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by rictic 11y ago
Consider using ServiceWorker notifications for an extension-free way to do this.
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by rictic 11y ago
Huh, I suspect we have very different consumption habits. I could predict ahead of time perhaps 5% of the youtube videos that I end up watching.
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by rictic 11y ago
You've posted four snide and low-content comments on this post. Do you have anything substantive to say, or are you just here to sneer?
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by rictic 11y ago
[citation needed]
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by rictic 11y ago
I've lived in that area for a few years now. There's still drug dealing and prostitutes along Larkin between O'Farrell and Geary, but a block north where your friend got egged there's now a stylish cafe and an art galler
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by rictic 11y ago
That's a great idea, and some bright folks are working on it! http://ipfs.io/
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by rictic 12y ago
Other fun placebo effects: red pills work better than blue pills. All pills work better if given to you by a doctor. Better still if the doctor is wearing a white coat. Yet better is the doctor uses a large peace of medical machinery as par
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by rictic 12y ago
Just noticed a phone-related typo. s/Factoria/Factorio/
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by rictic 12y ago
Imagine you're Bernard and you've just been handed the day of the month. If you got 14, 15, 16, or 17 then you don't know the month, but if you got 18 or 19 then you know that the month is May/June.
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by rictic 12y ago
> most people will perceive a red lock thing on their status bar as "less secure" than the "silently gray" HTTP (even if technically, that's obviously not the case) This is true. I believe that Chrome is experim
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by rictic 12y ago
A few recommendations of great games that are doing genuinely new things: Factoria - play as a one person industrial civilization. Terraria - more than it looks at first The Stanley Parable - better to go in blind, but plays with the struct
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by rictic 12y ago
Given that (opt-in) push support is in development for Firefox desktop I'd predict that it won't be too long before it's on Firefox OS as well. More info: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web
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by rictic 12y ago
Well put. One nit: I think you mean backwards compatibility, though asm.js can also be expected to work without modification in future browsers and future versions of javascript.
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by rictic 12y ago
You're being downvoted because you're adding much more heat than light to the conversation, not because your ideas are taboo. I'd recommend instead a comment like: "Consider $otheroption, it has $feature1, $feature2, and
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by rictic 12y ago
You make good points. One point that is proposed by the pro-soylent groups that you may have overlooked: if soylent were to succeed commercially, economies of scale could develop that would make it price attractive even to the global poor.
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by rictic 12y ago
There's an extension language in bazel named Skylark, which will be familiar to you if you wrote build_defs internally: http://bazel.io/docs/skylark/concepts.html
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by rictic 12y ago
I can't recall a single exploitable bug in these competitions that attacked the javascript parser. Running the js is a far larger surface area to attack.
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by rictic 12y ago
One possible contributory force here might also just be the smaller size of the market for >$1k meals, resulting in less total creative effort being brought to bear on the problem. Intuitively this seems very likely: a large fraction of
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by rictic 12y ago
A potential stepping stone to the web of hashes proposal here is the Subresource Integrity spec: http://w3c.github.io/webappsec/specs/subresourceintegrity/ The other thing in this area to watch is ipfs.
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by rictic 12y ago
The support problem for namecoin is being solved. See: okturtles and dnschain.
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by rictic 12y ago
Can you clarify "from the perspective of the original plot"?
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by rictic 12y ago
One important thing, for those who find the main character insufferable at times: this is not a simple mary sue story. When you notice Harry doing something dumb, oblivious, overconfident, condescending, etc. do not assume that this is the
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by rictic 12y ago
At the risk of being inappropriately snarky, to someone who is somewhat skeptical of WoT-based proposals, this reads like: Step 1: the UI will be a mixture of meaningless and annoying to users, causing them to ignore and misuse it Step 2: m
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by rictic 12y ago
Google docs urls that end in /edit will try and figure out what rights you have to the document and give you tools corresponding to those rights (to edit the doc, to share it, to add comments, to add suggestions, etc). Google docs that
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by rictic 12y ago
They are run out of the UI thread of your web site, but their lifecycle is managed largely by the browser. As a developer you can't count on your service worker running at any given time. Their main feature is that they are in between
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by rictic 12y ago
Here's what I could find on maintaining wealth over time: http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark/papers/Sweden%202... - A study of Swedish surnames since 1700s suggested that wealth regressed to the
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by rictic 12y ago
Gandi has 2FA? Huh, I have a name registered there and even looked for 2FA on their site. Guess I didn't look well enough. Thanks for the pointer!
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by rictic 12y ago
The primary reason I use it is to have two factor authentication defending my domains. [disclosure: Google employee]
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by rictic 12y ago
I'm not 100% certain I understand your position, so I'll attempt to restate it in my own words. Please correct me if I'm wrong. The TLS requirement in HTTP 2.0 is objectionable on the grounds that it makes filtering/moni
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by rictic 12y ago
You and the parent are not in disagreement. The point was merely that individuals who are subordinate (children, employees) can be monitored with or without TLS, and the original article's objection was irrelevant (and to my eyes, very

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