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by lojack 11y ago
Secure PHP is certainly possible, and not even that difficult. The problem is that insecure PHP is even easier to write. In my experience, most vulnerabilities tend to come from insecure, poorly written, unvetted third party plugins and lib
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by lojack 12y ago
I think we can all agree that the keyboard isn't the limiting factor here. Individual programmers at their own keyboards can all focus on separate problems. Two (or more) programmers with a single keyboard can only focus on a single pr
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by lojack 12y ago
IRC also doesn't necessarily archive old conversations, which is a requirement for any publicly traded company.
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by lojack 12y ago
Is this something added specifically to prevent warrant canaries?
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by lojack 12y ago
I haven't heard of this before today, but it seems as though with this you could scale out to multiple servers and it'll continue to be treated as a single docker host. It also isn't linux.
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by lojack 12y ago
Honestly, I feel as though manual control over kerning will become an anti-pattern for most designers. Most good OpenType fonts have kerning data built in, and its pretty simple to enable this feature for most modern browsers (Safari is lag
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by lojack 12y ago
The first versions of automated cars already exist. Mercedes, BMW, and Audi have versions of their cars that maintain a safe distance from the cars in front of you. Mercedes also has a system which will automatically steer the car to keep i
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by lojack 12y ago
It doesn't support integrated graphics on my Macbook at all. Luckily I have a PC as well. There's a chance it would work, but I wouldn't bank on it.
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by lojack 12y ago
> JavaScript for all: no language zoo, you can use one language from your browser to your back-end Javascript is the only language native to the browser.
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by lojack 12y ago
Attributed to "Many otherwise smart people."
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by lojack 12y ago
One of the big reasons is it has multithreading. So, you know when you have a plugin that's doing something and the whole editor locks up so you can't do anything... with NeoVim there's a way to prevent that from occurring.
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by lojack 12y ago
> Anything that directly involves human decisions can not be wagered on in Nevada Sportsbooks. Unless it involves sports.
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by lojack 12y ago
Had a similar experience when I was in highschool with an answer on a physics test. She insisted that her math was correct, and pretty much the whole class got the answer incorrect. Despite us telling her why she was wrong, she refused to l
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by lojack 12y ago
If they didn't actually acquire any equity in the company, then GoDaddy didn't buy Nodejitsu. The difference to end users may be small, but the difference to investors is huge.
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by lojack 12y ago
Shortly after I began driving my uncle taught me drive stick. We went out a few times, I'd practice in the parking lot, and I was eventually able to get it in gear and drive on the streets. I was horrible at driving stick, stalling at
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by lojack 12y ago
Also based out of Cleveland -- feel free to contact me privately if you'd like to be put in touch with a few people. My suggestion would be to go to some of the meetup groups. CleRB, ClePY, NodeJS, Burning River Developers, there'
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by lojack 12y ago
Nitrous Oxide itself isn't explosive. It's used to add additional oxygen, which effectively boosts explosives.
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by lojack 12y ago
The same could be said about Sumo, or any number of other varieties of martial arts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_martial_arts
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by lojack 12y ago
I'm ridiculously in love with python. For what I do, there are lots of high quality, actively maintained libraries. I understand its shortcomings, both as a language and as a community. I also understand that given a slightly differen
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by lojack 12y ago
> Paying with bitcoin is so much easier, I don't need to copy stupid numbers from a card with my keyboard ever again. Things may have changed, and this is by no means a critique of Bitcoin as a protocol, but I've had the opposi
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by lojack 12y ago
I agree. Didn't mean to say that this project wasn't interesting or a waste of time or anything like that -- it definitely has its own merits.
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by lojack 12y ago
> We ought to recognize the use cases, as much as humanly possible, for all languages or frameworks or platforms I wouldn't exactly consider Operating Systems to be one of those use cases for Javascript. The flip side of knowing the
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by lojack 12y ago
Somewhat similar to how Tomatoes became synonymous with Italian food, even though Tomatoes originated in the Americas.
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by lojack 12y ago
> I know there is a lot of hate for Java on HN I can't speak to the technical merits of either language, but something can be said about choosing a language with a lot of hype as opposed to one that's hated in the community. Fr
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by lojack 12y ago
> Actually, another thing. Wisdom says to layer, but if you're not actually mobile much overnight I always found fewer thicker layers to be better. i.e. a thick cable-knit jumper trumped multiple thinner layers. I suspect layers are
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by lojack 12y ago
It's enough information to come up with a unique fingerprint without using cookies. With that fingerprint they can track your habits across multiple domains. Bots can look like browsers, but they can't necessarily browse the inter
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by lojack 12y ago
Aren't companies allowed to publicly disclose their fundraising in the US now? What other legal roadblocks exist that prevent Crowdcube from allowing US investors from viewing pitches?
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by lojack 12y ago
Things aren't as pretty, a lot of unnecessary <Tab>'s are pressed, and you sometimes have to Google things other people may instinctively know. I don't mind the Googling so much -- if it's important enough, I'
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by lojack 12y ago
Additionally, it's one of the only popular prototype-oriented languages. I think having to teach some of the less-than-sane parts of javascript can be a distraction from whats important in a 100 level course, but for a higher level cou
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by lojack 12y ago
I completely agree that we want to view what our users are seeing, but as a counterpoint, that isn't even necessarily possible in any mainstream browser. We still have to do the majority of our development in our primary browser of cho

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