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by mirkules 15y ago
"For a start, I dont think we should be second guessing their design" Really? I guess you are right that this conversation is over. I'm sorry, but Lifehacker is not the end-all-be-all design mecca of the 21st century, quite the contrary, in
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by mirkules 15y ago
-click search, it drops down a search bar without reloading the page. Fast, nice. I posit that the search bar should be static, that is, always visible. It actually took me a while to find out that I was supposed to click the little magnify
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by mirkules 15y ago
"If you can't access a website because Javascript is turned off, then I think you are overcomplicating things anyway." Take Lifehacker as an example: http://lifehacker.com/ What about their content requires JavaScript? Absolutely nothing.
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by mirkules 15y ago
Cool, thanks for the link. If I understood correctly from your article, supernodes are basically Skype clients that act as distributed servers used for discovery of other clients. But I imagine authentication has to happen against a Skype s
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by mirkules 15y ago
While I congratulate Skype on reaching 40M simultaneous users, I am somewhat disappointed that there was no mention of how the 40M people can stay online without melting Skype's servers. Some architectural insight would have been nice from
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by mirkules 15y ago
The discussion is about two different things: 1. The amount of money offered for the author's work 2. Imploring others to not take "lowball" offers in order to preserve a certain pricing/business model. Regarding #1: Everyone is allowed to
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by mirkules 15y ago
What you describe is politics in a capitalist society. An argument can't be won on morality alone anymore - there must be strong financial incentive at play. Personally, I am at least glad that there is an "out" of this mess, however low th
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by mirkules 15y ago
If you worked in a "traditional" corporate environment, you would know why it's offensive. General rule of thumb is, don't say it if you wouldn't say it to your mother. I certainly wouldn't say that to my mother. Edit: to elaborate, corpora
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by mirkules 15y ago
I'll second news.yahoo.com. It's better than Google's layout, and you can dive right into subregions of the world to get more specific world news. Also, nba.yahoo.com has a better layout than nba.com itself for following stats and even foll
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by mirkules 15y ago
Netflix doesn't let you connect over a data connection, IIRC. Well, unless you're tethering, but then you're killing your tethering device's data usage...
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by mirkules 15y ago
Kforce, also. Many people I know have had great success through them.
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by mirkules 15y ago
Huh, I didn't know he went all the way to the Supreme Court. I figured everyone should know George Carlin, but I added the NSFW, just in case people had their speakers up in the office (like I almost did - even though I'm a huge fan, it jus
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by mirkules 15y ago
I remember this stand up, which was actually before 9/11. He goes on in that standup to say here are lethal items you can take on board: "a knife, an icepick, a chainsaw... and the only thing they'll tell you is that you have to fit it unde
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by mirkules 15y ago
Indeed, as Aaron above mentioned, ARC doesn't absolve the programmer of the responsibility of proper memory management, it's just less overhead to have to worry about.
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by mirkules 15y ago
Well, you don't have to "unlearn" it. It's actually a good thing you went through the "pain" of learning it pre-ARC because if you understand how reference counting actually works, you will be able to make better and more informed decisions
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by mirkules 15y ago
To me the hardest thing is the seemingly arbitrary CG functions in Quartz2D and why they're so interspersed throughout the code. If I'm writing within the UIKit most of the time, and then have to make my own UIView for some custom drawing,
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by mirkules 15y ago
A word of caution with ARC -- you still have to release certain things manually, for example CGImageRefs with CFRelease if you're doing any sort of image manipulation.
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by mirkules 15y ago
I love the slang in the different languages. Some of it is pretty accurate, from the ones I understand :)
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by mirkules 15y ago
I think the page is actually streaming music from somewhere because I sat through two unique songs already. That is actually even cooler if it's streaming! Edit: It seems I'm wrong, closing the page reopened at the same song as in the begin
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by mirkules 15y ago
Bell Labs immediately comes to mind.
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by mirkules 15y ago
Besides your point with which I agree (and am saddened by), the point of this community is to stimulate our collective minds, discuss ideas we wouldn't normally think of. Evolution is one such topic of conversation -- what evolutionary trai
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“You are in control” Google's Schmidt says. “These devices have an off button”(slashgear.com)
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by mirkules 15y ago
"Forbidding unhappiness isn't going to make everyone happy." This is one hell of a quote! It's going up on my cube wall (seriously) I personally don't have a problem with being shot down with a good argument, but the problem that leads to "
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by mirkules 15y ago
I realized in myself that the number 3 tool of "Turn Complaints into Solutions", with the intent to "eliminate the kind of mindless complaining that doesn't serve a greater purpose and allow compalining that is justified and worthwhle [sic]
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by mirkules 15y ago
That was actually my first thought after reading this. Chances are, people in public wifi spots will actively and aggressively ignore any and all warnings that get in the way of them getting their work done (I have witnessed this far too ma
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by mirkules 15y ago
Thanks for that link. Reading through one of the first sections about pushing parameters to the stack, I noticed the call: gcc -S -o example1.s example1.c However, example1.s looks very different on Mac than on Linux, in particular, on Mac
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by mirkules 15y ago
My first thought before I realized you could actually see the php code, was that it was some kind of sanitizing input exploit, maybe SQL injection (with the name or age) or, since the HTML input fields had "length" to go over that. Once I f
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by mirkules 15y ago
I love all the different responses on this -- I used OWASP ZAP to do it.
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by mirkules 15y ago
I mostly live inside a Java world or XCode world, so GDB is almost a totally foreign concept to me - and I definitely welcome the challenge. Never really had to look at assembly before either, so this is a fun learning experience.
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by mirkules 15y ago
I'd love to see how people solved #2, and if they used any special tools like I did or if there's an easier way to do it. And I can't wait to delve deeper into #3 tomorrow :)

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