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by pak 16y ago
I'm not assuming that. I'm suggesting that certain answers may become more popular and rise to the top for reasons that have nothing to do with correctness. These include but are not limited to: the style in which the answer is written, t
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by pak 16y ago
The asker may be testing out some of the answers, but in reality most of the problems to be solved during software development are about balancing tradeoffs, e.g. security vs. performance. The reason the best solution is the best may not
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by pak 16y ago
It's not always at the top, though. Call it the reddit effect: sometimes the top-voted item is not the one that is the most informative, relevant or correct, but the one that appears so by virtue of being well written, backed by someone
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by pak 16y ago
These tricks by combining parts of URLs to do relative linking on scheme, host, etc. are little known but useful; I was expecting them to show up in the article. Going back to the debate over Chrome's potential dropping of " http:// in the
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by pak 16y ago
Don't you love that you need a second FB account to check whether your privacy settings are actually in effect? It's indicative of how difficult it is to understand the privacy settings that are offered. Part of the reason Facebook is able
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by pak 16y ago
On the other hand, the guy's lawyer does admit he was the one that found the phone, it's not likely Wired found the wrong person. I don't think Wired is making any assumptions about the legal status of what he did. Does that make it any les
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by pak 16y ago
Step 1: a comment on Facebook observed by a Wired intern leads to a probe of the guy's friends and recent groups. Given the latest spritz of "I'm leaving Facebook" posts on HN, this is a coincidentially relevant tale of how it was used to t
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by pak 16y ago
Do gambling laws in the US really not cover dollar auctions? For some reason I always thought such laws would be why every promotional sweepstakes in the States, e.g. McDonald's Monopoly or Coke bottle codes, etc. have a rule in fine print
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by pak 16y ago
Those closest to the bailouts got the most milk in their pails. Maybe the consumers got a dribble, but that doesn't disqualify criticism of those who got a whole bucket, especially if they stole the cow to begin with. GS practically set up
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by pak 16y ago
>The categorized, hierarchical menus that have been around forever are really unhelpful. Call me old-fashioned but I liked this way better. Search-based interfaces don't help when you know what you want to do but don't know what app
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by pak 16y ago
How evil would it be if they tried using your LinkedIn password with your profile's gmail address to access your gmail contacts? Probably 90% of people would have both passwords set to the same thing.
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by pak 17y ago
This is interesting, but it leads me to ask, what can you expect a JavaScript-enabled web crawler do? Load the page into the DOM, wait a few seconds for the dust to settle, start firing click events on everything and recording what request
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by pak 17y ago
Unless googlebot runs a javascript engine, I don't think it will ever be able to find out... unless a human over there reads this and adds this information to their PageRank database. Google does this themselves for their search engine page
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by pak 17y ago
...Arctan? Haha, what the hell is that? This does well to illustrate what a fiendishly difficult thing it is for a typical Facebook user to maintain privacy settings, and how difficult it must be for Facebook to actually adhere to this rig
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by pak 17y ago
Reason: Because there is no equivalent for TCP/IP that "just works". The fax use case is: a businessperson needs to walk to a machine, lay a stack of 50 sheets down, punch in an address and let the machine do the rest. Oh, so you say some
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TouchScroll, a scrolling layer for Webkit Mobile(uxebu.com)
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by pak 17y ago
It's one anonymous source. You don't know if it's a janitor or a VP talking. The fact this "tweet" got picked up by Wired as newsworthy is just downright poor journalism by all involved. It's newspeople ([micro-]bloggers) making their ow
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by pak 17y ago
Tell me what you think when it airs ... :-P
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by pak 17y ago
It's going to bellyflop. At this point there is no way you can satisfy the questions people have. In some ways I always felt Lost was the TV version of a pyramid scheme: resolve one mystery, create two more, repeat. I gave up myself when
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by pak 17y ago
Even if I take your bait and leap to the conclusion that everybody spends their life pruning their Facebook friend lists, have your friends never said anything embarassing about you? As a prank, in a fight, etc.? Thanks to Facebook, it c
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by pak 17y ago
Or what your friends give it, or your friends' friends, or anybody else that can tag something that relates back to your profile... see the problem?
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by pak 17y ago
My guess would be that they have a blacklist of well-known celebrity and fictional character names that gets your request flagged for further review. Misspellings might avoid triggering the blacklist.
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by pak 17y ago
All name changes have to be approved before they go into effect, at least from what I remember. They actually have human reviewers approve every change. If the name seems fake, they deny the request. I read an article once about people wit
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by pak 17y ago
>A UI framework is only as good as the widgets it ships with Completely wrong. A UI framework is only as good as the widgets it lets you build , and how much it helps you while building them. I have never yet worked on a project wher
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by pak 17y ago
The problem with Facebook was never what you posted about yourself. The more nefarious thing was that other people , in theory your friends but more like people you know for whatever reason, could post information that was linked directly
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by pak 17y ago
But your criticisms primarily address portability and well-packagedness which was probably not an original design requirement. Now that it is open source it may be an issue, but is it a valid target issue for tax dollars? I believe this is
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by pak 17y ago
Assuming they have only 38 other minutes of outage for the rest of the year, looks like they can keep 4 nines. Five nines is really hard--that's five minutes of downtime a year.
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by pak 17y ago
I've used Selenium for automated webapp testing. Some people don't like it, but I've found it a good fit for the abilities and preferences of my testing team. Having scripts runnable in a Firefox plugin as they are developed, and then als
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by pak 17y ago
Ok, but I'm referring to the general home user (that uses iTunes), not a carefully configured corporate environment. If all these moms and pops out there switched to Safari and cut IE6 usage in half, I really would not mind. Yes, I know i
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by pak 17y ago
If you're a web developer, you'd wish Apple were more aggressive and just replaced IE with Safari entirely. ...I wouldn't mind that. Especially if it was IE6.

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