mtogo

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   by mtogo 15y ago

   > Repor­tedly, Google has been expe­ri­men­ting with this [hideable address bar] as well. FWIW, Firefox and Opera had this long before google started "experimenting" with it.
2. 212.▲
   by mtogo 15y ago

   > The Web, having just turned 20, shows signs of fatigue and its core technologies seem to be increasingly unable to cope with sophisticated attacks. Okay, wait, what ?
3. 213.▲
   by mtogo 15y ago

   Exactly, that's the point. Or a browser extension. Or various other fun things, see tptacek's conversation above.
4. 214.▲
   by mtogo 15y ago

   Okay..? What difference does that make?
5. 215.▲
   by mtogo 15y ago

   Except that the encryption is handled with javascript (obviously). I wouldn't use this for anything serious.
6. 216.▲
   by mtogo 15y ago

   Agreed. One of the things i liked about ruby-lang.org was the prominent display of demo code.
7. 217.▲
   by mtogo 15y ago

   Yeah, us smart, evolved Haskell users are so much more awesome than those dumb other guys.
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   by mtogo 15y ago

   From their demo test: Your test consists of 1 programming problem to be solved in Java, C++, C#, C, Javascript, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby or VB.NET,
9. 219.▲
   by mtogo 15y ago

   Looks cool, maybe i'll go solve a few of these. Please log in with google. Never mind.
10. 220.▲
    by mtogo 15y ago

    Which is great unless you have to deal with IE6 users :(.
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    by mtogo 15y ago

    In other words, they store every request you send, but it's okay because they only store geolocation data to identify you with.
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    by mtogo 15y ago

    It's really shocking and depressing to me how many court cases are being settled and laws are being passed by judges and congresspeople that know nothing about the subject matter.
13. 223.▲
    by mtogo 15y ago

    Relevant unix koan: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/gui-programmer....
14. 224.▲
    by mtogo 15y ago

    Trying to prevent the deletion of cookies used to uniquely identify and track their customers' users is ethical?
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    by mtogo 15y ago

    Mibbit is actually pretty good if you want to chat on IRC via a web browser.
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    by mtogo 15y ago

    Here's one i've seen linked around a lot, but never used myself: http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt I personally prefer Ghostery because it tells me exactly what was blocked and when.
17. 227.▲
    by mtogo 15y ago

    Aren't both groupon and livingsocial trying to "own the space"?
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    by mtogo 15y ago

    Sure, everything should be easy. The problem is, software development is difficult by nature. It's not the kind of thing you can pick up in a week or two and make an app with, and it probably never will be. There are things like App Invento
19. 229.▲
    by mtogo 15y ago

    Ghostery + AdBlock, no information about me.
20. 230.▲
    by mtogo 15y ago

    Namecheap sells RapidSSL certs for $10, StartSSL sells 1-year certs for $0.
21. 231.▲
    by mtogo 15y ago

    Fantastic!
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    by mtogo 15y ago

    That was a great read! I hate to nitpick, but this part caught my eye: I needed to fix about the site – SSL (even though all of the payments are secured through Stripe) . If the checkout page isn't loaded over SSL, my credit card number is
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    by mtogo 15y ago

    Or you could buy a Roku for $50 and be done with windows. Edit: $60, my bad.
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    by mtogo 15y ago

    I think it's for things like copyright claims. You upload something and you can prove that it's been there since whenever and that you haven't tampered with it.
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    by mtogo 15y ago

    How is this different from remote CMS systems like cushycms and pagelime?
26. 236.▲
    by mtogo 15y ago

    so that you don't get the mixed content warnings And so that, yunno, you don't compromise the entire page making the use of HTTPS completely worthless.
27. 237.▲
    by mtogo 15y ago

    Not everything is about releasing more often.
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    by mtogo 15y ago

    My biggest pet peeve about HN? The automatic assumption that if you're not looking to start your own company, you're a worthless idiot. Woah, didn't mean to imply that at all. I just used the "to start a company" bit because he had said t
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    by mtogo 15y ago

    You wouldn't expect a carpenter to say "I can both screw and unscrew screws from wood". Given that a huge number of professional programmers can't do the programming equivelant of screwing and unscrewing screws, that actually does make
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    by mtogo 15y ago

    Have you considered a drastic move to SF, NYC, Boston, or another startup hotspot? Ah yes, it's so easy to move when you can't even afford $100 to start a company. Great advice. Finding a job as a developer is actually not that hard, in