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by washingtondc 16y ago
While a mobile app can certainly deliver a rich user experience, the availability of a standard, universally supported platform (read: a browser) is a more sustainable approach to application deployment. We've been down this road before. I
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by washingtondc 16y ago
That doesn't invalidate my point. Supporting SSL is certainly more costly when you're serving content on the scale of FB. The costs must be weighed against the benefits. Calling FB out as a "fail" is failing to understand all of the issue
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by washingtondc 16y ago
Perhaps supporting ssl and/or tls across their infrastructure isn't a priority. Why is that a "fail", as you so succinctly put it? In addition, I'd like to ask the entire world to stop using 'fail' as a noun. It's lazy and incorrect.
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by washingtondc 16y ago
I'd hire her!
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by washingtondc 16y ago
Thanks for the Rush reference in the example (I'm not talking about the name of the framework either).
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by washingtondc 16y ago
Take it from a 38 year old with a mortgage and two kids: take time off from your current job/venture and see the world. I travelled a bit, but not enough. My wife tried to convince me to backpack with her, but I thought my job at "CyberCa
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The 4 Stages of Fear(discovermagazine.com)
2 points by washingtondc 16y ago|0 comments
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Fetching lyrics with perl and lyricsfly(convertyourcds.com)
2 points by washingtondc 16y ago|0 comments
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by washingtondc 16y ago
I generally agree with the weak points that the OP pointed out regarding cron. That being said, throwing out cron, or any other built-in system tool, isn't always a great idea. When you adopt a new scheduler, you're inevitably creating wor
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Certifications in email sig - good or bad?(convertyourcds.com)
1 points by washingtondc 16y ago|1 comments
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Apple files patent for "peer to peer financial transaction devices"(convertyourcds.com)
1 points by washingtondc 16y ago|0 comments
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Remove email address and name from purchased iTunes using perl(convertyourcds.com)
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A high stakes fail-safe system: US Nukes aimed at ocean(convertyourcds.com)
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by washingtondc 17y ago
I like it, but my site didn't come out correctly (www.convertyourcds.com). Perhaps my html is screwed up?
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Whither hi-fi?(convertyourcds.com)
3 points by washingtondc 17y ago|2 comments
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Google Analytics problem - odd map of Florida(convertyourcds.com)
1 points by washingtondc 17y ago|1 comments
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by washingtondc 17y ago
It's not hard to generate a certificate request. While Firefox and IE may use different routines to do a local key generation, it's certainly not difficult. The scary warnings you're talking about come up if you're connecting to an "untrus
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by washingtondc 17y ago
The Atlantic It's a very good magazine.
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by washingtondc 17y ago
It's extremely long? Maybe I'm a bit older than most readers here (I'm 38), but has the average readers attention span shrunk that much? Nuance cannot always come in bite-sized chunks. BTW, I read the article (on a plane - the print editi
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by washingtondc 17y ago
Garmin and TomTom are hallowed brands? This article was written ten years ago, about Microsoft. At that time, the hallowed brands were the likes of Borland and Corel. Sure, Google is dominant in search and advertising, but things have a way