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by thisishugo 13y ago
It baffles me that businesses such as Facebook seem to be driven so heavily by the numbers. If I were the FB product manager given the choice between a News Feed that is pleasant to use, or one that at times feels actively user-hostile bu
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by thisishugo 13y ago
There was a spate of high profile "why we moved from MongoDB to $other_database" articles a year or so ago of startups getting burned when they realised that the all-signing all-dancing cure-all database they (thought they) had be
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by thisishugo 13y ago
You can, it just requires putting the device in recovery mode.
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by thisishugo 13y ago
There's absolutely nothing stopping them from using the iPad with a fresh OS installation, so I don't think useless is actually an accurate description. (Indeed, the BBC title is less linkbaity than this one and acknowledges the s
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by thisishugo 13y ago
I don't see how you make the leap from a syntax you don't like, to the language lacking cohesion. In my experience Rust code looks perfectly cohesive, and once you have the sigils in your head you simply parse them as what they me
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by thisishugo 13y ago
Isaac isn't just some guy who read a website and made a blog post, he has been at the forefront of the search for Luke, and is (rightly!) using his profile as the maintainer of Node to call attention to the dedicated website that has b
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by thisishugo 13y ago
This is precisely the type of problem Jelly wants to solve: to get the right answer, you have to ask the right question. Take for example this search for the statue of Anteros, in Piccadilly Circus: https://www.google.co.uk/
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by thisishugo 13y ago
I would like if I could set the limit (per-channel) on how many broadcasts I get. Publishers can try to send me as many broadcasts as they want, but if they go over my limit they're silenced until I choose to look at them explicitly.
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by thisishugo 13y ago
This is great news for both Steve and Balanced. For Steve, because he wanted somewhere engaging and interesting to work, which I believe Balanced is/will be. And for Balanced because Steve is a talented programmer and - perhaps more pe
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by thisishugo 13y ago
It's perfectly written, and I don't know if that's a testament to Rob's ability as a creative writer, or to how much time he's spent engulfed in a startup culture where this sort of behaviour is far closer to the re
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by thisishugo 13y ago
I like to ensure that the key used to sign the sessions is rotated on a regular basis. On Heroku, for example, there is the Secure Key[0] addon which takes care of this for you. [0] https://addons.heroku.com/securekey
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by thisishugo 13y ago
Is there any way to see what I'm signing up for without actually signing up for it?
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by thisishugo 13y ago
Rich Hickey[0], in addition to making open source software[1], also produces closed source software[2]. Similarly, Joel Spolsky[3] is involved in a fairly high profile[4] closed source project. That's just off the top of my head. [0]
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by thisishugo 13y ago
I've conditioned myself to prefix any HTML, CSS or JavaScript question with "mdn" so I get Mozilla's docs. They're always excellent in my experience.
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by thisishugo 13y ago
The author explicitly says it's not intended for production in the README: > This code has every security flaw you imagine, tons of memory leaks, and when I wrote it I may have been awake for much longer than one should be when writ
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by thisishugo 13y ago
>HN should be able to tell the difference between good PR and good tech. The two are not mutually exclusive. This is as valid a tech demo as, say, some esoteric ECMAScript 6 feature no one can yet use.
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by thisishugo 13y ago
>Is it when the String method was added to it? Yes, that is how you satisfy an interface in Go. >What if you have interfaces with similar names? The problem of interfaces with similar names is actually no different than the problems o
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by thisishugo 13y ago
I remember this from the the original hacker news thread and still use it. Anything 'real' gets custom rendered icons for each size, but for side projects where the icon quality isn't critical it's very convenient.
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by thisishugo 13y ago
http://www.allthefavicons.com/
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by thisishugo 13y ago
Also, Android, iOS, and (if my memory serves) Windows Phone all exhibit the behaviour of pausing music on disconnecting headphones. Whether right or wrong, it is common and expected behaviour - doing differently (without good cause) is bad
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by thisishugo 13y ago
They're at the point of making changes to "taste, texture, and smell" - the dietary side of the formula is nailed down already, and I am willing to believe was tested more rigorously.
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by thisishugo 13y ago
That would likely combat the problem of people quitting the checkout process because they saw a coupon box and hunted for a code. However as a method of tracking referrals I'd expect its usefulness to be close to zero, as it ostensibly
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by thisishugo 13y ago
Feasibly, the lack of HTTPS for a subset of users could be used as an attack vector against Feedly, which could surface information about me that I do not want revealed even if I were a Pro user using HTTPS.
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by thisishugo 13y ago
It so happens that I consider HTTPS by default for all users a requirement. A problem which a pro subscription does not solve.
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by thisishugo 13y ago
There are plenty of reasons to prefer secure browsing by default. Perhaps I subscribe to feeds that would be flagged as "suspect" by programs like PRISM[1] and XKeyscore[2], and would like to make the NSA work at least a little bi
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by thisishugo 13y ago
Great that they've settled on a business model, but I feel like if you are going to have a free tier that HTTPS should be part of it.
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by thisishugo 13y ago
I remember reading the Larrabee white papers, press material, etc. for an article[1] I wrote some five years ago. I think the reason that Larrabee was pitched for graphics initially was just to limit the domain of "things" (tessel
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Subbable - a new way to support content creators(subbable.com)
2 points by thisishugo 13y ago|0 comments
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by thisishugo 13y ago
You should parse that sentence as "Britain has the highest occurrence of violent crime in the EU," which is very much our problem.
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What I say when I “sell” - what 'sales' means at a startup(medium.com)
22 points by thisishugo 13y ago|0 comments

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