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by throwaway66666 8y ago
Hah, of course, spoke too soon! And it's by Jeff Atwood! I got the idea back then from some game devs who used a variation of this technique (though theirs was a queue mechanism for prioritizing disk reads to speed up loading of import
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
We used this technique in the IE6 days (with settimeout nonetheless). We had a very big list that was being filtered as the user typed, and we would perform 10 dom operations (they were all creating and appending elements to the dom), then
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
Steam? Can you please elaborate, I am getting old I didn't even know steam had a social component. (except people leaving reviews, or posting to game forums about parts of the game)
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
So much this. Also the ability to change the background from black to white (with a slider or an easy to reach color picker that doesn't involve opening the console). It's so hard to notice when an image starts and ends when it ha
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
Users who suggest cryptography are getting downvoted (myself included). I am curious as to why. Is it perceived as spam or an attack on nodejs? Encrypted cookies and JWT (json web tokens) rely on a similar strategy so this is pretty standa
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
My gut feeling is that the user keys are not random generated, but actually encrypted strings that contain the permission values. Decrypting them with modern encryption algorithms (like ChaCha) is pretty CPU intensive.
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
> Also, take home challenges are probably very discriminatory towards older candidates with families. So maybe just as subtle way of age discrimination? And whiteboard interviews are discriminatory towards people with anxiety who have tr
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
When patent trolls sue competitors for copying features we 're unhappy. When somebody copies "my idea" we 're unhappy. What is a good solution? Copying but giving attribution?
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
Thanks for commenting. My comment was meant to to be slightly exagerated but since your response is grounded, I 'll rephrase mine too :) The evangelist tweets (I won't dig them because it's not cool) are 100% real, but keep
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
GPU 491 times faster. Something's iffy, but I love the idea.
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
If anyone's to blame it's mozilla's criminal laziness. There I said it. We were stuck with firefox 3 for 3 years (early 2008-2011), on a time where chrome was getting a +1 version every month or 2 months. I remember Mozilla &
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
It means you will be unidentified by political groups. EG let's say a right wing goverment in France finding all the gypsies in Paris. Or a life insurance corporation seeing that you have predisposition for heart disease, and refusing
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
Hello, I am from the future. You will not be able to buy a self driving car. You will however be able to rent it, on an hour, minute, or per mile basis. Not too different from what you can do today with a lyft/uber. It will be "yo
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
So you are essentially thanking and tipping instacart, not the worker. Evil like a villain from a disney movie.
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
I agree with you that on desktop the situation is a bit different. I 've only played around with UI on OSX, and for some reason it is way harder than native ui on ios (old NextStep api vs UI api). Fonts are handled differently. The coo
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
I will probably be heavily downvoted but here goes nothing. I have not used React Native yet, but I followed and was heavily invested in the "write once deploy anywhere" trend between 2009 - 2014. From phonegap (before it became c
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
The email I received from about my real-name being leaked was signed with "The Quora Team". That's kinda ironic, don't you think? But still, it is not about finger pointing and blaming one individual. It is about a spoke
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
And it must end with "-The Quora Team" Because we will leak your data, but we won't bother designating a responsible spokeperson be it security officer, cto, vp of engineering or principal architect. It will be the all nebulo
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
>given Quora's tenure (almost nine years!) that this is the first breach is pretty amazing I am sorry but this is #ShitHackerNewsSays worthy. Let me fix it for you >given Equifax's tenure (almost 119 years! Since 1899) that
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
In 2013 a quora moderator contacted me and demanded that I provide my real name, and information that my name is real or they would ban my account. I tried reasoning with them, that I just wanted to view content and did not attend to write
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
I believe 100% that R. DeVaul is scum and I am not trying to attack the story, but the burning man part is too difficult to believe. Tickets for burning man go on sale 6 months before, cost $1000 and become sold out in 30 minutes. It's
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
And spam church is supposedly built by this fake corp - http://kendallcorp.mit.edu/ -------------------- Text on website (un-zalgofied) says The Kendall Corporation has been providing infrastructure for worship since 1964.
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
"Thou cannot kill God" - Ecclesiastes 640, verse 480 It sadly seems so, but it has not been confirmed. What is weird is that his site used to have a donations button - https://archive.fo/ltjBH Then someone changed
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
I live in SF and face daily the eldritch horror abominations NIMBY's brought upon this world. It's getting increasingly hard trying to keep my sanity. Their nextdoor incantations against a 24 hour bus schedule because it will degr
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
No, I was living alone while going to school. I would starve myself so I could save more money. What is the difference between X day fasts and what I did? I am not trying to claim that fasting doesn't work, just noting my personal expe
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
I 've spent 3.5/4 years eating nothing except on the weekends (my undergrad). So I would go for 2-5 days at a time without food. Not because of fasting fads or anything, I didn't even know what fasting was. I was just from a
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
I felt the same to be honest (my comment above was meant to be somewhat humorous). I 'm pretty sure many of the ones thrown around where parked properly and someone just kicked them down. Pretty sad.
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
Who cares though, they are all the same. (I forgot which company's I used, until I checked my phone now to see the app). They really didn't work much on brand recognition, I 'm surprised people have favorites
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
I recently went south to LA and SD, and the scooters are awesome there. I saw them mostly near the beach, and 0 thrown in the middle of the pavement, none blocking exits or riding them obnoxiously. They even have scooter police that will gi
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by throwaway66666 8y ago
I went camping in the alps once. On our last night, my friend took a bowl and gathered ashes from the campfire. Half ritualistic, half jokingly, she said that those ashes mark our trek and experiences, that she would carry the ashes back ho

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