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by slang800 11y ago
> For a community of this scale to survive and prosper, it needs guidelines to encourage productive and positive experiences, and to effectively deal with negative experiences. Nope - actually it doesn't need any guidelines for its
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by slang800 11y ago
I agree that this is a problem, but it applies not only to startups but every proprietary service. The only way, that I can see, to eliminate the risk of losing a given service is to make a personal archive of everything (for primarily data
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by slang800 11y ago
I can second this - I've been using it for about a year now, and it's fantastic. I'm able to store password history in git, and automatically sync it between all of my machines, using a private GitHub repo for backup.
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by slang800 11y ago
> The trolls are winning the battle for the Internet The trolls aren't "winning" because "the trolls" aren't an organization. They don't have an ideology that they're pushing, or some end-goal that
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Reverse-Engineering Instagram Ids(carrot.is)
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by slang800 11y ago
> In the future, ads will be indistinguishable from content, and [the] already shaky wall between editorial and advertising will collapse completely. If anything, that should give us even more reason to attack this new form of advertisin
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by slang800 11y ago
I think that rate limiting might just force Zenefits to stop using whatever contributed to the high load, and ensure that their API calls are efficient enough. Otherwise, if they really can't do without that volume of calls, then at le
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by slang800 11y ago
> Despite having many legitimate ways to integrate with ADP properly, Zenefits chose an unsecure and indirect approach. Do you really think Zenefits just chose this "lesser" method on a whim? I've never met the team from Z
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by slang800 11y ago
> Our first priority is protecting our clients and their data. ...From themselves? If someone wants to manage their account through a 3rd party that allegedly uses some non-standard way of accessing ADP then that's a risk they decid
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by slang800 11y ago
Aww, that's a shame. I was really hoping that this was a clever use of websockets like http://webtorrent.io is.
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by slang800 11y ago
Well, there are tons of different DRM algorithms, but none of them are backed by secure cryptography since you cannot logically restrict people from "saving" but not from "viewing". There's no mathematical backing t
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by slang800 11y ago
Unless it's easier to break DRM than it is to build a new implementation... Then we're just causing the companies that invest in DRM to lose more money than the companies that respect freedom. I can't say from experience how
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by slang800 11y ago
"those two to three months when pirated versions were unavailable must have reduced the overall level and impact of piracy" - (referring to game sales of Spyro) I think that is a pretty big assumption to make. Pirates that can&#x2
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by slang800 11y ago
I'm a little put-off by the baked-in Markdown compiler. It's partly concerning because of the many dialects of Markdown, and the various configuration options available for each one (which a server shouldn't need to support).
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by slang800 12y ago
I agree with not using the underscore character, while Underscore/Lodash are still popular. Personally, I do `H = require('highland')`, whenever I'm using it.
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by slang800 12y ago
Or a script kiddie working for a superpower.
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by slang800 12y ago
The lack of automatic raising/lowering of the "keyboard surface" sounds like it would be a pain. If I just needed to use the keyboard to type a breif reply in between doing non-keyboard activities, I feel like I wouldn't
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by slang800 12y ago
You'll want to replace "lenguaje" with "language".
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by slang800 12y ago
I find myself stressed out about that, but I don't think it's an irrational anxiety or one that can be simply shaken off. Rather, it's something that we have to deal with directly and fix before we can feel safe.
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by slang800 12y ago
In my experience, unseeded torrents are less common than Rapidshare links that have been removed by their user or taken down after being reported. However, I've never gathered statistics on it, so this is purely anecdotal.
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by slang800 12y ago
And through all this effort to "protect their content", they still haven't managed to stop people from bypassing the DRM and giving the videos away for free in torrents. I have a hard time seeing how implementing DRM provides
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by slang800 12y ago
From what I see, they're a closed-source web service (like Medium, but not free) that's designed like a simpler version of WordPress (themeable / somewhat-configurable). However, they're missing the key social/commu
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by slang800 12y ago
What makes AJAX requests dangerous?
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by slang800 12y ago
> With the horizontal scroll bars, the 320 pixels would be usable Try reading an article while operating a horizontal scrollbar... it's a horrible experience because every line requires you to scroll from left to right, and then bac
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by slang800 12y ago
At first glance, I just thought the slightly different shade was for emphasis, rather than indicating a link.
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by slang800 12y ago
I certainly agree that some (probably most?) web pages have way more UI logic than they need to present the information to the user. Loading animations, back-to-top buttons, fixed position headers, social-share bars, and so many more UI com
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by slang800 12y ago
I'm just going to reply to a couple points on JS: We write code that runs on the client-side primarily for performance. Rendering without needing to send more data over the network or run more code on our servers is a huge win... Espec
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by slang800 12y ago
It's probably even easier to just put inline styles on every row, but neither of those practices are going to result in maintainable markup. By adding classes for the singular purpose of styling them, you tie your markup to the appeara
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by slang800 12y ago
In that case, someone should read through the legislation that Netflix is actually proposing, and explain how it isn't really about Net Neutrality... then we can blame Netflix for misdirecting us and propose some real, useful legislati
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by slang800 12y ago
Encryption doesn't quite solve everything here - the NSA can still demand the encryption keys, or demand direct modifications to the service like logging being installed. To solve this from a purely technical standpoint we'd need

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