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by pak 17y ago
It's probably most interesting to see how they implemented a service that does this. From their FAQ: "The machine consists of a tweaked Linux server running apache2 with python modules installed. Selenium RC Control is used to automaticall
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by pak 17y ago
If you're using mod_php, you have to configure a script handler for PUT requests, and then read from stdin in PHP instead of using the superglobals. Is it hard? Not really, but it's not as easy as using $_POST. Here's a tutorial for anyb
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by pak 17y ago
That's giving Rails too much credit. I would say the friction of configuring Apache to handle PUT, the lack of support on shared hosting to do this, and the scarcity of PHP tutorials/interest on the subject is more contributory to half-RES
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by pak 17y ago
It would take a hell of a heuristic for facebook to fill in holes in the social graph. Without some very intelligent fuzzy name matching, facial recognition, and textual analysis of your friend's profiles and walls (if you ever are mention
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by pak 17y ago
Putting one more nail in the coffin in the trend of making a "twitter streamer" to demo any new web technology. ...but seriously, without source code, why is this on HN? There are already github projects like http://github.com/technoweeni
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by pak 17y ago
>Professors sometimes attempt to combat "grade inflation" by giving ridiculously hard exams (coughAndrew Ngcough), but IMO all this does is bring to the fore uninteresting factors Agreed. I am not a fan of the testing strategy where th
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by pak 17y ago
Kerning is not enabled by default in Word? http://www.typographyforlawyers.com/?p=766 You have to activate it by checking a box in the Font dialog box... so irrational it's painful to contemplate. I can imagine they did this for backward
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by pak 17y ago
You sort of described the cyclical nature of fashion, without intending to. Things that are "in style" slowly erode in distinguishability as they become mainstream and overused, and then the better elements from older looks are remixed into
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by pak 17y ago
How does git not shine on OS X? Installed via Fink or DarwinPorts, I can't find any area in which it doesn't perform equivalently to the linux builds. There is also the lovely GitX on OS X for visualizing repos and staging commits.
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by pak 17y ago
Goldman did receive TARP funds, and used those funds to correct losses from maneuvers like this one. Regardless of whether or not Goldman Sachs considers that it paid back all of its TARP loans with interest, having the government prop up
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by pak 17y ago
The process of buying research articles could greatly use some centralization, period. Right now it's a muck of confusing, widely different websites with completely different rules and interfaces for finding and downloading papers. If you
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by pak 17y ago
+1 to this. I wish there were a unified standard for networking scanners at all, actually. The majority of business scanners have arcane features to Email, FTP, or SMB-share the documents they scan. SMB is the usually only thing that inv
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by pak 17y ago
Cpedia: Telling You Whether Your VC Over-Imbibes Since 2010 seriously though, he's trying to construct an argument around the necessity of bottom-feeding for information?
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by pak 17y ago
permanence, until the issue at hand is resolved?
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by pak 17y ago
It's kind of funny how having false publicity for it now has probably amped up expectations enough that Google would look bad if they didn't follow through.
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by pak 17y ago
My god, I just realized that after looking at my scrollbar. Terrifying. I couldn't understand why two-finger scrolling wasn't working, and now I am disgusted.
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by pak 17y ago
Whoa, nginx can do a hell of a lot via conf scripting. You could build a semi-decent REST interface to a data source using the modules in this presentation...
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by pak 17y ago
Before reading this I predicted it would be named the iFad, but it seems like these good folks have outshone me in naming it the DODOcase. Doomed to extinction, indeed.
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by pak 17y ago
The fact that Shit My Dad Says (a twitter feed) enjoys the privilege of a wikipedia article, while many articles on open-source software projects struggle against constant requests for deletion, just boggles my mind.
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by pak 17y ago
Somebody explain to me how this is even close to being worthy of the title "replica". Things that are not done: - the special scroll bars - maximizing panels - minimizing the panels to the top bar - dropping down panels from the top bar - s
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by pak 17y ago
It's interesting, but not very deep in terms of functionality. The main exhibits here are the split panel view and the table view. Both are OK, but these problems have already been solved many times by ExtJS, Dojo, and various jQuery plugi
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Take a lunch break: Live blog of Apple's iPhone OS 4.0 event(live.gizmodo.com)
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by pak 17y ago
Name any commonly used Linux executable that deletes the server root when run without any arguments, with no confirmation or warning. It's a little unexpected. Even after reading the script, you may not catch the fact that not setting the r
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by pak 17y ago
The card interface used on the new Palms works pretty well for that. You can basically see it in the way MobileSafari handles tabs, which is about as close to multitasking as you can get on an i$Device.
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by pak 17y ago
All good bloggers know how to linkbait every once in a while... it's the most reliable way to sustain traffic.
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by pak 17y ago
Well, imagine what Apple would have lost if they took another two years to work out these features with nothing actually on the market. They smartly decided being a first mover with a completely radical design would outweigh ticking off ev
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by pak 17y ago
I would love to know how they intend on filtering reviews successfully while exposing the process behind the filter. It would seem any transparent filter system would invite people to find reliable ways of bypassing and subverting the thi
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by pak 17y ago
How about an article about measuring memory usage? From what I've read, measuring the actual total memory consumption of an individual process is nontrivial on both Mac OSX and Linux, because of the way the stats are generated for things li
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by pak 17y ago
Where did that diary entry come from? Was that entered into public record as a result of a lawsuit against Facebook or something? If it's real (it's a pretty apalling read into the guy's mind), what a great example of why you shouldn't kee
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by pak 17y ago
1. storing state in the module, or the singleton pattern in general, is not going anywhere for a long time. He describes his problems with it at http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2009/7/24/singletons-and-their-probl... and does so very well, but a

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