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by thorax 16y ago
> I want to show this to my <spouse/friend/child>. I've never accepted a graphic design proposal that I didn't run by someone outside of the company to be sure, from a usability standpoint, we weren't taking a step backwards u
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by thorax 16y ago
This is actually how I code for the most part. I comment out and indent the general structure of the algorithms/structures without the literal code and then when that's done I go back and add the actual language syntax, types, lookups, etc
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by thorax 16y ago
Please just add tree-style tabs feature to Firefox (and Chrome). This is a stellar way to handle tabs on modern wide monitors. It's much, much easier to scan a list than it is to scan a bunch of icons, page images, or (as today) trying to s
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by thorax 16y ago
This is from 2009-- I guess the relevance again is the TED talk reported this week? http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-07/13/peter-molyneu... The Microsoft product for interacting with Milo is now called Kinect as of E3 2010: http
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by thorax 16y ago
I counter that the real "EpicWin" would be making a to-do app that gets you more things for a virtual farm you tend.
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by thorax 16y ago
My default back behavior is right-click, click Back (since I use many different machines where I can't change a mouse button). This has just become a default gesture for me.
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by thorax 16y ago
Teenagers/college students do this sometimes out of boredom or for the minor thrill of being sneaky. I've never seen it as an out-of-control practice in the U.S., but it happens in almost every movie theater. I've seen people do swaps when
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by thorax 16y ago
A friend of mine who works at Mozilla showed me this some time ago. While I like to see the innovation and spirit (as always with Aza's work), Here I think they overshot and made the problem somewhat more complicated than it needs to be. I
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by thorax 16y ago
When I saw the title of the blog I misread and was so excited-- thinking they finally came to their senses and were building in something like Tree-Style Tabs. It makes me so much more productive and able to coordinate so many different tab
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by thorax 16y ago
Quite clunky, but I've used it a lot-- hard to beat "free". For pay versions, I have to second GoToMeeting-- it's pretty solid.
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by thorax 16y ago
I respect your opinion as much as anyone here. Still, I wish there was anything I could say to get a little of the negative tone off of your security advice sometimes. (You're much better than bad ivory tower security experts I've worked wi
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by thorax 16y ago
Also the WHQL driver verification/certification process which does additional testing internally at MS and allows you to actually install drivers without major warnings on x64/modern Windows.
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by thorax 16y ago
When I heard about this long ago, I assumed it was just a mechanism they used to remotely monitor some equipment was still running without having to have staff on premises there. Probably remotely detecting power outage or damage was precis
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by thorax 16y ago
Well, it has a lot of uses. For developers that are new to a largish code base, it can help them ensure they don't break important subsets (as would any good unit testing strategy). But also it proves to be quite handy when you have a reall
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by thorax 16y ago
Here's the "socially engineered malware" test (PDF) from last year, too, with IE7: http://nsslabs.com/test-reports/NSS%20Labs%20Browser%20Secur...
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by thorax 16y ago
Ok, I give up. How do I get the style editor to work like Firebug so I can test/tweak styles on the fly? I'd assume you wouldn't be advocating this if it has a read-only style inspector, so where am I missing a way to modify those? The live
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by thorax 16y ago
What is your model of Dell laser printer, if you don't mind me asking?
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by thorax 16y ago
I'd consider myself a savvy user. I don't run NoScript, nor do I always notice when the auto-password feature doesn't work because I use multiple browsers and they don't all have the same credentials. Nor do I (think I) always scan the URL
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by thorax 16y ago
but this is such a good attack, who knows how many times I've already done it?
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by thorax 16y ago
Chrome 5.0.375.29 beta on Win7 and it worked fine here, sans favicon
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by thorax 16y ago
You find something you're passionate about but ensure that people are counting on you to succeed. Once people depend on your success (family, cofounders, investors, etc) and/or your reputation is on the line, it can do a lot to keep you dri
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by thorax 16y ago
I actually was grandfathered-in from eons ago, so if you used MeFi a long time ago, you might still have an account sitting there. I didn't know about the $5 charge until a year or so back.
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by thorax 16y ago
Nah, they just want to move people out of making graphics they can't crawl/translate/etc and instead encourage people to use a textual format that Google (and anyone else) can index.
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by thorax 16y ago
Agreed. Tree-style tabs is just too dreamy. Though I do find myself bringing up Chrome for things like Wave, so I have Firefox up for day-to-day research/etc, and Chrome for quick things and high-JS web apps.
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by thorax 16y ago
For you to say that, you probably didn't share the same experience I did. Surely there's some aspect that is norm versus unique, but that's not what kept me watching it to the very end. If that's all it was, I would have stopped watching ha
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by thorax 16y ago
Yeah-- I was just thinking that if every lecture in school was this way, how could I not stay engaged and absorb it?
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by thorax 16y ago
I pretty much assumed it's for the small/medium journalists on a deadline who can use some of the mumbo-jumbo as filler so they have a full article without having to do more than a little bit of their own research.
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by thorax 16y ago
While interesting, I wanted to point out that this is very old (2006) and may have changed somewhat since. Now that they've grown to a certain size and have offices in different places, I would imagine they (just logistically) have to hire
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by thorax 16y ago
For the source code, I wouldn't include the compressed jQuery if possible. Speed isn't as important here as transparency and it's quite difficult to scan to tell whether there are any issues. I know you don't want to take up a lot of room w
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by thorax 16y ago
On my 2 year old laptop on Vista + Chrome 5beta, it runs just as fast as it did when I played it sitting at a TV screen eons ago. It's really quite impressive. ... or, rather, it's really quite depressing once you realize this is 25-year-ol

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