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by moeffju 17y ago
Greasemonkey Script Authors have been threatened before and they will continue to be threatened until one of them actually takes the threats to court (and wins). In the beginning of userscripts.org, I hosted the domain in Germany, which ope
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by moeffju 17y ago
There is the Levitation Project which attempts to port Mediawiki to a Git backend. It was spawned out of pretty much this very same discussion in the German Wikipedia. http://levit.at/ion/wiki/Main_Page
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by moeffju 17y ago
If you're using a serializer to write your document, it doesn't make any difference whether you serialize to XML or HTML. If you worry about where to put a '/', you should most likely be using a serializer instead of whatever you are doing.
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by moeffju 17y ago
It's not unprecedented at all. People know people. You just call up some mid-level or senior PayPal rep, if you know one - and I know plenty of people who do. If there's a media shitstorm brewing, PayPal will also be responsive - it's busin
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by moeffju 17y ago
This is only tangentially related to the original post, but the name eBay is not a case of e-prefixing, it's a shortening of "echo bay", because echobay.com was already taken.
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by moeffju 17y ago
Also, with newer phones, including the Nokia E72, E75, and the Motorola Milestone, there is absolutely no problem when switching over. Data connections don't drop a bit, voice isn't lagging or anything. I wonder if these people actually exp
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by moeffju 17y ago
You are right, of course, and I should have said "The singular of anecdotes isn't data, either" - the nexus reports obviously have a bunch of anecdotal "evidence" behind them :)
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by moeffju 17y ago
I was tempted to comment 'this isn't news to any of us', but it is a good summary of what Markdown does and what dialects there are. Unfortunately, it doesn't mention that Gruber basically abandoned Markdown and let it linger for months on
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by moeffju 17y ago
Repeat after me: The singular of anecdotes is not data.
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by moeffju 17y ago
The way I read the linked article, PayPal just don't list gun stores in their PayPal Shops portal.
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by moeffju 17y ago
Congratulations, Scott :)
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by moeffju 17y ago
It's a curious flash of light. Next question? (I suppose it's probably man-made or a case of St. Elmo's Fire, but the images and video are very bad quality.)
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by moeffju 17y ago
Slightly off-topic, but I find it confusing to display only the second-level domain for links in cases like this. "google.com" makes me expect something different than "sites.google.com". On a more related note, I enjoyed the yacoset site w
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by moeffju 17y ago
I think P meant steak, as you can use a piece of meat to trigger conductive switches...
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by moeffju 17y ago
(OT) I would have to upvote this even if it were only the regeXzibit pic.
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by moeffju 17y ago
The JS code was obviously unpacked/prettified. All internal vars have shortnames like B, C, D, etc. Everything that interacts with the outside has long names, as in the minified plurk code. Astonishing.
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by moeffju 17y ago
The link points to http://download.mozilla.org/?product=thunderbird-3.0 which is a redirector to the 'appropriate' platform version.
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by moeffju 17y ago
Yes indeed. How about having the meetup at the 26th Chaos Communications Congress (26C3), the week between Christmas and New Year's?
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by moeffju 17y ago
If you want universal uniqueness, 128 bit won't last you too long. The number of atoms in the universe is estimated to be around 10^80, so you'd need about 266 bits to address every single atom. Give it some headroom, go to 512 bits...
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by moeffju 17y ago
Of course it's possible. The question is, is it likely? Consider the sheer volume of search queries that hit Google. I find it unlikely that they could manually filter them, and I also find it unlikely that one could programmatically find t
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by moeffju 17y ago
Why do they even bother specifying Courier, instead of going straight to 'monospace'? At least that way, the user-defined monospace will be used, which might in the worst case still be Courier, but is more likely to be something sensible. (
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by moeffju 17y ago
The text explains how they create magnetite (by oxidizing iron). Also: How would you detect magnetic fields without magnetic material - i.e. magnets?
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by moeffju 17y ago
a.k.a "Politics & Economics - The Missing Manual" I'll be keeping this as a HOW-NOT-TO reference.
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by moeffju 17y ago
You're right, I messed that up when moving the domain. Fixed now. (Yes, the site is very silly.)
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by moeffju 18y ago
It is a major release of Scala, as the announcement states.
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by moeffju 18y ago
Honestly, I don't get what makes those minimal. Tumblelogs could be called minimal, or the original Google search page. If those are minimal, you can argue that all websites have only the necessary things on them and are thus minimal. I'm s
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by moeffju 18y ago
I can agree that teaching people how to code well is more important than teaching people the grammar of a computer language. Then again, that fact is supposedly pretty obvious, and yet the existing approaches to teaching programming or deve
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by moeffju 18y ago
Is that a relatively recent feature addition? The last case of a server expiring is about two years back.
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by moeffju 18y ago
Friends of me had it happen with web hosters, server housing and domain registrars. When they were just starting out and forgot to tell the provider to get the monies from their credit card, or whatever, they would just disconnect the serve
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by moeffju 18y ago
The advisory is up at http://oauth.net/advisories/2009-1 and the blogs are abuzz with more (or, in enough cases, less) information. Basically, the problem is that an attacker can keep a request token around and have the victim complete th

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