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by sh1mmer 17y ago
That worked so well for AOL when they were the "internet".
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
It's ludicrous to me that Dave on the one hand refuses to use JSON but then says the OAuth is "easy". My personal experience is that JSON is very easy and getting OAuth signatures right is like stabbing yourself in the eyes with hot needles
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
I was being tongue-in-cheek, but there is a real point here. As you say I doubt today was unusual for HN, it's the way Pair went from zero to shut-down. One of the things I like about the way that Joyent operate as a cloud host is that they
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
Dear Pair Networks, I'd like to highlight this lesson in how to loose (or not gain) customers by randomly shutting down technology sites that serve the decision makers you wish to influence. Tom P.S. Well done Slicehost.
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
In that case please don't read any books about patterns, or best practices. You might be the best programmer on HN for all I know, but personally I'm willing to admit Doug's decades of programming and international reputation might mean he
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
If there is one book every JS developer should get it's "The Good Parts". Completeness is not the same as 'bestness'. Doug's book tells you what you should know, Flannigan's book tells you what you can use.
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
If you spend any time at all researching Christian you'll find out he's written 2 books on JavaScript and contributed to several more, while speaking prolifically at conferences on the subject. As a colleague and friend of mine, I can tell
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
And Crockford always insists he "discovered" JSON. So please don't misrepresent him, based on the words of someone else.
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
This is fairly worrying: "When you go to create a space, if you do not have your own plan, you will see a field with the prompt "If another subscriber will pay for this space please, provide his email or login". Enter the information for t
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
If you have to have an email address to sign up to most if not all social networks, how is the sign-up figure correct?
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
Now if you just put that same energy from being a snarky jerk into something useful you could have contributed to the world today.
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
Paul is a jQuery core contributor and built a few particularly notable things like Modernizr which helps you test HTML5 features which are not yet fully supported in browsers. He also does the yayquery podcast.
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Node.js, YUI 3 & Dom Manipulation… Oh My(yuiblog.com)
59 points by sh1mmer 17y ago|8 comments
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
Things like patents and trademarks must be defended. Apple may be doing this to demonstrate that it owns multi-touch and that it will not tolerate 3rd party multi-touch implementations. This would be in their defense in the suit against HTC
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
I really don't like the editorializing of this headline. There has been lots of commentary about the potential rights abuse the DMCA imposes. The headline implies that it's being recognized by someone in a position of authority (supreme cou
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
Lots of places do "one shot" credit cards now. Numbers which can be used once, or with a small prepay balance and then discarded. This would seem like an ideal use of that.
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
And for me!
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
Is it me or is that a really terrible info-graphic. I can't read the writing, and instead of linking to a larger version it just seems to link back to the page itself.
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
Why not write a function that does it automagically and then forget about it?
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
One day I want to meet Derek in person, because he just seems like one of those people in life that it's just good to be friends with. Thanks, Derek.
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
Get a split desk and spend part of your work time not on your tush.
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
Right. It's not like Hackers have a sense of humour. While I like HN's mostly tech/startup stories, something that occasionally make me laugh isn't a bad thing. It's just getting the right mix. Reddit is more about that HN which is fine for
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
I think this may not be a "fair" example (are any). There have been severe criticisms of Mugabe for a number of things including cronyism. A lot of the media reports I read in Britain suggested much of the land didn't in fact become common
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
Wow. Frustratingly you can't open ebooks on your computer. So all of those O'Reilly ebooks I got in Kindle format won't open. Thankfully ORA also allow me to get PDF copies of the books I bought, but it's still pretty annoying on Amazon's p
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
Finally. Seriously, I wonder what took Amazon so long. They got some arguably smaller platforms out quicker.
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
It's code illuminated. I know because it was on HN about a year ago and I forked it on Github back then :) Edit: link - http://code.google.com/p/code-illuminated/
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
It's important to point out that this is reviews of the seller, not the product. E.g. if you buy an item from a 3rd party seller on Amazon you can leave a product and a seller review. If you only buy from Amazon on Amazon then this issue sh
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
Right, but I find it astonishing that it was necessary to cancel the competition altogether. I find it surprising that there wasn't a middle-ground which anonymized or didn't include personally identifying information. I feel the lack of a
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
This is based on a Philips invention for their TVs ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambilight ) however, the difference is that this HTML5 video doesn't occupy most of the users vision. Since these TVs are high-end (and thus large) and are vi
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
Originally posted to HN when he wrote it shortly after the CA Prop 8 vote. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=371987

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