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I do something similar from time to time at bottomlessburgers.com. The way it works is simple: you pay me a fixed price, like $6 or $10, and show up at a particular restaurant at a particular time. My partner and I order hamburgers and chee
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If the page is for something I want to read, then a wall of text is perfect. If the page is not something I want to read, then there should be less writing, but also why are we having a disagreement about what's on your webpage if I do
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It's not just because Zuckerburg has personal wealth. It's also because Facebook directly employs thousands of people, pays corporate taxes, enables new markets that rely on Facebook, and sells advertising to all those other corpo
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> When our engineers work tirelessly to improve security, we imagine we're protecting you against criminals, not our own government. Does it really matter who they're protecting us from?
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Shouldn't calling something "obsolete" mean it's no longer compatible or practical? Links work! They will always work!
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I believe there's already a standard HTTP header for this: Content-MD5. Browsers definitely don't cache across origins by this though. If they did, would it be possible to create a malicious JavaScript file with the same MD5 as jQ
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It's interesting that there appear to be two main ideas: text coding but with less typing and more syntax highlighting (Squeak), and "draw a network" (LabView, Pure Data).
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Being suddenly slung into outer space sounds pretty terrifying.
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> This is 2014 and I don't think there's a place for single-skill design queens any longer. I know what you're saying. But it reminds me that I would have loved to make a website with Jan Tschichold, Paul Rand, or so many
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Just to be sure that one of them isn't corrupted.
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I guess what I'm getting at is that some of the nicest things in this world are what they are because of spaces not filled in, or aspects that aren't shoved into tropes, or—if you'll excuse the cliché—notes not played. I thin
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Have you ever seen a good movie? Think for a second about that movie. What made it good? Now imagine if you could make that movie even better for yourself. Imagine this movie was distributed along with a plastic box with a few knobs and dia
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How is this "browser vulnerability" different from a bookmarklet?
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It depends on the kind of work they do.
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Ah, the mythical HTTP batch GET. Last time I tried this, I ran into the problems of 1) unbounded URL length breaking down in old browsers, routers, etc. and 2) hobbled caching. (And also going against the grain of REST.) I'd be interes
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Don't you mean: var A = function(){ this.called = -1; } A.prototype.valueOf = function(){ this.called += 1; Return this.called; } var a = new A()
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Surely we can agree: designing text and images in a fixed frame without alternatives for accessibility is a completely different ball game then designing for screens of immensely variable dimensions with audiences as diverse as completely b
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I didn't think it was necessary to call her fat.
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Oh: + Don't do things that would cause confusion between you or your blog and a + person or company, like registering a deliberately confusing URL. Don't + impersonate anyone. While you're free to ridicule, parody, o
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It's hard to tell which of these changes are minor legal optimizations, and which are actually suggestive of a different relationship between Tumblr and its users. In the top paragraph, for instance, "personal" is struck from
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How to Season a Cast Iron Pan
(sherylcanter.com)
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I was really hoping this was some kind of parallel internet that ran on CubeSats, or something.
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How does that jive with wabi-sabi (which I've come to understand as roughly "rustic grace and worldliness")?
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It's particularly cool that "quality" is the word dissected in this article. Robert Pirsig wrote a whole book[1] about Quality: specifically the unique characteristic that it doesn't completely resides in an object itsel
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> If 8 out of 10 candidates for X job are shockingly incompetent, can we complain that the the wealth of the world is owned by so few? Absolutely we can complain.
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Is there a Stripe for printing and mailing?
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I've no idea. I'm just saying it's a trade-off, and possibly not aligned with their desired strategy.
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The article claims "The HTC One X and One X+ are dead!" The thing to understand about HTC is that from a strategic perspective, they're trying to stand over a rift that only gets wider every month. On the one side, they can&#
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Why can't a (possibly new) armored car company offer that service? Strictly speaking, they wouldn't be in the business of settling accounts at banks. They would be in the business of selling securities for cash. I could drive arou
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Type-System Criteria
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