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by tomg 14y ago
Yes, please ask your doctor. Daily aspirin use can cause some problems in some people, such as stomach bleeding, which can be deadly.
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by tomg 14y ago
Would it be possible to provide a free version? Perhaps one that prevents you from saving your notes, or only lets you make one page, or some other limitation that lets me try it out before committing $9? I say this because $9 is, IMO, a p
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by tomg 14y ago
Machinarium is a great game. I would like to point out, however, that because it is Flash it saves your game state in an LFO. The datastore it uses is the same as Firefox, so if you clear your LFO cookies out of FF you'll delete your Machi
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by tomg 14y ago
Those are not bugs, IMO. A lot of web Javascript would be useless if events didn't bubble, and being able to define invisible click areas is useful in a variety of contexts. Sucks that a few people are going to be malicious about it but I t
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by tomg 14y ago
Amazon doesn't do much to filter out counterfeit items, it seems. From personal experience, a non-trivial number of shoe merchants on Amazon sell fakes.
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by tomg 14y ago
Awesome. Never could get ruby-debug19 to work with my client's rails app anyway.
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by tomg 15y ago
Short answer: No. Long answer: They do not.
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by tomg 15y ago
Great Firewall of America.
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by tomg 15y ago
> I almost want to learn JS and Node to build a real one. Just to spite the OP. I've been doing just that for the last couple weekends. You can see the work in progress at: http://okayarcade.com/everybody-shoot-everybody/ Note: The li
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by tomg 15y ago
$('#toc').removeClass('sticky'); I keed, I keed... Sidenote: A bunch of the code samples I checked out are ripped bit for bit from "JavaScript Patterns" by Stefanov (O'Reilly/Yahoo! Press). I recommend that book to any JS dev along with th
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by tomg 15y ago
Is the code available somewhere? I'm working on a somewhat similar game concept on an identical stack.
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by tomg 15y ago
Oh, no, I just meant that most forms with a password field are either log on or sign up forms, which I wouldn't want to bother with preserving locally.
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by tomg 15y ago
+ Ignore forms with a password field
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by tomg 15y ago
Interesting... I was unaware that a relatively minor technical difference (browser POST vs. server side GET) mattered so much.
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by tomg 15y ago
I wonder how Tumblr handles this. Pretty much every Tumblr blog I've stumbled on to contains full size copyrighted images re-hosted by Tumblr.
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by tomg 15y ago
Nothing on the web should be construed as permanent. Even GOOG, MSFT, and YHOO drop products, change features, etc. It's a risk everyone has to analyse when choosing third-party vendors (GOOG now charges for Maps, for example, and look ho
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by tomg 15y ago
Not who you're replying to, but on my list: CamelCase vs using-dashes is strictly a developer preference. I happen to agree with the author of the doc about using dashes, but I'm not going to call my preference a "best practice". A "best
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by tomg 15y ago
Thanks for this post, it's very informative!
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by tomg 15y ago
> There also should never be a rule about maximum length What about hash collisions? Is there a good way to handle that?
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by tomg 15y ago
"The iPad total package, hardware and software and price, represents the absolute best tablet you can buy." "I have not yet had a chance to judge the new display myself."
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by tomg 15y ago
What's the metric for "purely crap"?
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by tomg 15y ago
Agreed. I run a niche site used primarily by redditors, and IE usage is around 2%. A tech blog I write has around 4% IE usage. However, Wikipedia reports about 30% of their users are on IE [1]. IE is on the decline but it can't be dismisse
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by tomg 15y ago
That's very true, and TBH I'm a bit surprised these banks are allowing that. IME doing frontend code for banks is that they're very strict on third party libs, even ones hosted by the bank itself, right down to only approving certain versi
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by tomg 15y ago
From what I know, PCI compliance is firstly, just a guideline. It's not like OSHA, but IANAL. I also know there are "levels" of PCI compliance. The highest one, which reputable banks should be following, is very strict AFAIK, and includes
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by tomg 15y ago
Oh I don't doubt you. I'm not an expert on this, heck, I wasn't even allowed on to the actual servers (because of said compliance). I don't know the guidelines for login pages or what kind of security third party JS libs are supposed to h
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by tomg 15y ago
In my experience working on a US financial website, a bank would never consider using a VPS like Linode to store actual banking and customer data. It's not even close to Level 1 PCI compliant.
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by tomg 15y ago
I think disabling third-party cookies (via your browsers preference) would accomplish this (though it's no VM), with the added benefit of not needing to re-log in for each tab/window. This doesn't, however, block all tracking scripts, as so
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by tomg 15y ago
> I assume that owning a business proper would require a ton of forms and licensing. But just doing odd jobs for oneself? I didn't think anything special was required. You don't need anything at all to do odd jobs under a 1099. I probab
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by tomg 15y ago
As a chronically self-employed person, I'm curious why you believe it is so difficult to be self employed in the US. The World Bank lists the US as #4 on the Ease of Doing Business list [1]. Anecdotally, I've found it very easy to do the p
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by tomg 15y ago
> Why not start from a language that teaches the basics of the common programming paradigms, such as OOP (Java) or FP (Scheme)? Because that stuff is boring and it drives away a bunch of people who might really get in to programming if

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