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by user24 15y ago
You're right, but that doesn't make the advice any less valid. It's my site, but it's just an off-the-shelf wordpress theme I'm using. What do you think can be improved about the UI of the site, aside from the comments form which I'll fix t
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Why your contact form sucks(puremango.co.uk)
38 points by user24 15y ago|27 comments
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by user24 15y ago
well, the only difference is that truncate also resets the auto-increment to zero. But you could allow where 1=1 to make it explicit if people really wanted an unbounded DELETE FROM.
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by user24 15y ago
start at [flint knapping] and work from there
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by user24 15y ago
I infer from your tldr that your opinion is that this long blog post can be condensed down to a single line conclusion, and that this is a commentary on its (lack of) usefulness and depth. However, we wouldn't have been know the conclusion
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by user24 15y ago
without visible comment scores, this thread is not as useful as it could have been. For computer security fact-wrapped-up-as-fiction, the "Stealing the network' books are very entertaining, realistic depictions of 'the perfect hack'. For sc
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by user24 15y ago
Can you give more detail? The link is still up... What did they say? edit reply via twitter: "they asked me to remove the dump due TOS" ( http://twitter.com/#!/calufa/status/78556903772393474 ) which I guess is what I expected. But are scra
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by user24 15y ago
> the error message is still pretty useless. not at all. A google search for "Paamayim Nekudotayim" gives you thousands of pages relating to exactly the error you're experiencing. It's WAY more useful than "Illegal operation" or "Syntax
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by user24 15y ago
Semantic Versioning looks like a really nice solution. At the moment our internal versioning philosophy is A.C.F - adding.changing.fixing but I can see that something more robust has its uses.
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by user24 15y ago
I'd also like more info on this - I find that the hardest part of launching anything is connecting my super-cool app with interested people.
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by user24 15y ago
by showing that my opinion is not isolated, but shared by others.
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by user24 15y ago
Yeah that would solve it. (even better, make the shade of colour relative to the number of votes deployed on that page. So it's indicative of the percentage of votes on the page, rather than some absolute value)
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by user24 15y ago
> I meant HN in the months before the change me too, I'm about the same age-user as you.
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by user24 15y ago
> When comment scores were visible, it was obvious that many people would just vote with the herd, downvoting comments with lots of downvotes, and upvoting comments with lots of upvotes. Hmm. First of all you had no way of knowing that
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by user24 15y ago
Yeah, it's a nice idea, and without an API it's the best we can get, but really it requires the participation of the majority of the userbase in order to work.
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by user24 15y ago
> fewer joke/one-liner comments at the top One of us is misremembering the old HN. I remember joke/one-liner comments were a real rarity on HN. I might be wrong though.
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by user24 15y ago
> making the score of a given comment visible only after you've voted on that comment That would be an acceptable compromise to me. It fulfills my own use-cases for having scores, but retains the benefits of not having scores.
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by user24 15y ago
> there's no context Hadn't thought of this. Really good point. How do I know what's a 'good' score if I only have myself to judge against?
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by user24 15y ago
By the way, I don't think you'll get past the mozilla review process with this extension structure. When I wrote one for my job, I seem to remember them being nervous about loading and executing JS from 3rd parties (the thinking being: if y
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by user24 15y ago
>one isn't prodded to make statements in reaction to ludicrous (and likely ephemeral) voting swings. You can see your own score, so I'm not sure why you think that's true? It does mean that hivemind voting is negated, but I've not rea
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by user24 15y ago
How about throwing the code[1] up on github? [1] The XPI is a slim greasmonkey-compiled script which just loads http://hnpoints.com/hnpoints.js into the page
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by user24 15y ago
Yeah, having got past the initial "ooh, this is cool" phase, I do actually think HN was better off with the comment scores. For example, I was looking at a popular submission the other day and someone had said "Hey is there a PHP port of th
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by user24 15y ago
Why, because they have whois privacy? That's not so unusual.
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by user24 15y ago
"periodical" is a word used by people trying to get you to sign up to their spammy newsletter. Other than that, both options are about the same aren't they? You're doing curated music recommendation. This is a minute detail, why are you wor
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by user24 15y ago
Exactly. That's why guns and knives have no legal issues at all, nor strong cryptography or various questionable instruction manuals!
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Why your web app won’t work (a checklist)(puremango.co.uk)
1 points by user24 15y ago|0 comments
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by user24 15y ago
> could I be arrested as an accomplice? yes, possibly. So there's already a law that covers that situation and no need to introduce another law.
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by user24 15y ago
Absolutely, and a reply to that effect would have been very helpful to the student in question, and to those following the conversation.
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by user24 15y ago
A similar story is on reddit right now - http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/hc9uf/homework_... I have to say, I don't really see the humour in these sort of replies. It's not very polite or constructive, it's the sort of thing w
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by user24 15y ago
> For legitimate, constructive commenters, this is extremely inexpensive actually compared to the status quo, free, it's extremely expensive.

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