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by nhebb 13y ago
That was a difficult article for me to follow. I kept getting sidetracked by the feeling that it was just speculation built on speculation, and then confirmed by speculation. Besides, even if Gates did step down, I have to wonder how much i
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by nhebb 13y ago
"If you make a big show of punishing someone, and when you're done they still don't think they have a behavior problem, you probably picked the wrong punishment. Every parent on earth knows this implicitly – but does the Oba
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> Most legitimate Websites will not use hidden or obfuscated JavaScript, and few will redirect users without authorization, he explained. What? This was addressed on reddit [1]: Since I'm the person who submitted this data f
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I'll see your Wikipedia link and raise you one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_dimensions_of_quality When you're getting shot at and your life depends on being able to shoot back, reliability trumps all o
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by nhebb 13y ago
I think the answer is simple - the Governor of Kentucky took an active role in the project and assigned someone that you can actually pinpoint to be in charge of it. Contrast this to the federal site, where it's difficult to tell who w
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by nhebb 13y ago
I'll be the guy who links to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system... The Wikipedia page summarizes the data from Net Applications (the data source for the article), Stat Counter
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by nhebb 13y ago
I imagine that since part of the customer base is underage, the illegal market will still exist.
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Two ways: 1. Pen and paper for daily tasks. 2. A desktop app I wrote for personal use that helps me track intermittent tasks / projects. It's more geared toward tracking train of thought than tasks, though.
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> Am I missing anything? You can embed javascript in the NimbleText substitution pattern, which lets you go beyond just matching and replacement.
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> "NimbleText - Regular Expressions are hard and I'm not very smart. NimbleText lets me do crazy stuff with large amounts of text with it hurting so much [sic]." In case it's unclear from the description, NimbleText i
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> "You see, I'm just a web server..." Liar. You're a script running on the client.
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> Image Zoom It's such a simple add-on, but I use it daily. Along with NoScript, it's one of the reasons I switched back to FF from Chrome.
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If you were to construct a graph of all the features implemented by one browser and then copied by the others, after a while it would look like a chain link fence.
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Interesting post, but the author is 28, not 40 like the OP.
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Dot ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371647/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3 ) is a satire of the dot com boom. Even though it's a comedy, it's by far my favorite movie that has anything remotely to do with tech.
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He does: http://www.mikeroweworks.com/job-site/
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The Portlandia Nerd PSA hits on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir3v5yDk9Ws
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by nhebb 13y ago
I hope you succeed. AdWords has become more complex over time, and I do think there is a market for a service that cuts through the confusion. I was priced out by high CPC's years ago, but my friends who have stuck with it and had succ
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by nhebb 13y ago
I agree with you, but by definition, we in the US also live in a first-world country: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World
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Two issues came up during congressional testimony that I haven't seen discussed are (1) the constantly evolving requirements and (2) the lack of security. I don't know whether the Oregon site has security issues, but the evolving
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by nhebb 13y ago
I don't understand that chart. What does "% change in millions" mean? Comparing the % change for a small user base (WeChat) to a much larger user base (Facebook) doesn't make much sense either. Facebook is huge, so a 60%
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by nhebb 13y ago
For cookie counter paywalls, I've found the easiest workaround is to right-click on the link and open in a new private window.
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For anyone curious about the agency, Garcia told the Hollywood Reporter that he didn't name them because "Spike knows exactly who I am referring to." http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/designer-
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This age group includes college students, but do we know whether the surveys filtered out textbooks when polling physical vs. ebook preferences? I didn't see that mentioned in the article, and it would have a significant impact on the
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A lot of info about Shapiro and The Hillcrest Group can be found in this reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fog7u/hey_reddit_...
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HTA (HTML Application - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application ) was Microsoft's foray into sandboxed HTML + CSS + JS applications back in 1999.
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I used to work for a medical device manufacturer that had to comply with IEC 60601 (among others standards). Compliance with these standards was required by law, but the IEC and ISO documentation was not free. However, the underlying princi
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by nhebb 13y ago
What is the practical use case here? Before this there were Microsoft HTA's and Mozilla's XUL apps, neither of which had widespread adoption among developers.
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... fluffy, sensational article because The Atlantic .
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b. But about six months ago, I stopped posting and now I rarely visit. It wasn't a conscious decision. I just got bored with it and started tapering off usage.

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