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by pippy 14y ago
A war on aging would be 1000 times more constructive than our current 'wars'. The war on terror cost us fundamental rights and the war on drugs didn't change the percentage of people who abuse them. It would have many positive outcomes; tec
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by pippy 14y ago
If they hired someone to figure it out, they could splash out for a cheap tablet. I agree with the first superuser post. Isolate the win 3.1 machine as much as possible, and use another machine for networking. It's too much of a risk, loosi
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by pippy 14y ago
That point was very weak, I have to admit. I guess a better way of putting will be you're supporting an open internet by supporting open browsers. Not the other way around.
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by pippy 14y ago
Supporting IE has nothing to do with how well it renders a site. Supporting IE carries massive baggage as you have to pin yourself to Microsoft's erratic, tactic based release cycles and limiting yourself with future features. Chrome and Fi
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by pippy 14y ago
This was great till I got to the renaming of Outlook to "Mail app". Outlook still has the largest market share and completely disregards HTML standards. As someone who often has to write templates for Outlook, it's a hassle to get it to wor
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by pippy 14y ago
Technically TPB enables copyright infringement, it doesn't engage in it. It's the users who upload torrent files (now magnet links), and the users who download material. Giving someone a loaded gun doesn't make the gun maker a killer. It's
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by pippy 14y ago
Is that seek.co.nz?
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by pippy 14y ago
Many of the greatest people in arts, sciences, mathematics are simply people who worked hard and thought outside the box. There's a little bit of luck there too as it's random if another will recognise a person for their hard work. Even aft
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by pippy 14y ago
The favicon is still visible in the tab bar, having it in the address bar is a security risk. I'd much rather have no icon there - it's mystery meat to the novice user and unnoticeable to the expert. It should be a large green slab during H
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by pippy 14y ago
This is fantastic, I was just talking about this on HN a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=3865966&whence=thre...
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by pippy 15y ago
Websockets are great, but apache and nginx are still yet to support them out of the box. You have to recompile nginx with a module and apache has to have a custom mod. When it's a case of writing in a line in nginx.conf for a proxy bypass o
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by pippy 15y ago
It's not fair to call tainted ecstasy deaths a result of drug use. Despite the fact tainted ecstasy is technically not ecstasy, if the industry was regulated it wouldn't happen.
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Facebook's valuation (in Whoppers)(kottke.org)
7 points by pippy 15y ago|1 comments
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by pippy 15y ago
I'm highly suspect of this motive. It seems like first stage of EEE. It's odd they're putting emphasis on standardization of HTML5, when their latest browser is two years behind. Their HTTP 2.0 initiatives just seems like an attempt to reta
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by pippy 15y ago
Plus if you to take a step back, and look at the fundamentals of PHP: * PHP is open source. If you don't like it, change it. Or submit patches. Or bug reports * PHP does what is says on the can. It's a hypertext preprocessor, and it does th
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YouTube-Paramount make deal(stuff.co.nz)
1 points by pippy 15y ago|0 comments
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by pippy 15y ago
Using jQuery allows for chaining, CSS selectors and a simple function call. Simply getting the width/height of an element in JavaScript is very hairy, especially when you want a cross browser solution. I agree this jQuery thing a little red
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by pippy 15y ago
They seem to have removed their page detailing ARM support. The debian ARM repo still has an older version, I wonder if they've stopped support?
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by pippy 15y ago
I'd rank working remotely for a third world country underneath moving cities to find work. (aka, the last last resort) Most non-western countries have a habit of under-quoting software development, blowing out schedules and producing poor q
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by pippy 15y ago
The end of the video is what really got me. I won't spoil it, but it's worth watching all the way through.
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by pippy 15y ago
I'm an Adobe Flash fanboy, but even I'm starting to become pro HTML5 for rich media. I can't understand why Adobe is making these decisions when they're competing with an upcoming technology that has a such large & growing fanbase. This
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by pippy 15y ago
Admittedly I did the exact same thing as you, right down to the same quote. Most male dominated fields of work behave like this - it's a reflection of subtle rules society that we're taught at a young age. We can try to patch it over but it
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by pippy 15y ago
IE style sheets drastically clean up the main stylesheet. O'reilly's book on CSS recommends to code to the standards and hack to the fringe browsers, and with good reason. Browsers change all the time. But they will always gravitate towards
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by pippy 15y ago
Also from wikipedia: >Socialism /ˈsoʊʃəlɪzəm/ is an economic system characterized by social ownership and control of the means of production and cooperative management of the economy There seems to be a myth that socialism means anti-ca
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by pippy 15y ago
> It sounds like post-hoc rationalizing to apply this logic to humans. I couldn't agree more. Humans are (mostly) monogamous and are born from combinations of parental genes (with the exception of the mitochondrial DNA). Thus the proper
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by pippy 15y ago
If any security personal saw a transparent plastic flashing light shaped like a grenade they'd likely write it off as a trinket.
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by pippy 15y ago
>HN community more credit for having legitimate conversations about topics that arent purely sensationalist /r/programming has massive issues with its userbase, they're opinionated and uneducated which is a disastrous combination. If yo
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by pippy 15y ago
This is why I love HN. A purely rational discussion with citations. Not even Reddit achieves this level of discourse. I live in New Zealand where many are extremely anti-nuclear, almost to the point of ridiculousness. This causes massive pr
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by pippy 15y ago
>The reason the -webkit prefix was necessary is simple: the W3C and the CSS Working Group are ineffective, failed organizations. This is a bit too far. The -webkit prefix was a gesture of courtesy. What if other browsers implement it di
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by pippy 15y ago
I've been looking for a mouse acceleration program that solves this problem. I can't tell you how many times I've installed / uninstalled Mouse Acceleration preference pane, Mouse curves, and that Japanese mouse acceleration program. It's i

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