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I also miss hginit.com. I've been referring new devs to https://web.archive.org/web/20180924182907/http://hginit.com...

I guess hginit.com disappearing was a signal of things to come.

I wear earplugs when I ride my motorcycle for longer trips on the highway. When people see this, they say "that's dangerous, you'll hear less" but it mostly cuts the wind noise, and counter-intuitively I end up hearing more than I would otherwise.

So what you actually hate are "bad checklists".

This past Christmas, the volume of presents was out of control. Next year we plan to do a “Secret Santa”, where you pick someone’s name out of a hat, and get them a present (i.e. everyone gets 1 present).

Most users aren’t _choosing_ their browser, in fact they probably don’t even know what a “browser” is, relative to the “web” and the “internet”. If they’re using even a somewhat modern desktop/phone/tablet and things don’t Just Work it’s probably your fault, not theirs.

I did too ;)

This was visible when using credit cards in stores, too.

1990s: your signature needs to match exactly so we know it's really you!

2000s: you must enter a PIN that hopefully only you know?

2010s: fuck it just tap the card near the reader

Here's an example:

https://youtu.be/iWXebEeGwn0

Yep, in Mississauga (just west of Toronto) using Bell, most sites are slow or don't load at all. Can't see a pattern yet though.

Something that really bothers me about the DDG interface is how it hijacks the up/down arrow keys I use for scrolling. After searching, press down, and the page won't scroll down, it'll just highlight the first search result. Keep pressing down, and the page still won't scroll until the last visible result is highlighted. Press down one more time, and the page scrolls erratically, highlighting the next result in the center of the window. At this point, pressing up/down will scroll exactly as far as needed to keep the prev/next result highlighted in the center.

I find this very annoying. After years (decades!) of training, my eyes know exactly how far one keypress should scroll. Stop messing with the default scrolling mechanism!

Same here, for obscure programming questions. Sometimes I do eventually find good results on DDG if I keep scrolling, but on the Goog it's front and center.

If I learn something, it's usually because I want to implement it. After it's implemented, it's in a source control repo somewhere. While I often don't remember exactly how something works, I will remember where/when I implemented it, so I can just pull up the code from that repo and I have a working example, which I myself wrote.

Front page <h1> typo: "Find out if your website is protected again Hackers"

You probably mean "against".

I was a Computer Science student and teaching assistant at the University of Toronto for a number of years (about a decade ago), and the 20% rule was in full effect: "On a test, if you write 'I don't know', you get 20% of the marks for that question"

As a student, this challenged you to know and understand what you know, and what you don't, and promoted the idea that knowing what you don't know is, in itself, valuable.

As a teaching assistant marking tests, this virtually eliminated long, tedious, often vacuous answers where the student was clearly throwing darts and hoping for a mark or two.

Reminds me of this article posted back in 2014 by Chris Palmer https://noncombatant.org/2014/03/03/downloading-software-saf...

At this point it's totally inexcusable. Just buy the SSL cert already, or get a free one from Let's Encrypt.

I believe Django's logging framework will automatically replace strings in your settings.py file (basically a dict) with '*' if the key "looks like" a secret (contains the word 'secret' or 'key' or 'passw' etc).

How is it possible in this day and age that both http://www.9bis.net/kitty/ and http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ are not HTTPS?

Serious question, I'm genuinely not trolling here. How can Twitter (or any other social site) be expected to maintain a high rate of new users, forever? After the first few hundred million users, wouldn't one expect new registrations to slow down a bit?

Here's the product page: https://www.ampaudio.com/

I was excited for an upgraded audio experience and extended battery life (paid for mine back in Nov 2014), but to be honest I'm not surprised. Nearly every communication from the company included apologies about 3/6/9 month delays.

What evidence is there that the phone was actually hacked? Wouldn't saying "ah never mind we hacked it" be a convenient way out of a precedent-setting court case the FBI was losing?

Reminds me of https://evan.atavist.com/vanish

One reason bringing your resume is a good idea is because scumbag recruiters sometimes modify your resume, inserting the right keywords to get you the interview in the first place.

> none of them that big

You sound like middle management weighing lines of code instead of quality of work.

To those who think inbox-0 is a waste of time, because you can just search for email, so why spend even a second organizing it: what causes you to remember to reply to an email sent to you 3 days ago, which is now the 119th email in your inbox?

I subscribe to inbox-0 because emails in my inbox need attention of some kind. I'm not advocating spending an inordinate amount of time organizing every email with labels and filters. Just "inbox == needs attention, not-inbox == I can safely forget about it".