michaelcgorman

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by michaelcgorman 16y ago
Just a tiny, trivial, aesthetic/grammar change: on http://captainobvio.us/auth/login you say "Login to Captain Obvious". I'd change that to "Log in …".
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by michaelcgorman 16y ago
Looks like hashbangs mess up the counting; e.g. http://graph.facebook.com/http://www.twitter.com/ and http://graph.facebook.com/http://www.twitter.com/#!michaelcg...
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by michaelcgorman 16y ago
I've started using Celsius in my everyday life. As an American, it's not the easiest thing to do, but I'm used to that from my use of the 24-hour clock and the metric system (even my car is in km/h). I prefer Celsius because it seems much l
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by michaelcgorman 16y ago
I use a CR-48 for email/Twitter/Facebook/HN/etc., and everything else when I'm not at home.
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by michaelcgorman 16y ago
I spent two summers interning at a giant insurance company (no self-installed software was allowed anywhere on the network). In 2008, everyone in the entire company was forced to use IE6. In 2009, they had transitioned to IE7 and developers
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by michaelcgorman 16y ago
Handling of special characters could use some improvement. For instance, "Hello" (no quotes) has her in her underwear, but with "<H;>/", she still has pants on. That said, this site is more about the presentation than the algorithmi
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by michaelcgorman 16y ago
Apparently Plan S is to do all of them.
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by michaelcgorman 16y ago
SDCH looks to be going after a similar problem, but it would cache the templates between browsing sessions rather than just among consecutive pageviews. I'm not sure how well it would work for AJAX-y sites which rely on maintaining Javascri
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by michaelcgorman 16y ago
Another idea could be to include the separator character as part of the attribute (e.g. zone="profile:" or zonechar=":"). I'm not a huge fan of imposing mandatory URL structure, either, but I chose the colon since it is already valid and it
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by michaelcgorman 16y ago
All pushState does, AFAIK, is add things to your browsing history; it alone doesn't affect the content you receive. It does, however, make it possible (for recent browsers with JS enabled) to use the back button to navigate through AJAX-ed
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by michaelcgorman 16y ago
I've been playing around with this idea for a while, and given this week's context, I figured I might as well throw it out there. My main questions for HN are: (a) is this a good idea, (b) do you see any big pitfalls I'm overlooking, and (c
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An idea for getting rid of the hashbang problem(michaelcgorman.net)
4 points by michaelcgorman 16y ago|7 comments
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by michaelcgorman 16y ago
What happens if I have more than one email address and my crush enters a different one than I did?
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by michaelcgorman 16y ago
I like the http:/ typo. It really shows how unfamiliar the general public was with the internet just fifteen years ago.
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by michaelcgorman 16y ago
I think he's suggesting a genetic algorithm... Google-style organisms, competing for fewest retried searches, most-different front-page results, etc., that over time merge and split in various ways. Seems pretty similar to some of the tacti
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by michaelcgorman 16y ago
To me, this story was interesting to HN not because Google was commenting, but because Vint Cerf was. When he writes about Internet governance, I listen. The UN forms committees and working groups all the time; I'm not going to sign a pet
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Governments shouldn’t have a monopoly on Internet governance(googleblog.blogspot.com)
181 points by michaelcgorman 16y ago|53 comments