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by uxp 16y ago
You can do both, or neither and choose something else you are more familiar with. Just because Rail's opinion is to use X does not mean you do not have the ability to use Y. CoffeeScript is much like HAML or SASS, where the end result is ac
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by uxp 16y ago
He also did a fairly decent talk at the most recent Chaos Conf, 23c3: http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2010/27c3-4263-en-resist...
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by uxp 16y ago
> See if you can find some bottleneck in one of your Python/Ruby/Perl apps that's chewing a lot of CPU time. I found that hard to do as a starting developer who didn't know what was actually a bottleneck in my code, but I did have a par
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by uxp 16y ago
It does as well in a separate request. There are 3 request locations that I've spotted, at least one to ajax.googlemaps.com, one to amazonaws.com and a few to openstreetmap.org (a.tile.openstreetmap.org and static.openstreetmap.org). Open S
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by uxp 16y ago
Anyone else find it ironic that iPhoneTracker.app phones home (to an AWS ec2 server) upon startup?
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by uxp 16y ago
I don't see any implication that YouTube/Google is throwing away anything. They stated that they chose to transcode a selection of videos that the vast majority of viewers view. They didn't imply that they weren't going to transcode the rem
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by uxp 16y ago
Bit.ly has to store the entire document encoded in base64 as the URL of the destination in their database in order to return to users the value of the given bit.ly URL hash. In essence, yes, bit.ly is storing the entire document on their se
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by uxp 16y ago
I'll bite with a few guesses. What are you getting around with this routing hack? Assuming you are using Devise with the conventional HomeController, and 'root :to => "home#index"' you shouldn't have to bother with faking a resource in
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by uxp 16y ago
Reminds me of the protection put into the game Earthbound (Mother 2) on the SNES. If it detected it was being run on a cart copier it would inject glitches at certain points that made it almost impossible to beat, including freezing the gam
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by uxp 16y ago
None of the Humble Bundles actually include the source code with the purchase. Sometimes the publisher has released the code of the games included in the bundle on their own outside of the actions of the Humble Bundle. The reason that Jack
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by uxp 16y ago
Linux games don't have to be open source. If you use the SDL library you're already 90% Linux compatible. OpenGL for the Mac is 60ish% Linux compatible. Most of your work will be playing with your linker and not the code or compiler. >
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by uxp 16y ago
You could have gone to the courthouse in California and announced yourself as one of the Does who wished to be represented fairly in court if you felt that this court case involved you just as much as it involved him. In another context, Ge
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by uxp 16y ago
In enabling my Gmail account to use 2 factor authentication, Google required me to hand over my text-enabled cell phone number, and they texted me a code which I was required to input in a form. Similar to having the client call you back, b
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by uxp 16y ago
It's also how formally educated programmers learn. The ones that deny this just haven't realized exactly where their professors build their lectures, which is just a spoken book format in itself.
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by uxp 16y ago
> Tavis Ormandy ... can just say "I have a new Microsoft bug" on Twitter. You're right, but what about the nobodies that haven't built up a personal trophy case of exploitable bugs? vulnarb.com may be solving a problem that doesn't exis
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by uxp 16y ago
You are correct when you say that the internet is uncharted territory, but if you look at things on the internet (protocols like smtp, http and ftp for example) they all are abstract representations of pre-existing analog or organic items t
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by uxp 16y ago
That was http://codereddit.com/
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by uxp 16y ago
I'm not much one for game theory, but this just came to mind. Maybe we shouldn't penalize articles that don't gain attention, but it should have a determined negative score in the back end, while displaying 0 or 1 to users on the front end.
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by uxp 16y ago
I wrote an iPhone app with a sqlite backend that was vulnerable to SQLi. Don't think you aren't vulnerable even if your application doesn't touch the internet.
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by uxp 16y ago
This would be a fantastic app to run A/B -like testing on to determine whether say a circular "picker" gives different results than a horizontal "picker". You could even tighten it down to see if a random distribution of numbers between 1 a
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by uxp 16y ago
Ubuntu/Canonical might have better luck by releasing a more rolling release distro to test these changes. The Daily build is fine and all, but it reflects the status of the trunk. Having a few branches that can go on wild adventures, killin
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by uxp 16y ago
> Why has Steve Jobs not bought a major record label ? Didn't that whole Apple Computer vs Apple Corps (Records) debate make it impossible for Apple to sell music? They skirted by for a while after iTunes because they technically weren'
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by uxp 16y ago
No, actually it's not public domain. The 19th edition was printed and released in 2005. Pearson looks like it actively tries to protect it's copyrights to the series as well: http://www.foo.be/docs/TCPIP-Illustrated-1/
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by uxp 16y ago
How about a list of reasons why thingist is awesome, or a list of what it can do that will solve or fill some need, promoted to the front page?
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by uxp 16y ago
Yep, the blogpost linked here reveals the notification center[1], which gives you a bunch of options as to what notifications you want to receive. [1] https://github.com/account/notifications
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by uxp 16y ago
I'm obviously biased by visiting HN, but buying any computer used that has not been wiped is a sure indication that it is stolen. I'd like to give the guy the benefit of the doubt as well, but there is ample indication in this article alone
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by uxp 16y ago
MacRuby is currently listed as a Private Framework in Lion. If it stays that way through release, submitting MacRuby applications will require you to bundle MacRuby with your application, or else risk being rejected by Apple at the Mac App
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by uxp 16y ago
That's exactly what I thought of. DRYP - Don't repeat your passwords.
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by uxp 16y ago
In case you were curious of a source, this link cites Ann Landers as the author. http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40407
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by uxp 16y ago
Right. It's not the best situation to have one or the other. More would be great in an ideal world, but we have this right now and until you or I can deploy a wide wireless GSM network for a few grand nothing will change. I was commenting o

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