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by maggit 15y ago
It would appear that you actually do not have a REST API. GET requests may not cause side effects in a REST API. This is an important feature of REST. On the other hand, there are probably many HTTP based APIs that cause harmful side effect
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by maggit 15y ago
"Gee, I wonder what ads arstechnica are showing today!" That would be solicited.
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by maggit 15y ago
> It's very easy to voluntarily blind yourself to ads. So you do block ads, only with your brain ;) Fair enough, but can I ask why this is more courteous than blocking them in the browser? Are ad loads generally causing money to flow?
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by maggit 15y ago
Opera comes with a "content blocker" that I use. If I see an annoying ad, I block its origin. I count all animated ads as annoying, because they distract me from the content. In blocking only a few sources, this takes care of nearly all ads
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by maggit 15y ago
This is what the Accept-header is for, but unfortunately browsers do not really give helpful values in this header. I've also heard from people working with web browsers that the Accept-header wouldn't work well for the real web anyway. Sig
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by maggit 15y ago
> You can enable haptic feedback or tones (cringe) Both of which are a poor substitute for feeling the button depress. However, I was mostly concerned about feeling the button and the edges of the button before pressing it (to be able t
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by maggit 15y ago
I have seen the Samsung Galaxy S, and the hardware buttons on the front have several problems: 1. They are capacitive, so there is no tactile feedback ever 2. They are made to be near invisible, so you can't see them in dim light 3. The ico
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by maggit 15y ago
Ok. Got it. An example for you: "libtelldus no symbols" gives me three absolutely unrelated results for my top hits, confusing me enough not to register the following five related hits.
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by maggit 15y ago
I take it you work for Google. I have the impression that Google likes to collect data. If you are indeed interested in fixing the recent quality dip of your search product, example queries where plus (now quotes) are necessary can be autom
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by maggit 15y ago
Disregard this. 11.10 is indeed officially released: http://release-blog.ubuntu.com/?p=173
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by maggit 15y ago
The iCal export at Facebook is unfortunately written in a way that lots of calendar software chokes on. I wrote this utility to fix that problem. In the process, I also added a filter on RSVP-status, so you don't have to consider all the ev
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My weekend project: Get Facebook events in your calendar(myfbfilter.appspot.com)
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by maggit 15y ago
Exactly! If you pay more, they will throw in an additional bundle. So it's still the "bundle" of one item plus an additional actual bundle of several items.
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by maggit 15y ago
Poor choice of the pivot makes the implementation bad , but absolutely not incorrect.
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by maggit 15y ago
Trivia, if you are interested: "ø" is a Danish and Norwegian character. The corresponding one in Swedish is "ö". So I suppose you are scared of IKEA "shööting" you. (Also, the Swedish "ö" sounds completely different from the English "o", so
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by maggit 15y ago
I suspect you are conflating the copyright/anti-copyright issue with the patent/anti-patent issue. I don't know what "patents are wrong" ideology you refer to. The arguments I see against patents over and over are concrete examples of small
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by maggit 15y ago
> I don't understand your position. That's fully understandable. I based my comment on several misunderstandings. So, with my newfangled knowledge, I might say that "self publishing of epub books" would become awesome if it were more co
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by maggit 15y ago
The lack of convenience of epub-books is caused by the lack of content only available in epub format. If DRM-free epub books were to become the dominant format, the convenience would come. You argue that Rowling must be doing this for the m
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by maggit 15y ago
I don't know what makes you say that, but your statement trivializes the medical disorders of people you know nothing about. Surely eye patches can not replace melatonin for all cases where melatonin is used as a treatment.
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by maggit 15y ago
The browser caches assets like that automatically. Alternatively, if you want to have a more install-like install, you might have luck with local storage: http://diveintohtml5.org/storage.html Local storage seems to currently max out at 5
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by maggit 16y ago
Did you mean 2^32? That I could understand. 2^52 looks entirely random to me.
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by maggit 16y ago
Hm. I got mine working out of the box. Which URI are you trying to visit? Have you tried http://<your-domain>.iriscouch.com/_utils/ ? You can create a database from that interface. (Futon, it's called)
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by maggit 16y ago
I humbly bow to anybody's superior knowledge of physics. To clarify, I wasn't actually trying to say anything about physics, just about science. So it would have been better phrased as a hypothetical; If we assume that gravity is currently
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by maggit 16y ago
> I really don't understand the question "is gravity a force?" The question is not "is gravity a force?". The question is "What is gravity?" An accepted answer, what I was taught in school, and what I would answer if you asked me is "it
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by maggit 16y ago
> Even now can you name one credible Android device that competes in that market? I can only speak for myself, but any device that runs Spotify meets my needs perfectly. This includes all contemporary Android devices (and probably all c
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by maggit 16y ago
It simulates a computer entirely in software, which is expensive. This is different from for example Virtualbox which virtualizes a computer, and still executes most of the instructions directly on the processor.
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by maggit 16y ago
Hehe, well, don't think of it as "correcting". I didn't (and still don't) understand it fully myself, so you should thank me for clearing things up or something instead :)
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by maggit 16y ago
I understand how quantum computers can break RSA; by factoring numbers quickly. That's exploiting a known "weakness" in RSA. I'm curious as to how quantum computers would break other encryption algorithms like AES or ElGamal. Do you have an
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by maggit 16y ago
I'm not in the future yet, but I was under the impression that with IPv6 you would actually know your own public address, because there is no need for NAT. Is this not correct?
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by maggit 16y ago
I'd like to read about this. Is there an available document explaining why? Or do you know the reason? (Not that I hate copper or anything, it is just that they designed it for fiber from the beginning and then suddenly bailed out)

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