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by scribu 13y ago
Seems like the typical "pre-Plus" Google project: limited usefulness, but interesting from an engineering standpoint. Noticed that it still contains share buttons for two defunct Google services: Google Buzz and Google Reader
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by scribu 13y ago
The technique might have been around for a while, but it's the first time it made the connection in my head between twitter hashtags and bash comments, so +1 to the OP.
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by scribu 13y ago
I never thought I would say this, but I think I would prefer Adobe Flash and other browser plugins instead of making DRM a built-in feature of the web.
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by scribu 13y ago
... or at least hire someone to fix the bugs for you. I wonder if there are any closed-source software shops that have a "pays us a premium to fix bug X first" option. Doesn't seem like it would work too well.
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by scribu 13y ago
HN article that links to the original source, i.e. the eso.org website: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5938824
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by scribu 13y ago
I understand that generators allow concurrency, but not parallelism (you can't have more than one generator actually running at the same time, on different cores). If Stackless doesn't support parallelism either (I have no clue),
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by scribu 13y ago
It's useful for a whole bunch of things! I had it implemented in userland as a utility for years.
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by scribu 13y ago
Regarding the direct tapping into the fiber cables, does using SSL have any effect on it? (in case it's not obvious, I'm a cryptography n00b)
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Every Every Every Generation Has Been the Me Me Me Generation(theatlanticwire.com)
2 points by scribu 13y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 13y ago
I was thinking the same thing. "We are very happy with the hammer we are currently using. Previously, we were using pliers to hammer nails and we saw that it wasn't very efficient."
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by scribu 13y ago
Besides the usual damage caused by false allegations, the PRISM story also confuses people into thinking that the other recent NSA-related story [1] isn't true either, but it is. [1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2
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by scribu 13y ago
So, are you suggesting a) that in the USA you are _legally_ allowed to kill others and to pollute? or b) that no, the USA doesn't legally allow that, but in practice it does (any stats on how many guilty people got off the hook?) or what?
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by scribu 13y ago
For more casual HN visitors, such as myself (I only skim the front page a couple of times a day), it might be the first time they've heard of Docker (which looks pretty cool).
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PHP pre-loading library for better scaling(github.com)
2 points by scribu 13y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 13y ago
I don't know about you, but I always had the "Want to try MapsGL?" link down in the left sidebar. Now, since I did have MapsGL enabled, it says it's been integrated into the new Google Maps that's being previewed here.
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by scribu 13y ago
I looked at it a while ago and it seemed abandoned. Going to take a stab at using it in WP-CLI: https://github.com/wp-cli/wp-cli/pull/437
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by scribu 13y ago
Actually, no; "data" can be either plural or singular. In this case, you can substitute "data" with "information", and "most information isn't big" definitely sounds grammatical. Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/data
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by scribu 13y ago
I completely agree. It's not a tech company unless its core business is some particular technology, which it either invented or improved upon. It's ridiculous to classify Yet Another Social Network as a startup that focuses on the "technolo
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by scribu 13y ago
> You say that like Skype is actually forcing or even suggesting users switch. Actually, a while ago, while logging into Skype, I got a clear invitation to switch to a Microsoft account. I ignored it at the time, but I'm reconsidering i
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by scribu 13y ago
I think most people building products (as opposed to OSS) are striving for profitability.
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Ask HN: Follow-up to Homesteading The Noosphere?
2 points by scribu 14y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 14y ago
`git subtree` seems like the perfect tool to complement `git submodule`. Too bad it's not enabled by default: http://engineeredweb.com/blog/how-to-install-git-subtree/
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by scribu 14y ago
Did anyone else notice the blue narwhals in the Staging and Testing areas? What's up with that? Edit: D'oh: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Narwhal (disappointed it's not an easter egg)
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by scribu 14y ago
I just realized that Github's pull requests UI handles this pretty well: You can leave a comment on a particular line in the diff and the comment will be collapsed if you update the code and the diff gets outdated, but the UI will still sho
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by scribu 14y ago
It's pretty sad that, 7 years later, all these good ideas still haven't been incorporated into any mainstream web publishing tool in a coherent way. The closest we have to inline comments is the Google Docs interface and StackOverflow uses
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by scribu 14y ago
You do realize that WordPress plugins and themes are written in PHP and Django is written in Python, right?
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by scribu 14y ago
Templates were already pretty complex a few years ago when I was a casual contributor. I am so glad they did this! Now, if we could only go back in time and replace Vimscript with Lua or Lisp or anything...
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by scribu 14y ago
> Mozilla has very little reason to want the web to evolve. What? Mozilla very much has a reason to want the web to evolve, in order to stay competitive with the various non-web mobile app ecosystems.
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by scribu 14y ago
Maybe, but even so, learning to use FTP is a heck of a lot easier than learning to use git.
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by scribu 14y ago
So, you're saying that you can buy cheap shared hosting with a Python server set up, where you only need to upload the files via FTP and it will just work?

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