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by pablobm 12y ago
Of course there's always ways around things, but browser vendors have to (unless in specific cases) cater for the general public who don't know about personalisation. These are the people who need safe defaults most. As power user
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by pablobm 12y ago
> Separate address and search bars is old-fashioned. > As a user, I don't want to have to make this > distinction, and it's hard to imagine most > users-on-street wouldn't find this confusing Althoug
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by pablobm 12y ago
I saw a similar tee elsewhere, but I like that in this case the proceeds go to OpenSSL. Also, the fact that a t-shirt can be made out of this supports Patrick McKenzie's article [1] yesterday, commenting on how this bug (or rather, its
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by pablobm 13y ago
GMail does a pretty good job at blocking trackers. However, this is not enough to prevent users from triggering the tracking themselves. As gyardley says, there's the option to enable images. I rarely enable them, but sometimes I decid
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by pablobm 13y ago
Whether that comma should or not be there is actually not universally agreed. This punctuation is known as "Serial comma"[1], and some style guides require its use. On that sentence though, I think it's different. The first p
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by pablobm 13y ago
I have had two similar experiences with my Amazon Kindle. (This is in the UK, in case it's relevant). The first time, it broke. I called on a Tuesday at 6pm, they acknowledged the problem, and the day after I had a new one at 10am. I c
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by pablobm 13y ago
I don't know the specifics, but my understanding is that the seemingly random string of characters is a crypto signature. If I'm not mistaken, it makes the site safe from Man In The Middle attacks.
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by pablobm 14y ago
As for the detector vans: does anyone know if they actually exist? Several times in the past I have looked up information on them, and all I find seems to be in the realm of urban legend -slash- marketing ploy. What is the physical principl
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by pablobm 14y ago
I don't really know what direction the site will take, but I think you are missing the point there. The FizzBuzz test might be very easy, but you are assuming that these challenges will be for people of your own skill level. Probably the si
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by pablobm 14y ago
One interesting fact: even though they are explicitly looking for Python devs, no actual Python experience is required. This is the second instance I see of something like this in London (the first being the company I work for, http://new-
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by pablobm 15y ago
This resonates with a recent experience. I'm working on a project where the PO is very keen to add integration to all kinds of third party services. This is in order to speed up development and provide simple but flashy features that he'll
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by pablobm 15y ago
Is it me or did Nielsen add an update on top of the article when he was hired by Macromedia, or something like that? The way I recall it, it said something along the lines of "OK, Flash is not very good, but now we are working to address th
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