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by youngian 17y ago
Last I heard Microsoft's format didn't even fully adhere to their own standard (although that may have been due to really bad standard authoring rather than anything intentional).
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by youngian 17y ago
Relatedly, our crime rate here in Minnesota dives every winter. Even the criminals know when it's too cold to bother going out. http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/smartpolitics/2009/04/minneapol... (check out the fun graph)
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by youngian 17y ago
I've plugged this here before: I am a big fan of Tracks ( http://getontracks.org/ ). I think I fall much more on the featureful side of the spectrum than people who like the text file approach or something spartan like Gmail tasks. I'll hav
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by youngian 17y ago
Exactly. Ten years ago a lot of people would have told you that you need central control of code and full-time work from paid developers in a central office with careful managerial oversight to build powerful software. And all those peopl
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by youngian 17y ago
I've seen this story before, and I just don't get it. Mel doesn't sound to me like a "Real Programmer." He sounds like the kind of person I wouldn't even consider hiring or collaborating with. I would have spent most of the debugging proces
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by youngian 17y ago
This is an attack that circumvents a specific anti-phishing mechanism these sites use. So while obviously other types of phishing attacks are possible against these sites, this one is more dangerous and is targeted at certain sites in parti
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by youngian 17y ago
Is the generic-ness meaningful on legal grounds, or just giving you better odds that no one will take it personally, panic, and call in the lawyers? I'm assuming the latter, since I imagine most litigation that arises in situations like thi
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by youngian 17y ago
There were times in university where I would get up at 6 pm, and go to sleep at 6 am. I couldn't understand so-called "morning people". Now, though, if I go to bed tired at 10:30 pm, I wake up rested at 6:30 am. It really is a matter of tr
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by youngian 17y ago
If the rest of the world wasn't so rigorously attached to monophasic, I don't see why it would be so difficult. It's not an inherently unworkable schedule, it's just that our work, commerce, and socializing all take forms that don't accommo
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Ask HN: How to disclose a phishing vulnerability
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by youngian 17y ago
>> I'm intending to create an undirected graph of topics... Hah, awesome. <Requisite joke about network flow or something>. The two topics I found most helpful to becoming a good computer scientist were O() notation and grap
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by youngian 17y ago
Here's how I read that statement: IE6 and IE7 were only the "best IE yet" at release due to how truly awful each previous incarnation was. IE7 is a lousy browser, so calling it the "best IE yet" at the time was like saying that chewing on t
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by youngian 17y ago
These were my thoughts exactly. There's nothing incongruous about saying "I think Jews are dirty and evil but I respect your right to believe otherwise." He implies that hate speech infringes on the free speech of others in some way, which
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by youngian 17y ago
Here's a nice rundown of US law on free speech: http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/analysis.aspx?id=21677 "...Ohio law punished mere advocacy and failed to distinguish between abstract advocacy and true incitement to imminent lawless act
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by youngian 17y ago
Yeah, I misinterpreted that too. The subject they are intending is the idea of telling your friends, not the entire contest. If only they were that self-deprecating...
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by youngian 17y ago
Now if they would just write a compiler that fixes everything that's wrong with CSS positioning... </cynicism>
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by youngian 17y ago
Functional language? Did you mean to say procedural language? I can assure you that PHP is not a functional language (despite all my efforts to make it one).
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by youngian 17y ago
Energy drinks, in tiny, tiny sips. After that, water and a sugary granola bar, in tiny sips and bites. By consuming in tiny increments, you are both avoiding caffeine overload and prolonging the amount of time you can keep yourself occupied
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by youngian 17y ago
Well, _I_ learned in college that people vary widely in when and how they are most productive, and that trying to change your nature is an uphill battle. Obviously doing the work two weeks ago when you knew it was approaching due would have
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by youngian 17y ago
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html Great article on Hungarian notation, why it used to be good, and how things went horribly awry. Takes a while to get to the point, but he's convincing.
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by youngian 17y ago
>> "That comes back to my original comment - I'm not sure it solves any real world problem users have. Users don't care about security like that." I'm not sure that's accurate. Maybe users don't care about security, but I would vent
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by youngian 17y ago
I've been using Tracks ( http://getontracks.org/ ) now for quite a while and am pretty happy with it. The downside is that you have to host it yourself or pay a small fee for a hosted version. But it's pretty powerful, implements the genera