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by thorax 17y ago
Not hyperbole-- it's very much in our interest for these guys to sort this out publicly before escalation. It's irresponsible to cause a technical fight on your users machines. Essentially what I said here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by thorax 17y ago
Yeah, they overreacted. NoScript shouldn't have started out that way. AdBlock Plus shouldn't have forced the issue by making it even more of an "island" war. They should have started with this kind of blog in the first place before escalati
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by thorax 17y ago
I didn't expect to see a downplaying comment from you after your strong stances in this thread and your article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=576021 Is it a big deal to properly store the passwords or isn't it? > stop working
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by thorax 17y ago
> It doesn't surprise me the extent some people go to to generate revenue in what I must think is a small market. I agree there, but (and I'm in the minority here) it actually surprises me the extent the developers went to block ads in
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by thorax 17y ago
Hey, we made tinyarro.ws, thanks for posting this! If any of you are so inclined, please click one of the images on the front page of TA-- people have been asking the various Twitter apps to improve their international domain and unicode su
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by thorax 17y ago
Hacker News Disease? This issue is as old as the oldest of: armchair coaching, backseat driving, parody ballads, cocktail parties, in-laws, or op-ed columns. What he's really saying is that he doesn't like hearing people's opinions when the
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by thorax 17y ago
$500. Maybe we'll have an auction here in the comments? Of course, the later bids will take longer to show up with the new reply rules. At least the poster can tell them he has better offers.
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Tell HN: They Might Be Giants looking for iphone developer help
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by thorax 17y ago
simshell.com
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by thorax 18y ago
I'm not a fan of politics here, but I like seeing the graph there of associations. I'd love to see a full semantic relationship graph with fundraisers, lobbyists, etc.
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by thorax 18y ago
I don't agree at all with deletionist philosophy. I want that ended myself. But the arguments typically center around the mission of Wikipedia. If the organization has to fund storage, bandwidth, etc, then they'd like it to be worthwhile co
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by thorax 18y ago
Wait, we saw this yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=582132
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by thorax 18y ago
No plan, really. The changes would need to be #ifdef'd or otherwise conditioned-out because almost no one would want them. We optimized it specifically for our own error message searching and that's not really very useful for practical use.
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by thorax 18y ago
Well, the customizations are to the C++ code and it doesn't feel particularly difficult to adjust, but then we have years of senior-level C++ coding behind us. One of the first changes we made to sphinx was just to increase the minimum word
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by thorax 18y ago
I love sphinx (we use a custom version of it to power http://bug.gd ). Some choice quotes: "25 MySQL Boxes to 10 Sphinx" "50M queries per day w/steady growth" "1,000+ qps during peak w/room to grow" It's great to see it standing-up well, t
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by thorax 18y ago
This is very useful info-- a weekend or so ago I made an app in this area. With a little marketing I think there are some industries where you could get more sales. You might actually look into making this into a web service where you store
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by thorax 18y ago
I second this. As I did when this article came up before, I recommended everyone here give it a shot (with an example of how it makes life more efficient): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=563917
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by thorax 18y ago
On the upside they also include the agreements online for review: http://founderinstitute.com/information/agreements
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by thorax 18y ago
Your article is great advice. As I worded it, I'm providing practical advice to a new web developer. Let me elaborate on my position: First and foremost, don't write the password handling yourself if you can avoid it. If you do it yourself,
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by thorax 18y ago
I upvoted you because that's a good link and good advice in a sense. I don't agree fully with your exact phrasing and would put it a bit milder for someone asking this kind of question. I'd personally advise: Use a respected library or at
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by thorax 18y ago
I'm using this extension (which I love): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890
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by thorax 18y ago
Yeah, I like the code idea. Perhaps have the sales people give the customers a discount coupon identifier (5-10% or something) when they call. When the customer purchases, if they use the discount code, the sales person gets some part of th
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by thorax 18y ago
It was more of an issue for people looking over people's shoulders.
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by thorax 18y ago
Interesting site name change! How harmless. I wonder how long that will last. Now the site feels much safer when I browse my Firefox tabs. ;) http://pics.gd/INYC_screenshot.png Edit : FYI-- See pg's comment on this thread about the chang
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by thorax 18y ago
For what it's worth (not much), a few months ago I did my own quick, amateur analysis of the OAuth security. I suspect it's more of the case that it's easy to get stuck looking at the raw protocol itself for vulnerabilities to see how best
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by thorax 18y ago
In all of the browsers I tried (FF3, IE8, Chrome), the timer gave me 4x slower using the MXHR stream on first try. But when I refreshed it was always wildly faster for the MXHR side (and still substantially faster on cache refresh).
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by thorax 18y ago
This almost makes me want to invest in some VR goggles and play with different virtual ceiling heights, greenery, etc in different situations.
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by thorax 18y ago
Good point. The terse details are there for two reasons: * Stakeholders need specifics -- While some managers just need to skim, some peers and deeper stakeholders on the thread require details to validate the points because it impacts th
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by thorax 18y ago
If I have multiple points to describe on an important topic, I typically make an outline, and bold a 1-3 word summary for each bullet. As corporate-monkey as that is, it makes it very easy to skim without letting my managers overlook pieces
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by thorax 18y ago
For what it's worth, I find the Clicky iPhone-tweaked page to be a pretty good way for us to get stats on our current usage.

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