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by thamer 17y ago
Ha. In the first picture of the article, the Explorer “jumplist” shows a directory named “20 cool things windows 7 does th...”. This article only lists 18. I guess the list was hard to fill?
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by thamer 17y ago
No, the exploit is only for applications capable of interpreting JavaScript, such as web browsers.
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by thamer 17y ago
The website requests that you connect them to your Twitter account using OAuth.
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Why I’ll Never Be A ‘Web Guy’(michaelbraude.blogspot.com)
20 points by thamer 17y ago|23 comments
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by thamer 17y ago
Yes. If you follow the links on the Japanese page linked by keyist, you can change the URL to get his salted and hashed password. The salt is shown as well.
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After Injury, Fighting to Regain a Sense of Self(nytimes.com)
2 points by thamer 17y ago|0 comments
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by thamer 17y ago
The streaming API¹ worked for a bit, but just went down too. For a while it showed that a few tweets were still going through. [1] http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation
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by thamer 17y ago
Don’t miss this blog post about the technique behind Sudoku Grab: http://sudokugrab.blogspot.com/2009/07/how-does-it-all-work....
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XXXL - Why are we so fat?(newyorker.com)
4 points by thamer 17y ago|0 comments
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by thamer 17y ago
FWIW - I'm in France and have never been able to use Pandora, and I had never heard that it was even possible.
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by thamer 17y ago
I upvoted this article because the conversation on this page is interesting and provides a lot more information than the original article. I always look at the comments before reading an article on HN, and often feel that they are more valu
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Being Crazy Is Noisy(moreintelligentlife.com)
64 points by thamer 17y ago|19 comments
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by thamer 17y ago
Is this based on cuil? I am going to buy a washing machine soon. Your website gave me a "Lobster Hybrid Tennis Ball Machine with Pneumatic Propulsion" in first position, and many irrelevant links. "Individual Token for Slot Machine", real
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by thamer 17y ago
> 1. Make sign up hard so that bots can't do it That could be overkill... > 3, 4. Block tweets that contain multiple, popular hashtags. Block accounts that send multiple messages over a short period of time with the same hashtag. So
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by thamer 17y ago
Not only that: An important feature of Last.fm is its recommendation system, and Mendeley seems to have one as well.
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by thamer 17y ago
This one is truly out of this planet, I suppose @MarsPhoenix didn't really count... http://twitter.com/MarsPhoenix/statuses/839088619
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by thamer 17y ago
Two anecdotes ≠ general rule.
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by thamer 17y ago
I don't know which browser you are using or if your link is right, but I don't need to scroll horizontally on that page. I've tried it with Firefox 3.5 and Safari 4, and they both look ok. These are two very recent browsers, so I wouldn't b
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by thamer 18y ago
I suspect there's not much to gain by caching images in the browser: If you're looking at a page full of comments with hundreds of avatars, chances are the next page is going to make you load hundreds more that you haven't seen already: The
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by thamer 18y ago
Cached version: http://nfg.2y.net.nyud.net:8090/games/ntsc/visual.shtm
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by thamer 18y ago
What happens when the author's website goes down? I'm guessing his job is not really to maintain an URL shortener website, so he probably won't be dedicated to its stability and reliability. Are there URL shorteners that let you edit the UR
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by thamer 18y ago
Some quick thoughts: * Make the logo link back to the index. * Don't make me register. I'd like to try the problems but am not interested in saving my results. I can't try such and such problems because I need an account simply to validate
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Amazon announces Elastic MapReduce(aws.amazon.com)
148 points by thamer 18y ago|60 comments
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by thamer 18y ago
Article in one page: http://archive.salon.com/mwt/feature/1999/08/27/heroinson/pr...
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by thamer 18y ago
This graph is produced by KCacheGrind from a backtrace file produced by XDebug ( http://xdebug.org/ ). The combination of these tools is very valuable in identifying performance problems in PHP applications. Not at this level of detail, tho
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by thamer 18y ago
I've read your blog, the page on your website, your twitter feed, and I still have no idea what you want to do, what source of revenue you want to have, even what domain this company operates in. Dropping the complete secrecy and telling pe
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by thamer 18y ago
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/news.ycombinator.com It was developed by Alex Payne of Twitter (@al3x), in the days when twitter had about 90% uptime, if I recall correctly.
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by thamer 18y ago
Facebook doesn't have the live search that makes Twitter so powerful. This is a large part of the user experience for many.
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The Death Of Dynamic Range(cdmasteringservices.com)
57 points by thamer 18y ago|25 comments
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by thamer 18y ago
PoF is quite famous because it is essentially a one-man business, making millions a year: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090101/and-the-money-comes-rol... It is also a scalability success-story: http://highscalability.com/plentyoffish-arc

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