logic

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   by logic 16y ago

   Make backups (for whatever definition of "backup" you need in your context) religiously, and store them somewhere that isn't your primary provider. Test your ability to construct a new running system (preferably on another VPS provider) fro
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   by logic 16y ago

   I received the same invitation email, but the text you highlighted is missing from mine. Apparently, I'm just not that interesting. ;-) (Also, just FYI: I was prompted to log in, which then errored out, when I tried to leave this as a comme
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   by logic 16y ago

   It's not built in, but saying it "should be" is a strong statement, in my mind. A convenience item, certainly, but a requirement? RSS has a bit of a marketing problem to resolve before I'd say it absolutely must be there. (Also, you don't h
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   by logic 16y ago

   What an odd little vehicle! http://www.terrafugia.com/images/photogallery/logo/First_Fli... http://www.terrafugia.com/images/photogallery/logo/Transitio... Certainly more practical than many of the "flying car" concepts that have been f
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   by logic 16y ago

   Funny, I'd actually have expected it to be an audience full of people who'd like to create this job. :)
6. 246.▲
   by logic 16y ago

   Ask, and ye shall receive: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhn... It's even a product of Google themselves.
7. 247.▲
   by logic 16y ago

   I saw the name, and suspected immediately that you might be infringing on a Konami trademark. http://www.trademarkia.com/frogger-74652881.html I dislike how the modern legal system has conditioned me. :P On the other hand, I didn't know a
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   by logic 16y ago

   Gaming and I have an arrangement. In university, I learned an important lesson about myself: I play to win. Ultra-competitiveness works great in a lot of areas of my life, but has a drawback: when I encounter a game that doesn't have an "en
9. 249.▲
   by logic 16y ago

   "Admittedly, using Hacker News on an iPhone is not the best mobile browser experience" That's precisely why people are willing to buy an app like this: to improve the experience. Yes, "fixing" HN is easy, if you're pg. If you're just a read
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    by logic 16y ago

    See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1476029
11. 251.▲
    by logic 16y ago

    Amazon has been making some interesting moves lately; attempting to change their internal culture through acquisition, perhaps? (See Zappos.)
12. 252.▲
    by logic 16y ago

    base64 decoding of the text results in: m8o[rJc=zmzTX2.~Iv:Ylx.&i]`2;Uasmodrgw3nD3@;gft]1VnfB*U2i iqklnn@(i4nxgPhctc$cLcuXiTo1yUNjs>t*dpeygpctt That's all printable ASCII, which I don't suspect is a coincidence.
13. 253.▲
    by logic 16y ago

    Your hand-transcription matches my hand-transcription, so I'd call it good. :) Edit: yep, 24th character is an "oh", not a zero.
14. 254.▲
    by logic 16y ago

    MVP.
15. 255.▲
    by logic 16y ago

    I'll toss out the suggestion of GFS as well, if you're evaluating clustered filesystems. http://sourceware.org/cluster/gfs/ http://www.redhat.com/gfs/
16. 256.▲
    by logic 16y ago

    Interesting (to me) observation: I found I spent significantly more time on the scaffolding for this problem to prove my answer correct, than on the answer itself. (I'm one of those folks addicted to "FizzBuzz"-esque toy problems.) I probab
17. 257.▲
    by logic 16y ago

    A project that you never start is guaranteed to not be revenue-generating.
18. 258.▲
    by logic 16y ago

    My limited experience so far echoes this. I'm in the middle of scratching an itch my wife has in such a way that it's useful to more people than just her, and part of that is a mobile application. Sencha (and jQTouch before it) is absolutel
19. 259.▲
    by logic 16y ago

    Google deleted an app whose sole purpose for existing was misdirection (as described by the application's author), and which was already voluntarily withdrawn. The malware application has an attack vector that involves a remote site that wo
20. 260.▲
    by logic 16y ago

    Yes: https://www.dropbox.com/help/45 "There are currently no hard limits on public bandwidth usage. We do, however, have an automated system for detecting and flagging unusual amounts of bandwidth usage. We will send an email notification
21. 261.▲
    by logic 16y ago

    http://linuxoniphone.blogspot.com/ That suggestion is only somewhat tongue-in-cheek.
22. 262.▲
    by logic 16y ago

    I was about to mention both Readability and Safari Reader. My primary reason for using a feed reader is aggregation; I can skim through a lot of content quickly through a consistent interface. Part of that is regularization of content prese
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    by logic 16y ago

    Sadly, while I appreciate the multi-process model of Chrome as a geek, it had almost nothing to do with why I switched: I'm a 64-bit Linux user. Firefox is, from a performance standpoint, almost unusable for me. (On 32-bit Windows XP at wor
24. 264.▲
    by logic 16y ago

    And that is what US-based virtual hosts or free shell accounts are for. :)
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    by logic 16y ago

    That's a deal-breaker for me; I don't use Facebook, and I don't link my Twitter account except in exceptional circumstances. I suspect I'm not the target demographic, though.
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    by logic 16y ago

    "Design an elevator" also makes an interesting interview question.
27. 267.▲
    by logic 16y ago

    "lp0: printer on fire?" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp0_on_fire
28. 268.▲
    by logic 16y ago

    Amazing, I knew I recognized that work from somewhere! Thanks for the reminder.
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    by logic 16y ago

    Weave is about the only thing I really miss since switching to Chrome; I ran my own server, but encrypting the data prior to transmission meant I wouldn't have felt terrible about sending it to them. Architecturally, I felt pretty good abou
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    by logic 16y ago

    http://safariadblock.com/ He packaged it up when he got back from WWDC.