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by qjz 17y ago
Aggregation has always had value (the Bible, Familiar Quotes, Readers Digest, The Big Picture, etc.).
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by qjz 17y ago
That seemed to be the case with Netscape, but I hear Mozilla has gained some market share lately.
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by qjz 17y ago
The title of the article is misleading. It's not like they rejected a game named "Android Apocalypse." Why should they host any content that promotes another platform?
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by qjz 17y ago
At the other (and more preferable) end of the solution: What current technology offers the most pixels per square inch? How far away are we from a 1080p PDA/smartphone screen?
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by qjz 17y ago
Since you're already creating subdomains for users, you might want to consider adding wildcard DNS beneath those domains so you can take advantage of the DNS prefetching that is all the rage in browsers and email clients these days. For exa
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by qjz 17y ago
HTTP also depends on MIME. Duplicate suppression can be tricky. The overhead may not be worth the benefit, and the risk of message corruption is increased. Besides, if the mail is encrypted by the user, it may not even be feasible to do ser
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by qjz 17y ago
Any new mail storage protocol should anticipate the need to store encrypted messages at rest. Sure, it can play a part by storing an encrypted index on the server to deliver to authorized clients, but all decryption and index updates should
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by qjz 17y ago
It's worth noting that the Wayback Machine stopped indexing your site on August 22, 2008: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.codethinked.com/ . Do you remember making any changes around then? Your robots.txt file seems fine. Maybe you
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by qjz 17y ago
Perhaps, but it's also an opportunity to clarify or even redefine the job description. If you include only things you want to work on and they pass on you, you've weeded out a potentially bad placement. Too many people are willing to accept
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by qjz 17y ago
Note that the guy who said that is dead.
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by qjz 17y ago
It's the same bomb with a longer fuse.
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by qjz 17y ago
It's an Atom netbook with a touchscreen instead of a keyboard. The OS is based on Debian, so it should support Flash out of the box. But it will be slow, and the resolution could be problematic when attempting to use an onscreen keyboard to
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by qjz 17y ago
That's true, but it's often equally true that the supervisors making the decision are too lazy or unimaginative to initiate the pay raise. The threat of leaving the company isn't only a bargaining chip, sometimes it's the only opportunity.
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by qjz 17y ago
While it's not impossible, downloading an older version of java this week required jumping through new Oracle hoops on top of the already painful process Sun put in place. Please, Oracle, just give me a straightforward download link without
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by qjz 17y ago
We learned in Betamax vs. VHS that there are risks involved in backing an emerging format. The difference here is that it's a little easier for different codecs to coexist, even with varying licenses. The problem is that publishing shouldn'
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by qjz 17y ago
That's hardly the only downside. It seems more like the final straw to me.
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by qjz 17y ago
But there are no barriers to adopting Theora practically overnight, once the market expresses an interest. Vorbis seems to be well supported after an initial wait-and-see period.
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by qjz 17y ago
There is no irony here. This is a discussion forum. If I check out a book from the library, I don't want to see comments scribbled in the margins, but I'm more than happy to join a lively discussion about it on HN or reddit.
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by qjz 17y ago
I actually had one. I'm about the same age as Watterson, and had a stuffed tiger that was identical to the one in the strip. I have a sneaking suspicion that he did to, since he captures the odd proportions of the original so perfectly. In
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by qjz 17y ago
Does Disney really have a monopoly on Mickey Mouse? Then explain this (NSFW) South Park clip: http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/221275 . We make distinctions between copyright, physical property, and even personal safety. Analogies tha
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by qjz 17y ago
Huh? Since when does a CA need your private key/passphrase? Any time I've gotten a commercial certificate, I've only had to provide a Certificate Signing Request (CSR). Ahh, it seems the author didn't follow all of the instructions on the p
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by qjz 17y ago
It's funny, I thought this was an odd choice when the winner was originally announced. I felt the judges were overly moved by the presence of a human element (the fence) in the shot, especially considering the emphasis on wildlife photograp
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by qjz 17y ago
That's a fair question. Issues with misguided draconian measures tend to be revealed fairly quickly, but I also gradually rolled the policy out to several servers so I could make comparisons. With the AWS block in place, I'm sacrificing a l
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by qjz 17y ago
I've been permanently blocking all connections from any AWS/EC2 netblock I identify after an initial exploit attempt. I much prefer temporary blocks triggered by bad behaviour, but the constant onslaught from AWS finally got to be too much.
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by qjz 17y ago
Agreed. I've been a longtime user of Thunderbird, and only a casual user of mutt when I've needed to do some quick processing of email on a server or over a slow connection. But my latest upgrade to Thunderbird 3 has been very disappointing
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by qjz 17y ago
Plugging in the machine was merely to simulate power restoration (a more accurate test would be to leave the DC connector attached to the laptop and cut off power to the AC plug, which sometimes creates different behaviour). I want a server
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by qjz 17y ago
I definitely have lightweight servers in mind, where prolonged 100% CPU usage would be rare. These would basically be headless Linux servers where X11 isn't even running (samba, mail, web, DNS, etc.), with the bonus that a keyboard & di
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by qjz 17y ago
Well, the MacBook hibernated (and the Windows XP VM running in Fusion even went into standby first), but reconnecting the power supply didn't bring it out of hibernation, which is the behaviour I want. I had to hit a key to wake it up. I ha
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by qjz 17y ago
My MacBook Pro is in the red at this very moment. Let me test this out...
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by qjz 17y ago
Laptops are becoming potentially useful as servers, especially considering that they have what amounts to a built-in UPS that can run for up to 12 hours (in this case), without the problems inherent in a conventional UPS (price, single poin

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