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by magic_haze 13y ago
Agreed, but... the standards themselves have changed since 1999.
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by magic_haze 13y ago
Agreed, it'll probably settle down in a few seasons to something moderate (i.e., neither the garishness of apple's calendar, nor the usability nightmare of the WP8 app on windows.) I just wish we won't forget the lessons of these experiment
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by magic_haze 13y ago
Interesting he feels so strongly about that... but then again, he always kinda does. Not sure what to make of it. I used to follow Scoble's blog back when he was evangelizing for Microsoft, but he's abandoned his mediums so often and so voc
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by magic_haze 13y ago
What incentive does a department have to hide an attack they helped prevent? Publicizing it, on the other hand, brings massive clout and more bargaining power when it comes to budgets. Look at Canada's recent announcement, for example. Why
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by magic_haze 13y ago
> 06:00 < AlexC_> ryann: So, are you saying CC details have also been compromised? > 06:00 < ryann> Yep > 06:00 < AlexC_> ryann: And you plan on releasing these? > 06:00 < ryann> They did try
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by magic_haze 14y ago
To play the devil's advocate, do you expect any privacy with postcards? It is also addressed directly to another person by means of a unique identifier... why is email any different? IMAPS et al. is just for the connection between you and y
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by magic_haze 14y ago
Dude. Spamming the history is not cool. I made the mistake of viewing the site on a snapdragon s4 phone: it was extremely laggy, and I had to press the back button more than a dozen times before I got back to HN. I guess I'll have to wait
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by magic_haze 14y ago
Doesn't this issue affect Tumblr (and Blogspot, and Wordpress) as well? They all allow arbitrary javascript to be injected by the user in a subdomain, so how are they tackling it?
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by magic_haze 14y ago
Same with Vizio. I timed it to just under two minutes to get to the Neflix movie list from cold start -- Even my four-year old laptop with a HDD is faster than that. I'm thinking of replacing the TV now with a dumb Samsung and a Roku. How c
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by magic_haze 14y ago
I think this is just a continuation of the old "College is a waste of time" thought, but I have noticed a _lot_ of people -- especially from China and India -- enrolling in CS PhD programs the last few years. I talked to a few of them from
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by magic_haze 14y ago
And I think most of the compiler team has been busy with roslyn, which sounds like a pretty big rewrite.
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by magic_haze 14y ago
> Is tumultous public discussion never not preamble to a coup justified as needed to control the mob who has gotten out of hand, who voted the wrong way, who attacked the leaders? I'm sorry, but that is one of the most convoluted senten
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by magic_haze 14y ago
This is pretty much what Chrome does, grouping everything under "site data". It also shows you flash cookies, though as far as I know, it doesn't show you its contents and doesn't let you block them through the third-party controls. A rathe
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by magic_haze 14y ago
And it's not just Reader: Google Talk is following the exact same strategy as well. It supposedly is the world's largest xmpp network, but with a few extra changes that makes compliant xmpp clients practically useless (e.g., not able to ad
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by magic_haze 14y ago
Agreed. This is one thing the chromebook pixel got absolutely right: the resolution, and the 3:2 aspect ratio. Wish more devs would speak up against these useless 16:9 displays that this Engadget reviewer bemoans.
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by magic_haze 14y ago
I agree that changing titles is sometimes necessary and most of the time it is reasonably done, but would it hurt to bring a little more transparency into the process? A small comment by the mod indicating (and possibly explaining) the chan
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by magic_haze 14y ago
Sorry, I don't quite get it. The web player has support for playlists and dynamic streams, so I guess it depends on whether the app available for your phone uses the correct API. The one I use, for example, maintains a 10gb MRU cache of my
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by magic_haze 14y ago
So... why not Subsonic? It's open source as well, seems a lot more mature, has a rest api, tons of apps, and a spiffy new HTML5 player that's quite good. * Subsonic.org seems to be down, try http://sourceforge.net/projects/subsonic/ inste
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by magic_haze 14y ago
Frankly, I'm surprised they even bothered to do the censorship client-side. I always assumed _all_ my messages and calls were sent to the skype server, where they most definitely did keep a copy of the data (I can, after all, see my message
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by magic_haze 14y ago
Agreed. This looks very much like Tumblr's dashboard, only with G+'s color palette. This, no doubt, is a very deliberate decision -- especially after the flurry of articles recently about teens dropping out -- but I still feel it completely
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by magic_haze 14y ago
I think GP meant something like a build process that inlines the bytecode, not the source code itself. I don't see why this is unreasonable, especially compared to what they actually did.
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by magic_haze 14y ago
Well, most of the time I already know the site best suited for my queries (e.g., SO for programming, amazon for shopping, wikipedia for facts, Wolfram Alpha for calculations etc), so DuckDuckGo's bang syntax really comes in handy. Google is
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by magic_haze 14y ago
Google results can dramatically change based on various parameters (location/time/browser/history/whatever-new-they-are-testing.) They presumably cram all this info into the search bar in case you want to repro the results.
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by magic_haze 14y ago
Yet another example how horrible this "ecosystem" craze everyone seems to be enamored by these days quickly becomes. Why the fuck do I need to sign up with Gmail to use something in chrome? (How would it even work? I moved from google apps
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by magic_haze 14y ago
I actually did try it out when they first introduced it, but when I installed Chrome on a different machine and tried to get my settings there, the sync server got totally confused and re-enabled all sorts of settings that I'd disabled (lik
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by magic_haze 14y ago
I still don't quite follow. What do you mean by "terminate" a task? From my understanding, when a Task returned, the underlying Thread would be returned to the common pool for use by other Tasks. Does the Go scheduler detect when a task is
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by magic_haze 14y ago
I'm trying to wrap my head around this, not being familiar with Go yet... is this analogous to the difference between a Task and a Thread in the .net world?
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by magic_haze 14y ago
Not really, though. If, for example, I could pinch to zoom out of the text, identify the parts I'm interested in, and zoom back in simultaneously on two different areas of the book side-by-side (using both hands, say) _that_ would be superi
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by magic_haze 14y ago
Personally, the most significant problem I've faced trying to use textbooks on e-readers is multitasking. Quite often, I want to refer to some information a few pages back, which, on a paper textbook, is dead simple: you just flip back and
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by magic_haze 14y ago
> and why you are sad to see it go. not the GP, but I highly doubt it's going to go anywhere. Mozilla's decision is just going to accelerate the arms race into more and more esoteric ways of tracking you... I'd heard about evercookie,

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