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by spb 11y ago
I think we can stand to wait for those closest to him to release more information when they're ready.
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by spb 11y ago
Hopefully there will be further opportunities to fight against state abuse in the coming days.
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by spb 11y ago
Also, for those who weren't previously acquainted: Ian was the "ian" in Debian, the Linux distro he created which is the basis for Ubuntu. He started work at Docker in November, which is why they are publishing this.
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In Memoriam: Ian Murdock(blog.docker.com)
1457 points by spb 11y ago|366 comments
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by spb 11y ago
What are the practical implications and applications of this?
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by spb 11y ago
All signs point to Valve skipping HL2E3 and going straight to HL3 (I was pretty sure they'd confirmed it): http://www.denofgeek.us/games/half-life/250840/why-half-life...
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by spb 11y ago
> I was enthusiastic about the Linux-based Steam OS, that is, until I noticed that, for whatever reason, they MANDATED a 500GB disk partition, onto which one must load THEIR disk image. Really? > As if Linux users would accept such ab
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by spb 11y ago
Actually, GameTap had a Saturn emulator that provided Panzer Dragoon Saga to subscribers a few years ago.
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by spb 11y ago
> Remember: your "funny" documentation is going to seem a hell of a lot less funny when the functionality it's joking about isn't working. https://twitter.com/stuartpb/status/5082357142872596
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by spb 11y ago
I just get spam directly from Udemy in my inbox, saying things like "Last chance to get these courses, prices so low it's a STEAL!".
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by spb 11y ago
Great, so now all HTTP/2 traffic forever is going to start with a reference to an NSA program that was topical for about a week in 2013. Maybe we could have waited a year and made the magic THE * HTTP/2.0 DRESS Or if t
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by spb 11y ago
Another place where tarball/zip is significantly more viable than Git: the browser (and Chromebooks as such). I know there are things like Tim Caswell's JSGit, but they're woefully unfinished and assembly-required compared to
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by spb 11y ago
> If we assume XSS, an attacker could simply inject whatever they want. An attacker can inject whatever they want, but they can't run whatever they want. That's the purpose of a Content Security Policy: the problem isn&#x27
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by spb 11y ago
This took me a second to understand: The scenario in question has Protected Site A vulnerable to an XSS attack, but protected from it due to their CSP not allowing scripts from foreign domains (only trusting scripts from `trusted.example.co
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by spb 11y ago
But... it's an async call. The error is going to happen as part of the event loop. That's inherent to the nature of async. If you want to get the error before it happens, you'll need a time machine.
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by spb 11y ago
>we run a set of like 15 queue processing workers that each import the entire application Where would one start if they were looking to disable that?
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by spb 11y ago
Dan Harmon has said he doesn't want to do time travel plots in Rick and Morty.
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by spb 11y ago
This is true of most metrics Facebook brags about, like the size of their Git repository.
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by spb 11y ago
Which store?
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by spb 11y ago
GitHub Pages used to be served under github.com subdomains (they were switched after GitHub realized this was a same-origin security hole), and said username.github.com subdomains still redirect to github.io for backward compatibility. It&#
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by spb 11y ago
Wait, what? Like, [Microsoft Bob][1] style? [1]: https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Ben-Armstron...
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by spb 11y ago
Anybody who's interested in improving innerText's standing in the world should check out the WICG discussion on [standardizing innerText][1] and [CSS Plain-Text Conversion][2]. [1]: http://discourse.wicg.io/t/
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by spb 11y ago
I would look at alternative names that you can get the .com for. A .com is like the "The" badge on Amazon or a "Verified" check on Twitter: it also gives you much better odds of not having to deal with trademark disputes
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What's the difference between `git diff --patience` and `git diff --histogram`?(stackoverflow.com)
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by spb 11y ago
This is a terrible pitch deck, for an unrealistic plan. Their projections (slide 8, https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11gPEGbVzfPQolFgkPWyD... ) look like they were just copied from a Google image search for &
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by spb 11y ago
Even if they don't have full-on attack rituals to break each other down, putting people in a small room and denying them any contact with the outside world does sound more than a little culty. It's interesting how highly correlate
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by spb 11y ago
>This is a pretty fascinating pattern to watch once it settles. Does it have a name yet? Pretty sure the name is Chip, per the post / repo title.
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by spb 11y ago
There actually was a similar tool to this on the front page of HN yesterday - I think the commenter probably had multiple tabs open and accidentally added their comment to the wrong thread.
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by spb 11y ago
This isn't remotely similar to the OP, which is about editing textual lists. Did you maybe mean to post this to the "nq" thread from yesterday?
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by spb 11y ago
Looks pretty interesting. Was the domain for the content a Khan Academy decision, or was that just personal prerogative?

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