simonbrown

It's their button, why would they need the user to click it? I guess it could be clickjacking, but there must be an easier way to do that.

The post states that one of his coworkers was promoted to the role.

What would be wrong with that?

It works for me in IE7 on IETester (mostly e.g. there's a correct mixed content error and the "popular cities" tab doesn't work). I assume they have looked at their stats and concluded that IE6/7 doesn't represent a large enough proportion of their market to support it. I also wouldn't regard airbnb as a large company.

Why would a good writer be any more likely to do this than a bad writer? Surely it would depend on market conditions?

  <a href="/x/"> will work, but will break when someone decides to move "/x" to "/y".

If /x redirected to /y, that wouldn't be a problem.

They could have people mail cheques.

Also, it seems strange given that he once said:

  Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing
  experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no
  real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that
  are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself.

from https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

Is each page generally only categorised by one person?

Does this also support http://www.reddit.com/r/ama?

What about negative primes? According to Wolfram Alpha:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=-2+prime

How did you embed the exe client into a jpg (rather than just changing the icon)?

How did he get pwned or not take necessary precautions? He could have re-imaged it after running the virus to prevent something like this from happening (assuming that's how it did), but it was all in a virtual machine, so there wasn't much risk to not doing it.

Disclaimer: I'm not a professional virus analyst.

There's a blog post briefly explaining it here:

http://blog.cueup.com/announcing-a-new-name-new-free-service...

Works for me. You have to click it and then click the "available in the app store" button on the iPhone screen.

It seems strange that "2" was listed after "I don't know".

It was CVS.

Even though there's an upload limit, it might still be possible to create an app that plays back uploaded files by getting a /media link and embedding the URL in a flash/HTML5 player.

A browser extension/desktop program could possibly add a "get video link" option to the Dropbox interface.

They could just change the "copy public link" to no longer give a direct link, similar to the "get link" button.

Strange they don't use reCAPTCHA for this.

I don't think there's anything surprising about it. Lots of sites (including stackoverflow) make the slug useless so they (or users) can change the title whenever they want.

OGPL seems like a confusing acronym for an open source platform.

It is licensed under GPL, though (inherited from Drupal):

https://github.com/opengovplatform/opengovplatform/blob/mast...

If Google wanted a domain owned by a squatter they would buy it from them, so the squatter isn't preventing this from happening.

Vanilla has a plugin to do this, but the link seems to be broken at the moment. I'll contact them.

http://vanillaforums.org/addon/embedvanilla-plugin

> I especially don't want to give a username and password to all these little poorly-secured blogs.

How many blogs require you to create a blog to post?

> And turn off RSS.

What's wrong with RSS?

Another option could be to allocate the money between the site owners that have registered in the same proportions as before. If they set a date to do this, and the planned amount for most sites ends up being significant, this may provide an incentive for more people to register.

This article suggests that ICANN is selling them at cost!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13835997

See the discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4105446

Related question: If a (non-weapon) device is shipped containing a GPL-derived program which includes a copy of the source, but destroys it on arrival, does that obey the license?

When I click a link that goes to another page and then click back, my scroll position isn't preserved.