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by mustpax 15y ago
That wouldn't work, you can override the Object constructor in JavaScript as well. You have to prepend something like `while(1);` to the JSON responses you're returning.
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by mustpax 15y ago
Interesting footnote to this: when Maxwell first derived the relationship between electric current and magnetism he postulated the existence of a fixed medium, aether , through which light travels at a constant speed. For a while measuring
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by mustpax 15y ago
To be fair, it's less that we're in a negative tree and more that we're not adding value to the discussion.
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by mustpax 15y ago
Let me add some nitpicking to complete the obnoxious HN trifecta. The proper ortographic representation of etc is &c. In fact, that's where the ampersand comes from (think ligature form of Et ).
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by mustpax 15y ago
This really captures the core difference between the two languages. C++ is overly versatile to the point of being cumbersome whereas Obj-C imposes sensible limitations for the sake of handling the common use cases much better.
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by mustpax 15y ago
Signal strength drops with the square of the distance so it matters quite a bit how far you're holding the device.
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by mustpax 15y ago
As flawed as the DMCA is, it does a pretty good job of protecting the service providers themselves. They need to implement a timely DMCA takedown process but that's about it. They can still be sued but, to my understanding, mostly through s
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by mustpax 15y ago
Don't forget its cousin: "on a mobile computing device."
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by mustpax 15y ago
The reporter's really bending over backwards trying to play the "but what does it mean for cloud computing?!" card even though PSN got breached despite being hosted by Sony on their own servers. Amazon got a black eye because people can c
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Blind fish in dark caves shed light on the evolution of sleep(empiricalzeal.wordpress.com)
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by mustpax 15y ago
On the contrary, there is plenty of desire build cross platform applications on the web as evidenced by this article. How would this developer sticking to Sencha/Phonegap against contrary evidence improve the web for others?
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by mustpax 15y ago
Do you just port forward with SSH via -D? Or do you use some sort of VPN solution?
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by mustpax 15y ago
Does any part of Skype run as root? It really shouldn't but I wouldn't put it past that piece of turd.
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by mustpax 15y ago
Sorry I accidentally downvoted you. That's actually a funny story. Maybe I should be browsing HN logged out to prevent such mishaps.
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by mustpax 15y ago
No, the owner of the car is not always liable for the ticket. Car rental companies will not pay fines you accrue just because they are the legal owners of the car. The dog ownership analogy has even less merit. A dog is not a sane person in
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by mustpax 16y ago
Dropbox will transparently sync a folder on your computer which makes it as integrated with the OS as your local file system. How much more integration do you need? Are there some system calls that the Darwin kernel could implement to make
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by mustpax 16y ago
Perception of bias is sufficient reason judges to recuse themselves. The article is claiming that the perception of bias is indisputable and an actual conflict of interest, considering she benefitted financially as a lobbyist, might exist
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by mustpax 16y ago
Any programming language's flaws can be made up for by sufficient skill and discipline on the part of the developers. That does not make those flaws any less real.
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A Rocket To Nowhere(idlewords.com)
1 points by mustpax 16y ago|0 comments
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by mustpax 16y ago
It's a matter of cost vs. benefit. Designing an iPhone peripheral that has built-in crypto is extremely expensive (or any embedded system with strong crypto for that matter), especially if the information you're trying to protect is printed
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by mustpax 16y ago
This looks like a useful utility but also underscores a problem with Ext/Sencha. Namely that it is a tad overengineered and does not work well with other tools in the web development ecosystem. Ext's giant widget library creates and manages
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by mustpax 16y ago
It's actually the other way around. Night shots are harder to pull off well since the effects of individual light sources are much more pronounced. In this video, they are trying to showcase a number of different light sources, reflections,
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by mustpax 16y ago
Am I reading this right that there is absolutely no HTML escaping for app descriptions on the Android Market? Seriously Google, like none?
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by mustpax 16y ago
RIM App World is hardly "where it counts" when it comes to mobile app distribution. It's a distant third after the iPhone and Android markets. Blackberry has a significant lead with the BBM but the market is growing fast enough that they mi
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by mustpax 16y ago
Well, that claim is completely disingenuous. In reality MPEG-LA oversees licensing for a set of known codecs, the most prominent being H.264. When a somewhat-viable competitor comes to town they just claim they own the competitor and theref
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by mustpax 16y ago
But the group says it isn't acting to kill a competitor. It said it's simply offering a service for patent holders and is agnostic about which video format prevails. "We are effectively a convenience store" for licensing patents, said Larr
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by mustpax 16y ago
Apologies for being overly harsh. Seeing content tailored to hit the front page on HN is a bit of a sensitive spot, I understand there was no malice in your choice of title. I do love your idea, hope it sees the light of day.
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by mustpax 16y ago
I call it a marketing ploy because "Show HN" carries a strong implication that an existing product is being showcased. This implication is being used to drive click-throughs. This is a beautiful landing page and the author is clearly a very
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by mustpax 16y ago
I don't mind this sort of marketing most of the time. I do mind that you're abusing "Show HN." People generally use this "tag" to ask for advice which is so generously offered here. By using it as a part of your marketing ploy you're reduci
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by mustpax 16y ago
But once you do launch it, everything is faster than it would have been if you were performing full page loads at each step. For sites you "live" in, the application route makes a lot of sense. This is the way GMail works and people seem to

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