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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I used Dvorak for a while but I wasn't really happy with it and went back to QUERTY because it was different enough that I found it annoying switching a lot. That was when I had to use a number of different desktop machines though. Now I mo
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
That's exactly the point. Apple are catering to the vast majority of people rather than the smaller minority of power users. Even among power users those people who regularly hotswap must be pretty slim. I travel a fair amount for work and
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
You should also remember to throttle login attempts for accounts that don't exist. It's important not to create new attack vectors that don't already exist when implementing security features. If you don't throttle accounts that don't exi
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
DoS is a different problem. That's about trying to soak up the entire bandwidth of your servers using lots of computers. If you are throttling number of login attempts per account then it doesn't matter what the IP address being used is.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
This is a brilliantly clear explanation.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
This reminds me of something I wrote to do this with YUI. http://kid666.com/yui-event-list-bookmarklet/ I also wrote a rudimentary Firebug plugin but yours looks way more slick :)
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Some of us will miss it. I used to read it cover to cover while I was in college.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
The news isn't massively interesting but Gary is excellent as ever. I'd recommend watching the video response because this is the reason Gary has such a crazy following. His personal hands on style has really helped Winelibrary.tv upscale t
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Ask HN: Do we need a way to search our "saved" (upmodded) stories
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
This kind of structured data is the next wave, you shouldn't associate "semantic" with W3C's semantic web stack. That's just one possible vision. Microformats is another. The reality is probably somewhere in between.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Surely that would be snake hydrogen, if we are being picky. Isn't he trying to solve the "oil problem"? ;)
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Vaguely interesting article to me. It's basically a reality check for this: http://blog.jayfields.com/2009/01/cost-of-net-negative-produ... In short the reasons why you a good programmer can't remove all the "bad programmers" 1. Working o
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
While I don't condone the piracy, the first of only two games I've spent money on at the AppStore was Lux DLX ($7.99). That was because I'd spent 3 months becoming hopelessly addicted to the free version. While taking away your freedom of c
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Isn't the real problem recompiling executables for which the source is lost or are so hopelessly mired in legacy production systems deploying them would be hell on earth. That was the basic problem with Y2K no one expected them to live that
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Linked In is a great place to start. Ask a question on Linked In about who has jobs and send it to all of your contacts. That way you can funnel the right jobs to the right people. Not only will it help your friends but also if you land any
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Disclaimer: Putting on my Yahoo! Developer Network hat We'd love to hear more feedback like this. If we don't know that something isn't quite right we can't fix it. If there are things we can improve for you unless you tell us we can't do t
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Presumably not everyone realised that it was available for free. I imagine many of them bought it as it was rising up the charts fueled by people who had listened to it for free buying it (as a tip or a donation). It seems like this model i
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Seems to work for me...
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
The problem with an obvious things you don't know wiki is that everyone doesn't know something different that's obvious. Putting all those things in one easy to find place makes them hard to find. And if you didn't know what you were lookin
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I'd like to see some competition in the "metrics for your feed" space. The other stuff, I can live without.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
This is total piffle. The important difference between Facebook and Twitter is one is open and the other isn't. People already in Facebook's ecosystem use status like Twitter, and people inside and out use Twitter to update their status.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I was at a conference with a Sun evangelist banging on about this stuff. I was pretty skeptical. One of our Hadoop grid sysadmins used to work at Sun. He was raving about things like D-Trace and a bunch of features of Solaris that other *ni
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I wonder if the kind of "anti-noise" tech used in high end Japanese cars around the wheel arches would be useful in a data center.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I posted this a couple of weeks back ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=407169 ). I guess I should have titled it something else. That or new year is the best time for things that require resolution ;)
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
as evidenced by the decision in this lawsuit Is anything evidenced? They reached a settlement. Who knows which way the courts would go.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I think it's a shame that rather than just commenting about the parts of the story that interest you, you besmirch others having a debate. The discussion on the environment may have been somewhat tangential to the article, but the comments
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I think his point was that he doesn't like the hairshirt-ism of the environmental movement. Essentially he is acusing them of being a bunch of party poopers for the sake of self-righteousness. He is partly right, there have been a lot of ho
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Right, let's please avoid the same story in triplicate ;)
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
This article might be better described as Healthy Ingredients for Under $1 That said the list is pretty good but the message is simple if you actually take time to think about what you eat and prepare your own food you can eat much better
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Some background: I worked on some Tesco online projects, I have friends who have worked on their data mining. I'm British but I now live in California. Tesco's data mining is easily the biggest operation I've ever seen. Everything I did at

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