shaggy

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by shaggy 16y ago
Sadly the most fervent prognosticators of the "cloud" either won't read this or won't understand what it all means.
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by shaggy 16y ago
It would be great if the site was even a little useful without javascript enabled.
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by shaggy 16y ago
Yes, it does depend on what the site is trying to achieve. I should have been more clear and said that I can't stand when I am brought to a blank browser (not even a "You need javascript enabled" message). I guess it's not so much that I'm
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by shaggy 16y ago
I'm a NoScript user and generally only whitelist JS on sites I use all the time and trust. I'm not overly paranoid about security, but the experience on the web with NoScript is far superior than without it in my opinion. What drives me abs
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by shaggy 16y ago
I really don't understand how shortening URLs is a viable business model? $10 million dollars is an enourmous sum of money to invest for something that provides almost no substantive value. That money would be better invested in software th
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by shaggy 16y ago
It could just be me, but it seems that the sort of users who know and understand finger and SSH are not the sort of users who want to use a micro blogging service.
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by shaggy 16y ago
Being a mac user my $HOME is /Users/$user. So I have ~/Development/svn_root - my working copy of the svn repo my group uses for all code related to project work. ~/Documents/$Company_Name/Projects/YYYY - All non-code related project documen
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by shaggy 16y ago
I think the most interesting piece of that article is that they are caching per user results. So not only have they made result display dynamic, but they've made the performance unique to everyone using the system.
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by shaggy 16y ago
"Whenever you're sending sensitive information online—say, your credit card number to Amazon or a message over Gmail—the content is encrypted before being sent and then decrypted by the Web site you sent it to. (Sites using this secure mode
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by shaggy 16y ago
I worked at a startup where the relentless focus on being able to scale to support millions of users from day one hurt the business very severely and was one of two reasons that the company failed. Spending almost 50% of the venture funding
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by shaggy 16y ago
Nice article. I'll be very interested to see if the new legislation actually leads to improvements in this area. It's always made me furious that the credit bureaus collect and compile all this information about me that I already know, but
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by shaggy 16y ago
Migrating from my old mac book pro to my new mac book pro! Maybe some work if there's time after lunch. :)
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by shaggy 16y ago
You asked how you can become smarter, but I think what you really mean is "How do I find the thing I'm passionate about?" (as some others have mentioned) When you have passion for a particular topic or field of study, learning about it very