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by pdevr 6y ago
This is uncanny - I was just now going through some historic code snippets for holy grail, and was thinking of Tantek and his box model hack[1]. I come here, and see this. Coincidence? Or, is the world of technology really that small? :) [1
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by pdevr 6y ago
There is nothing wrong in switching your opinion based on facts that come to light later. Parties and their supporters have every right to do that. However, when a party wrongly or subjectively changes its position, that is when things get
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by pdevr 6y ago
Thanks for the RFC link. I guess you can have components and hooks to share stuff between server and client?
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by pdevr 6y ago
Thanks, so looks like this was all about the ":" character producing unexpected behavior.
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by pdevr 6y ago
Youtube videos: 1. Clément Mihailescu has a good summary done in less than fifteen minutes. 2. FreeCodeCamp.org has a long video.
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by pdevr 6y ago
Summary: Prefer real world over social media. The path to that conclusion: Very weak, at best. I agree with you.
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by pdevr 6y ago
As long as it is stored on the server and the transmission is encrypted, we will never know for sure. Especially in cases where the company "controls" the encryption and decryption.
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by pdevr 6y ago
So the comment stating the reason for downvoting is meant for the person whose post was downvoted, even though everyone can see it. Yes, as you said, I guess it will be a type of opportunity to self-triage - in a public way. It will also (h
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by pdevr 6y ago
I just thought of this. I made a comment about a certain technology being double-edged and saw a couple of down votes. I really would have loved to know what caused the ire and have a polite discussion with the person. Suggestion: Technical
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by pdevr 6y ago
I was thinking about missing children being identified faster, once we can identify individual features instead of group features. Not at all about race.
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by pdevr 6y ago
This technology is like a knife. Depending on who wields it, the result can be awesome or awful. Let us hope it is mostly the former.
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by pdevr 6y ago
That's some original thought there. Did you think of tortoise? Or snail? Or was it just a random thought?
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by pdevr 6y ago
Those guys have at least five forms of locomotion, according to this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectilinear_locomotion Add a sixth motion, to which I was witness when I was a small child: Almost flying up, aft
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by pdevr 6y ago
Wow. 1. The non-www version doesn't seem to work. 2. If you try https://www.intelink.gov/ , the browser immediately warns you that the site is not secure, because of certificate problems. 3. If you still dare to venture
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by pdevr 6y ago
A huge vote for Postman. Used it a few years back. Was an awesome tool. Hope it still is.
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by pdevr 6y ago
I have a ten year old TODO text file which contains almost everything I have left unfinished. The top of the file contains the latest task I have to finish, and the details, including the device/machine involved, files, what I was doi
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by pdevr 6y ago
Very true - I did Inspect Element and changed #808080 to #202020 without even thinking. I guess I am by now used to these low contrast designs :-)
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by pdevr 6y ago
Essentially, isn't this just another domain registrar (Namebase.io) providing a few TLDs, following a much more complicated process, the advantage being a much more solid DNS entry substitute? If you run a high-traffic site, won't
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by pdevr 6y ago
'"The reality, however, was that for one set of tests, the failure rate was 51.3 per cent. What does that mean? Prosecutors explain: “In other words, Theranos’s TT3 blood test results were so inaccurate, it was essentially a coin
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by pdevr 6y ago
From the second link: PG's opinion: "Aaron's not wrong to call himself one of the founders. The company behind Reddit was a merger of two startups, one that made Reddit and one that made Infogami, and in that situation the fo
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by pdevr 6y ago
Reddit's Lisp to Python port used web.py written by Aaron: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit web.py source code - a framework in a single file: https://web.archive.org/web/20060106
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by pdevr 6y ago
Is there any place where NLG guys hang around? Most groups seem to have NLP as the focus.
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by pdevr 6y ago
Question not directly related to this event, but triggered by this: Has any of the countries around the world built a communication mechanism to directly reach its people without using any third-party platforms? Isn't this a must, in c
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by pdevr 6y ago
Most of Paul's essays stand the test of time. I guess this is an exception to the rule. Microsoft has reinvented itself again and again. Defying conventional wisdom. Multiple times. Under different leaders. Was it able to do this beca
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by pdevr 6y ago
Pet peeve: Why do they use subdomains (marketingreportoptout.visa.com), thus making it a bit easier for the scammers to register similar domains? marketingreportoptout-visa.com is still available for any scammer to register. It costs Visa (
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by pdevr 6y ago
There's more - the URL it points to, https://dxp.mastercard.com/index.html#/onboard/request , doesn't work as of now.
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by pdevr 6y ago
I agree partially. As gruez said, the term "hacker" being used in that sense will irk true hackers. I do see the humor though - even though the situation is not similar, it made me think of the website http://ismycredit
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by pdevr 6y ago
Merry Christmas, all. Happy holidays to the rest. It has been a tough year for most of us, so all the more reason to celebrate the day.
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by pdevr 6y ago
AltaVista was the first search engine I used. It was the best, because I hadn't seen anything else. Then a colleague introduced me to the early version of google.com - a minimum viable product, before that phrase became popular. Within
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by pdevr 6y ago
Yes, I will. Please post here when you build one. Clean and simple code is rare.

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