stevenh

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by stevenh 10y ago
This is wonderful to hear about! Sarah Nyberg has done such fantastic work with promoting the cause of social justice on Twitter for the past few years. I'm glad she's still doing what she loves and making the world a better place
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by stevenh 10y ago
Just saying... http://i.imgur.com/oTBYE5r.jpg
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by stevenh 10y ago
This is fantastic to hear about! Sarah Nyberg has done such amazing work with promoting the cause of social justice on Twitter for the past few years. I'm glad she's still doing what she loves and making the world a better place i
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by stevenh 10y ago
Are people who never install new apps on their Mac safe without updating for now, or can this be exploited over the web?
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by stevenh 10y ago
Congratulations on being such a Nice Guy. Do you feel good about helping an unassailable and unaccountable titan of a given niche further cement their dominance, and getting practically nothing in return?
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by stevenh 10y ago
I wonder how you calculated 99.99%. In any case, here's some of the other 0.01%: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/147894069726/martial-law-coming
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by stevenh 10y ago
Which version of iOS is fully patched? Which version of OS X is fully patched? Has this even been fixed yet?
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by stevenh 10y ago
Are the profanities really necessary? I guess they are, considering you're using them as a crutch for the lack of anything interesting to say.
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by stevenh 10y ago
I had to solve stop-the-world pauses that were causing occasional intolerable lag spikes in a multiplayer game. The solution was to switch to Java's G1 GC, and also to deadpool and reuse every object and byte array I possibly could.
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by stevenh 11y ago
I was unable to read the article at first due to a malfunctioning scroll hijacking script. http://livememe.com/nyt.webm Reloading the page fixed the issue. Bad ad network?
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by stevenh 11y ago
If anyone at infoworld.com reads these comments: On the top of the page, there is a horizontal menu containing "App Dev • Cloud • Data Center • Mobile ..." When I position my cursor above this menu and then use the scroll wheel to
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by stevenh 11y ago
Vacuous e-celeb worship. All noise, no signal. "Mediocre coder gets a job at Google." Big deal.
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by stevenh 11y ago
Should ISPs be required to share their profits with the owners of the sites their users visit? Never mind the technical hurdles; from a strictly ethical standpoint, would it make sense? The industry seems to have settled on 70/30 being
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by stevenh 11y ago
I've already gone to great lengths to optimize my mobile site. I am fully confident that AMP cannot possibly make my site any faster. Every page on my site loads via a single HTTP request that transfers 10k of gzipped JS and HTML all
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by stevenh 11y ago
The malicious bit was an .exe which did not autolaunch. The javascript itself was harmless.
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by stevenh 11y ago
It was incredibly slow here. The tab locked up the entire browser for a full 7 seconds before I could begin scrolling. The rendering frame rate of scrolling was 3-4 FPS, and only jumped back up to a fluid rate once I scrolled down past all
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by stevenh 11y ago
Imagine if you didn't just have to pay UPS a small fee to deliver your package, but you also had to pay them the entire cost of the product itself, none of which went to the manufacturer. The manufacturer had to include a ton of ads in
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by stevenh 11y ago
The only reason Apple didn't bake an ad blocker into iOS themselves is because they didn't want to get into legal trouble for what is obviously anticompetitive behavior toward Google (AdSense). They instead encouraged devs to be t
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by stevenh 11y ago
You can search for a precise phrase using quotation marks. You can also prevent Google from returning assumed synonyms of a word by putting that single word in quotes.
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by stevenh 11y ago
ISPs should be legally required to pay a fixed percentage of their profits per subscriber to the owners of the sites that those subscribers visited. No one seems to have a problem with 70/30 these days, so how about that? The 70% of fo
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by stevenh 11y ago
Were the accusations that React's license enables Facebook to steal your entire project without facing any legal consequences ever addressed? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8985541 https://news.ycombin
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by stevenh 11y ago
All ISPs should be required to convert to nonprofit organizations, and the portion of a user's monthly bill that used to be profit for the ISP needs to instead be evenly distributed in a fair way to the owners of all sites visited by t
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by stevenh 11y ago
Some states aren't even paying the winners anymore. http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/31/illinois-lottery-winners-rece...
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by stevenh 11y ago
Google has forced me to use YouTube with the HTML5 player for months now. There isn't an option anywhere to switch back to the Flash player. I thought this change was universal, but you seem to be suggesting it's not. Did I wind u
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by stevenh 11y ago
The author claims that Chrome and other desktop browsers will be revoking all Flash support. Like it or not, the opposite is happening. Flash is directly integrated into Microsoft Edge. Google has also doubled down on supporting the Flash p
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by stevenh 11y ago
Any competent malware developer must have already figured out how to exploit this the first time around. Now that every single one of those malware developers has learned it is still exploitable, the payload they've spent the past mont
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by stevenh 11y ago
What keeps someone from flooding it with trillions of files full of random data to waste all of the disk space on the participating nodes?
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by stevenh 11y ago
Please identify the exact international news website. Was it rt.com?
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by stevenh 11y ago
The patch for this exploit was released by Adobe a month ago, within 48 hours of discovery. They always fix such exploits extremely quickly.
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by stevenh 11y ago
The bare minimum any ad network should be doing before allowing an advertiser to use a Flash .swf file on their network (or even custom HTML/JS for that matter) is to whitelist certain functions and elements. They need to automatically

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