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by mhansen 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2871127
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by mhansen 15y ago
None at all?
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by mhansen 15y ago
Planet Money did a podcast the other day on exactly how the ratings are created. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/07/26/138721364/the-tues... TLDL: There's no algorithm. There's no one ratio you can look at. Analysts travel to the coun
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by mhansen 15y ago
G+ circles does allow overlap - both in people that are in circles, and when you share things you can choose to share it with multiple circles.
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by mhansen 15y ago
They do make it clear you're sharing with a wider audience. When you click the share button, G+ tells you: This post was originally shared with a limited audience – remember to be thoughtful about who you share it with. This is a s
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by mhansen 15y ago
The idea is that you can write your blog posts in your favorite coding editor instead of some web form. Some people find that easier - I certainly feel more at home in my editor.
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by mhansen 15y ago
Trivially false: See the approved ad for Facebook Ads on a Google search for 'advertising': http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=advertising
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by mhansen 15y ago
You might be interested in a side project of mine, that lets you visualise your last.fm listening history. I'm looking for feedback (and the touch of a designer) before I launch it. http://markhansen.co.nz/scatter.fm
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by mhansen 15y ago
No, Byobu is. https://launchpad.net/byobu
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by mhansen 15y ago
Smudges just aren't a big deal if the screen has a backlight.
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by mhansen 15y ago
They wouldn't be paid if they weren't worth the money they were getting; the customers would rather keep their money. Lawyers: Do I really need to explain that they perform an important, valuable role? Drug dealers: Can't say much here. Dru
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by mhansen 15y ago
Where's the evidence?
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by mhansen 15y ago
Any job that someone's willing to pay to have done - by paying for the job, they indicate that it's worth that much money, and hence at least as useful as that money was.
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by mhansen 15y ago
The US Government isn't some big monolithic entity with one goal, it's made up of many factions, each pulling in a different direction.
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by mhansen 15y ago
This isn't Anonymous.
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by mhansen 15y ago
It's premature optimization. The extra time taken for a scope lookup is completely insignificant compared to the network costs in loading the script. Perhaps if this was inside a tight inner loop, I could understand, but here it's completel
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by mhansen 15y ago
All those things you mention are exportable, and yahoo/msn/apple could write an importer against these APIs to make it easy.
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by mhansen 15y ago
You don't need to implement IPv6, but you do need to be prepared for any problems that may arise in your network when google, youtube and facebook start advertising AAAA records. Some companies running older software and older operating sys
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Remind HN: Your systems need to be ready for World IPv6 Day June 8th(worldipv6day.org)
5 points by mhansen 15y ago|3 comments
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by mhansen 15y ago
Please someone make this into a commandline utility that lets you pipe and query JSON around. My toolkit is missing a JSON slicer and splicer.
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by mhansen 15y ago
Where?
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by mhansen 15y ago
Yes, these aliases really help. Version control schemes like git reward frequent commits. Anything that lowers the barrier to a commit is good. Especially when you're under hard time pressure, commits can often fall by the wayside, unless t
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by mhansen 15y ago
That still won't work unless you escape the line endings. And you'll also need to escape single quotes.
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by mhansen 15y ago
jQuery JSON parser will delegate to JSON.parse where available, which doesn't have this problem. Using JSONP with jQuery, you have to directly eval() the response from the server, and you don't control what the server sends - it could send
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by mhansen 15y ago
No. Using JSONP, you are forced to directly eval() code from another domain - you can't just use a javascript library to change that code.
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by mhansen 15y ago
Not read, but I listen to NPR's Planet Money podcast
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by mhansen 15y ago
Why is the thread [dead]?
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by mhansen 15y ago
http://maps.google.co.nz/maps/place?cid=4194875824776890974&... No, Google Places is just for businesses. This is a business that the owner has publicly listed in the German Yellow Pages, under "Event Management" (you can see this in the
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by mhansen 15y ago
Invite only?
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by mhansen 16y ago
This person was a paying customer, and did get human support. From the article: We got back several emails explaining that they are very sorry, but while they are working on retrieving the file, they can’t promise any dates o

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