stephank

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by stephank 14y ago
It strikes me that this developer chooses to write an abstraction on top of JS for solving his recurring problems, over simply using language features readily available. Promises are as much a pattern or mechanic as callbacks, but the latte
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by stephank 14y ago
I wonder if this would actually be useful to support in HTTP? (An `Estimated-Content-Length` header or similar, only valid with `Connection: close`.)
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by stephank 15y ago
You're asking this of a casual user.
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by stephank 15y ago
That's cute, and we 'foreigners' know that. But there's nothing we can do, and to us it's just an annoyance we have to sit out. Note that I otherwise support Wikipedia on this.
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by stephank 15y ago
Curiously, the clip plays for me in the Netherlands. But there was little on SOPA in it.
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by stephank 15y ago
I wonder why the HN account name field is optional, for getting in the shared circle. Currently, it looks like anyone can add themselves just by having an email and G+ account. Someone already mentioned OAuth, and it'd be great if proper au
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by stephank 15y ago
Well, Google wouldn't replace their login process because they are the BrowserID primary. If you have a gmail account, BrowserID expects you to be logged in with it, which essentially means you're logged in to Google. (They could add it f
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by stephank 15y ago
I think the intention is for the primary to be your email provider. So if they become compromised to that extent, then I wouldn't feel very safe about my email account in the first place. Pretty much all of my credentials everywhere depend
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by stephank 15y ago
Here are the beta 2 release notes: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricOcelot/TechnicalOverview/Beta... I probably missed it; what's so radical about this release? It's not even an LTS.
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by stephank 15y ago
As a Dutch citizen, I am ashamed our own government's CA was compromised. And I'm a bit angry, because this hardly concerns just us but the entire secure web. Frankly, I'm hoping for a lot more than just damages.
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by stephank 15y ago
Ah, good to know, thanks for the pointer. Another update on the status page, btw. It appears to be a power failure.
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by stephank 15y ago
The specific availability zone they're talking about is eu-west-1a. Servers we have there are reported as 'running', but are unresponsive. Other zones seem fine, but starting new servers doesn't seem to be working.
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by stephank 15y ago
I'm not sure what people like about Personas (or the equivalent in other browsers). It always stands out, distracts, and for me even messes up the great website I may be viewing at the time. I'd be much more interested in a CSS extension th
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by stephank 15y ago
I can attest to that, both from reading and writing code with Docco documentation. It's also great IMHO for getting an uncluttered view of code. In many cases, no matter how well written, the documentation is not enough. And while Docco is
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by stephank 15y ago
It's the background. In Chrome or Safari, open up the inspector and disable it. Smooth as ever. Specifically, it's the `background-attachment: fixed` that's killing performance here.
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by stephank 15y ago
Slightly related, the genre list page was also terribly laggy to scroll for me. And this is on Chrome on a new series iMac.
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by stephank 15y ago
Really? I'm normally as paranoid as the next guy, but this only requests read access. Stuff that anyone can find out about you any way if you already have a (public) Twitter account. The frontpage is rather mysterious, though, I agree.