ignifero

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by ignifero 15y ago
tl;dr ... haha not really. Google is on a roll. I both fear and love it.
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by ignifero 15y ago
But it's not like he joined the company last quarter. If the launch of g+ indicated anything, google is speeding up.
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by ignifero 15y ago
The implementation at browserid.org returns the email only . So there's no way to change the email without visiting all the sites you've registered in using browserid.
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by ignifero 15y ago
- No need to register your application with browserid.org - No need to use an oauth library (just 1 GET request) - Oauth provides access to user data on the provider, while browserID provides no data. Less anxiety for the users. - No reques
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by ignifero 15y ago
Do an online poll and ask people "Do you know your openID" vs "Do you know your email". Users are trained to use emails for login, and that's a significant investment already.
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by ignifero 15y ago
I believe you will definately rely on one (of many possible) 3rd parties.
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by ignifero 15y ago
OTOH, facebook id != identity, neither is twitter username. There will always be some id that you won't be able to change. But you are right that email is a bad choice, and i was surprised they give away the email address to developers. Th
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by ignifero 15y ago
They give you a token, you do a GET request to browserid.org with it and get the user's email, that's all. The user has to register their email with browserid.org first.
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by ignifero 15y ago
You can try it live at http://textchannels.com/ . I like it , it's pretty simple and neat. Easier than oauth login.
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by ignifero 15y ago
Isn't that what happens when someone compromises your email too?
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by ignifero 15y ago
This may sound embarassing, but i still get mass forwarded emails. I hope G+ will put an end to this.
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by ignifero 15y ago
This is actually a spatiotemporal cloak, not purely temporal. The probe is simply the laser (the green lines in the article picture).
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by ignifero 15y ago
I don't understand, since every single comment disagrees, why was this in the frontpage? Maybe because people like inspiring, loud words; they soothe, make you feel enlightened and accomplished without doing anything. I hate all this new ag
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by ignifero 15y ago
Not really, it's not a relativistic phenomenon.
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by ignifero 15y ago
no need for a box. You put a camera after the second lens, and, if "things happen" between the lenses, the camera will fail to record what happens while the cloak is on. Not because the light has moved around the events, but because it has
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by ignifero 15y ago
Schrodinger and his cat have nothing to do with this.
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by ignifero 15y ago
There's a better article in the guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2011/jul/13/harry-pot... . They have an interesting intuitive description: He used one set of lenses to prise open a gap in a beam of light, by slowing down
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by ignifero 15y ago
Thank <insertnamehere> for XFCE.
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by ignifero 15y ago
But that situation is not anywhere near impossible. What's more, the patent system is there to serve a purpose, innovation, even (and especially) for the indie developers. Now, if that purpose is not served, which seems to be the case for s
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by ignifero 15y ago
i assume from your comment you are a computer scientist. this does not hold for most of other sciences.
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by ignifero 15y ago
Facebook is an exception due to its huge scale, i was thinking of the medium size social apps space. Surely scaling problems are hard, but maybe not fundamentally new to the web? It would be interesting to hear some unconventional solutions
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by ignifero 15y ago
I sure hope they did not do it because of the reasons Munroe outlined in his post, which were baseless and sexist (towards men).
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by ignifero 15y ago
Also it has to be un-rippable, which i don't think is even possible.
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by ignifero 15y ago
Yes of course. But you can choose certain colors, not gray that look faded to the eye but are not in rgb values. In any case, captchas are always mediocre solutions.
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by ignifero 15y ago
And many more work with enabling people's social lives online. The truth of the matter is, while popular an useful, social apps are quite plain vanilla in terms of the science and technology behind them. The endorphic rewards one gets from
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by ignifero 15y ago
But it works!
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by ignifero 15y ago
He was probably ill fit for a company that "values technology, not social science" - I love google for that. And i think changing careers is always rewarding. What's more interesting is his thoughts about how the "web is being fundamentally
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by ignifero 15y ago
Ehm, a scam with good intentions? Come on, are you a Nigerian prince?
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by ignifero 15y ago
How can this be a "mistake"? They created something that looks like a captcha to fool the client into believing it's an actual captcha. If they did't know how to make a proper captcha it's better to tell the client so someone else does it
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by ignifero 15y ago
i believe i wasn't being literal.

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