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by spoondan 15y ago
It appears that there is no specific prohibition against polycarbonate windshields for cars. The exemption in this case is required because the polycarbonate windshields that Terrafugia currently uses do not pass the required abrasion tests
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by spoondan 15y ago
Until I read the post about how the name was selected from a list of computer-generated options, I (and apparently a few others here) thought it was a play off of, "ni' night." This made sense to me: you start Ninite to do unattended instal
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by spoondan 15y ago
They can just confiscate those servers too, where the content is most likely also in plaintext. I imagine that many companies are better prepared to deal with the FBI than this data center was. I have a hard time imagining the FBI going i
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by spoondan 15y ago
The browsers aren't going to be disallowing CDNs any time soon.
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by spoondan 15y ago
The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a widely used Java-to-JavaScript compiler: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
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by spoondan 15y ago
Can you provide meaningful prefixes for conflicting files? When you detect a file name conflict, construct a distinguishing prefix for each conflicting file from the difference in tags on the conflicting files. (If all the tags are the same
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by spoondan 15y ago
I suspect that this was originally intended as a bit of fun, not to be taken seriously. Alas, it's being reported as if it were serious and I feel like someone must point out the obvious, grievous flaws: According to the article, the findin
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by spoondan 15y ago
Wait. Please tell me I'm misunderstanding. You needed only to enter a user's e-mail address and birth date to change his/her password? So, even without the previous (actual) hack, you could use this page to change the password of a family m
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by spoondan 15y ago
This feels like a simple misunderstanding. I think Ryan just assumed that Zed knew they were already talking about Node.js. With that assumption in mind, when Ryan wrote, "this is included in some of my other projects," he really meant, "th
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by spoondan 15y ago
You could think of it as an alternative API for Selenium WebDriver. It uses Selenium to be able to drive Firefox and Chrome, although the idea might be to add other back-ends in the future. Splinter's API may or may not be better, but Selen
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by spoondan 15y ago
The 'make-generated-sources.sh' script does exactly what its name says. It creates source files. Take a closer look at DerivedSources.make: all of the (non-phony) targets (start of a line, before a colon) are .c and .h files. It never e
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by spoondan 15y ago
There are also makefiles provided in the release. Are you sure there's a working build system included? There's a file named "Makefile", but it just includes "../Makefile.shared", which--as far as I can tell-isn't included. There's no XCo
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by spoondan 15y ago
Civility plays an important part in effective communication. You may feel that you are merely stating your opinion directly and with force. But an argument is only as strong as its ability to persuade. When you put people on the defensive--
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by spoondan 16y ago
Let me decide whether I care if someone gains access to my account on some rinky dink web app. Complexity requirements aren't targeted for you. You're making a conscious decision about what risks you're willing to assume. Most people aren
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by spoondan 16y ago
The point is that some marketers are still honest So DNT is a mechanism for blocking the honest marketers that we trust to respect our communicated wishes, while still permitting the dishonest marketers to do what they will? As far as I c
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by spoondan 16y ago
In discussing why IE9+ will not be available for XP, they write: Others have dropped support on Windows XP for functionality that we think is fundamental to performance. This is completely disingenuous. What they are actually referring to
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by spoondan 16y ago
The standard for an article's appropriateness is whether it's something "that good hackers would find interesting", not whether it's "relevant to most hackers."
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by spoondan 16y ago
Why do you need this fixed? Your app, even running in full screen, probably runs faster on iOS 4.3 than it did on any previous version of iOS.
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The Case Against Drop-Down Identities(smarterware.org)
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by spoondan 16y ago
This is an old topic. Auguste Comte and Emile Durkheim, both foundational to the social sciences, each sought to bring empiricism and the scientific method to the study of social institutions. I would argue that they were largely successful
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by spoondan 16y ago
Gaming companies, start-ups, anyone looking for a "Ninja" or "Rock Star" all seem more likely to tolerate swearing and less likely to be using PHP. Additionally, I'd wager that PHP projects on GitHub tend to get fewer commits from hobbyists
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by spoondan 16y ago
The NFL's TV deals are arguably fan unfriendly. But satisfaction probably isn't high on the NFL's list of success metrics. The deals are successful in that they're very lucrative. I don't know if I'd blame the NFL if it thinks there's littl
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by spoondan 16y ago
That thread contains this comment decrying the state of HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=237127 Admittedly, it wasn't voted up, but there was some agreement with it. You're looking back wistfully at a point where another user thoug
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by spoondan 16y ago
I think he meant that the Xoom is capable of replacing a desktop or laptop; not that it emulates them.
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by spoondan 16y ago
Hixie answered your specific question, but I think you're missing a very important point: "Doesn't every major browser release leave less and less that Flash alone can do?" There are some things (not this one) that Flash can do that browser
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by spoondan 16y ago
How exactly are Flash and JavaScript different? I don't see the separate niches you envision these technologies occupying for the rest of their existence. And how can you say JavaScript "will never" kill Flash? Aren't Apple and JavaScript a
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by spoondan 16y ago
I think the photos are meant to imply that the system is reading external input as text and so might be vulnerable to an injection attack like what the bottom picture shows. I don't think it was intended to suggest that the system has actua
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by spoondan 16y ago
Sure, but I don't think your complaint is with the book. You can't blame the evidence for the case the prosecutor makes.
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by spoondan 16y ago
The vast majority of women marry for social or financial status, but it's an unconscious mechanism. In the end, it's all about optimizing genetic fitness and resource availability. Our genes do this automatically, and it's not limited to h
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by spoondan 16y ago
It's the difference between "do" and "should". He's saying the book claims to explain human behavior; it doesn't recommend or justify that behavior.

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