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by taftster 9y ago
Ha ha, indeed! :)
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by taftster 10y ago
I know, totally agree. It's actually one of those things that have made me shy away from recommending its use. I continually end up back at Protocol Buffers, simply because the Cap'n Proto website doesn't seem professional t
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by taftster 10y ago
If the name "googlebot" is trademarked, yes they would have a basis for a claim. It would at least be leverage they could use if they believed you were causing them harm in some way.
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by taftster 10y ago
I was trying to say, if for example, you were creating a competitive search engine to Google, but using Google's name to build that service, you'd be in trouble. How would Google know? They would start by setting up fictitious we
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by taftster 10y ago
If you crawl a site, index it, and then use that for commercial purposes -- all while using Google's trademark to crawl -- yes, you'll probably get a letter from Google. As for the site owner, it's on them to decide what to d
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by taftster 10y ago
This year? I'm thinking more like this decade. It's gotta be up in the top 10 of ever. On so many levels, /r/place was fascinating; and I didn't even come across it until after it had finished!
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by taftster 10y ago
Wow, there's just so many things wrong with this sentiment. Must be trolling. There is no direct correlation between being poor and being lazy. Laziness is evenly distributed across all wealth classes, it's not concentrated to j
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by taftster 10y ago
These clickbaity articles have become way more common on the web. There's rarely anyone writing quality content for the sake of the content anymore. It's all just glorified hyperlink farming and ad impressions.
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by taftster 10y ago
Wow, nice. Thanks. It seems everyone is thinking the secret sauce had something to do with embedding appropriate junk to the PDF format itself. I was cynically thinking that Google might, as an aside, be recruiting with this disclosure; loo
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by taftster 10y ago
Somewhat meta and not being contradictory to your message; but accountants are very much like programmers and need their quiet spaces. Managing complex Excel spreadsheets is about as close to programming as other office work. Ironically, sp
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by taftster 10y ago
I don't know. I don't think nested hierarchies is a thing. I mean, I guess you have the "Go Network" go.com example (disney.go.com). But I think the ship has sailed for deeper hierarchies. I really don't want an
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by taftster 10y ago
I agree with you. Only the very best developers that I have worked with advocate for principles like: no rewrites, refactor only; less is more; minimal viable product with customer feedback loops; reducing complexity; a/b testing, etc.
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by taftster 10y ago
Chromebooks are cheap and simple little machines that you can safely give to children. With the available options on the market, parents are not going to buy an expensive Apple laptop for their middle or high school students. Instead, they
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by taftster 10y ago
What's the story behind the staying low from the "twitter police"? https://twitter.com/helpterence/status/774672966961561600
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by taftster 10y ago
Problem with Zenhub is that it's tied to github. It would be much better if it were independent of any git hosting platform. If you make Zenhub run against Stash or Gitlab, then we're talking about something useful to markets tha
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by taftster 10y ago
Goodness yes. JIRA has become way too many things to way too many people. It's got a feature for everything, which means it's good at nothing. I'd rather just go back to bugzilla at this point. The agile stuff in particula
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by taftster 10y ago
"public property" may not be the correct metaphor. But neither is "shop front" correct. Taking the store metaphor further, it would be more like you knocking on the front door of a clothing store and the store owners op
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by taftster 10y ago
Right, I agree. I honestly don't know the track record of Apple and user privacy rights and I am probably in the unsavvy and don't understand category. But just casually compared to the wild-wild-west of the Android platform, I
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by taftster 10y ago
Hey, I just wanted to shout out and say that your reply here is refreshing. I appreciate that you admit that the feature is "kinda wonky" and that you're still looking at and intellectually rationalizing about such things.
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by taftster 11y ago
Traditional chess applications are "thinking" while waiting for you to move. That's not to say they can't be sleeping while waiting for your move, but it would just delay the game tempo and possibly (slightly) limit the
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by taftster 11y ago
> its only in programming that raw skills can get you anywhere. The skill of programming is more like carpentry, mechanic, heavy machinery operation, or machining. I'm not going to higher a carpenter that can't tell the differ
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by taftster 11y ago
Gopher is the ultimate separation of content from presentation. You write the content, I'll read it in the style of my choosing. Flashy ads and social network dropins need to go away. A good content author can figure out how to work s
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by taftster 11y ago
Oh my goodness, 1000x yes. I am so sick of retailers putting crap in front of their checkout counters (Best Buy, Walmart, Barnes & Noble, every Indian run gas station, and thousands of others). Like running me through a rat maze of bo
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by taftster 11y ago
Right. And this will bake your brain... Your "old YouTube" account is probably already a "Google Account". A "Google Account" is the same as your gmail account, which is likely the same as your Youtube accoun
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by taftster 11y ago
Well, at least you have a choice to send that information. Much unlike the majority of web browsing experience, where you send quite a bit of information without having any choice at all. The author claims it is a "toy" which ba
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by taftster 11y ago
For @chucknorris this feature has always existed.
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by taftster 11y ago
Yes, but only in Soviet Russia.
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by taftster 11y ago
Only the government can declassify a document, even if it's available through other means. These are still classified documents, you should at minimum treat them with respect. IANAL: Not unlike copyrighted material, if you are found to
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by taftster 11y ago
Probably one written in JavaScript, I'm guessing.
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by taftster 12y ago
The author linked to the site something like 37 times in the article. It made me not want to click through, thinking the article was just a shill blog post. Your short comment reinforces this. Why exactly do you think Frida looks interestin

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