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by points 16y ago
Perhaps I'm just weird, but the main feeling I have for people who achieve 'success' at a very early age is sadness. What sort of life are they going to have... The sort enjoyed by child actors? :/ (I'm not talking about anyone in particula
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by points 16y ago
That whole 'Note 8' sounds pretty stupid. "In Mongrel2 we use a parser that rejects invalid requests from first basic principles using technology that's 30 years old and backed by solid mathematics." The mind boggles... (Unless he's just be
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by points 16y ago
Enjoy your life. Just because some choose to do things at an early age, doesn't mean you should. Just take a look at child star actors, and how they turn out in later life!
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by points 16y ago
Let me be clearer - the link does not load for me. http://blog.pagerduty.com is dead here. http://pagerduty.com loads fine though.
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by points 16y ago
Is this a joke or irony? (The blog seems to be down right now).
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by points 16y ago
Right. You should trust the open source code which everyone has access to.
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by points 16y ago
Can someone with a scientific knowledge tell me if we'll one day have technology to package the full body scanner into glasses? That will open a massive can of worms for humanity :/ What happens when everyone can see everyone else naked...
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by points 16y ago
You manage to type on that massive keyboard in a drawer? Surely not.
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by points 16y ago
It's fun, yes, but at the same time, it's nostalgic. We've had such technology for decades. There have been desktop sharing apps for years, in Java applets etc. So whilst it's cool that the browser wars are generating a ton of improvements,
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by points 16y ago
There's way more important things in life than money.
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by points 16y ago
Doing workshops seems scammy to me. It's like doing popup ads. Sure, you could, but eugh.
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by points 16y ago
I'd be willing to bet the teaching, workshops etc are the funnel into which flow people, who leave thinking "wow they're cool. I better signup to a basecamp account". Without the teaching, book, blog, workshops etc, who would buy basecamp/c
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by points 16y ago
I think you have to censor for kids - eg don't play it uncensored in public places. For a good laugh though checkout "Uzi Lover": Lyrics - "C@nt! B@tch! C@nt! B@tch! Motherf@cker!" - "Shove it up her motherf@cking ass and fry it" http://ww
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by points 16y ago
tl;dr - We learnt early on that we can make a ton of money holding 'workshops' rather than making software. Whilst still an interesting study in how you can generate a 'following' religion etc, if you're writing software, there's nothing mu
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by points 16y ago
Not a great track IMHO. If it wasn't called "fuck you" I don't expect many people would care about it. And really why is this on HN?
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The Twitter Revolution That Wasn't(foreignpolicy.com)
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by points 16y ago
That's not the case at all IMHO. The top voted comment is just whatever the groupthink agrees is the 'right' stance on that issue. Over time online communities such as HN and Reddit gravitate towards a specific set of viewpoints. It means t
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by points 16y ago
Fair point, but I expect the front page will be literally full of "VOTE" items at the right time.
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by points 16y ago
It's farcical. It's just circlejerking. The idea that advertising pro-prop19 to Reddit would have made any sense in the first place is just ridiculous given that they're all pretty much uniformly in favor of it. It's fun to watch them run
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by points 16y ago
The more surprising thing IMHO is the air of superiority that Reddit users have over religion, and especially over people who watch Fox News etc. Now I'm not for one minute defending people who only watch Fox News, but there are people who
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by points 16y ago
They probably thought they were buying a broad general "What news will look like in the future" website. In fact they ended up with a liberal pro drug, pro gay, pro adblock, anti capitalism, anti consumerism, anti advertising, athiest websi
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by points 16y ago
This is why IDE's are a bad idea.
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by points 16y ago
I disagree. For the people working on webkit, the fix is probably an hours work. For me, it'd likely be a week to get up to speed with the project. So it's more efficient for me, and other users not familiar with the codebase to yell at the
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by points 16y ago
I don't think it's technically hard to fix at all. I think the more likely issue is that it may break badly coded websites that do stupid stuff. Chrome+Firefox should definitely do it though. You can't really just cop-out that if something
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by points 16y ago
>> "so you click one button to whitelist the Javascript" It's amazing how quickly 'click one button to be able to view this website' would irritate the hell out of anyone. It's certainly an option for geeks or security freakouts, bu
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by points 16y ago
Whilst technically impressive, it reminds me of the 'NASA spent millions developing a pen that writes in space vs Russians used a pencil'. Googles competing pdf reader just renders pdfs into images which also have selectable text.
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by points 16y ago
It was surprising to me when I worked at stupidBigCo how many programmers just churn out crap and never actually test it. They just kinda hope it works. Then when it doesn't, they kinda guess at what's wrong and churn out some more crap. Ma
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by points 16y ago
NoScript isn't a good solution and certainly not a scalable one - most people don't want to browse without js. It'd be better for browser makers to simply detect clickjacking and block it. If an element isn't visible to the user (either par
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by points 16y ago
It'd be trivial to modify js behavior before the FB JS file loads. For example... window.confirm = function(m) { return true; }
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by points 16y ago
Here's a great analysis of why Meetro (Doing similar thing) failed: http://meetro.lefora.com/2008/05/21/meetro-post-mortem/

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