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by mustpax 17y ago
Well, if so why did they let the awesome Amazon Kindle App onto the App Store? If they had any serious competitive plans they would not have given such crucial foothold to Amazon on their dear walled garden. Apple is quite shameless about l
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by mustpax 18y ago
The search probably runs off a separate full-text index in their back-end (an inverted index if you will). When people post public tweets these probably get enqueued to be added to the index, so they will be included in search. They just ne
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by mustpax 18y ago
Very revealing. I stopped using NoScript a while ago since it would not properly whitelist some sites. At the time I was wondering why the plugin was updated so frequently with very similar change logs each time. This post explains why. Int
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by mustpax 18y ago
The main reason people don't want to put the output format into the URL is that URLs are supposed to represent canonical consumer-independent foreign keys in REST. If you want to put the output format into the URL, I like the .json .xml ext
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by mustpax 18y ago
I guess so. I don't know if I would take time to subscribe to all the people that interest me on Facebook though, since I already have, you know, Twitter. One thing I like about the Facebook feed is that I can narrow it down to just Links/V
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by mustpax 18y ago
Compared to Twitter, the quality of my Facebook feed is absolutely horrendous. I don't really want updates from all my Facebook contacts, and removing people from my feed is just not cutting it. I can be much more selective about my interes
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by mustpax 18y ago
Yes I do. I'd say causality, while not a term of art, still is valid. "Commutative" on the hand is plain wrong, thanks for the correction.
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by mustpax 18y ago
Let's play with a little bit of symbolic logic. Near the end of the article the founders talk say, if your life falls apart then you can't count that as success. Well, you need a little bit of revenue for your life to not fall apart. We can
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by mustpax 18y ago
Apple dropped PowerPC, Sparc's on the way out. You may now officially add RISC CPU's to the list of technologies that everyone in academia love, and the market couldn't care less about. One of my first hardware architecture projects was des
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by mustpax 18y ago
Am I the only one who sees the irony in the Digg bait title for an article about Digg bait articles? Or, is it intentionally ironic? I must be getting old, I can't tell anymore.
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by mustpax 18y ago
The spyware itself is boring as it just collects IP addresses and similar info. What is interesting, on the other hand, is that the payload is delivered through a single page view. Either FBI is using 0-day exploits or has other "understand
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by mustpax 18y ago
My annual performance review includes a category for "staying on top of recent developments in web development and software engineering." In light of that, I would not call Hacker News my personal reading agenda.
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by mustpax 18y ago
IE does not support the <canvas> tag. There are some work-arounds for this, I don't believe this page uses any of those.
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Canvas Visualizations of Sorting Algorithms(nihilogic.dk)
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by mustpax 18y ago
I can see how someone might turn your external style sheets off, but an inline style="display:none" attribute is not going to be ignored by any browsers. What's so inaccessible about that?
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by mustpax 18y ago
If you're embedding the HTML inside the document at render time, why not just render it straight up without the comments? If you want the HTML fragment to appear only when JavaScript is present, include style="display: none" at first, and s
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by mustpax 18y ago
I'm not saying you're wrong, but can you provide some supporting material when making such broad generalizations about cultures? Are there any sociological studies that back up these findings? Are you talking about any particular region of
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by mustpax 18y ago
The questionable ethics of scapegoating aside, comparing Twitter's scalability issues with a misguided feature is particularly pointless. If you wanted to blame someone for a feature (if you're into that sort of thing), you could either go
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by mustpax 18y ago
Being framed can also expose you to clickjacking attacks. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickjacking ) If your site is mostly read-only then clickjacking doesn't really matter. But it's good practice to break frames around your site if you
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by mustpax 18y ago
>>> It turns out that most of the New Zealand ISPs have restricted SMTP access to prevent spam. Is this true? Do New Zealand ISPs block all connections to SMTP servers? If so, this is quite outrageous and would solve nothing. Re
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by mustpax 18y ago
Extending Vim really is a pain if you're trying to stay within Vim. Your best bet is to rely on piping output to other shell utilities to get the desired behavior. :r!cmd reads output of given command into current file. After selecting a se
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by mustpax 18y ago
This is a cool idea. The host name in the URL goes a long way. But there's still some trickery that could be used with redirection, e.g. "I'm Feeling Lucky" Google URLs and the like. Also most malicious URLs will include the payload in the
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by mustpax 18y ago
Agreed, pretty clever way of getting some serious penetration testing done. By the way, apparently this snippet does the trick: @rubx f = Hash.new {|h,k| h[k] = h[k-1]+h[k-2]};f[0]=1;f[1]=1;f[1000000] It looks like it calculates the
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by mustpax 18y ago
It's my understanding that the video tag will support arbitrary back-end video processors. There's no reason that the video stream cannot be encrypted with some DRM scheme that's decrypted by the backend. Please correct me if I'm wrong abou
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by mustpax 18y ago
It's funny how everyone's first instinct is to try to "hack" it. Check out all the replies, everyone's trying out infinite loops, shell commands, fork bobs, sandbox breakers. Freedom to tinker all the way!
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by mustpax 18y ago
When the hacker is demoing DOOM to his friends, there's something really endearing about the way he points out all the bugs. When you really, really care about something you can't help but notice all the details, and want to make it perfect
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by mustpax 18y ago
There's a reason this is a coordinated effort. No single newspaper would want to lose the incoming traffic from Google News, people would just go read from their competitors article. If they all act together, then A.P. thinks they might get
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by mustpax 18y ago
I think you have valid concerns Daniel. But I would encourage you make generous use of the block and unfollow functionalities. There are plenty of people on Twitter vying for your attention, don't give those who abuse it any more of it. Tha
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by mustpax 18y ago
I sort of agree, Craigslist is written in Perl, and it has to be a perfect example of a spartan get-the-job done sort of site. That said, the analogy made me smile. Perl really is one of those languages, that by learning, you only learn Per
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by mustpax 18y ago
As one senior developer put it to me once: "legacy is the stuff that already works." One question though, why silicon? I understand why you'd consider all the other ones obsolete, but what modern alternative is there to silicon based integr

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