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by nollidge 12y ago
This is the most comprehensive list of gateways I've found: https://github.com/cubiclesoft/email_sms_mms_gateways/blob/m...
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by nollidge 12y ago
Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no ." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines
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by nollidge 12y ago
Typo.
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by nollidge 12y ago
> I like using a word beyond my normal inner-dictionary that is the right one, in the right place. This is often referred to as le mot juste .
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by nollidge 12y ago
Yes, that is absolutely what I'm saying. Obviously not because it's Wikipedia's policy, but because all information is provisional. All information should be regarded with varying levels of confidence never approaching 100%.
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by nollidge 12y ago
I don't see why you have to impersonate me to make this point.
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by nollidge 12y ago
How would you know I'm telling you the truth?
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by nollidge 12y ago
It seems to me the problem is that people think there even exists such a thing as an authoritative source.
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by nollidge 12y ago
How can there be no screenshots?
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by nollidge 12y ago
> That 250MB password will be run through scrypt by javascript No, it will not. Nobody does this.
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by nollidge 12y ago
How is this a rebuttal? If anything, this furthers the author's case. EDIT: nevermind, the language was fixed.
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by nollidge 12y ago
I did not successfully parallel park in my test and still passed. Thankfully I learned how on my own, but still.
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by nollidge 12y ago
U.S.? If so, me too, and I think we have horribly insufficient driving instruction here. Maybe it varies by state, but yeah, we didn't go on the freeway, I didn't really learn how to parallel park, I didn't learn anything a
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by nollidge 12y ago
Agree completely, that's why I said "probably" :) EDIT: Comments are useful for explaining things like: 1. Non-obvious side effects 2. Code that's working around a bug in a 3rd party library 3. Code that calls into some
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by nollidge 12y ago
I just hit "donate" and it took me to: https://mayone.us/fec_compliance/ Sincere thanks to everybody who complained to them about this - I wouldn't have donated without HTTPS.
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by nollidge 12y ago
Yeah, I'm of the opinion that if you need a class/method comment to explain what it takes in or spits out, you probably named it badly.
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by nollidge 12y ago
> When you stop by the local coffee shop, do you take note of what its address is? Postal address? No, but I do know (for example) I'm on Main street, in that tiny alley one block west of 4th Ave, in the building just left of that w
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by nollidge 12y ago
> I suppose it still tells that service that I have a FB account. Which barely more invasive than telling them you breathe air, no?
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by nollidge 12y ago
If anybody else is wondering what the hell "f8" is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_f8
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by nollidge 12y ago
See this post elsewhere on the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7674630
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by nollidge 12y ago
Can't you just adjust your LI email settings? I don't get any LI e-mail anymore after I went through the settings - no need to spamify anything.
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by nollidge 12y ago
QBasic on a 386/25MHz!
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by nollidge 12y ago
You should've started off with the hedging or formed your hypothesis as a question if you were unsure. People aren't going to read past the presumptuous claim to see if you walked it back - they're just going to hit the downv
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by nollidge 12y ago
They're downvoting you because it has nothing to do with "hipness", it's just the way it's done in some cultures.
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by nollidge 12y ago
And it really depends on how the company breaks down their development teams. Some do it by function, but some large enterprises divide things by business area - so you'll have a team for accounting, one for packaging, one for manufact
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by nollidge 12y ago
(i realize this is two days old, but i just saw your reply) But... they could have just made it flat, and then it fits the use case you laid out AND the pocket one. Like, there is zero advantage to the bulky shape.
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by nollidge 12y ago
I think you accidentally a word... > as an indicator of base. As an indicator of base 8 (octal).
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by nollidge 12y ago
>> ...parse an integer out of a string in base-10 by default > It does. Not quite: in some browsers (IE), a string starting with '0' gets interpreted as octal. So parseInt('041') === 33 in IE. Guess how I found
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by nollidge 12y ago
And it's a bulky weird triangle shape, which to me is the stupidest part of the whole endeavor.
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by nollidge 12y ago
> "sheer force" would be twisting the tumbler so hard you break all the pins That's not how I read it... The best gloss of "sheer" in this context would be "pure", which would mean something like "

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