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by phuff 15y ago
"The fact that this pattern is so old and so widespread suggests that it is not a myth." Or, I suppose, it could suggest just the opposite -- that it makes it all the more likely to be a myth... At the minimum it suggests that it is someth
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by phuff 15y ago
Yeah, but you still have to store the hashes server side in the case where you want to notify people when their friends join (which is how Path was using the data).
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by phuff 15y ago
I think it's a bit conspiracy-theorist to say that companies do this because they want to use everything they can get. The relatively easy privacy maintaining alternative (hash address book contents and store the hash, and check against ha
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by phuff 15y ago
In JS you can comment regular expressions, too... :) var foo = new RegExp( '\\d\+' + // First digit '-' + // Delimiter '\\d\+' // Second digit ); fo
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by phuff 15y ago
I'm sure if the Path guys had thought of that, they would be in a less bad place right now :)
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by phuff 15y ago
How do you propose to check them client side? :) You still have to send each contact over to the server...
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by phuff 15y ago
<shamelessplug>If you want to use any of these inside emacs check out my js-comint mode: http://js-comint-el.sourceforge.net/ Makes it really easy to do things like write code in one buffer and execute it in another. </shamel
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by phuff 15y ago
I think that's a pretty bad idea. The benefit of calling in person is that it shows that you really care enough to have an actual conversation with a person. If you're just getting 100 robo-calls it's going to seem like astro-turfing (whi
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by phuff 15y ago
No. It's repercussions.
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by phuff 15y ago
I have worked for several years on remote teams and have a couple years work experience on a completely local team. In terms of team cohesion I'd say that it has very little to do with colocation, all other things being equal. Maybe you ju
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by phuff 15y ago
On the beggar black market? :) I guess so... Seems like most of them would probably just use it for food, though.
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by phuff 15y ago
This related article in which the reporter gave out prepaid charge cards to beggars on the street helped change my ideas about the people who are panhandling. http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/854018--how-panhandl...
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by phuff 15y ago
In this day and age even if you are afraid they're going to spend the money on booze you can buy them a gift card to a nearby restaurant...
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by phuff 15y ago
For a long time that was my first question anytime there was a network problem that wasn't a simple solve on the client. Step 1: Disable/Enable interface Step 2: Call NOC: "Can you tell me what this port is autonegotiated to?"
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by phuff 15y ago
The Kindle works great with all kinds of non-drm-ed content, fyi. Mobi, epub converts easily, html, etc. I have read a ton of non-drm-ed stuff on mine.
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by phuff 15y ago
Amazon usually has really good customer service all the times I've called. It seems like this really is a fell through the cracks thing. I'm glad venues like Consumerist exist to publicize this kind of thing.
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by phuff 15y ago
Thanks
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by phuff 15y ago
Yeah, I actually have them separated this way because I couldn't think of a great way to label/display male + female names for the same graph at the same time. I've thought of only showing the predominant gender for each name, but then dooz
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by phuff 15y ago
It's a good question. Right now I'm not sure. I hadn't seen the babynameclusters guy down below :)
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by phuff 15y ago
Yeah, I scraped it from the social security website, so US only for right now.
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by phuff 15y ago
Good call, I'll add that in. Thanks.
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by phuff 15y ago
Hey, thanks for the tip! I'll check it out.
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by phuff 15y ago
I agree with lemma, I think it's Freakonomics. I have some basic stats/other demo graphs that I think might be interesting. This kind of Celebrity type graphing would be fun, too. Thanks for the idea!
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by phuff 15y ago
That's a good idea. Thanks! Also, I have only crawled the SSA site for the names, so if it's not in the top 1000 for some year in the USA since 1880 it won't be in there.
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by phuff 15y ago
Yeah, viable in this context means that you can graph names and there are ads on the page. All the times we've tried to look at names for popularity when naming our kids we haven't had just simple visualization tools like this, so I though
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Show HN: My minimum viable side project(babynamegraphs.com)
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by phuff 15y ago
Not bad for 1996! I'm amazed that they put so much media online. You see stuff like this on DVD extras these days but I don't see that much "behind the scenes" type stuff on most websites for movies.
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by phuff 15y ago
The process isn't a hack, but the end result is :) Not a "quick and cheap dirty hack" but a "I've manipulated a system to do something different or better in a novel way" sense of a hack. My wife had epidurals during the delivery of our ch
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by phuff 15y ago
> This can be really time-consuming, so one "fix" is to retrieve a document before writing it (thus guaranteeing it will be resident in RAM). On a high traffic site does this guarantee that it will be in RAM? Couldn't it get swapped ou
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by phuff 15y ago
Where is YT in the Diamond Age?

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