Darkstar

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by Darkstar 14y ago
Everybody was in the wrong here. The developer should've written better code. I'm a PHP developer and I've learned that if the input is that important, I need to cast it. I've used C++, C#, and Java and I like strict typing. If your app
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by Darkstar 15y ago
While I would normally agree with you, Blizzard games have always had polish. They do continue to balance the game for years afterwards but you rarely find bugs that would make you say it wasn't ready for prime time.
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by Darkstar 15y ago
They already did. That's why they started patting them down.
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by Darkstar 15y ago
Ah, but there's one fatal flaw in your logic. The problem is that we're NOT the TSA's customers. The TSA answers only to the Department of Homeland Security, which answers to nobody. See, the TSA is meant to protect us but cannot be held
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by Darkstar 15y ago
I see. Thank you for clarifying, I wasn't aware that was possible. I won't say that's unnecessary but I have yet to need such functionality.
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by Darkstar 15y ago
I think I disagreed with just about every point on that post. Most of the issues the author describes can be fixed by using your brain and the tools at your disposal. Your IDE adds metadata to your directory? SVN and git allow you to igno
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by Darkstar 15y ago
This is fatally flawed by virtue of the fact that it's a .com. The US government has already claimed it has jurisdiction over the com TLD. Should a judge agree that means the social network could be shut down just by appropriating the dom
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by Darkstar 15y ago
The website is laughable. The claims made all end in nonsequiturs. Paybuyer is highly speculative and vastly overestimating its ability to disrupt Google Adwords, even with their proposed backing from Waterloo and RIM. Furthermore I don't
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by Darkstar 16y ago
I just read an article (I believe here on HN) about letslunch.com. Try that out for meeting people of interest and influence.
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by Darkstar 16y ago
The best thing I can tell you is to be consistent. The impression you first give the user will be what they will expect throughout your site, web-savvy or not. If you change how you input or display data in different parts of your site it