kinofcain

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by kinofcain 16y ago
Because responding to someone's statement of opinion with "prove it" isn't an effective way to further a conversation.
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by kinofcain 16y ago
+1 on all the various comments recommending learning Ruby first and then Rails. The Ruby standard library is pretty big, and the language has a large number of syntax options, which means that there are often 30 different ways to do somethi
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by kinofcain 16y ago
There's a bunch of reasons why Thorium cycle reactors, specifically molten salt reactors, haven't gained traction, but this is my favorite (via wikipedia): >It poses a business challenge, because reactor manufacturers customarily get th
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by kinofcain 16y ago
I get it! The PHP site being hosed with too many concurrent requests is the Erlang rationale.
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by kinofcain 16y ago
If you're relying on weird specificity chains, then your CSS is likely an unmaintainable mess. Leave IDs for uniquely identifying an element on a page because you need to access it from a script. Treating them like "Extra Strong" class name
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by kinofcain 16y ago
Exactly, as far as CSS is concerned an id is effectively equivalent to a class name except when it breaks things. Ids should be used only for scripts, and most of the time should be auto generated anyway.
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by kinofcain 16y ago
I'm amazed what google's been doing all along hasn't caused this kind of reaction. Throwing a source dump over the wall to out of date code has always been their operating procedure, but they've never publicly stated, as bald-faced as the
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by kinofcain 16y ago
you just have to contact them and they'll provide you the full source code. Absolutely false. You have to be part of their inner circle of Super Best Friends, which costs a lot of money, and they don't accept everyone.
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by kinofcain 16y ago
What I find as slightly amusing is that the major web browsers will throw up all sorts of fancy, scary warning messages if you're hitting a site with an expired or invalid certificate, but they don't say a darn thing when you hit a site ove
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by kinofcain 16y ago
Sort of. Twitter and Facebook still serve their home pages as HTTP and provide a login form that posts over HTTPS. The problem is that I can do a MITM attack on the unsecured home page and put my own script in there that siphons off the use
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by kinofcain 16y ago
Perhaps because they can claim iTunes, because of the iTunes Store isn't an end-product so much as a platform upon which people make purchases. They can account for the revenue from the greater iTunes app through each purchase you make in t
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by kinofcain 16y ago
I used to do a lot of accessibility work, so I was somewhat proficient at JAWS and IBM's Home Page Reader. JAWS, in particular, is quite powerful, but pretty daunting to learn. Compounding the clunkiness of JAWS is that many apps and sites
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by kinofcain 16y ago
Instead of the government investigating the MPEG LA for anti-trust violations, how about they spend some time fixing the patent system. This whole h.264/VP8 brouhaha is a symptom, not the disease.
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by kinofcain 16y ago
The problem is, if you ever need to deal with events before the Big Switchover to 24-hour time, you'd still need to have all the knowledge of previous zone boundaries, offsets and seasonal rules. Any 24 hour time still has to handle leap ye
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by kinofcain 16y ago
Agreed, SSL should be the default.
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by kinofcain 16y ago
Open-source is not the same thing as public domain. See: MySql.
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by kinofcain 16y ago
I don't think the GIF story is proving what you think it's proving. The problem with GIF is that everyone thought it was open and free, and then Unisys turned around and started enforcing the patents. Paying MPEGLA up front for indemnity is
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by kinofcain 16y ago
Precisely. It doesn't take very many A/B tests on lead-gen forms to realize you can get much better conversion rates if you're willing to trick your users into clicking on stuff. "Learn More" isn't a better title for that button, it's a del