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by qjz 16y ago
I've nearly eliminated the problem with brute force attacks, but it's quite multilayered. I use public key authentication with strong passphrases, but leave password authentication enabled for the standard port, so I'll focus on that as
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by qjz 16y ago
Unfortunately, lightbox-style galleries still behave inconsistently across hardware/platforms/browsers and often break. And, you're right, many people find them annoying. But as a developer who recently converted a portfolio site, I can tel
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by qjz 16y ago
But the initial page load takes longer because it loads the full size images along with the thumbnails. That could be a deal breaker with a large set of images.
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by qjz 16y ago
Doesn't this really track where the city health inspectors have been?
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by qjz 16y ago
I've been expecting this from the moment I first saw an exploded view of an SSD. I understood the case allowed for the SSD to be used as a replacement drive, but figured it was only a matter of time before they'd be installed in slots on th
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by qjz 16y ago
Why can't I get the word "deathtrap" out of my mind whenever I see a picture of this contraption?
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by qjz 16y ago
4. Create a NOT List I love this one. Nothing irks me more than a vendor soliciting feature requests without fixing critical longstanding bugs. While I wouldn't expect a NOT list to be written in stone, the mere existence of one might hel
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by qjz 16y ago
How about a $1 bill priced at $2 w/free shipping? From every angle, it would be an interesting experiment. From the consumer's standpoint, it challenges the notion of free shipping . From a seller's standpoint, it challenges the notion of
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by qjz 16y ago
I hope there's going to be a followup discussing the strengths and pitfalls of each, along with the the original specifications of the app, so we can see where a framework imposed limitations or even provided a better approach to implementi
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by qjz 16y ago
I take advantage of Python's docstrings to describe what the following code does to the point where I don't feel the need to add blank lines within a function. It's all explained upfront, which seems to improve the readability of the compac
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by qjz 16y ago
Judging by the wide range of profiles, I'd say the format is flexible enough to address all of your concerns without changing a thing. Some of the featured users focus only on what they use to get work done, while others come off as proud t
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by qjz 16y ago
"I'd managed to turn my room into the cleanest and quietest place in the house, which meant everyone else wanted to spend a lot of time there" How true! My home office was also my workshop/server room. I got tired of the heat, noise and tec
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by qjz 16y ago
Nothing superfluous here. He's a minimalist.
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by qjz 16y ago
My MacBook Pro 17" non-chiclet keyboard has a small 'enter' key on the bottom row between the right command key and the cursor keys. I don't think I've ever touched it. Newer models have an 'option' key there, so it must not have been popul
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by qjz 16y ago
I guess I'm a minority of that minority, in that I love X for its ability to run single applications remotely over the network. Neither Windows nor OSX do this well (if at all). Frankly, I don't want a whole desktop when I can just run th
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by qjz 16y ago
It also looks like they plan to continue developing OS X Server. Plus, they still have a hardware server offering in the Mac Mini Server.
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by qjz 16y ago
If they take the eat-your-own-dog-food approach, they might install a fair share of Mac Mini Servers. They aren't nearly as powerful as the deprecated Xserve, but they sip energy, an important consideration in a data center. Depending on th
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by qjz 16y ago
Yes, this is a good point and I actually noted it in my issue tracker while troubleshooting. I made sure that inserts & updates weren't negatively affected to an unacceptable degree after adding the indexes. The overall win was huge, be
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by qjz 16y ago
Google's pages don't validate. Nobody's claiming there isn't a reason for it. Naturally, one would expect Google to adhere to the standards. As you point out yourself, they're smart enough to understand them. This is old news. Why is it rel
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by qjz 16y ago
Gee, with so many brilliant people working there, I would have expected better from Google.
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by qjz 16y ago
"They figure out why the response time for the worst query is bad and then fix it." This can reap huge benefits and doesn't need to be difficult. Just enable the slow query log in MySQL, use the EXPLAIN command to analyze the results, then
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by qjz 16y ago
No, a site that sells drug testing kits is not a good source, and there's probably a good reason it is the best quote you could find. In any case, a car certainly qualifies as a space that's confined enough to get high from second hand pot
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by qjz 16y ago
"Miron advises advocates to argue pot prohibition interferes with individual liberty" This is precisely why legalization will fail, as long as smoking marijuana continues to be the principal means of ingestion. The problem is that anyone
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by qjz 16y ago
Your title has a bug. On HN, all pages exist.
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by qjz 16y ago
Microsoft tends to play a zero sum game where it will innovate like mad until it dominates a market sector, then let it stagnate until threatened, having moved on to other areas. Anyone who operates a web server has seen a noticeable shift
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by qjz 16y ago
Penny auction sites are like slot machines: The House always wins. It shouldn't be possible to trick the public interface (if they've coded it right), so any bid placed will make them money. In fact, warring bots will only increase their pr
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by qjz 16y ago
The process doesn't have to be random. Nobody likes to fill out forms, so the goal is to make them as simple and short as possible. What value did "Company Name" add to this form? Someone thought it would be a good idea to collect this data
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by qjz 16y ago
I did read the article, and the title says it all. They lost money because they got greedy for data that was unnecessary to complete the transaction. As a result, another point of failure was added and frustrated users bailed. The body of
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by qjz 16y ago
Convenience is king and this is an excellent example of how easy it is to go too far when collecting data from users. I already expect to jump through a few hoops when using a credit card online, so asking me for my life story will only enc
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by qjz 16y ago
I work remotely. As a result, I save my employer a ton of money, so I'm not keen on the idea of taking a pay reduction. In fact, I already take a hit on the city wage tax, even though I live and work outside of the city.

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