mithaler

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by mithaler 15y ago
Well, not just that. I imagine browsers implementing keyboard shortcuts that automatically go to the next or previous pages.
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by mithaler 15y ago
Can someone explain to me exactly what the advantage is of hiding the menu bar contents behind mouseover?
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Ubuntu 11.10 (so far) Screenshot Tour(jonobacon.org)
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by mithaler 15y ago
Social capital ... has not disappeared. It is alive and well and can be found in churches, synagogues and other places of worship. Religious people, he discovered, make better neighbors and citizens. They are more likely to give to charity
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by mithaler 15y ago
I play board games, many of which have an auction mechanic. It's not uncommon in such a game to bid on something to prevent everyone else from getting it and using it against you. Why wouldn't the same thing happen in the real world, where
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by mithaler 15y ago
I don't understand your comment. The OP is about Android being attacked through patents instead of through innovation, and you don't seem to be denying that that's what's happening. The article doesn't claim that "Google is always good", no
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by mithaler 15y ago
I will take this statement seriously when you start arguing for a specifically exclusionary "black-only basketball league" on this basis.
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by mithaler 15y ago
That's what these YC-funded guys are trying to do: http://www.hackruiter.com/ They advertise to engineers, have them code FizzBuzz on the signup page, etc. I recently found a job through them, so naturally I recommend them.
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by mithaler 15y ago
I used to use it heavily, but I stopped when I moved to Chrome, since at the time it didn't have Chrome support and even now it feels hacky. Worth noting that SU traffic may be unusually low-engagement, since I would think it's likely a use
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by mithaler 15y ago
As nice as pacman is, I haven't had good experiences with the AUR. It's possible that I'm just terrible at choosing the right scripts (recipes?), but I haven't been able to get anything to work from an AUR installation, and any AUR script t
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by mithaler 15y ago
I have a friend who once spent an entire month logging in every morning and setting his birthday to the current day. And yes, he did get many, many erroneous birthday wishes from people who didn't notice anything was up. As for me, I don't
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by mithaler 15y ago
I'm willing to put an educated guess as to the reasoning behind such a design choice: Amazon has found through research that they possess sufficient mindshare that their customers all know what they sell and how to reach it, and they don't
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by mithaler 15y ago
It's just having a strong negotiating position. It sounds to me like Nokia doesn't want to be "just another Android phone maker". They want to differentiate, and to do that they want Google to do more for them than their other partners (lik
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by mithaler 15y ago
I hadn't known much about Ada other than that it's very old (as programming languages go) and it has a kind of nonspecific bad reputation, but I looked it up on Wikipedia and it actually doesn't look like an unpleasant language at all from
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by mithaler 15y ago
Careful. Sony's figures for PSN user count are worldwide , and a large percentage of Sony's market is in Japan alone. The CSN appears to be USA and Canada only.
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by mithaler 15y ago
Yes, these were in use back when I was in high school (I graduated in 2005); I remember I wrote a paper in a history class about Winston Churchill, and it amusingly flagged the first sentence of it because it was just the basic biographica
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by mithaler 15y ago
For what it's worth, at my college it was taken pretty seriously, and professors absolutely did have the power to fail students for it. The About page sadly doesn't say where he teaches beyond "Giant Public University in the South", which
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by mithaler 15y ago
As much as these suck, I can tell you from working on corporate sites that this is often done for security compliance. One site we're working on now has about four different conditions that can expire a session earlier than the user might e
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by mithaler 16y ago
That's not necessarily a change in the codebase, that could be the system learning from associations in queries and results it gets over time (something I know Google does and has for years, at least).
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by mithaler 16y ago
> Now carriers need to talk to Rubin and tell him what their plans are. That is not correct. Carriers need to talk to Rubin and tell him what their plans are in order to gain early access to the source code . The source code will still
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by mithaler 16y ago
What exactly is he attacking Google for here? Is it the fact that they're buying patents and feeding into a dysfunctional system? He seems to acknowledge that Google needs a large patent portfolio in order to defend itself from others, so i
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by mithaler 16y ago
I imagine this can happen anywhere, US or otherwise.
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by mithaler 16y ago
Eventually, every possible functionality in Ruby gets pared down to a "micro" or "lightweight" library or three.
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by mithaler 16y ago
Your comment got me thinking. (The best kind of comment.) My first thought on reading it was: is that equivalence valid? A society is a collective; a collective functions at the behest of its members. My experience of human nature suggests
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by mithaler 16y ago
We were bitten by EBS' slowness at my company recently, when moving an existing project to AWS. You effectively can't get decent performance off of a single EBS volume with PostgreSQL; you need to set up 10 or so of them and make a software
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by mithaler 16y ago
While one-way encryption would be the obvious way to properly handle it, there is a need in this project for customer support to be able to see the answers to secret questions to verify them over the phone. And if we're automating that, the
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by mithaler 16y ago
I'm working for a client right now that's requiring us to collect no less than three "shared secrets" from users who are signing up to buy a product. I can't imagine they'd have less than a 90% dropoff at that point in the sale process. Oh,
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by mithaler 16y ago
On that note, Python's style guide, PEP 8, contains this: "Python coders from non-English speaking countries: please write your comments in English, unless you are 120% sure that the code will never be read by people who don't speak your la
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by mithaler 16y ago
Speak for yourself. I see no need to "deal with" your perceived differences in the way men and women relate to families, if that has not been my experience.
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by mithaler 16y ago
Contrary to his claims, his test case seems to work mostly fine in Chrome 10.0.648.127 (beta) for me. I haven't tried the dev channel version though. Firefox doesn't appear to be working well at all, in either 3.6.16pre or 4.0b13 (but those

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