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Re:Give Google Contributor a try: Pay to remove ads on Thursday September 24, 2015 @02:58PM (#10273786)
Your argument reads to me to be a stronger reason to continue blocking ads.
If use of encryption were banned, I wouldn't even be able to unlock my Android.
Re:Strengthening JavaScript on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @07:17PM (#9181446)
I think it's important for the VM, which is what I got as to why they are proposing strong mode and sound types.

I imagine that let and const afford optimizations to the VM.

Re:Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox on Saturday February 14, 2015 @05:11AM (#9049260)
dev tools rarely work, just having the console open slows down the entire process by several magnitudes of order, the UI for safari devtools is horrible - I can never find what I am looking for when I need it, there is no public bug tracker for safari proper, web apis for database access are magnitudes slower than both firefox and chrome

I could go on ...

Re:HSTS Super Cookies on Saturday January 03, 2015 @12:55PM (#8831400)
Same here, got same code on OSX 10.9.5 Chrome 39.0.2171.95
Re:Things I still can't do in November 2014 on Sunday November 23, 2014 @05:16AM (#8648336)
Or just dumb ideas.

Call the police from an app? Your phone is still a phone ...

Re:Chesscademy – Learn How to Play Chess on Sunday August 10, 2014 @07:58AM (#8159518)
I think the main problem is that when you get into the exercises that require combinations of tactics, it assumes the student has the capacity to make that leap, or recall on demand everything they have learned and put them all together without a helping hand.

I'm towards the end of "Diving Deep" and I'm ready to give up as the exercises continually lead me to brute force moves until I hit the specific move you are looking for.

Re:Chesscademy – Learn How to Play Chess on Sunday August 10, 2014 @07:32AM (#8159468)
Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the site. I find the lessons quite informative and easy to follow, but the exercises are often impossible to get right as they are expecting one series of moves vs. applying what is learned in the lesson to reach a specific goal with a specific style of play, tactic, etc.

As an example I am stuck on http://www.chesscademy.com/exercises/initiative-controlling-...

My current board now looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/DxjsAKx.png

But no matter what I do, a popup keeps telling me "that move does not uphold initiative". It doesn't tell me why it doesn't, and I assume it doesn't actually know, rather it is looking for me to make a preprogrammed move. It won't allow me to attack the queen with a defended bishop, it won't let me do a lot of things that to me would continue to force the opponents hand.

I am certain for you the most optimal next move is obvious, but as learner the inflexible format of the many move/exchanges exercises is really frustrating.

Re:The App I Used to Break Into My Neighbor’s Home on Sunday July 27, 2014 @03:35AM (#8092223)
They don't know who a key belongs to, they trust that you are the owner of said key when you upload it.
Re:Inverter on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @05:22PM (#8039091)
I find the "on to level x" popover slow and unnecessary, I just want to invert more colors :)
Re:Google's XSS game on Thursday May 29, 2014 @10:36AM (#7816391)
They provided a hosted callback in the clues. Just change foo to alert.
Re:Google's XSS game on Thursday May 29, 2014 @10:34AM (#7816381)
img src='garbage' onerror='script' is gauranteed to auto execute, where mouseover requires the user to mouse over the element.
Re:Google's XSS game on Thursday May 29, 2014 @07:23AM (#7815681)
That was super fun!
Sounds like yet another manufacturing market for Germany to take up.
Re:Consul 0.2 UI Demo on Thursday May 01, 2014 @04:42PM (#7682566)
UI isn't responsive to my not really that small laptop screen. I have to horizontally scroll to see everything when there is little to see. There is too much whitespace everywhere.
Re:Flappy 2048 on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @05:52PM (#7637149)
:/ The flappy number is bigger than the block/hole it's trying to merge with. This annoys me more than it should.
Re:Hack Rifle on Monday April 21, 2014 @04:57AM (#7620331)
Wifi cracking.
Re:The Birth and Death of JavaScript [video] on Friday April 18, 2014 @02:30AM (#7608171)

  var xs = ['10', '10', '10'];
  xs.map(function (str) {
    return parseInt(str, 10);
  });
  
  > [10, 10, 10]
Fixed that for you. Why?

  map callback params: (value, index, originalArray)
  parseInt params: (string, radix)
Your code is passing the map array index to parseInt's radix.
Re:The Birth and Death of JavaScript [video] on Friday April 18, 2014 @02:24AM (#7608159)
It's not optional if you lint your code :)
Re:Create JavaScript, CSS Interactions With Zero Lines of Code on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @01:45PM (#7599260)
Inline all the styles!
Re:Ask HN: Negative OpenSSL sentiments on Saturday April 12, 2014 @08:37AM (#7577686)
That's a very, very limited list of websites. It would be safer to assume that you need to reset your passwords, revoke access keys, for ALL websites you have credentials or keys on. However you should not do so until those websites have made a statement verifying that they have both patched, AND revoked their SSL certs.
Re:Mozilla just can't catch a break on Saturday April 05, 2014 @05:11AM (#7536477)
A majority of a certain population of people support something abhorrent. I guess that makes it okay.

Guess what, yes, your actions in private/public life have an effect on your employability and the success of your organization.

Re:How not to write an API on Sunday March 09, 2014 @05:58PM (#7370153)
What the, why? Who thought this matched any sane API authentication pattern?
Re:Here is a thing that happened on Sunday February 23, 2014 @04:54AM (#7285432)
Average American Conglomerate, LTD.
Re:JavaScript Module Loaders Considered Harmful on Sunday February 16, 2014 @04:01PM (#7249293)
I would never do a large JS project with out modules. But I also never use "module loaders".
Most users have a facebook account, supporting a facebook oauth sigup/login flow means one less set of credentials the user has to remember. It simply reduces the barrier to entry into an app for the average user.
Re:A game to learn a new language on Sunday February 09, 2014 @06:22PM (#7207929)
Missing gender articles for nouns in gendered languages makes this pretty useless for learning words.
Re:Ask HN: Does startups hire above 35 years old employees? on Sunday February 02, 2014 @07:30AM (#7165791)
Yes.
Re:Reddit account compromised: a lesson in passwords on Saturday February 01, 2014 @02:38PM (#7163038)
A lesson in passwords or a lesson in downloading/pirating apps from dubious sources.

Official app stores have a hard enough time keeping their inventory clean from fake apps and malware, what makes you think TPB is somehow not full of fakes and malware?

Re:You might not need jQuery on Thursday January 30, 2014 @02:19PM (#7152755)
Rewriting jQuery methods? If you can do it natively, and succinctly, why would you load a library abstraction to begin with?

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