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by niyazpk 17y ago
This is not a very impressive hack compared to the other submissions here. But still here is my 'hack', if you want to call it that way. When I was doing my graduate course in Computer Engineering, we had to submit loads of assignments each
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by niyazpk 17y ago
Michael Arrington does know how to keep things interesting. Even if we resist, somehow articles from TechCrunch reach the front page of HN. Not that I have any real problem with it, but can we somehow filter the front page to contain a maxi
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by niyazpk 17y ago
This is some kind of solution? He moved the obtrusive content from the sidebar to right inside the email? How am I supposed to include the catastrophic event reference in a corporate/business mail?
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by niyazpk 17y ago
He is very good at analogies though. Read this: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/why-cant-you-have-just... Even if what he tries to prove is correct, his reasoning for that is almost always wrong. Not wrong, but funny. I am sad that
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by niyazpk 17y ago
I have been using Windows 7 as my primary OS for about 8 months now. It is very good and stable. The best improvement is of course the new taskbar which does make the process of managing your applications and open windows a lot more streaml
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Ask HN: How to remember names?
2 points by niyazpk 17y ago|3 comments
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by niyazpk 17y ago
Glad that you corrected it.
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by niyazpk 17y ago
Putting 'Ask HN' in front of an outbound link is deception.
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Drinking Bird - wonderful piece of physics (vídeo)(youtube.com)
1 points by niyazpk 17y ago|0 comments
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by niyazpk 17y ago
That is a very good point to remember when designing high traffic web applications. Add the functionality to switch the site to just text mode on the occasion of overwhelming traffic like the ones described above. Any pointers on how to do
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by niyazpk 17y ago
I wonder what big scale incident will be so important and newsworthy that it would bring the web completely to a halt. If the likes of twitter and Google were prominent when 9/11 happened, that would have caused big enough congestion in all
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by niyazpk 17y ago
One thing about marketing is that it will take time for people to get to know about a product and then decide to try it. How much time did it take for you to adopt twitter/google/whatever? Even for trying out free products people take month
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Web slows after Jackson's death(news.bbc.co.uk)
27 points by niyazpk 17y ago|13 comments
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by niyazpk 17y ago
[edit: Looks like my view is just plain wrong. Skip this and directly read the replies] IMHO email address fields need not be 254 characters in length. Something like 64 is perfectly defendable I think. Why would a person sign-up with an em
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by niyazpk 17y ago
I have written a few articles in the web about programming topics and have published a few pages of source code too. Some of these articles are in the top results of Google for the right keywords. Now the problem is that I get emails asking
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by niyazpk 17y ago
Exactly. People will always promote themselves. Give them a page like windycitizen.com/username to aggregate their stuff and they will start promoting that page.
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by niyazpk 17y ago
You are very correct about these observations. I am an Indian myself, and some time ago I wrote an article that tried to explain why the engineers in Indian outsourcing companies tend to be of low quality: http://www.diovo.com/2008/08/why-
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by niyazpk 17y ago
Why would a search engine do this as part of the same brand/domain? Can somebody tell me how this is related to the search engine?
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by niyazpk 17y ago
Some people are very good at dealing with others, the same way some others are good at dealing with computers. Of course, it is their natural ability. (That is why the salesman became a salesman!) Even if we do not have a natural ability to
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by niyazpk 17y ago
I am probably not the best person to comment on this, but isn't this more counter-intutive than the original addition method? I have seen the addition stuff in many APIs like in C++ and Java. If we start using comma separated values as you
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by niyazpk 17y ago
You were criticizing the adding up of the whatToShow filter parameters like: NodeFilter.SHOW_ELEMENT + NodeFilter.SHOW_COMMENT + NodeFilter.SHOW_TEXT Can you suggest a better way than this?
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Addressable Market Size(deapthought.wordpress.com)
1 points by niyazpk 17y ago|0 comments
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by niyazpk 17y ago
Highly recommended read, just to remember that people like John are out there. It is an amazing story. The more I think about it, the more I am amazed at the variety and magnitude of problems people face in their lives. I don't want to soun
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by niyazpk 17y ago
If it were a few years ago, I would have been super excited about this. Not that I am not now, but since I use JQuery (which by the way supports most of these DOM traversal methods), I think this does not directly affect my code. Of course
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by niyazpk 17y ago
"Posted Every Day" ? I could only find 2 posts in the website. Wake me up when it has at least a dozen articles.
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by niyazpk 17y ago
You are correct. That is exactly why this attack cannot be used to forge documents (at least in a direct way)! To forge a document, you need to find another document having the same hash. So it is a preimage attack. Using a collision attac
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by niyazpk 17y ago
I think as far as we are controlling the client, we can make it look like any browser. As far as I know (my knowledge is very limited in this area, please correct me if wrong) there is no way to be 100% sure that the user is using a particu
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by niyazpk 17y ago
I think may be you can get away without actually downloading IE8. Use whatever browser you are using and view the source of the page. How are they going to find out the browser the you use if you change the User-Agent-String? Anyone up for
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by niyazpk 17y ago
An attack would be if I build a two documents with the same hash and get someone to sign one of them. That is not possible using this attack. This is just a collision atttack, not a preimage attack. It would be a good practise anyway, th
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by niyazpk 17y ago
We are missing the point. Turning a browser into a web server is not a big leap in technology. That is not a hard problem. Why I am excited about Opera Unite and not about this firefox extension is that Opera themselves thinks that this wil

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