shock3naw

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by shock3naw 14y ago
"Removing my name from a document I have painstakingly labored over for three years and over two dozen drafts was not easy. Deciding to move on from an effort I have led for over five years was agonizing." I feel like it's a safe investment
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by shock3naw 14y ago
Inspect the source for both sites. I have to admit, I felt a little nauseous when I first read HN's markup & styling.
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by shock3naw 14y ago
Excellent point. I wonder what the actual cost is to push a Service Pack update to all users (those that update, at least).
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by shock3naw 14y ago
Wow. $40,000 to push an update. Microsoft should put this into practice themselves and refund customers whenever Windows needs a patch.
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by shock3naw 14y ago
And once uploaded, Microsoft will inspect your files and ban/suspend you from SkyDrive, Hotmail, Xbox Live, and the Marketplace if they don't like something. [ http://wmpoweruser.com/watch-what-you-store-on-skydriveyou-m... ]
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by shock3naw 14y ago
This was an April Fool's joke from earlier this year.
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by shock3naw 14y ago
Bland, generic, and inaccurate advice on what to learn/practice before interviewing. The comments here have corrected several problems with your understanding of functional languages, which leads one to believe that you have dabbled with th
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by shock3naw 14y ago
If you want to investigate how it works, open the extensions tab and enable developer mode. You can open 'background.html' for Adblock and check out what it does.
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by shock3naw 14y ago
Huh? What chrome extension are these people using? Adblock Plus (Beta) blocks pretty much everything.
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by shock3naw 14y ago
Why are cleartext password fields bad practice? How many accounts are actually compromised via shoulder surfing? They're especially annoying on mobile phones. edit: Since there are password fields, I guess the question should have been "How
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by shock3naw 14y ago
Now that Twitter is 'stable,' the API is being overhauled and they are moving away from being a single page application. You forget Twitter has been dealing with technical debt for years. The fact that Twitter still runs on Rails and serves
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by shock3naw 14y ago
A 1% reduction in output at Twitter's scale isn't as paltry as you might assume. Engineering decisions are made for both server-side and client-side reasons. You're making a blanket statement about Twitter developing bad code because of a r
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by shock3naw 14y ago
This is not a startup, this is a tool. Maybe you can make a bit of side-income from ads, but don't expect this to become a company on its own. Problems: - Don't use buttons that look so 'bubbly' - Bad colour scheme - There are two different
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by shock3naw 14y ago
Then go recreate it and offer it for free.
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by shock3naw 14y ago
To be literal, the only thing that a shareholder 'controls' are the votes that their own shares provide. They may be able to influence the votes of others, but that by definition is not control. What you've defined in the second paragraph i
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by shock3naw 14y ago
3rd year university student's opinion: The first problem to be solved is that most introductory math education is still about calculating and not about applying mathematical principles to real problems. I think that being able to estimate a
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by shock3naw 15y ago
Even if Canada 'was' broke, I'd have to say it's better than being over $15.5 trillion in debt ;) edit: Assumed an American is making the comment.
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by shock3naw 15y ago
I believe a key take-away from this is not to use GoDaddy as a registrar :)
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by shock3naw 15y ago
I'm a fairly trusting person, but I think your Facebook permissions need to be rethought. I really doubt you need access to all my photos, family, and info that other people share with me.