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by mtogo 15y ago
In other words: Programming, motherfucker.
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by mtogo 15y ago
If you have a typical Java programmer and typical C++ programmer, each with a few years experience writing a typical Object Oriented Program, and you give them the same amount of time, the Java programmer is likely to have a working progra
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by mtogo 15y ago
It's just a real shame that the reputation of a really cool company rests on that level of exchange between folks. Yeah, what a shame that completely fucking over one of your customers is enough to damage your reputation.
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by mtogo 15y ago
Fantastic about adding the SSL. Just a note though: Without having SSL on the checkout page, i could MITM one of your users and replace that javascript on your page with my own potentially malicious javascript. Looks like a great product an
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by mtogo 15y ago
From what i gather it's basically just an evercookie. Block kissmetrics with a host file, firewall, Ghostery (Not the chrome version, though), RequestPolicy, etc or defeat evercookie through usual means and you'll be fine.
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by mtogo 15y ago
I’m sorry what? To make the phone work right I have to possibly void the warranty or brick the phone and load a customized operating system? To be fair, that's pretty much what you need to do with an iPhone, too.
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by mtogo 15y ago
Normally i hate "This" posts, but HN does not display my upvote, so i'm writing this comment to reiterate how important this is. This is the right way to do it. Paramaterize your queries, do not ever use string concatenation to generate S
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by mtogo 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2812503
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by mtogo 15y ago
In related news, Dropbox employees were surprised to find that the new building's locks could be opened with any key and that despite the landlord's Terms of Service, janitors and other building staff can in fact open and view private con
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by mtogo 15y ago
It's not news, HN has only ever been about 50% news, the other half are just interesting links. Sure, i get annoyed every time the 500-mile email or more magic or some other classic story gets reposted, but that's what HN is about-- every t
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by mtogo 15y ago
Glad to know that gmail and other google products won't be lost if this happens to you. It's still a ludicrous policy, though; something I'd expect from microsoft of facebook. I'm not sure why google is so hell-bent on enforcing it.
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by mtogo 15y ago
Wow, TIL dual 2GHz, 4GB RAM and 160GB of storage is "reasonably spec-ed". I use half that and i love it, i don't even know what i'd do with more.
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by mtogo 15y ago
Over the long term I'd say work towards the tablet environment because that's where the action is going to be No. Avoid cramming the latest shiny fad down the kid's brain for now.
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by mtogo 15y ago
So shadowban them instead. The kind of people who would allow their system to be compromised are not the kind of people who would care or notice if their +1's didn't count.
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by mtogo 15y ago
I agree with you 100%, especially on the "It just works" point, but you're wrong on the "friends let friends login" thing. As far as i know, no other OS allows me to log into someone else's computer and get the exact same experience i have
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by mtogo 15y ago
An improvement from their last design, but i really don't think it matters. I've spent maybe 15 minutes total of my life on USPS's homepage. What they really need to work on is their package tracking[1], which basically has two states: deli
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by mtogo 15y ago
Yes, you are indeed the only person that matters.
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by mtogo 15y ago
I see this like a phpMyAdmin on asteroids for rack apps. Dear christ, please do not ever put this near production.
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by mtogo 15y ago
Who runs an internet-accessible development machine? Maybe I give the rest of the dev world too much credit. I apologize for not having an underground cold war bunker with which to develop my software on. Until i get one, I'll stick with
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by mtogo 15y ago
"We store the notes encrypted in a way that only the sender and receiver know how to decrypt, which means we cannot read the notes sent through Privnote." Sigh .
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by mtogo 15y ago
From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation.
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by mtogo 15y ago
There is more to the concept of free speech than one country's law. Americans that thing that "free speech" is conceptually the same as the first amendment make me want to bang my head against a wall.
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by mtogo 15y ago
You're looking too much into my phrasing. I don't expect someone to just sit down and write the same program over and over. The point is for them to come up with problems they want solved, and solve that problem with code. Thinking about th
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by mtogo 15y ago
This advice is mostly not harmful, but the most important thing a newbie programmer can do is actually just code. Just sit down and write some code. That's it.
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by mtogo 15y ago
From the Guidelines: Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter.
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by mtogo 15y ago
I'm not sure if you're joking. I'm going to, for my own sanity, pretend that you are joking.
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by mtogo 15y ago
Alternate title: 5 things everone already does with dropbox.
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by mtogo 15y ago
#startups on irc.freenode.net is HN's irc channel, for one.
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by mtogo 15y ago
That was actually my first thought when i saw spolsky's tweet.
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by mtogo 15y ago
"Everyone look, <New, unproven technology> will replace <Popular, proven technology>!" The problem is it never does actually replace the proven technology. Makes for a good blog post, though.

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