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by pak 16y ago
Jesus, it was reverse-engineered, not "hacked". Did Linux engineers "hack" into every single piece of hardware they wrote drivers for? The overuse of this term in headlines drives me nuts. It's not like people can drive by your house and
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by pak 16y ago
There might be an upper limit on the speed of the language itself, but what has a lot more room for improvement is speed of DOM operations and DOM rendering. Since you could involve all kinds of fancy graphics hardware acceleration in that
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by pak 16y ago
I thought Appcelerator Titanium was supposed to compile to native code? I downloaded it myself, saw all the HTML and JS files in the package and wondered, what the heck is the point in making this a standalone app instead of a web app. It
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by pak 16y ago
Yep, thanks.
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by pak 16y ago
I swear I have seen the web-spreadsheet-as-website idea on here before. It was not editgrid.com, which amusingly replicates Excel all the way down to the Windows 95 scroll bars. It was actually focused on making the spreadsheets presentab
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by pak 16y ago
Now this is neat. I spent a bit of today reverse engineering the Better HN chrome extension to see how it looked up url's on HN ( http://json-automatic.searchyc.com/domains/find?url=%s , for anybody who wondered, I can't find this API docu
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by pak 16y ago
Fighting fire with fire... burn, sheep, burn.
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by pak 16y ago
Do any databases allow you to specify that a transaction needs a particular mode, and then that mode is implemented only for that transaction? e.g., START TRANSACTION MODE READ REPEATABLE; or something like that. It would seem to b
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by pak 16y ago
Did you friend any of your IRL friends? Because if you did, that would probably be enough for them to cross-reference enough data to figure out who you are. It occurred to me that even when people tag pictures with unlinked text (as they
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by pak 16y ago
You have no way of verifying they've completely removed your data from their servers. All you can tell is they no longer let anybody see it through the website. They've publicly stated your data may be retained in "backups" indefinitely.
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by pak 16y ago
This is the most ridiculous concept in the digital age. If it's being recorded by a computer, it can be copied. Hell, if it can be seen, it can be illicitly recorded. When you can buy tiny cameras from ThinkGeek that fit in the bridge of
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by pak 16y ago
A B D D C assorted curses <esc> :q! $ echo "alias vi=vim" >> ~/.bashrc
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by pak 16y ago
If you had one, you had one, and it's in their heap somewhere waiting to be mined. All they did was turn off the visibility flags. The only way is to never have an account... lucky me.
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by pak 16y ago
Unless your name is Mark Zuckerberg, in which case the APR is 0 and the payment plan is in Facebook stock, every single time!
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by pak 16y ago
Ah, the high road! I'm glad somebody actually understood the message of the rally, and witheld from blowing a nonexistent conflict out of proportion for some fleeting eyeballs.
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Redbox eyes Internet video delivery with longing(arstechnica.com)
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by pak 16y ago
I'd suggest twicli or twic over cli-twi; it keeps the same spirit but is pronounceable without sounding/looking like something else. You have what I might call a "hyphen problem", e.g., experts-exchange.
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by pak 16y ago
I completely agree with you. The argument that you should be able to charge 10x as much to target the 1/10th that is your most likely customer falls apart when you are advertising in a place where people generally don't want to think about
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by pak 16y ago
Well, instead of generating two separate tokens, a simpler solution IMHO is overloading the cookie, and it's what I usually see and use. What are you talking about "if an attacker can influence the ACTION attribute of the form"? If they ar
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by pak 16y ago
Are you sure more than 93% of physicists would say yes? I would say "what if the mass changes" or "what if the speed of the mass is relativistic" -- then you have to use something else, like F = Integral[dp, dt], and F = ma no longer holds
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by pak 16y ago
I read your comment with great interest as it reflects a lot of my reactions when I took economics, particularly from the way Mankiw teaches it; much like this blog post, he starts with roughly 10 "assumptions" that the course will make com
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by pak 16y ago
With a digital camera. In 3D!
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by pak 16y ago
Thanks, I've been looking for a Kohana-esque ORM that comes without the Kohana for smaller projects... paris looks like it fits the bill perfectly. Uses very similar configuration per-class: belongs_to, has_many, has_many_through. Awesome
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by pak 16y ago
How about double-posting session ID's from the cookie within AJAX requests to prevent XSRF? I've certainly used document.cookie for that. The only other scheme I know of to defend against XSRF is to generate secret values for every request
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by pak 16y ago
You're right, this used to be "the way" to make text that didn't scale on zoom, back when IE6 was king. But now that Firefox, Safari, and all the cool kids have pretty much standardized full-page-zoom instead of page-layout-zoom, I guess t
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by pak 16y ago
For the problem of watching the last lines of something: a few options, you can pipe to tac, e.g. watch 'ls -l | tac' which reverses the lines of the output, or if it is something like a log file, you can forget about watch completel
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by pak 16y ago
You've done a really good job here. A news reader that lets me both rate news, theoretically learns my preferences over time, and lets me read the entire article without clicking more than once, is a serious package. (Why can't other read
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by pak 16y ago
It's not completely negligible--even if CPU usage is negligible, it does add latency during SSL negotiation that might be unpreferable for some apps. The testing burden is a lot higher because one wrong link to http:// in CSS, HTML, or A
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by pak 16y ago
People bring up the Google stat, but you have to remember they have incredible engineering resources so they probably optimize in many features every day without adding additional machines. That doesn't mean every dude with a LAMP stack ou
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by pak 16y ago
It's much more unlikely that there is a sniffer between your ISP's routers and the target servers for interesting traffic than an attacker listening to your AP traffic. Your ISPs have a vested, primary business interest in keeping their ne

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