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by mckoss 16y ago
Yes, we have our own user validation system (a challenge/response protocol). We actually validate you on the pageforest.com domain, and then transfer a session cookie to your application - so your app never sees the user password/secret. I
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by mckoss 16y ago
Oops. Thanks - I'll correct that. Any elaboration on why this service would or would not appeal to you?
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Would you build a pure client-side JavaScript App using Pageforest?(pageforest.com)
15 points by mckoss 16y ago|41 comments
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by mckoss 16y ago
Isn't it amazing that we can be talking about "when" monetiization rolls around after Twitter has past 175 million users?
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by mckoss 16y ago
FTI - here's the Twitter developer group post: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/brow... It seems stronger than merely a "recommendation" to me. They flatly state that new apps may not replicate the mainstream Twitt
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by mckoss 16y ago
Isn't this exactly what Twitter said they DON'T want to see (replacement clients using the Twitter API). Is TweetDeck just "grandfathered in"?
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by mckoss 16y ago
But there is no evidence to show any sort of causal cross over between the two. You can wave your hands, and say that "obviously" people didn't understand X until we had Y - but there is no historical reference being made to support this c
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by mckoss 16y ago
There are an increasing class of mobile application that don't need native support at all - they just want to have platform-conforming UI. jQuery mobile, JQTouch, and Sencha Touch are examples of these platforms that require only HTML + Ja
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by mckoss 16y ago
There's a difference between reading it and accepting it. More and more people are moving away from JSLint because of the Cry Wolf syndrome - real errors hidden in a sea of warnings based only on the "opinion" that they tend to be harmful
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by mckoss 16y ago
Reminds me of Wired magazine - made by designers so disdainful of their readers that they decide to make it unreadable (like setting pink text on a green background). When I see a site like this I get the message - GO AWAY - and comply.
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by mckoss 16y ago
Does HN have an independent revenue model? Is there enough revenue to support hiring editors here? Arn'te we all just free riding on PG's beneficence?
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by mckoss 16y ago
And it was only after the invention of the telegraph that we understood that our nerves carry messages, just like wires. When we look back through history, we can see that a lot of different stories all turn out to be stories about informa
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by mckoss 16y ago
Fair enough. I was just a bit surprised by the effusive comments on this thread when my experience was quite the opposite. For my money, I've much more enjoyed the writings of Martin Gardner, or Bill Bryson.
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by mckoss 16y ago
Active angels will typically have seen many deals, in the hundreds for people who have been doing Angel investing for more than a couple of years. I think it much more likely that an entrepreneur who is not able to get his business opportu
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by mckoss 16y ago
Why did you find Chaos to be wonderful? I found many inaccuracies when I read it. Seemed more like a fluff piece designed to ride a popular wave about the topic at the time it came out.
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by mckoss 16y ago
I didn't like Chaos or Feynman - and haven't read Gleick since. I find his type of popular science writing to be imprecise and even inaccurate.
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by mckoss 16y ago
The key benefit can be had with monkey patching as well: - Publishing a new solution and making it available. The packaging is not ideal, as setup and configuration of the lib+patch will not be as simple as pulling a modified lib. But thin
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by mckoss 16y ago
Actually, it's more like a whitelist - much easier to maintain if they really want to explicitly approve inbound link sites.
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by mckoss 16y ago
This was a fun (and distracting) challenge. After a lot of iterations, I' think I've squeezed about as much compression and performance as I can. You can play with the Trie/DAWG generator here: http://lookups.pageforest.com Source and f
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by mckoss 16y ago
I will generally have an "imports" type line at the top of my module, and then use the abbreviated name in the code. This is similar to Python's "from module import name" pattern. var library = namespace.com.foo.bar.baz; ...
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by mckoss 16y ago
Update: I added a project web site with a FAQ here: http://mckoss.github.com/namespace/
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by mckoss 16y ago
Since I want this evangelize this to others, making a full repo lets me put in a nice read me, make it clear the license is in the public domain, and also provide unit tests.
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by mckoss 16y ago
I wish there was more uniformity with the way JavaScript libraries manage the global namespace. So, I stripped down the library I use to the bare essentials, and made it a stand-alone open source (public domain) project. I'm hoping that by
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Show HN: namespace.js - a 250 byte open source project.(github.com)
9 points by mckoss 16y ago|10 comments
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by mckoss 16y ago
On the INTERNET, of course! And my kids are grown...
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by mckoss 16y ago
Enquiring minds need to know - and I just happened to have a Uranium sample and Geiger counter in the house.
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Does tinfoil stop radiation? A HN reader's experiment.(youtube.com)
5 points by mckoss 16y ago|3 comments
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by mckoss 16y ago
In the age of git and hg, why is a fork such a big deal? Code can still flow fluidly between multiple forks of a project with almost no friction. Some amount of forking is probably healthy in the long run, allowing a different part of the
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by mckoss 16y ago
Awesome! Even works on an iPad. And if you like this, check out this other amazing bookmarklet game: http://erkie.github.com/
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I've been running social bookmarking service Faves.com for a couple of years. We had to cut our team as we were not making enough money to support it. This year we've actually been cutting features to emphasize performance. I'd like to tr

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