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by sayrer 17y ago
Exactly. The value is the other students. That's certainly the factor that influenced my experience more than any other. The author may have a point about universities being overpriced, but he missed a pretty key point, so his analysis is s
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by sayrer 17y ago
Meta is Murder http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001282.html
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by sayrer 17y ago
are you using Firefox 3 or 3.5? My tab bar sure changes color when the app is in the background. I'm using OS X 10.5.7.
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by sayrer 17y ago
hi. disclosure: I work for Mozilla. What do you dislike about it?
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by sayrer 17y ago
"Are there languages that force you to write code in a way that is crabbed and incomprehensible?" How about TECO?
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by sayrer 17y ago
Pipelining doesn't work.
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by sayrer 17y ago
"How it certainly doesn’t work is by going into a predefined building - sometimes even with an access fee - and only finding potential partners in there." Actually, certain kinds of dating work exactly like this, and translate well to the o
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by sayrer 17y ago
I don't know what to believe. That article is borderline illiterate, but it does sound bad if accurate.
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by sayrer 17y ago
I liked the section where he considered stepping back and expanding to different subjects. Reputation and voting systems have added so much to our culture--it seems like a principal advantage of the Web. Google, Twitter, StackOverflow all r
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by sayrer 17y ago
Is mashable better? I like TechCrunch better, I think. But TC has an acerbic vibe that might put people off. If only we could tell who had the higher value readers.
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by sayrer 17y ago
It doesn't require additional changes. I'm not sure it will fix the .NET client library's paranoia though--I was only guessing.
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by sayrer 17y ago
bing is faster. my firefox search box has been set to bing for a week, and I am not inclined to switch back. (disclosure: I work for Mozilla, which competes with both Google and Microsoft in browsers, but not in search)
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by sayrer 17y ago
Hmm, it is complaining about the status line (the first one). I think it is choking on the HTTP 1.0 response with a Connection header. That header was added in HTTP 1.1, but lots of people use it with HTTP 1.0 and pretty much everyone suppo
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by sayrer 17y ago
To me, the only thing that makes twitvid.com wrong is choosing the same name. Some of the features and accompanying copy are the same, but the layout is basically a combination of any ugc site and Twitter. These two both look a lot like jus
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by sayrer 17y ago
"They have exactly the same copyright policy as any other UGC site. They take down infringing stuff when they're told about it." Looks like an Everybody Else Is Doing It argument. What makes "the same copyright policy as any other UGC site"
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by sayrer 17y ago
the n00bs are making us dumber
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by sayrer 17y ago
allmylifeforsale.com did this years ago
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by sayrer 17y ago
This is a smart response. Some addons have millions of users. That's a lot of users, and there should be a better way to get some compensation.
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by sayrer 18y ago
Indeed. http://www.ilikespam.com/blog/internet-explorer-meets-the-va...
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by sayrer 18y ago
It's even trickier than that. People who get it right will often think less of the person using the term incorrectly, but won't bother to correct them. I'm sure similar things happen when you encounter clueless MBA types in the valley. Ther
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by sayrer 18y ago
It sounds like a healthy attitude. It's not like Scheme and Python are radically different languages.
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by sayrer 18y ago
Well, HTTP doesn't really have versions other than as a shorthand for header defaults. For example, Connection: close handles implementations that assume HTTP 1.1, iirc. An Expires header would help a lot for arc-generated pages served in r
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Hacker News would scale better with some caching headers
14 points by sayrer 18y ago|6 comments
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by sayrer 18y ago
Good for Etherpad. Features that enable narcissism often do very well. :) However, I have to admit that I think such playback would make me a better writer.
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by sayrer 18y ago
The main point the guy makes is that "testable code" resembles functional programming. And testable code is code that doesn't suck. Maybe code that doesn't suck is code that resembles functional programming. I guess you could argue that all
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by sayrer 18y ago
"I think what religion and politics have in common is that they become part of people's identity" This essay doesn't touch on what it actually means for an idea to become part of someone's identity. I think I have a rough notion of what was
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by sayrer 18y ago
I think it depends on whether your users can write programs for your program. I work on a web browser, and every test is worth something. To some degree, we don't care what the test is testing. We want to be sure we don't change it unintent
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by sayrer 18y ago
CSS is missing features. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=464428
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by sayrer 18y ago
A lot of the CSS layouts you see around the Web are gross hacks, break on edge cases, and are indeed difficult to get right. This is what's needed to fix it.
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Making CSS a lot more useful for many layouts(xulplanet.com)
22 points by sayrer 18y ago|4 comments

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