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by pak 15y ago
Isn't this Google Web Accelerator, all over again, with the same problems? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Web_Accelerator
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by pak 15y ago
A big part of usability is not sitting around waiting for entire pages to reload every time you interact with them. AJAX has done great things for users by minimizing this delay. You wouldn't like Google Maps as much if you had to click a
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by pak 15y ago
With all the headless Webkit tools coming out nowadays (and all the free and fast JS engines like V8), writing a spider that runs a JS engine and clicks on all kinds of non-<a> elements is not beyond the reach of somebody innovative
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by pak 15y ago
Pot calling the kettle black. What's with the increasing level of trollbait around here?
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by pak 15y ago
I may be confusing propagation speed and drift velocity--it's been a while since I learned this, and I think there is some way to rationalize that the net current is really moving close to the speed of light when you add/subtract the motion
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by pak 15y ago
I would refine your explanation a bit--you were 90% there but you got the direction of the magnetic force wrong, and the way I learned it involved special relativity. So when you are sitting on an electron in one wire and you see the proto
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by pak 15y ago
I commend you for using <map> to link the markers to the items. Image maps... wow that takes me back to 1999. I can't believe people still remember how to use them. Of course you can't do any rollover effects with them, but other
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by pak 15y ago
How do you explain the same split occuring on the Magsafe connectors? Those are designed to pop right out if you yank them by the cord, so very little strain is going to be put on the wire sleeve. I've seen a lot of Magsafes split in the
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by pak 15y ago
This. There is no excuse not to teach PDO from the getgo to newcomers, and I've seen some pretty neat little ORMs built on top of it.
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by pak 15y ago
The problem, like with all bad code examples , is that people copy and paste it without thinking and don't look back if it runs, so here we are in 2011 with SQLi holes in literally every other website. Either write a complete, secure examp
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by pak 15y ago
This is unfortunately the rule, not the exception. If you ever have checked out any of these laws that go before a US legislature they are generally hundreds of pages long and a very dry read. Even the legislator that is sponsoring the bi
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by pak 15y ago
I don't understand the point of your post. You do a great job of calculating the strength of the Android pattern lock screen and then explain why that's totally irrelevant because of the 20 invalid entries hardlock. You could have just pu
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by pak 15y ago
People with direct experience with the elements of the OP (Newegg's security or lack thereof) voicing their fully-informed opinions. Maybe a Newegg CSR or security admin. Everybody else is just piling bullshit on top of more bullshit, bec
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by pak 15y ago
"Most doctors don't give a damn" if someone dies? Perhaps you had a bad experience with a physician, but please don't generalize that to the entire profession. That's a ridiculous, inflammatory starting position.
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by pak 15y ago
Isn't plutocracy even farther in the wrong direction? His point is that colleges are trying to reward the poor, not the wealthy, but are failing to do so. Maybe "ptochocracy" or "egalitarianism"?
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by pak 15y ago
This comment stream is a great example of HN going downhill. It's literally ten threads of the same half-informed claims with half-informed stock counterarguments. We have the: completely unverifiable reversible encryption defense, followe
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by pak 15y ago
Um, what. I most certainly have checked out of Newegg without re-entering my card number. Even if they store the numbers off premises for PCI certification reasons, if a Newegg password lets someone log in and buy a hundred flat screens o
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by pak 15y ago
I think GP might be thinking of a third major concern of motorcycle gear, which is abrasion resistance so that when you are sliding, the asphalt doesn't sandpaper your flesh to the bone (road rash). Pedestrian jeans/jackets disappear in le
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by pak 15y ago
Fonts in Ubuntu can be absolutely unpredictable when it comes rendering time. I remember an install of msttcore-fonts that I thought would allow me to see sites built with Verdana, Tahoma, etc. similarly to Chrome on a windows box. Not ev
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by pak 15y ago
Yes, this was the correct move. jQuery is for thinking less and doing more; the prop/attr distinction is both a painful code change and a needless complication for the sort of purposes that jQuery is used for.
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by pak 15y ago
Question: When would you ever want the .attr("value")=="initial" in real code? How often is it that you want the original value encoded in the HTML as opposed to the current value of the element as entered by the user? This is part of why
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by pak 15y ago
This should be linked to or listed directly in the OP. Really, most people reading the changelog care about "how do I make my existing code work with this"--and the details listed are conceptual, but not all practically relevant.
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by pak 15y ago
Yep, that's exactly how obit departments at major media outlets operate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obituary#Media
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by pak 15y ago
Yes, I did see that, and it wasn't clear to me whether that will be an intuitive step to non-git users or not. I haven't used the feature yet.
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by pak 15y ago
What's with having to drag to pan? Is there some reason you decided to not use native scrolling?
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by pak 15y ago
Github is really doing an excellent job of presenting the power of git via a web interface. So now they've condensed the process of fork, change, recommit (and possibly pull request?) to one Edit button. Imagine a new workflow for wikis,
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by pak 16y ago
Because you wouldn't expect one to?
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by pak 16y ago
What's broken traffic for me to the Gawker-hosted Kotaku is that Steam doesn't correctly redirect links from its feed of game-related articles to the hashbang targets, so I wind up at the Gawker homepage and wonder WTF is going on. That was
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by pak 16y ago
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic and pointing out that anything is "toxic" in high quantities. In case you aren't, or for people that did not catch it, 29g/kg is about 2.4kg of sugar for the average 80kg male, which comes out to abou
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by pak 16y ago
Want to package this up into a Chrome extension (maybe as a userscript)? Then people could run it without clicking on a bookmarklet.

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