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by asto 14y ago
I'm amazed that twitter for blackberry has as many users as twitter for android and iphone!
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by asto 14y ago
HN is a (largely) community moderated content aggregation site. What if you don't have the benefit of a community to moderate? If you're an email service and want to stop bots from signing up and spamming the world at large, how would you d
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by asto 14y ago
Loads of apps that do this. Except they're all called "timers", not alarm apps. https://play.google.com/store/search?q=timer&c=apps&...
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Garzik: An Andre To Remember(lwn.net)
233 points by asto 14y ago|72 comments
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by asto 14y ago
I think I wasn't clear enough there. Google+ is not more widely used than twitter NOW. There are a lot of people on Facebook who were formerly on Orkut, Myspace etc who've never had a twitter account and just don't GET twitter. If I had to
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by asto 14y ago
Between twitter and google+, I'd say google+ is the one with mass appeal. It's simply better for what people call "social" - sharing updates, sharing photos/albums, chat/conversations etc all within their own private social group.
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by asto 14y ago
I believe google's equity is also structured similarly. The founders hold most of the voting rights even though they've liquidated a lot of stock.
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by asto 14y ago
Yes, this exactly. I desperately want to move from my Blackberry to an android phone but all the best phones seem keyboard-less. Typing on a touch screen is a major annoyance for anything more than typing a search string or sms.
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by asto 14y ago
This is correct. More on MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/transform#skewX
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by asto 14y ago
Unless it locks when backing up or copying?
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by asto 14y ago
Muslimy named guy at Fort Hood? He is a Muslim! According to eyewitnesses, Hasan had taken a seat at an empty table and bowed his head for several seconds when he suddenly stood up, shouted "Allahu Akbar!"
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by asto 14y ago
I'm laying this one on the babies. Mommy handles them, they're all happy. Daddy tries something, suddenly they aren't as happy. Asshole babies! </joke> If the parents are worth so much, in my opinion they could both take time out
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by asto 14y ago
Blew it? What's the point of interviewing a smart kid if you want him to be dumb during the interview?
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by asto 14y ago
I agree. You would also see resentment towards women founders from the guys who are pitching if startups are being picked based on the gender of the founders rather than quality.
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The Truth About Marissa Mayer: She Has Two Contrasting Reputations(businessinsider.com)
2 points by asto 14y ago|1 comments
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by asto 14y ago
I saw this in the morning on my phone with a tiny screen. I couldn't read it properly but figured that since it already had so many votes up, it must be legit, therefore important. So I hit the upvote button too. I know, I'm an idiot! :-D M
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by asto 14y ago
There is usually an upfront cost of time and/or effort. The choice comes down to copy-pasting what you need everywhere or put effort into making a generic function that you can put in one place. If you are working against an impossible dead
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by asto 14y ago
A large part of the post can be rewritten as "don't be lazy". 1. Don't be lazy and just do something that works without taking the time to learn why it works. 2. Don't be lazy and just stop when you have something that works. Go through the
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by asto 14y ago
The difference between library and framework is quite subtle sometimes and in this case many use it interchangeably. You are correct though, jQuery themselves call it a library. I don't agree to "does nothing to alter the language" though.
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by asto 14y ago
The reason javascript won't get nearly as much ridicule as PHP is because there's no other choice with javascript. Most arguments against PHP are in the form - I'm using <super awesome language> because PHP has .... faults. Also, th
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by asto 14y ago
Yup, exactly. My blackberry is synced via GPS. I doubt a watch could do better than that, so I don't wear a watch now. When I can afford a super expensive watch that signals my transformation from a douchebag to an obscenely rich douchebag,
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India to collect biometric data of all visitors from UK, US and Pakistan(livemint.com)
1 points by asto 14y ago|0 comments
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by asto 14y ago
I think it's like what I used wave for soon after it launched. Let's say you're coming up with a business plan with your friends to pitch for VC money and you're putting your thoughts together. You add in your stuff the wave. Others add the
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by asto 14y ago
It takes 3-4 extra lines of code to implement CSRF protection for oauth2 login in python. The same kind of idiots who set themselves up for stupid sql injection attacks omit CSRF protection. How is this interesting?
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by asto 14y ago
I like talking to one other person esp. if they are 1. intelligent 2. not a web programmer (as long as they're talking about something I am not very aware of, I'm good) . I was talking about small talk in groups. Conversation always tends
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by asto 14y ago
I don't understand the purpose of this. Stories are best read, written and told. Using a computer to do it would be rather restricting. I wonder if kids would get the point either. The best way to interest kids seems to be to show them ways
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by asto 14y ago
I've noticed it's mostly the geeky sort who think it's bullshit. I prefer sitting at home and playing computer games or learning something new when compared to lunches or dinners or other social gatherings because it bores me to death to ma
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by asto 14y ago
Because India is close to the equator, the environment has a greater carrying capacity than the kinds of first-world, northern nations that the author is used to. Citation? The same applies to shelter. In India, a hut made of newspaper i
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by asto 14y ago
It's easy to see why corruption in China would reduce. People are executed for it in China.[1] Hard to get scammers even behind bars in India. [1] https://www.google.co.in/search?q=china+executed+corruption
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by asto 14y ago
Can you give concrete examples of what you couldn't do? Here's the wiki on how to set headers: http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpHeadersModule Here's the wiki on returning a particular http code: http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpRewriteModule#return

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