 14y ago
Does anyone have a javascript deobfuscation tool that will autorename variables in different scopes? I love working with javascript through the shell, but js-beautify doesn't always cut it.
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by kanzure 14y ago
> Now personally I love manufacturing porn, I don't know why but I can watch an hour or two of 'How its Made' and just spin all these ideas about in my head. I also like manufacturing porn, so I made a playlist you might like: http://w
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by kanzure 14y ago
Yes, but it's easy for a browser to just override your verifyAds function.
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by kanzure 14y ago
I don't think people are generally aware of how awful io9 is, or any of the other science news out there. Even worse is that most science news is pump-and-forget. I don't know how to fix that, or make more people aware in a useful way. Give

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