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by spb 13y ago
The trouble with DRM helmets is that they fail to prevent the #1 source of unauthorized media consumption - individual recollection of previously-consumed content (the "memory hole" that has been as of yet unclosed). To achieve th
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"It couldn't be stupider, and that's why it's brilliant" Yishan Wong on Dogecoin(quora.com)
2 points by spb 13y ago|1 comments
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by spb 13y ago
> I highly recommend the SSD power especially for mysql and redis performance. If SSD is giving you added performance with redis, you're using redis wrong.
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by spb 13y ago
Seeing as how .info, .mobi, .aero etc. never took off, I don't think these new TLDs are really likely to displace .com either. The thing about ".com" is that, to the average person, .com is the thing that makes a domain a d
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by spb 13y ago
You're thinking of fastclick. This is different, it's page prefetching so that you start loading the page before the UI event that would normally start loading it happens.
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by spb 13y ago
also http://tinysubversions.com/startups
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by spb 13y ago
Your project: It's like ItsThisForThat.com for trolls
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by spb 13y ago
How is an irregular laser-cut shape less materially wasteful than a sheet of slotted rectangles?
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by spb 13y ago
That's cool, have you already looked at SitOrSquat, which did this in 2010? https://sitorsquat.com
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by spb 13y ago
As images / targets, SVG documents have their own global scope, much like a page in an iframe.
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by spb 13y ago
The thing is, there's no "right format" for sprites, as they're used in the game. See http://benfry.com/deconstructulator/ for an example of how sprites are handled by the NES for Super Mario Bros.
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by spb 13y ago
You can actually hit CTRL+C when a Windows dialog is focused to copy the text of the window.
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In 2001, Timo Noko accidentally wrote a Lisp-based OS for his phone(reddit.com)
6 points by spb 13y ago|0 comments
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The Reddit Safe: OP finally delivers(imgur.com)
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by spb 13y ago
Teledildonics: here's a word that means what you think it means.
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by spb 13y ago
Oh god. We actually had a conversation about this here a while back, how the obituary industry is due to be disrupted... we hewed it through a few rounds of getting to the core problem and it ended up as a business idea for making a targete
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by spb 13y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't somebody pull the batteries out from the outside and lock you inside your house?
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by spb 13y ago
I will learn Go and then happily ignore it in favor of HTML + JS + CSS + SVG all the time forever.
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by spb 13y ago
I recommend going out and buying the third edition of [Programming in Lua]( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/859037985X/lua-pilind... ), then using that to learn Lua before getting into JavaScript. P
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by spb 13y ago
But they already knew that because they didn't get a bounce response.
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by spb 13y ago
Good.
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by spb 13y ago
Actually, if they do it on delivery, it ruins the signal (since there is no longer any distinguishing factor between active accounts and inactive accounts), so the latter protects privacy more effectively.
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by spb 13y ago
However, if they make requests (that they don't necessarily have to keep) for images for all accounts (preloading on receive and not read), it does the opposite, which is a good thing.
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by spb 13y ago
Everything about this article reads like it was written in 2011. "elements that aren’t div exist primarily as a nostalgic throwback to a gentler era." Um, have you looked at the HTML5 spec lately? Or used Bootstrap? Or any other
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by spb 13y ago
> Number Three This one needs l10n variants. Haven't you seen Inglourious Basterds?
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by spb 14y ago
Yeah, how long have they had file editing for? I remember seeing it last year, and realizing how quickly I'd hit a wall if I couldn't create new files.
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by spb 14y ago
In fact, Ace (the Ajax.org Cloud9 Editor) is what Github uses for their file editing interface, so if you're editing files on the site directly, you're already using Cloud9, partially.
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by spb 14y ago
Anything could be turn out to be better than anything if its creators don't screw it up.
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by spb 15y ago
When I first heard the name "airbnb" I assumed somebody was writing a fork of aircrack.
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by spb 15y ago
To elaborate with an excerpt from http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html : "It's worth trying very, very hard to make technology easy to use. Hackers are so used to computers that they have no idea how horrifying software seems to normal peo

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