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by pak 16y ago
Your comment makes me think of how short-sighted laziness is endemic or maybe engrained on a cultural level. Or even worse, it's a natural part of our decision-making processes, but I really think culture can overcome it. Solving the probl
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by pak 16y ago
I didn't say he believed in a personal god. He believed in a more abstract sort of god, one that reflected the mysteries that humans will never penetrate; he also said this concept defined his sense of being religious. "A knowledge of the
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by pak 16y ago
"Why was the universe created?" Do you think science will ever answer this question? The universe as a whole is on some level inexplicable, unless we somehow manage to transcend our existence in it... Saying that a scientist's belief in Go
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NASDAQ confirms a breach in network, motives unknown(reuters.com)
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by pak 16y ago
One feature Uploadify still retains over this plugin: The Flash upload dialog allows you to restrict what file types (by extension) are selectable, which can prevent some people from uploading the .JPG when you only accept audio files, etc.
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by pak 16y ago
That sort of "control" wouldn't necessarily be conclusive; Bing could be using click data weighed by a prior calculation of how trustworthy the clicked-on site is (e.g. an analogue of PageRank score), whereupon clicks on Google would rank m
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by pak 16y ago
My first thought was that it was click data, and not outright copying. If a bunch of Google employees with Bing toolbar start clicking on links to some made-up term, that should spike the data enough to change results within a few weeks.
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by pak 16y ago
Ah, now that's a welcoming intro paragraph for the README.
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by pak 16y ago
A good SOAP library lets you plug in a WSDL and returns an API object with all the methods of the webservice. There is literally no equivalent capability for REST. You shouldn't be doing any of the things you describe by hand. You are vas
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by pak 16y ago
You Are Doing It Wrong. Anybody that tries to interface with a SOAP interface by writing envelopes by hand is wasting their time and half-implementing the (long, terrible, complicated, blah blah) spec. Find a good toolkit. Yes, the protoco
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by pak 16y ago
And they should. It's easy to turn a WSDL into an exhibit for a contract, because it is a description of an API that can be converted to human readable and machine readable formats. There is no equivalent for REST, and most REST services
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by pak 16y ago
I've used 7zX for those rare cases, which is ugly but works. ...In case people don't want to replace the default Archive Utility.
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by pak 16y ago
The only issue I have with TotalFinder--and I paid for it a while back--is that I would love to have the freeform visor mode, but have it correctly pop above the dock as it does for full-width instead of overlapping it. I know it's in your
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by pak 16y ago
The best "power replacement" for anything on OS X is not an app, it's a piece of hardware: an SSD. If you still have a hard drive, go get an SSD replacement--it makes a world of difference for OS X performance. I couldn't imagine going ba
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by pak 16y ago
What use is the social captcha if your friends list is public? Many people had this set because it was the new default when the settings switched some half-year ago. A lot of them probably don't even realize it.
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by pak 16y ago
You can read about 8 characters at a time, but since most SMS's are pretty short if you have good fingers and get used to the buttons it's not as bad as you might think (kind of like a pager). I know a guy that uses this phone as his prima
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by pak 16y ago
I think the main difference for me between this and Selenium would be that Selenium offers some macros to click an element, or simulate a drag and drop between two elements. If you added those in here--wouldn't be too much more, I don't th
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by pak 16y ago
Two other Mac projects that bring the excellent Google Chrome tab UI into other contexts: TotalFinder, a Finder mod that adds tabs to Finder windows ( http://totalfinder.binaryage.com/ ), and Kod--still in beta--which will be a text editor
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by pak 16y ago
Whoa, this is by far the most interesting news here. It occurred to me that an evil government could hijack all HTTP requests, slip a script into the <head> and literally monitor every keystroke and click and mousemove for their we
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by pak 16y ago
I'd agree with you on this; this kind of markup+CSS does not exactly say "toggle button" to the next coder to read it. The most problematic thing, actually, would be that the toggle action hack used here changes window.location.hash and th
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by pak 16y ago
Agreed, title should be "HIV found to also replicate via RNA-only pathways" or something like that.
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by pak 16y ago
If you have a rather large monitor, that might put your terminal at a ridiculous size. For quick access to Terminal.app, Quake console style, I use Visor, which slides it down from the top of the screen on a global hotkey: http://visor.bi
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by pak 16y ago
And that sort of sandboxing would prevent a theme from hiding some spammy HTML in its code? I can think of many ways to do that, some of which don't even involve templating-level functions and just rely on the HTML level alone. You're comp
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by pak 16y ago
OK, I would like you to introduce me to a programming language where installing source code downloaded from an untrusted website on the internet does not come with security caveats. Care to do so?
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by pak 16y ago
The web is a wonderful thing, but I don't envy the lot of browser makers. Every once in a while whenever I have to replicate some portion of the whole HTTP/HTML stack, like cookies or in this article content encoding detection, it becomes
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by pak 16y ago
I think Paul was just about to enter college then, so he was old enough. My point is that it was actually quite forward-thinking to try out anything on the web in 1993.
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by pak 16y ago
Well he was apparently doing that in 1993... What did you build on the web in 1993? NCSA Mosaic had literally just come out.
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by pak 16y ago
How would you differentiate yourself from notespark.com? This is what some of my friends use.
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by pak 16y ago
Kind of funny, but as I predicted, not quite as good as tpdsaa. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2106021
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by pak 16y ago
Since this is your alias, I hope you won't mind my curiosity--when did you leave the company, and do you have any thoughts about leaving?

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