pygorex

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by pygorex 14y ago
One feature that I enjoy about AdBlock for Chrome/Firefox is the ability to toggle it on/off with the press of a button. So if site functionality is being broken by the ad block OR if I want to support a site by giving them an ad impression
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by pygorex 14y ago
As a straight male I guess I'm the target of this type of advertising. But I don't find it even remotely sexy or titillating. This is a shallow, junior-high level male teen deuche bag perspective on sexuality. God damn it's sad and just pla
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by pygorex 14y ago
Couldn't disagree more. Any sufficiently advanced platform will give developers the ability to do potentially dangerous things. How will Google manage this risk? The same way Apple does with the app store. Google will act as gatekeeper for
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by pygorex 14y ago
Let me get this straight. The author asserts the following: Lesser managers will try to stump candidates with horrible brain teasers along the lines of “Describe a time you got into a bad situation and resolved it effectively?” — or crap l
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by pygorex 14y ago
As a developer I schedule "surgery time" to avoid distractions. Blocks of 2-4 hours during the day where I go dark - no phone, no email, no chat/IM. The surgery analogy is apt. A good surgeon is amicable, knowledgeable, listens to patients
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by pygorex 14y ago
Do any major browsers have a setting to disable overriding default keyboard shortcuts I don't know about that. When I'm using a web-based word processor or spreadsheet I want CMD+s to save the document I'm working on instead of br
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by pygorex 14y ago
This is developer sloppiness. Google provides plenty of methods to authenticate users without persisting user credentials to disk. There's no reason an application would need to store your Google login to disk, unencrypted or otherwise.
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by pygorex 14y ago
This isn't political correctness run amok. This is simply a father trying to provide a positive female role model for his young daughter. Y'know, so she doesn't get the impression that heroism, accomplishment, ingenuity and adventure are of
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by pygorex 14y ago
They must have had some other differentiator. Looking at the product's home page it looks like they had support from Nike and several well known football clubs to promote and legitimize the app: http://iamplayr.com/ Now, obviously, they s
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by pygorex 14y ago
.... aaaannnddd it's back - what the heck happened?
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by pygorex 14y ago
YouTube is down as well
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by pygorex 14y ago
Even a cursory scan of the http://urlfind.org/?server-status list reveals scads of porn sites exposing their visitor's IP addresses: (Note these links go to Apache server-status pages at the time of linking. This may change if the server
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by pygorex 14y ago
Most web sites suck - or at least implement one of the flaws described in the article. But by the standard laid out in the article most smartphones suck, most desktop apps suck, etc. But web sites, like smartphones and apps, aren't built by
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by pygorex 14y ago
There's a few things you can do: * Drop the move to London requirement and allow him to telecommute. This could especially be appealing as he's working below rate. * Hire him on at a full salary with the understanding that he will defer a
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by pygorex 14y ago
> So the Microsoft store culture is not like the Apple store culture. Microsoft and carrier shops tend to have a thrift store culture. No guidance, no expertise and lots of low-quality stock. Or worse they have used car dealership cultu
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by pygorex 14y ago
I had a similar experience in a T-Mobile store a few doors down from my local Apple store. Wanted to get my hands on the Galaxy S3 to check it out, surf, etc. before purchase. Took the sales guy 10 minutes to find a demo model in the back-r
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by pygorex 14y ago
The skepticism about PayPal is well founded. PayPal has rightfully earned a reputation of imposing arbitrary decisions on account holders. Maybe if PayPal was more transparent and actually provided some semblance of customer service their d
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by pygorex 14y ago
Is it possible to point my own domain(s) at an instance, instead of having to use a 1.ai subdomain?
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by pygorex 14y ago
Sustainability of the service is a concern, so I wouldn't use it for anything mission-critical. Still, I applied mainly so I could have a place to host and stage a few different open source PHP and Rails projects I'm working on. The applica
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by pygorex 14y ago
I'm glad that any citizen gets to be on a jury rather than some elite set of experts Expert testimony is used in trial all the time and is given great weight by jurors. Experts parse out highly technical details and draw conclusions to he
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by pygorex 14y ago
I can't speak for other users, but I'd rather see more project launches than any of the following types of submissions A separate, heavily moderated forum on HN dedicated to product launches and feedback. Non-constructive criticism like "
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by pygorex 14y ago
> As entrepreneurs we have to keep plugging forward amidst the criticism and build our dreams. Feedback is an information source. Your job is to mine feedback for useful and relevant information. Whether the feedback is negative or posi
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by pygorex 14y ago
For a laser intensity greater than some critical value, pair production is generated via a 'break-up' of the vacuum polarization. While the electric field strength necessary to accomplish this is immense, to say the least, recent experimen
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by pygorex 14y ago
This is a point where you'll have to judge the security considerations against usability considerations. As a user I might end up hammering a web service with correct passwords but incorrect usernames. As a user knowing that I'm using the w
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by pygorex 14y ago
Actually, source control GUIs are excellent for less-technical team members. I've had great results using TortoiseSVN or the GitHub client with multiple distributed teams. It's great to be able to tell a new team member: "Press this button
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by pygorex 14y ago
...Steve Jobs got on stage, gave the usual state of the business update, and then he did something I’d never seen before. He killed a wildly successful product... ... and replaced it with a wildly similar product. Here's the first generat
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by pygorex 14y ago
Title nitpick: jQuery is a framework. Seemorejs is a jQuery plugin. I don't really see a use case for this plugin. It seems like a less useful version of toggle: http://api.jquery.com/toggle/
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by pygorex 14y ago
Wait! I know I've seen this before: http://www.8bitalpha.com/
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by pygorex 14y ago
Ditto on Notepad. For personal todo lists I just use a text editor. For collaborative todo lists I use a shared Google doc or Trello.
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by pygorex 14y ago
If your product is completely dependent on a third-party API or service in order to function you really only have two possible exits: 1. Get bought out by the company implementing the API 2. Get shut out by the company implementing th

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