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Replaylib - Python module lets you record HTTP sessions for offline unit testing(github.com)
3 points by storborg 16y ago|0 comments
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by storborg 17y ago
Apple has a huge incentive to promote non-flash video. Since HTML5 is really the only decent way to do internet video without flash, the most notable thing about HTML5 (for that matter, really the only thing that matters to end users) is vi
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by storborg 17y ago
This is a horrible solution to the CSS history problem that's going to break a lot of layouts and a lot of javascript. A far better solution, IMHO, is to simply track both the origin page and destination page of clicked links, and only appl
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by storborg 17y ago
Ok, so it may not "change the face of the internet". And maybe it disappointed investors a bit. But 322 Tbps is really, really fast . Think of a typical divx movie at 700MB. This thing could route 60,000 movies per second. Go Cisco.
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by storborg 17y ago
Worth noting to outsiders that the monthly three-day weekends are colloquially referred to as "suicide-prevention days".
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Startup-friendly office space in Mountain View
5 points by storborg 17y ago|0 comments
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by storborg 17y ago
Spoken like an engineer who thinks engineers are undervalued, not like a project manager who understands that the 10x productive engineer is incredibly, incredibly rare, and that all businesses must ultimately seek to maximize their profits
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by storborg 17y ago
The general reaction I see to airline baggage fees is that people who frequently travel with no checked bags don't care (or think it's a good thing), whereas people who travel with checked bags are upset. That much is obvious, and it's kind
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by storborg 17y ago
SSL is completely and utterly useless without CAs. If there's no way to verify and trust that a given certificate belongs to the website it is being used on, any would-be-man-in-the-middle can just grab a random certificate and use it to
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by storborg 17y ago
If Google has concrete evidence to suggest that the Chinese government was behind these attacks, why did they stop just short of saying so? And if they don't, why would they even consider implying that?
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by storborg 17y ago
Dialing a phone number with actual digits accounts for maybe 1/500th of the use of my phone. That may not be common, but I don't think dialing digits is "the task at hand" for a phone anymore. In fact, Apple's iPhone integration spans so fa
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by storborg 17y ago
"The only catch is the you can't use AT&T's 3G with it." That would effectively cripple the phone. So while it may be possible to use on other networks, it's really only practical to use on T-Mobile.
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by storborg 17y ago
They allow you to cancel for $50, so you're never going to lose more than that much money. What's the point?
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by storborg 17y ago
This seems like a fast track towards building a really bad reputation for your software. In many markets the pirates will be the most vocal users, and this could paint your software in a horrible light. How do users know if the crash is cau
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by storborg 17y ago
Personally, I think Gruber did a pretty good job of distilling it. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/meaning-of-open.html
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by storborg 17y ago
I think their implicit assertion that a transparent advertising market is bad for the public is completely false and self-serving. Let's be honest folks, Google's ad market is their biggest product, by FAR. An opaque market serves only to p
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by storborg 17y ago
No. SEO is, and will continue to be, just as important. It's just getting harder, because of all of the reasons mentioned.
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by storborg 17y ago
Here's another paper that talks about these sorts of attacks. http://crypto.stanford.edu/~abortz/papers/timingweb.pdf The suggested defense (which the authors implemented as mod_timepad) is to quantize the response time to 100ms or so, so
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by storborg 17y ago
Even if you're a vim god, read this just to skip to slide 52. It's hilarious.
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by storborg 17y ago
This seems to be comparing data URIs to an essentially un-optimized page. It would be more valid, I think, to compare the load time for different levels of optimizations which are more browser-compatible: e.g. CSS sprites, using different i
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by storborg 17y ago
If you like it you should see the inspiration, the Tenori-On by Toshio Iwai. http://www.global.yamaha.com/design/tenori-on/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2SqrSh6moI
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by storborg 17y ago
It is pretty trivial... that was my point. If it weren't trivial, then people would just skip it and move on. But it's cute and still sufficiently non-trivial to be a helpful filter for the person who has to sort through the tide of resumes
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by storborg 17y ago
I wish I'd thought of this for my job listings, it's a fun couple minutes. Well done, gentlemen. So many of these puzzle challenges (e.g. Google Aptitude Test circa 2004, Facebook Programming Puzzles, etc) seem like they would discourage pe
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by storborg 17y ago
Was it the balloon.mit.edu team or the redballoonrace.com team? (Both involved MIT people, and both used essentially the same strategy)
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by storborg 17y ago
Sure, since it's definitely easier to change thousands of different email clients, twitter clients, and cellphones in use around the world than it is to write a 10-line web app that wraps a key-value store.
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by storborg 17y ago
It may not be correlated, but that doesn't mean that Google isn't getting a ton of commercial benefit from this data. It's like having your own Alexa/Quantcast, but in realtime, and with much better granularity.
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by storborg 17y ago
There are two opposing pistons in each cylinder. This enables the power of a 2-stroke engine, but without the horrible emissions and inefficiency normally inherent in a 2-stroke engine, and without the valvetrain complexity of a 4-stroke.
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by storborg 17y ago
What? This doesn't clarify anything. All it says is, "we didn't like some people." For an entity that purports to be such a healthy entity/community, Craigslist sure doesn't seem to be a very friendly internet citizen.
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by storborg 17y ago
Since Facebook has the ability to asynchronously measure the amount of time the page is open (rather than just the amount of time you're actively requesting new pages) I expect this number somewhat overestimates the amount of time that peop
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by storborg 17y ago
He says, "It would show you CVs right away", but I can't find a way to search candidates without signing up. Am I missing something?

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