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by codinghorror 9y ago
yeah that's the standout to me, "we changed our packaging and started winning". Not a market I'd like to be selling in..
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by codinghorror 9y ago
But it COULD be!
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by codinghorror 9y ago
While this is true, that would also eliminate 95% of potential posts. I am more inclined to "you cannot post until you have proven you read stuff" ala https://meta.discourse.org/t/additional-optional-barriers-
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by codinghorror 9y ago
Stack Exchange is not a commenting system. Source: I am one of the co-founders.
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by codinghorror 9y ago
Yes this is the whole point of the article: https://blog.codinghorror.com/they-have-to-be-monsters/ It may be one of my very favorite, albeit darkest, things I have read on the internet. It won a Pulitzer for good reas
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by codinghorror 9y ago
That one guy who silenced his car alarm three times. I think about that guy a lot.
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by codinghorror 9y ago
I love this story so much
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by codinghorror 9y ago
The hacker can grief / spam everyone else in the system from this "normal" account. Depends how much public interaction / content posting there is, though.
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by codinghorror 9y ago
Not when it is being given as a gift
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by codinghorror 9y ago
Oddly enough, Slack has moved away from this kind of extensive bot Q&A onboarding. Last time I checked a few months ago it was one or two perfunctory questions, then a number of overlaid "look at this, here is what it does" di
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by codinghorror 9y ago
They still sell Android tablets? Who buys them? Also it's more than a little weird to expect a V1 product in its genre, from 2010, to still be useful 7 years later. I think your expectations are all messed up here.
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by codinghorror 9y ago
I was hoping this would show us some benchmarks, that is, an Apple A10X ARM based server could be pretty darn fast based on the perf metrics I've seen. And off the damn charts in terms of power per watt. Not that Apple is selling any,
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by codinghorror 9y ago
a 1st gen iPad .. I'd just buy and gift them a $329 iPad (2017) which is an INSANE deal for what you get, arguably the best value per dollar of any Apple device, ever.
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by codinghorror 9y ago
well yes, that's true, you don't need to outrun the bear, you just need to outrun the person in front of you ;) Easy targets will always been compromised first.
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by codinghorror 9y ago
oh gosh please no series of 20 tweets :(
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by codinghorror 9y ago
checking against the most common password lists (with some masking, maybe?) achieves _most_ of this, but you'd definitely need to do an offline attack to do better than that, on the order of an hour or so of GPU time per account. It wo
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by codinghorror 9y ago
the problem is once you get to 10+ char passwords the common password list gets really tiny
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by codinghorror 9y ago
is Argon2 ready for prime time and tested?
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by codinghorror 9y ago
all right, fixed, sorry about that
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by codinghorror 9y ago
my bad, fixed
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by codinghorror 9y ago
I mean it is no Kaby Lake ;)
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by codinghorror 9y ago
Well 1.05x but yeah. Truth hurts!
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by codinghorror 9y ago
Jesus, do some research, you don't get to criticize Alan Kay
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by codinghorror 9y ago
This is such a good point. Agree completely.
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by codinghorror 9y ago
This was _literally_ your opening sentence (look it up if you don't believe me): "I’ve started to research Discourse as a general solution and started with embed capabilities. To be frank the whole situation seems to be a bit of a
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by codinghorror 9y ago
This isn't remotely apples to apples; for example, HN has zero avatars, Xenforo has zero avatars, whereas Discourse shows up to five avatars per topic, of which there are many on the homepage. I'm unclear where you are getting 3.2
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by codinghorror 9y ago
> Namely, even with bloody awful markdown, HN still delivers 1000 comments in 1/4 of the bytes. Are you sure this is correct? I count 700kb of total content (including the actual HTML and CSS), not 4mb, so I think your comments are
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by codinghorror 9y ago
the type of people that prefer the generic browser facilities over custom search aren't "average people".
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by codinghorror 9y ago
Yeah, people basically don't care at all about chat history. Chat is short-term memory; forgetting is a feature.
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by codinghorror 9y ago
simply press CTRL+F twice.

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