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by 5l 12y ago
This definitely has applications beyond coding: http://imgur.com/62335fX
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by 5l 12y ago
Why? Because they can, and the school environment often actively encourages the kind of power hierarchies that result in this sort of bullying. See also: http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
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by 5l 12y ago
It's great, but as you have both domains now, you should really just run with codeAcademy.com if at all possible (which is what everyone remembers it as) rather than orienting your branding to deal with the name confusion (box around t
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by 5l 13y ago
It doesn't give you everything on the same screen but if you can't live without the automated filtering of a tabbed inbox, try the "Quick links" Gmail lab rather than multiple inboxes for fast access to Needs Action &#x2
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by 5l 13y ago
So the question is: what is the biggest killer of startups? Practicalities (I can't go to this meeting because I can't afford the coffee) or psychology (the funding killed my sense of urgency?) While I have sympathy for your point of view,
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by 5l 13y ago
The point is rather than these bodies acting as gatekeepers deciding what they think will work or not, funds should be distributed via a lottery subject to some basic criteria. In fact, that is rather the point of the matching funds you men
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by 5l 14y ago
Exactly. I understand where the article is coming from, but I couldn't disagree more. Competition is both inevitable and a force for innovation. Even if we were all to rally behind Webkit (unlikely), what happens when a significant portion
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by 5l 14y ago
I'd attempted to do this before but got stuck formatting the cards. Going to give it another shot with your examples - cheers!
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by 5l 14y ago
I got a screen resolution error at 1280x1024, but clicking onto the demo video and then hitting back in my browser got me to the app (which looked absolutely fine at my res). Other than that, looks awesome, and really responsive on my slow
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by 5l 14y ago
Same here, so I switched over to Chrome (Canary) and got exactly the same error. This is why UI sniffing is such a bad idea.
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by 5l 14y ago
Maybe not important for everyone, but tambur supports SSL for all pricing plans Well it's won you one customer here at least. I'm really sick of companies charging extra for security.
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by 5l 14y ago
Thank you, both of you, for such a relevant and intellectually stimulating discussion.
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by 5l 14y ago
It's a bad thing - effectively it gives a few search companies control over the entire namespace. ie. if it's not searchable, it doesn't exist.
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by 5l 15y ago
What Twitter seem blissfully unaware of is that they've traded download speed for rendering speed on lower end devices.
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by 5l 15y ago
Re: the link headers, see the HTML 4 spec [0] & RFC 5988 [1]. They're only supported by Firefox and Opera at the moment [2] though. [0] http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/styles.html#h-14.6 [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5988 [2
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by 5l 15y ago
1.2. Existing Work. [...] Microsoft did some early work on HTTP access to email. The Outlook Express client application uses a fully HTTP-based interface to do all mail functions on Exchange mail stores as well as Hotmail. At the time
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by 5l 15y ago
> it seems like a pretty fair deal to me. To heavily paraphrase Benjamin Franklin: those who would give up privacy to obtain moderately more relevant search results, deserve neither privacy nor relevant search results. Privacy is free
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by 5l 15y ago
> The occasions of Google's data being compromised are notable for being exceptions So far , but the risks are only going to get worse. Eventually the value of our data, at least in aggregate, will exceed the costs of defeating Google'
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by 5l 15y ago
> Could you point me to the obvious internal disquiet? It was to this [0] article I was referring. I don't think he was misrepresented, but the Larry Page quote was really beside the point. Edit: reworded the paragraphs below for clarit
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by 5l 15y ago
> First, I'm enjoying this discussion and I'm glad it remains civil. Thanks! Yes, me too! > I don't see these as divergent. Not divergent in the sense that one precludes the other, but where one doesn't involve me, the other is all
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by 5l 15y ago
> Why do you think Google considers its actions evil? I don't want to sound prickly but you keep putting words in my mouth. As I said, it's less about the specifics of what they're doing now , and more about the apparent switch of focu
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by 5l 15y ago
> I'm not sure where coercion comes into it. Sometimes you find yourself in a moral quandary through no fault of your own. But if you're going to say, "I wont do evil" ( whatever it is that you actually mean by "evil"), it would be wis
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by 5l 15y ago
Nobody coerced them into any of this. The founders of Google can steer their company in all sorts of directions. If they choose to take their company to a place where they can no longer easily discern 'evil' from 'not evil', then I think it
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by 5l 15y ago
> If we know something of your interests (based on G+ and/or search), isn't suggesting more relevant content to you on Youtube (as a purely hypothetical example) a good thing? Yes (it's certainly convenient), but: a) People will natural
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by 5l 15y ago
I find it interesting that a motto so straight forward a child could understand now requires knowledge of the context and history in which it was coined in order to interpret it correctly. From the Wikipedia article[0]: Buchheit, the creat
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by 5l 15y ago
Do you have a reference for this?
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Quora: Who designed the "broken image" icons?(quora.com)
4 points by 5l 15y ago|0 comments
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by 5l 15y ago
I think he means there's no chance $1M could be mistaken for $1000 in this context.
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by 5l 15y ago
Do you wear contacts? I've had the same problem with dozens of floaters swooshing around and got to the point where I had custom dark-background stylesheets for everywhere, but found that I could mostly tolerate white backgrounds again with
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by 5l 15y ago
Personally I'd not reply because I'd be worried it would subscribe me to a premium-rate text service.

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