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by nzmsv 16y ago
And the phone manufacturers are also a year behind on updating older devices. The article talks about the new Android 2.2 being great, but there are still phones shipping with 1.5 and no firmware upgrades in sight. I realize there is no inc
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by nzmsv 16y ago
The file responsible for the annoying search feature is altClickToSearch.js. Here's my filter: ||nytimes.com/js/*/altClickToSearch.js
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by nzmsv 16y ago
The Dell Mini 10n comes with Ubuntu out of the box, which may be a consideration. I'd recommend getting something with a near-full-size keyboard, which means at least 10" screen. I picked up a used Acer Aspire One a year ago. It was cheap,
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by nzmsv 16y ago
This is probably why most businesses offering proxies, newsgroup access, etc. have very shady looking websites :) That's the problem with such a business. You can't advertise "get Hulu from outside the US". You can only advertise "fast prox
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by nzmsv 16y ago
You could run a proxy on a VPS. A basic Linode has 200GB bandwidth (which is the same as the monthly cap on my home connection). Tinyproxy is easy to set up. But this is an interesting idea for a service.
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by nzmsv 16y ago
I think it's like the MS Office redesign. The new UI is supposedly better, especially for newbies. But the amount of bitching among experienced Office users was remarkable.
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by nzmsv 16y ago
> USB was meant to be universal. As was PL/I, to use a software example. Seriously though, USB just doesn't have the right features for certain applications. Not enough bandwidth for good graphics, for one. Finally, there's the issue of
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by nzmsv 16y ago
I think more like what FPGAs could have been. FPGAs today are generally used as a cheap way to implement an application-specific circuit. Once they are programmed, they stay in a fixed configuration. It is theoretically possible for the con
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by nzmsv 16y ago
Hmm... I think not being a chump requires the ability to stop and reflect on the situation. We are in an industry obsessed with "ninjas" and "rockstars". The same author who wrote this article bashing long hours has articles about how grade
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by nzmsv 16y ago
Actually, living in another country has completely changed my perspective - the other way. I wish more people would realize just how similar we all are in the end, and how shallow and arbitrary these cultural differences really are. It's am
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by nzmsv 16y ago
Also, many articles on startups assume the founders have no other responsibilities. Reality is a bit different. So yes, it would be great to hear more of these stories.
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by nzmsv 16y ago
It is much more difficult to clone a chip card than a magnetic one.
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by nzmsv 16y ago
This is true of languages and libraries, but learning entirely new concepts is harder. First of all, one has to figure out what to learn, and then actually learn it.
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by nzmsv 16y ago
Most cashiers hand my card back to me with the receipt to sign, and can't verify my signature. But many stores are now switching to using a PIN with chip cards, at least here in Canada. And Europe's had chip cards forever now. In fact, some
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by nzmsv 16y ago
There's definitely a difference between CH and SH, even in English. The pronunciations are: BAH - bush - ka: grandma BAH - botch - ka: butterfly I am currently teaching Russian to my wife, and the things she says sound the same continually
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by nzmsv 16y ago
You don't need a wildcard certificate, unless you want to host a lot of subdomains. If you need one just for mysql.yourdomain.com, you can still get a regular certificate, it just won't apply to www.yourdomain.com. Also, you can always get
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by nzmsv 16y ago
Please note that this is a voluntary recall notice; you may choose to not have your car serviced and retain your stereo. However, in this case you will be unable to use any new roads or use the car to visit your friends.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
...and that's why I shouldn't post at 2am :)
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by nzmsv 17y ago
There can be workarounds, but using something that's not broken in the first place is better. Every one of those issues comes from other software expecting the spec (RFC) to be followed where it's not. Another thing I remembered after I pos
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by nzmsv 17y ago
From RFC2616 9.1.1: ...the convention has been established that the GET and HEAD methods SHOULD NOT have the significance of taking an action other than retrieval. Why? GET should mean simply getting the page. Not doing so runs the risk o
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Using GET to delete is just asking to have a search crawler wipe your entire site. Not only is this not RESTful, it violates the RFC.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Ideas have a negative value, if anything: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1191242 It's pretty harsh, but anyone can come up with a hundred ideas they have no hope of implementing. Myself included ;)
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by nzmsv 17y ago
I think mathematical notation is a big part of it. It just seems optimized for writing, not reading, and especially not teaching. Feynman talks about inventing his own notation in his autobiography. He then had to give it up, because he had
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Some of the complaints are contradictory. Women are "pushed into management positions" and not allowed to be "individual contributors", yet find actually sitting down and writing code unbearable, and apparently desire lots of human interact
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Haskell
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by nzmsv 17y ago
\usepackage{float} ... \begin{document} ... \begin{figure}[H] But LaTeX is often better at determining where a figure should go. There is usually no reason it has to be right after a certain paragraph - books and magazines c
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Interestingly enough, the "It's a UNIX operating system" moment from Jurassic Park used real software. It's called fsn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Really? I can't believe they missed the obvious: "You have a product so revolutionary, you'll have no problem selling it. The question is, are people going to be allowed to use it?" That's Segway's problem right there. Just because someth
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by nzmsv 17y ago
I actually tried putting a website together in a similar fashion a while back. All the hacks quickly got difficult to maintain, and the code was ugly. I was too ashamed of what I've created to share it with the world. Now I see someone actu
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by nzmsv 17y ago
If you put your mouse exactly at the top of the page, a toolbar pops up. But this took me a long time to discover, and I kept using the arrow keys.

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