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temptemptemp13··on Lessons from a Design Legend (a before-and-after)
Does anybody know how much that kind of work costs? I'd shoot mike an email but I'm guessing you guys could give a broader range of answers.
temptemptemp13··on Every language fixes something - a DiGraph - just for fun
Python is "notenough OO" and leads to Ruby?

I smell a troll under the bridge.

temptemptemp13··on What's New in Google Chrome 12?
Nice de-obfuscation! Though I'm guessing they don't detect packers etc. http://jsbeautifier.org/ will remain a bookmark.
temptemptemp13··on Heroku encourages use of www. prefix for domains after DDoS
But the webadmin of "whatever.io" is probably too cool to consider "www.whatever.io" as a viable web address for a startup company.
temptemptemp13··on Why F1 Steering Wheels Have Over 20 Buttons - And What They All Do
Why can't he show us the back?
temptemptemp13··on X Factor & fox.com hacked, contestants database leaked
Yes, I meant to point out where I found the link. Was that a bad idea?
temptemptemp13··on X Factor & fox.com hacked, contestants database leaked
Creds to reddit btw: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/h62oz/x_factor_foxco...
temptemptemp13··on Why floats suck - accurate galaxy-wide coordinates in 128 bits
I see 2 possible solutions:

1. The coordinates expand with the universe.

2. The coordinates are static and the universe just expands. Note that this isn't awful, planets and stars are always in motion. When planning inter-galactic missions you're always going to have to know where's the starting point and to calculate where the ending point will be at the relevant time.

So to say where Earth is you're going to write down a 4D vector, specifying at what time this was measured.

Btw, the article didn't mention 3D space did it?

temptemptemp13··on Tell HN: Please bring back comment scores
How do you vote down?
temptemptemp13··on Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo
Are we talking gross btw? I might have written down the net salary...
temptemptemp13··on Great Unsolved Problem In Computer Science
What does this have to do with computer 'science'? Sounds to me like he's talking about 'engineering'.
temptemptemp13··on Plain Text Offenders - Did you just email me back my own password?
The passwords can be stolen and then you royally screwed your users who trusted you.

http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2006/12/15/never-store-pass...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/287517/encrypting-hashing...

http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2001-11/pdfs/singer...

temptemptemp13··on Plain Text Offenders - Did you just email me back my own password?
If I understood you correctly - there doesn't need to be a tradeoff between wire and storage security.

You could use a oneway hash at the client side as well.

If you don't want to divulge what's the hash in your database, you can add another oneway hash for whatever reaches the server.

The challenge-response can also be based on hashes.

temptemptemp13··on The Möbius Gear
Why would a prime number of teeth be beneficial? Every full rotation, all n teeth should have the same amount of wear.
temptemptemp13··on Ever missed an SMS on your Android? Here's why. (long-standing bug)
The developer side of SMS messaging isn't pretty either. If you give sendTextMessage a bad phone number - NullPointerException, if you give it too long of a message - NullPointerException. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/gsm...
temptemptemp13··on The Boy Who Stole Half-Life 2
I'd really like to hear Gabe's side to this story.
temptemptemp13··on The Sweden Solar System
This is one of those things people are going to talk about in 3000 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_Correlation_Theory
temptemptemp13··on Ask HN: Best way to write an app for both Android and iOS?
UI layout in code can be a pain because you can't see what you're doing until you do the compile-install-run which can be 30 seconds. That's a hefty amount of time if you're just tweaking one visual element and need to run through 1-10 possibilities.
temptemptemp13··on Oracle forks Jenkins
I don't like your cow example because it really isn't a cow, that's the absolute truth.

Maybe a better example would be "is the earth rotating around the moon or is the moon around the earth?" What if the moon and earth had the same mass?