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by pak 16y ago
It goes to show that even if space and bandwidth are cheap (and they will only get cheaper), creating content will always be enormously expensive.
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by pak 16y ago
I don't think you were referring to these, but there are actually a few windowless, fortified concrete skyscrapers in New York that were built as telephone switching centers. Here's one in Lower Manhattan that is 29 stories: http://en.wik
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by pak 16y ago
Well, it appears that this solution scales vertically, not horizontally. Vertical scaling for bike locks is a commercially solvable problem but ROI drops precipitously after about 20 feet.
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by pak 16y ago
You should check out http://raphaeljs.com/ , which basically unifies the SVG API in a cross-browser way. In IE, it translates everything to VML on the fly. You need to transcode your SVG to Raphael's JSON-based format, but it's not hard
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by pak 16y ago
I didn't downvote you, and I've spent enough time on reddit to stop questioning downvotes because they are too stochastic to spend braincell-seconds trying to interpret. But when I read your comment I immediately questioned why you would c
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by pak 16y ago
I wonder if that was related to "\n", or if the synthesizer intentionally mapped nonprinting characters to sounds (that would seem to make the command set more complicated than necessary, but bytes were precious then so what do I know.)
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by pak 16y ago
Except in Office 2008, where Cmd-‘ is broken! If they didn't fix that in 2011, I am going to switch to OO.o out of spite.
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by pak 16y ago
Wait a minute. Unless you already built RDBMS tables with that relationship in mind, you are just as screwed there as you are in Couch. And if you are talking about the time it takes Couch to build a new index for some custom view, I'm su
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An Economist's Answer to Immigration Reform: Sell Green Cards(becker-posner-blog.com)
2 points by pak 16y ago|0 comments
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by pak 16y ago
Re: https with a different domain. XHR doesn't let you access a different domain, you'd have to use JSONP which won't let you trap errors easily. And if I weren't sitting at a page served by HTTPS, I would not enter credit card informatio
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by pak 16y ago
I stand corrected!
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by pak 16y ago
Eh, some pseudo-elements have semantic meaning. My best example of this would be :link, which distinguishes between hyperlinks and bare anchors. I would typically associate :before with styling that happens visually before an element, and
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by pak 16y ago
Ugh, too clever for my taste. I would hate to edit icons that are a mish-mash of CSS backgrounds, rotated boxes, and border-radius'ed edges, and to boot, based entirely on pseudo-elements. (Current web dev tools like Web Inspector in Chro
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by pak 16y ago
Removing code that does nothing. For example: "true;"
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by pak 16y ago
Why would you exclude text labels from visual programming? I think this is an artificial distinction. Sometimes they provide the best balance of space consumption vs. clarity. Labels on their own aren't natural language, they are at most
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by pak 16y ago
This is an older machine, the newer backscatter X-ray type make pictures that look like this: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20022861-10391704.htm... Yep, your "junk" is fully visible. Paparazzi's wet dream... I mean, if the LAPD
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by pak 16y ago
there is no obvious convention for visual commands or visual conditionals I don't know about that. Within a particular domain, you can certainly come close to representing these things, or presenting the right controls for a user to repr
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by pak 16y ago
You guys are awesome. I literally just embarked on building an RSS reader that fits my personal taste and was wondering to myself how to get page content filtered through Readability. I was envisioning weird hacks, but this is perfect.
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by pak 16y ago
I think if people could actually see what their computers did on the inside, their head would explode. This reminds me of the Commodore 64 emulator where you can see pretty much a full slice of active memory, along with all the various grap
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by pak 16y ago
Most malware is written with hilariously bad coding style. I found it amusing that he claimed the fun_ prefix can be "used to denote a quantity is a function in some programming styles", despite this being irrelevant in PHP because functio
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by pak 16y ago
This is actually a tremendous idea. One of the main arguments against FB monetizing their ads is because "FB users don't go on FB to click on ads". This is anecdotally true. But when FB Connect and Like buttons have you logged in everywhe
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by pak 16y ago
I wish there was a website that would aggregate all the flamebait tactics of tech-pundit personalities, and then display them on top of their articles (browser extension/greasemonkey script) so I could stop reading these ridiculous articles
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by pak 16y ago
One hundred percent correct. When he said, “If Retweet equals Member of Strategy Group, add to midmorning direct message queue.” “If Silverlight press conference transcript feed contains question from Mary Jo Foley, route to broker queue
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An open letter to mint.com: Stop storing my credentials(peebs.org)
35 points by pak 16y ago|22 comments
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by pak 16y ago
I was secretly hopeful this would be an opportunity for somebody with overwhelming mindshare to change that.
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by pak 16y ago
Pointed out in the comments: Why not use fb.me, which they already owned? fb.me is shorter and easier to remember ("facebook me" being a colloquialism these days, joe.smith@fb.me doesn't sound bad at all). And it subtly encourages people
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by pak 16y ago
Now that's something to put on your resume/t-shirt: "I was verified to be human by PokerStars.net"
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by pak 16y ago
OK, you're right, that character limit is very annoying. Sorry to sound off about something tangential to your post.
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by pak 16y ago
Yes, I would call people that work on this hackers in the older more positive sense, but the common, inflammatory meaning of the word "hacked" usually has something to do with a security exploit. As in Headline: "Blahblah.com was recently
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by pak 16y ago
I was referring to the title of the HN submission. The submitter commented and said it was due to the character limit for HN titles, so I suppose I should be "whinging" about that instead.

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