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by tmcw 16y ago
I'm no security expert, but what comes to mind is a malicious application, rather than a malicious user.
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by tmcw 16y ago
The fact that BeOS is single-user is news to me. I have to wonder what the security model looks like without a 'root' concept - this article's dismissal of the problem seems pretty shallow. Obviously the "Change the World" title is just lin
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by tmcw 16y ago
This Paul guy is getting famous in a hurry for some reason.
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by tmcw 16y ago
The "Download Code" button just downloads a .tar.gz of code? Doesn't link to the GitHub repo? I mean, either actually describe what 'code' is in this sense (it's a short, simple PHP script, for the curious) or link to the repository. The pa
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by tmcw 16y ago
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/p/cloudprint.html
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by tmcw 16y ago
Color me a little disappointed that this article wasn't about the fact that GitHub's roaring success has watered down everyone's enthusiasm for git's decentralized model. People keep asking you to use GitHub, in part, because they aren't se
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by tmcw 16y ago
> I'm with the press. I was given the computer without having to apply. If you're with the press, shouldn't you - more than other people even - research things?
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by tmcw 16y ago
Likewise, nothing yet, and I applied via the dev channel. Unfortunately, I used my non-gmail (but still google apps account) address by accident; I guess I'll be a datapoint for whether that matters.
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by tmcw 16y ago
This post is missing: citations.
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by tmcw 16y ago
PakistanSurvey.org is using MongoDB for general data storage of tons of survey responses and aggregation of them. Similar sites we're working on use CouchDB in the same capacity, because we can push simple analysis back into the database an
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by tmcw 16y ago
"E-Reading Takes To The Cloud" Sorry, what? How is this any more cloud-y than a Kindle, or whatever also-ran B&N has, or the iTunes books thing? Not to say that it isn't cool (personally, I'm surprised it uses Adobe's eBook DRM format i
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by tmcw 16y ago
Old, rich rock stars are apparently more 'old, rich people' than they are 'rockstars.'
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by tmcw 16y ago
The Register is simply silly journalism for the tech set: tailoring shocking headlines and 'begging the question' far more often than they actually do research.
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by tmcw 16y ago
Because it's highly dependent on scope? Like, if I wanted to template each list item in an array, I could use array_map with another template function, but here I would have to keep re-assigning a variable in a foreach. And it seems to be u
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by tmcw 16y ago
What's up with the constant usage of compact()? Isn't it as icky and avoidable as its inverse, explode()? Starting off the 'Technology' tab with supported OSes and servers couldn't be a good idea: those familiar with PHP will understand tha
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by tmcw 16y ago
It's hard to say which I loathe more. Perhaps what I loathe the most is that the startup atmosphere and the skills that one acquires in tech allow you to do incredible things and make the world better (or at least cooler), but here's someth
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by tmcw 16y ago
Ultralight startups: there's one of them mentioned and it survives by SEO and reselling. Is this much different than opening up a local McDonalds and advertising? Is this really relevant to HN?
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by tmcw 16y ago
Don't most professors pay students to do this?
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by tmcw 16y ago
Oh gosh, I came here to say please, please, please never use a jpeg for anything with solid colors and contrasting text. The artifacts are killing my happiness. This would also not be that hard to pull off in HTML, and you can use Google Fo
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by tmcw 16y ago
I'd rather not. It's off-topic and a dead horse if there ever was one.
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by tmcw 16y ago
I appreciate that you're trying not to be snarky, but that's a vast oversimplification of the differences between Mac and Linux.
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by tmcw 16y ago
The latter. In my experience, the fundamentals that this list covers are 'the hard parts' in terms of a certain kind of understanding and sort of intellectual challenge: most things more 'applied' beyond this point are taught poorly if at
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by tmcw 16y ago
Hey, I've devised a simple rule for determining whether articles are completely vacuous! Just divide the number of times the author uses weasel words like "most" by the number of references cited: (38 most) / (0 references) = ∞ vacuousness!
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by tmcw 16y ago
Sigh. Whooping cough back because everyone's afraid of the non-threat of vaccines. Bed bugs back because everyone's afraid of DDT. Uninformed wusses are killing us all.
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by tmcw 16y ago
So, this article is a government minister telling you that it isn't vaporware? And ending with the words "Never be sceptical of the government."? Yeah...
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by tmcw 16y ago
All I can say is: thank god that this article isn't about diaspora and NYT's childlike wonder at those talented young kids.
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by tmcw 16y ago
Because Google News isn't Facebook, and the Facebook tradition of decrying every new version is not the way the web traditionally or efficiently works.
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by tmcw 16y ago
I think you mean _price_.
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by tmcw 16y ago
Er, bug report: you can login without a username or password. By clicking 'Log In'
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by tmcw 16y ago
It's solely, not soley. At least spell-check word in bold that lie in the first sentence of your website.

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