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by titusjohnson 5y ago
If you don't have money you spend a few evenings setting up referrer protection of some fashion and serve goatse to unauthorized clients. Problem self-solves over time. I was on the receiving end of this a few times, back when I was yo
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by titusjohnson 5y ago
Please don't attempt to equate internet traffic to door locking. It's a tired old argument that fails the moment critical thought is applied. > Unauthorized access can occur whether the bucket is public or not. The law does not
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by titusjohnson 5y ago
I could really see this working for education, libraries, coffee shops, terminals, anywhere really. It needs a reliable locking mechanism. Unless it's issued with a mouse and every desk has a monitor & hookup it's gonna end up
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by titusjohnson 5y ago
So ideally this would be resolved with Instagram being convicted of aiding identity theft, right?
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by titusjohnson 5y ago
Don't think of the correlation as between WalMart's low pay and the current wave of shoplifting as being direct, think of as karma. For decades WalMart has pioneered low prices and below-sustenance wages. For much of America WalMa
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by titusjohnson 5y ago
What makes you think making a torrent file on her phone would have anything to do with freeing up space?
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by titusjohnson 5y ago
I'll ditto this. Around Christmas I finally figured out that I had hemorrhoids. One of the adjustments immediately made was to order 2 bidets from hellotushy.com and install them in both bathrooms. Unbelievable relief. First time I use
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by titusjohnson 5y ago
I've been wrangling Turbolinks-based frontends for many years now. Lots of straight HTML, lots of usage of MVVM frameworks (React & friends) for "rich widgets" (Turbolinks load events and a simple data-attribute markup sc
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by titusjohnson 5y ago
Somehow you managed to read 4 different Amendments to the Constitution, all of which use the wording "The right of (citizen clause X) to vote shall not (restriction clause y)", and somehow you come away with "there is no
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by titusjohnson 5y ago
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
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by titusjohnson 5y ago
How are public opinions on a topic related to ongoing well-established legal rulings on the topic?
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by titusjohnson 5y ago
Given that your first statement is an easily dismissible falsehood, how would we rate your level of understanding to even begin explaining that Payment for Rights isn't legal in the US?
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by titusjohnson 5y ago
> There's also overtones of taxation without representation going on here; individuals can vote, and so they have lower taxes than businesses, which can't vote. I'm confused about this statement. Businesses are comprised o
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by titusjohnson 5y ago
That certainly might have been it too, but if they're going that direction I would have expected everything to just feel more weightless/frictionless.
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by titusjohnson 5y ago
I was just thinking that the Boba Felt chase scene was too slow. I could practically 'feel' the weight of the mopeds, and some of the movement made it obvious these were wheeled devices with CG trickery applied after. The general
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by titusjohnson 5y ago
"The Man from Earth" might scratch that itch for you.
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by titusjohnson 5y ago
Slightly off-topic but I love that A List Apart is still running. They were a mainstay for me early in my career, the Suckerfish Dropdown article in particular was a big deal to me. https://alistapart.com/article/dropdo
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by titusjohnson 5y ago
Pretty sure that's a stylistic choice, it's been like that for quite a while.
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by titusjohnson 5y ago
"Full-Stack Developer" is a term derived from the term "Application Tech Stack", which is a term used for a comprehensive description of all the major tech used to deliver an application. A Full-Stack Developer is capabl
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by titusjohnson 5y ago
Distracted driving is absolutely not an over-dramatization. We're not talking about a "second or two" as you so blithely put it; sure the action might only take a few seconds (let's be reasonable and say it takes 5 secon
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by titusjohnson 5y ago
According to my memory of the time, the Dreamcast launched a bit too early compared to the PS2. The Dreamcast was trying to sell games and systems right when the PS2 marketing engine went into full swing. The marketing hype for PS2 was hug
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by titusjohnson 5y ago
> I dislike all the magic of rails. Let me assure you, there is 0 magic in Rails. Just because something is available to you via a convention doesn't mean there's magic, it means you haven't read the docs and don't un
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by titusjohnson 5y ago
They don't have to demonstrate YoY growth. They would like to but they certainly don't have to. This is especially true for profits derived from acts of god.
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by titusjohnson 5y ago
Because if there's a company (in this case a sole proprietorship) that reports business expenses exceeding income, what is there to tax? The objection is to the idea that you can fuck up the world for everyone else and someho
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by titusjohnson 5y ago
A company I worked at used a home-rolled task tracker. It had data modeling for a Job to be done, and within it a series of Steps that had to be done in order. Users could select the steps they wished to view from a big list, and be present
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by titusjohnson 5y ago
> This is what has always amazed me about the political party which are very much supposed to be for smaller government yet it whole heartedly supports the police in almost every instance. There's a world of difference between what
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by titusjohnson 5y ago
That is such a cop out. We're not here on HN to be intellectually lazy and appeal to authority. > Thanks to Hale’s disclosures, the public learned that, during one five-month period in Afghanistan, 90 percent of those killed by US a
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by titusjohnson 5y ago
Publication intent is trivial to verify. Q) Are you able to retrieve a document using the credentials issued to you by the API? A) Yes: Then you're authorized to view it. No: You're not authorized to view it. An API is the encodin
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by titusjohnson 5y ago
There is clearly an API in play here. The article mentions it numerous times. The client app has to use an API to get its data, that's a downside of deploying a SPA. You need to make an API for it to get data from. If you don't
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by titusjohnson 5y ago
Congratulations to Microsoft for finally shipping a fully-fledged Web Browser! It's been a long time since they made one that wasn't hamstrung to a single OS. Not that I'll use it for anything other than installing Firefox. I

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