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Re:Three Stories on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @09:45PM (#10660568)
A modern alternative to the pizza delivery message would be to use uber to book a car near the location and upon the allocation of the driver, contact them and ask them to deliver the message.

and then drive around the block a few times for their trouble.

Re:Connecting an iPad retina LCD to a PC on Monday April 22, 2013 @06:45PM (#5592196)
edit: My mistake, forgot that it wasn't as wide.
Re:Connecting an iPad retina LCD to a PC on Monday April 22, 2013 @06:43PM (#5592187)
I would love to be able to hook one of these panels up to a Mac and use it as a retina display (1024x768) for testing desktop retina usage.
Re:A crazier prediction: iPhone Plus is real, and huge on Thursday January 31, 2013 @05:16PM (#5147844)
The 5's size was to maintain the 326ppi of the display and ensure a smooth transition for developers. A 3.5 and a 5 inch screen would have made app developers have to create 2 separate layouts, whereas this approach means that developers 2 similar layouts for 4-class phones (3:2) and 5-class phones (16:9), which should ideally mean less work for the developers
Re:Competing on easy on Thursday November 01, 2012 @05:43PM (#4729896)
It's the combination of the three factors causing the issue.
Re:Competing on easy on Thursday November 01, 2012 @01:30AM (#4726348)
Not a huge fan of their blog's redesign.

The combination of the serif font, text-indent on paragraphs and lack of separation between them makes reading it a chore. One of the first times I have needed to use Safari's reader mode out of necessity.

Re:I may have spoken too soon about TextMate 2 on Monday September 03, 2012 @11:34PM (#4472944)
Seeing as an aside/light hearted post like this makes it onto the HN front page, I'd say its a reasonable deal for the advertiser in terms of eyeballs/brand awareness, even if the HN audience is not their intended audience.
Re:Storing Passwords Securely on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @10:55PM (#4077385)
I was always under the impression that the main point of salting a password before hashing (unique or not, stored in cleartext or otherwise) was to prevent the hash from being referenced against a rainbow table of precomputed hashes. Obviously this is in the case of using md5/sha1 for your hashing.

As an example, find the md5 of a dictionary word and google it, its original value is bound to be in the first or second result. Now find the md5 of that word and a random string (aka a salt)... google and there shouldn't be any results. and even if there was due to a collision, that password wouldn't work, because it would be resalted prior to the comparison happening.

Re:Resources for JavaScript Developers on Thursday March 15, 2012 @01:37AM (#3707041)
I should clarify, I mean terribly formatted.

Also works great for displaying JSON in a consistent way, useful for visualising and understanding object hierarchies.

Re:Resources for JavaScript Developers on Thursday March 15, 2012 @01:36AM (#3707035)
Inherited some terrible javascript from a colleague or otherwise: http://jsbeautifier.org
Re:Resigned on Wednesday August 24, 2011 @09:30PM (#2923398)
I think, and I might be going out on a limb here... that it was a joke.
Re:What should I do with http://snort.co.ke? on Wednesday March 30, 2011 @08:36PM (#2389914)
You own the domain http://co.ke? and you're wondering what to do with it?

Sell it and roll around in the cash...

Re:iOS device and OS version stats from Instapaper 3.0 on Friday March 25, 2011 @12:12AM (#2367221)
Would be interesting to see what percentage of users have updated to version 3.0. Eg, 100,000 clients have hit the server in the last two weeks and 65,000 had 3.0

Love the product though and enjoy these kinds of tidbits of info.

There are no iPad images either.