sysop073

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by sysop073 18y ago
Your completely fair election seems to involve making sure the electorate doesn't know anything about the candidates, which I suppose is fair in that we'd have to vote at random
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by sysop073 18y ago
Google SafeBrowsing has it flagged: http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnost...
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by sysop073 18y ago
This article doesn't mention a Presidential brief; anybody have a link to what this post's title is talking about?
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by sysop073 18y ago
I remember BBSes pretty clearly; I can't actually remember the first time I got on the Internet
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by sysop073 18y ago
The power of #7 continues to amaze me. I've had times where I scan a page for something I know is there, and after a minute I realize I was skipping over it because it looked like an ad, completely subconsciously
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by sysop073 18y ago
I don't really know why you'd want to search HN or an equivalent site, they're not meant for searching, they're meant for browsing
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by sysop073 18y ago
I think they plan on lowering it. From the FAQ: "This is an experimental feature so there is currently a fairly high karma threshold for submitting new polls."
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by sysop073 18y ago
Damn, I was fooled. I thought this was a dupe of "Your apache config sucks" I'd seen earlier; turns out it's the same post with an edited title
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by sysop073 18y ago
I had that problem too, I assumed it was my computer's fault. Anybody know what the page is doing that makes scrolling suffer so badly? Is it just the transparency like pistoriusp mentioned? It was bad on Firefox 2 on Gentoo; it seems to be
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by sysop073 18y ago
I tried to read the essay but as soon as I saw the page my eyes started burning
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by sysop073 18y ago
Well, putting my natural instinct to disagree with most of what Joel says aside, I've never liked that approach. Those are the kind of questions that make me think I probably don't want to work at wherever I'm interviewing. If I really need
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by sysop073 18y ago
I don't get questions like "How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?" or "How many piano tuners are there in the entire world?". What is the point of that? To see if you're good at estimating ridiculously large numbers?
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by sysop073 18y ago
It was a "trap" because the data is still available in memory either way? Are you serious? Oh, and if anybody has any clever retorts to this comment, I'm actually laying traps right now expecting you to say just that. Be warned
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by sysop073 18y ago
I've seen the misconception that a salt is a fixed string before, I don't know where people get that from. You don't pick a salt and use it site-wide, you pick a different salt for each thing you're encrypting, so the standard salting mecha
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by sysop073 18y ago
Wow. I never even heard of Thoof
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by sysop073 18y ago
So, for those of us that got here too late to actually see the site live, what was this?
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by sysop073 18y ago
I'd be interested in hearing what the ACLU says about it in their own words; the transcript made it sound like they were much more accepting than I would expect
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by sysop073 18y ago
"The problem is to somehow convince most people that you are really a chatbot and not a human." Er. Is that seriously a problem? I talked to one of the chatbots for about 15 seconds and virtually every response I got was poor
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by sysop073 18y ago
I use Digg but I found the recommendation engine pretty poor. The problem I had with it is it's very simplistic. If you and user X have both digged up a story, and then user X diggs up another story, it concludes that you probably like that
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by sysop073 18y ago
He doesn't say those are on separate screens, he just says there are too many screens and here are some options that could be assumed unless the user specifically hits a button saying they want to change them
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by sysop073 18y ago
I assumed this was going to discuss all aspects of Outlook. If all you're using Outlook for is e-mail you're not "wedded" to it; hundreds of programs can give you an identical interface. I liked outlook because of the excellent integration
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Sprint early termination fees are illegal, judge rules(siliconvalley.com)
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by sysop073 18y ago
It doesn't get much better if you keep reading
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by sysop073 18y ago
I'm confused how this is like Netflix at all, except for them paying for the shipping. You're giving them something instead of them giving it to you, and you're selling it, not renting it.
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by sysop073 18y ago
I have two physical machines, but I use virtual machines all the time for testing purposes, I think most people do. I have no idea what he was talking about with being "forced" to use virtual machines, virtual machines have made testing a h
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by sysop073 18y ago
Study: Men Outnumber Women on Most Motorcycle Websites
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by sysop073 18y ago
"US citizens drove 9.6 billion fewer miles in May 2008 than in May 2007, or 3.7% less. Yet May usually means an increase in traffic because of Memorial Day vacations and the beginning of summer." I don't think Memorial Day being in May mean
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by sysop073 18y ago
I was just going to post that. If that's what he means it's the opposite of what you should usually do; in that example you're making register_with_irs() depend on the implementation of customer when it doesn't need to
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by sysop073 18y ago
Wouldn't it be easier (and probably cheaper) to just buy Scrabulous? Now you have an official client that doesn't suck, and a fan base that doesn't hate you. Why did they waste money developing their own inferior version while they wasted m
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by sysop073 18y ago
The point was that a bunch of their "users" don't actually use the site, they just never bothered to logout

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