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   by pud 14y ago

   One of the things that's held back Windows and made it so complex, according to an MS engineer I recently spoke with who's been with the company since the 80's, is that it contains thousands of pieces of code to fix bugs in third-party soft
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   BrainTripping.com(braintripping.com)

   1 points by pud 14y ago|1 comments
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   by pud 14y ago

   Me too. Doesn't it drive you nuts when some sites don't let you resize fonts? Specifically, look at the Facebook comments on Techcrunch. I can zoom in all I want (command-+) but the comments-font stays tiny. My eyes are bad.
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   by pud 14y ago

   A lot of engineers[1] spent a lot of time successfully fixing Y2K bugs. Because nothing well known blew up, many people wrongly assumed that Y2K was never a real problem to begin with. [1] I moved a Fortune 100 manufacturing company's datab
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   by pud 14y ago

   Looks like it's back now, with 300,000+ likes. Thanks on behalf of the internet, whoever works at Facebook and saw this. :-) https://www.facebook.com/ModernSherlock
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   by pud 14y ago

   This is the motivation I needed to spread my EC2 instances across multiple availability zones. When the power comes back. (fandalism is down)
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   Mass-Unsubscribe In Gmail (Has Increased My Email Productivity Like Silly)(pud.com)

   1 points by pud 14y ago|0 comments
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   by pud 14y ago

   Part of me is happy that he's getting rid of scalpers. The other part of me likes knowing that I can always get tickets for sold out shows from Stubhub. Unrelated- He's using eTix.com and I think he killed them. Trying to buy tickets for
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   by pud 14y ago

   It looks cool but what is with Microsoft's naming conventions. Apparently the official name for this product is "Surface for Windows RT," as it is referenced here: http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en/us/about.aspx
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    by pud 14y ago

    It troubles me a tiny bit to see comments on HN like (paraphrased) "Members of [group that has different religious beliefs than me] are evil." I am not defending religion or Scientology.
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    by pud 14y ago

    I encountered this problem on one of my sites. The solution was -- rather than using the video player's API to stop or pause the video -- I had to remove the video entirely from the DOM with Jquery.remove()
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    by pud 14y ago

    I thought the video was (relatively) amazing. It was funny and cool and not overly douchy and/or nerdy like other demo videos.
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    by pud 14y ago

    The article says to give each password its own unique salt and then store the salt (as well as the salted hash) in the database. This seems like a bad idea to me. If a hacker gets access to the salted passwords, in this case he'll probab
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    by pud 14y ago

    This article is saying the equivalent of, "the primary thing people use Starbucks for is to go to the bathroom. So we tested how hard it is for random people off the street to find the bathroom. Our conclusion is that Starbucks should put t
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    by pud 14y ago

    Cool thing. Though it doesn't get ColdFusion. Anything with <cf_____> tags is ColdFusion. <cfset foo = "bar">
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    by pud 14y ago

    Good timing. About 5 minutes ago I pushed this live on my site. Click any of the video thumbnails here to see (and report bugs if you find any..:) Also, I'm using hashbangs if the browser doesn't support pushState (like IE). And if you're
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    by pud 14y ago

    It's also broken on my MacBook running Chrome. I can only see the first/title page.
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    by pud 14y ago

    I really like the handwriting font. In my mind, it sets this app apart from the drudgery of the email and to-do list apps on my phone.
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    by pud 14y ago

    Brilliant. Thanks for making this app. Downloading now and I will tell my friends about it.
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    by pud 14y ago

    I've never been to a hackathon but as a coder it sounds fun to me. Not everything's about the money.
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    Marketing advice from Deadmau5(deadmau5.tumblr.com)

    11 points by pud 14y ago|1 comments
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    by pud 14y ago

    I see what you did there.
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    by pud 14y ago

    From the article, "Here’s a recipe for success: Take two of the hottest, fastest-growing websites in the world and mash them together." That's not a recipe for success. Perhaps a recipe for getting a Wired article.
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    by pud 14y ago

    Back in the late 90's when Cnet was really big, they embedded a video -- which was hosted on my server -- into one of their articles. Without asking. I found out because my hosting company called me and said I was about to get a huge bill.
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    by pud 14y ago

    Uber is brilliant at this type of thing. Motorcades for Presidents day: http://blog.uber.com/2012/02/16/this-presidents-day-take-a-t... Roses for Valentines day: http://blog.uber.com/2011/02/10/valentines-day-go-from-zero-...
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    Where's My Billion Dollar Check, I Wonder(avc.com)

    3 points by pud 14y ago|0 comments
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    by pud 14y ago

    Does anyone know for how long it was down? My site uses Facebook Connect exclusively and I noticed my stats for the past few hours are way down. Wondering if it's due to the outage, or if I'm just having a slow day.
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    by pud 14y ago

    Wow your app looks amazing. Brilliant. Also, I've found that the iRig mic makes awesome iPhone recordings. Here's the mic: http://www.ikmultimedia.com/irigmic/features/ Here's a drum solo I recorded with the iRig mic (disregard all the ot
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    by pud 14y ago

    Thanks for posting these ideas. Here are some thoughts off the top of my head, train-of-thought. Band Generator - There's something I love about this. I don't think Fandalism can just "generate" a band any more than LinkedIn can "generate
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    by pud 14y ago

    This is a good idea. Ridiculous. But a good idea.