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by xiongchiamiov 7y ago
It actually is encouraging people to have useful user agents. By default most people end up with a user agent that's something like "libcurl version foo.bar.baz", which isn't actually a description of who or what they a
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by xiongchiamiov 8y ago
Stack Overflow does not have trees of thousands of comments, or nearly as much voting going on for individual posts.
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by xiongchiamiov 8y ago
> Admins created automod They did not. Automod was created by a user as just another script that interacted with reddit's api (albeit, a powerful and useful one). Deimorz eventually joined reddit and became an admin, and Automod w
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by xiongchiamiov 8y ago
> The problems Reddit is facing now are largely a result of the admins getting more activist as Reddit is more visible than ever. Really? It seems to me that the problems come from not banning things, still: see all the complaints ab
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by xiongchiamiov 12y ago
We ran some analyses and determined the rise is not due to an increase in spambots. I don't know the specifics of how that was determined, sorry.
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by xiongchiamiov 12y ago
R is awful. It's full of decisions made by people who seem to not have much programming experience, in that they seem good at the time but cause major issues later on. See, for instance, http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog
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by xiongchiamiov 12y ago
They're just like other default subreddits, which is to say that you can unsubscribe from them. I only resubscribed recently because I started working at reddit and figured I should know what's going on in my own company.
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by xiongchiamiov 12y ago
http://www.nngroup.com/articles/participation-inequality/ if you're looking for an article on it.
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by xiongchiamiov 12y ago
> That said, it looks like a nice site, a crowdsourced iFixIt. We're already crowd-sourced! http://www.ifixit.com/Contribute Only about half our guides are staff-created. > (I'd me more willing to contribu
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by xiongchiamiov 13y ago
So what I don't get is why the function names needed to be of a certain length, since he's hard-coding the buckets.
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by xiongchiamiov 13y ago
When do you do code review?
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by xiongchiamiov 14y ago
> Realistically, how many people repair Android or non-Apple phones? How many iPhone users would, when faced with a broken phone, try to fix it themselves rather than take it to the Apple store for repairs? Not enough, and that's the pr
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by xiongchiamiov 14y ago
The article is from Jan 20 2011; since then we've designed our own.
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by xiongchiamiov 14y ago
It's a call that was being made (only) when the page loaded.
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by xiongchiamiov 14y ago
Hmm, that's interesting. I don't think so, though, because the user-agent on the requests is the googlebot: From: googlebot(at)googlebot.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
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by xiongchiamiov 15y ago
Well, the problem is that you're in New Jersey. There's a reason it's called the California Stop.
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by xiongchiamiov 15y ago
Or the even easier: #> vim /etc/pacman.conf [archlinuxfr] Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/$arch #> pacman -Sy yaourt
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
GitHub's pull requests work pretty nicely for code review.
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
2. Will Mozilla ever support CSS Animation? Last I heard they weren't too keen on it There are some CSS animations in Mozilla's Demos: https://mozillademos.org/demos/dashboard/demo.html . They work just fine for me in 4b12.
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
As I understand it, Arch's pkgbuilds are similar. The nice thing is that they have the flexibility to do whatever you want, whether it be updating a svn repo, downloading a binary, curling a script, building from source, whatever.
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
Puppet is not a server provisioning tool. Unless I misunderstand you, it certainly is when using Vagrant.
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
No. Some people enjoy simply wasting other people's time. Indeed. As a moderator on a fairly active IRC channel (on Rizon!), I've seen my fair share of trolling. I remember an instance a few months ago where the room was engaged in tryi
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
Ditch Apache for Nginx, Lighttpd, Cherokee, etc.
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
How would grading on performance discourage cheating?
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
As stated in the article, spreading windows across more virtual desktops prevents clutter. I've been using a tiling window manager for a few years now, so now that I've just gotten a new work MacBook, I don't minimize windows, ever (or use
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
While the idea of Diaspora is nice and all, I'm not going to start using it until someone convinces me that I don't need to audit every code change. Removing commit access for all of the core developers would be a fantastic start. For thos
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
That depends on your traffic. It includes one worker.
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
The FSF actually says that, to comply with the GPL, you must distribute full source, not diffs. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DistributingSourceI...
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
Git requires that you do a "git add" before doing a "git commit". Mercurial assumes that you want to add all the changed files in your repo (or you can list the files needed in a commit). This is one of the features of git I most apprecia
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
The real killer for auto-correction is that it seems to require many users to work - artists in the thousands don't seem to ever get corrected. It also doesn't help that Pandora has terrible tagging. I have a number of "Horner, James - Bra

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