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   by pak 16y ago

   His $1 trade was in jest. The point is, both are very small numbers compared to 100%, or even 1%.
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   by pak 16y ago

   Then one day, you kneel down to check your engine oil, and bam, there go all your credit cards. There are downsides. I'd prefer if they just made the loops a little more sensitive. A 200 lb piece of metal would seem to suffice for a true
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   by pak 16y ago

   Before I clicked I figured it was going to be yet another "Michael is a great guy but way off base here," and indeed that's pretty much all there is to see here. Coupled with a lot of fist-pumping.
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   by pak 16y ago

   This thread is reminding me a bit too much of the business card scene from American Psycho: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoIvd3zzu4Y but uh, nice CV's guys.
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   by pak 16y ago

   What makes you think there will be one? There is no native "official" Gmail app.
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   by pak 16y ago

   If you like this, you might like http://quickfuseapps.com , which is basically logic circuits for voice apps. Demo calls are free. Also, QuickFuse doesn't use Flash, it's pure JavaScript and canvas, so in my experience it's a bit more pe
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   by pak 16y ago

   Doesn't an airliner crashing into the ocean leave some trace? I would think there would be an oil slick, and some floating debris. There's a lot of stuff in an airplane that floats. Surely these things would be spotted by air or satellite
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   by pak 16y ago

   This is how I usually browse hulu. I love good URL design. I think hulu was pointed in this direction by its use of Rails.
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   by pak 16y ago

   I thought they also thought they checked that the MAC address of the phone corresponds to a plausible iPhone MAC address. So, you might have to change that on your wifi card first (kind of a bother.)
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    by pak 16y ago

    My issue is I almost always search from the address bar of chrome, or the search box of any other browser, so I never see the "instant" effect. I can't remember the last time I actually went to google.com except when linked to see a cool l
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    by pak 16y ago

    This looks like the perfect companion for playing around with a REST API.. very cool. Certainly more fun than composing monstrous curl invocations.
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    by pak 16y ago

    Surely there was a better way to get this story out than piecemeal via 60 staccato tweets? I know this article is supposed to show Twitter is important "new media" that changes the way news works, but I have never seen such a salient topic
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    by pak 16y ago

    But still, in asking Google's servers about the URL, you are telling Google what site you wanted to visit.
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    by pak 16y ago

    > No. Any authentication situation where every end user needs to protect a secret shared among many end users is fundamentally broken. That's not the same as what you just said. OK, I was imprecise in my language. You clarified what I
15. 675.▲
    by pak 16y ago

    Any authentication situation where there is a distributed secret is fundamentally broken. Unless every app developer runs their own proxy that holds the secret key, and then validates incoming requests from their users before forwarding th
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    by pak 16y ago

    This article give me a nervous twinge when I realized that if Google ever got Chrome to be a majority-share browser, they would really know everything there is to know about the web. In effect, their algorithms/rankings could be peerless be
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    by pak 16y ago

    What about visibility: hidden? What about background: transparent? What about background: url(transparent.png)? What about background: data:encoded-transparent-image... Even browser-side "visibility" calculations can become an AI-level prob
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    by pak 16y ago

    If the dialog pops up and is not within an <iframe>, then the page can simulate a click on the confirm button. Even if the JS library uses an <iframe>, it can always be reverse engineered to not use one, and the user won't
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    by pak 16y ago

    Don't just base your conclusions on one page load, though, as this article seems to do. I wish there was a tool for Web Inspector/Firebug to select various elements over a series of page loads and give me statistics after e.g. 100 refreshe
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    by pak 16y ago

    How do you synthesize/analyze audio on the waveform level with HTML5? AFAIK this is only possible with an alpha version of Firefox implementing an experimental API, not part of HTML5. Flash can do full waveform synthesis as of v10, audiot
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    by pak 16y ago

    This. It's not like it doesn't already do some heart-stopping repagination every time you drag borders or type into a table that crosses a page boundary, or when you drag around any object that is being word-wrapped.
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    by pak 16y ago

    I wonder if somebody could start an insurance product based on consolidating the risk among iPhone app developers for damages due to arbitrary App Store rejections/delays. It would cover stuff like this, "Acts of Jobs", etc.
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    by pak 16y ago

    We've fixed the scrolling issue now, and added better event handlers so most things work on the iPad. Try it out now and tell me how it goes!
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    by pak 16y ago

    You're right in that the old docs had really bad searching. That's much improved in the new docs. I might be different. I came to learn jQuery through the raw docs, not through tutorials, and found that the old docs' organization was more
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    by pak 16y ago

    I still long for the old http://docs.jquery.com from the 1.3.x days. The new site that actually serves all the material, api.jquery.com, feels like exactly that--an API reference--while the old format was much more browsable. Instead of
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    by pak 16y ago

    "They is so smart!" --> the apparent subject-verb disagreement is just too unfamiliar to most ears.
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    by pak 16y ago

    I seem to remember some Batman cartoon where Batman realizes he's in a dream because letters shift around oddly while he's trying to read something. Indeed, I remember from my own dreams that text and numbers behaves oddly (disappears/chang
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    by pak 16y ago

    Doesn't wget still use HTTP/1.0?
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    by pak 16y ago

    We used a very small team of developers. I wrote the majority of the code; there were a few other auxiliary programmers and a couple testers. It started as a "20% time" concept piece and took about a year to develop into a product. We wou
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    by pak 16y ago

    We have some infrastructure for international dial-ins via our overseas datacenters, you might want to inquire via our phone number request form once you sign up. Also on our list is SIP integration to make international outbound cheaper;