wonderercat

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by wonderercat 15y ago
> Set a deadline of 2-4 weeks to ship the first version of the product. I blame this kind of mentality for much of the derivative rubbish the startup ecosystem is polluted with. We don't need any more photo/video sharing, link voting, o
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by wonderercat 15y ago
What amazes me is how Microsoft consistently explains design with obviously aliased images using nasty, bandy palettes. I hope the explanation is that their web publishing framework just sucks and has no oversight, because it would be troub
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by wonderercat 15y ago
> Create a problem. > Sell a solution to that problem. Force everyone in the country, by law, to buy the solution. I'm not even talking about the latest TSA BS; are we all forgetting that our taxes -- our money -- has been literally
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by wonderercat 15y ago
...which is easily defeated by a regex, no?
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by wonderercat 15y ago
I'm doing a (tangentially related) twist on this sort of thing, so I'll ask you the questions that haunted me for months until I could answer them about my own project: Who's going to use this? I mean, what's the intersection of people that
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by wonderercat 15y ago
You could still use bcrypt and do the comparison work server-side. Depending on work factors and whatnot, it's now a backend load balancing issue. But it's probably solvable.
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by wonderercat 15y ago
I suspect they are matching bits. Though since this is going through hashing, the number of matching bits has (by design) zero correlation to how close the P/W is. In which case, yeah, I think the binary indicator would be more useful and i
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by wonderercat 15y ago
> My guess is the machines could be modified to change the background color behind the scanned person's silhouette. For a billion dollars, I would have demanded, at minimum, that modifications to make the machines actually work be inc
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by wonderercat 15y ago
About as much of a stretch as using a unicorn for "delete", because unicorns don't exist. I'm getting increasingly concerned that web UIs are trading away usability for design in Apple's wake, forgetting the part about "design is how it wor
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by wonderercat 15y ago
I think it's interesting that the #1 feature on their features page is labeled "Always up. Always on."
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by wonderercat 15y ago
And unfortunately that with outages like this, that number's probably not increasing anytime soon.
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by wonderercat 15y ago
Once again you're demonstrating that you really don't know how to use Mercurial, but feel the need to bash its usability anyway. hg update <branchname> will do exactly what you want. It's even the same command as in SVN.
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by wonderercat 15y ago
> There are a number of publishers on this list, including my own publisher. If the consensus I get from readers is that we should boycott publishers, I'll support the boycott even though it hurts me. As much of an asshole as he is, I'v
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by wonderercat 15y ago
Most likely because of things like @-webkit-keyframes gameover{
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by wonderercat 15y ago
Indeed. I had to audit the source believe it, but this is actually legitimate. Massive abuse of data url's and keyframes, but it works.
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by wonderercat 15y ago
> I remember when one of the pro-SOPA speakers countered an argument against the feasibility of this legislation with "Google's got the technology." If I remember correctly, the argument was that since Google is effective at taking down
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by wonderercat 15y ago
> I'm pretty sure that if you just "connect the uploader's POST to the downloader's GET" then the Node server would have to buffer the entire file from the submitter before sending it to the clients. Not at all. Use stream.pipe(). I've
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by wonderercat 15y ago
> The prospect of being bankrupted by a civil suit or thrown in prison is enough to stop most people. Yes, but... if you're good enough to be hired by these companies, leaking source code without being traced isn't going to be hard for
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by wonderercat 15y ago
Better to play whack-a-mole than play Manhattan Project. And nobody has to play whack-a-mole. iTunes is a perfect example of "getting with the times".
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by wonderercat 15y ago
For the purposes of this argument, they do. Apple is the client; they buy the manufacturing. Whereas with Microsoft, the factories are the clients of Microsoft OS's.
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by wonderercat 15y ago
Ironically, the reason this won't work is the same reason SOPA won't: proxies. HN is one of the largest gatherings of hackers anywhere; give us a break. That's in addition to the fact that it's consensus that emails aren't worth a damn here
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by wonderercat 15y ago
While I totally agree that the subject of the article is a Thing (read: "notable"), this is an inflamatory essay and complaints forum more than an encyclopedia entry in its current state.
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by wonderercat 15y ago
As a UW alumnus doing a full-time startup a few blocks from UW, I actually don't see much of this "vibrant start-up scene" happening. This is entirely my fault, which leads me to the question I've been wondering about for a while now: Wher
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by wonderercat 15y ago
"Demos like these are cool if they are well done, and correct. Otherwise they feel more like a gimmick." It's pretty obviously a gimmick (and a cool one at that). Looking for pixel perfect accuracy is completely missing the point.
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by wonderercat 15y ago
I took a quick look and here's what I've gathered. This thing gives the impression that user code is pre-emptible (it really just forks the process under the hood), whereas using vm naively risks blocking your process (infinite loop in user