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by pwf 13y ago
Almost useless, unless you have the keys.
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by pwf 13y ago
Do you have a link to this? Edit: Nevermind, I read that as CentOS...
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by pwf 13y ago
I've never been asked if I was an engineer, but I've definitely experienced the latter of your two anecdotes. Sometimes it just depends on the person you're talking to. At one point I learned that the best way to get a certain coworker of m
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by pwf 14y ago
I got my wife and my current job from IRC. Good to know I'm not the only one ;)
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by pwf 14y ago
Maybe it's just me, but having a bunch of strangers staring at me on the landing page was a pretty poor user experience.
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by pwf 14y ago
They have: m.facebook.com It might not be entirely 'snappy', but it's a hell of a lot better than the installed app version. I laugh every time I go to the website and it suggests I install their app on the login page.
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by pwf 14y ago
The Android app manages to get stuck buffering a song nearly every time I use it, even on a wifi connection. The widget on my homescreen still has a spinning circle instead of a play button even though I killed the app after it got stuck da
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by pwf 14y ago
> I’ve found men to be more laid back, friendlier, and easier to talk to than women. I had to stop reading there. Is this article supposed to be an example of what real sexism looks like?
39.
by pwf 14y ago
He mentions why it does that, but he doesn't say why he opts not to preserve the two spaces: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/text.html#white-space-prop
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by pwf 14y ago
I just thought the exaggeration of steps was ridiculous and unnecessary. I can already do something similar at local bars, but you still have to include the steps of knowing the bartender, having a running tab, getting your credit card info
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by pwf 14y ago
The Google Wallet example is entirely disingenuous. Compare these two: 1. Get (real) wallet. 2. Find the right card. 3. Swipe the card. 4. Press 'Debit' on the machine. 5. Press 'No' to the cash back prompt. 6. Enter my PIN. Versus: 1. Get
42.
by pwf 14y ago
Familiar metaphors like an egg hatching into the prey of its parents?
43.
by pwf 14y ago
Not many kids grew up sailing. Most kids these days have a fair bit of experience with video games, first person shooters especially. They might not get the subtleties of some of the 'pro' level FPS games, but I think they would be able to
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by pwf 14y ago
It would make the most sense to store nothing. As far as I can tell, it doesn't return a link to the filtered image or anything, just the binary. RAM would be the limiting factor here I think. The images would need to be decompressed to fil
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by pwf 14y ago
I want to see a blog post about someone who decides to stop reading blog posts about people who stop reading their email/twitter/facebook.
46.
by pwf 14y ago
You definitely seem like what I would consider a light user then. My wife has 1000+ Facebook friends, and posts 15-20 times a day. If I round to 1GB/mo in your case, then she would probably use around 20GB/mo... which is actually not bad. T
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by pwf 14y ago
I don't think so, considering that not all of my followers are going to be using the service all of the time. If the server just blindly downloaded everything always, then yes, it would be more bandwidth. But with proper caching strategies
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by pwf 14y ago
What arguments do you have against a 'pull' style for notifications? Something like a GET to /latest that passes in the last time the client checked for updates and only gets back the URI of the last 10 or so posts since then. An HD video p
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by pwf 14y ago
It seems like this will use up a crapton of bandwidth with its 'push' style notifications. If someone with a million Facebook followers makes a new post, one entry is made in the database and then users pull it down as they visit their own
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by pwf 14y ago
They describe it as a 'protocol' on top of HTTP; I don't think that assumes much about the 'client of choice'. Most apps I've worked with already use HTTP and JSON anyway.
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by pwf 14y ago
This seems like something you could throw a Kinect at. Get a few images at the right angles, build a crude 3D model, and measure that in software instead of wasting resources shipping shirts around. It wouldn't account for preference, but s
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by pwf 14y ago
I still feel like I have to do math (albeit simple math) with relative line numbering. If I want to yank a block of code that's X lines long, I have to look at line X, and add one to the number next to it. E.g., when I want to grab 8 lines,
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by pwf 14y ago
I just tried googling for the cached version, hoping that they were able to grab it, but interestingly they have only a screenshot of the article. It's even clear enough to read all the text, but there's no cached version. Surely the page i
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by pwf 14y ago
If I'm not allowed to assume names fit into the set of Unicode symbols, what do I use for a name field in my database? An image field? What if a dragon whose name cannot be printed attempts to sign up for my service? Someone who decides to
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by pwf 14y ago
It's definitely a signal, though I don't take to mean quite what you do... It's only 'likely that they sweated the other details' if you assume infinite manpower and resources. In reality, all of the very finite resources that went into pic
56.
by pwf 14y ago
Isn't that what Google Buzz was doing? That didn't turn out too well...
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by pwf 14y ago
That's the conclusion I came to, but it wasn't very definitive. At the very least I expected to come across links to people talking about their lack of patents. Maybe I should have searched for 'instagram no patents'.
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by pwf 14y ago
I tried searching around to see if Instagram had any patents that were discussed on the web after their sale. I could find absolutely nothing useful. The search algorithm decided that news about Facebook's acquisition and their AOL patents
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by pwf 14y ago
That's not that great of an example: password: This is easy to guess entropy: 52.13 crack time (seconds): 246474312966 crack time (display): centuries score from 0 to 4: 4
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by pwf 15y ago
Is it that you can't suffer the same issue, or that you can't 'really' suffer the same issue? Even if there's a smaller chance of it happening, any language that has ANY chance of killing your system when running as expected is a language I

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