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Re:Google moves to replace Flash with HTML5 on Friday May 20, 2016 @10:00AM (#11737813)
You can still use Flash if you click-to-play, or you can white-list an address.
Re:GPL Licenses Logos Now Available on Monday November 16, 2015 @09:38AM (#10574637)
All the logos on this page that include the "free software" part are visually ruined by it.
Re:They Live, We Sleep on Wednesday August 05, 2015 @03:43AM (#10008426)
> ... the subtle message of They Live...

Is this a joke?

Re:Are killer whales persons? on Monday June 29, 2015 @04:30AM (#9796967)
False equivalence. Should the police of human state A prosecute citizens of state B for something they did inside the territory of state B?

I realize that the answer is sometimes "yes", but I don't think that crimes against humanity (orca-kind?) or rendition agreements are applicable in this case.

Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with after work fatigue? on Thursday June 25, 2015 @02:03AM (#9776214)
Are you sure the fatigue is related to work? Have you seen a doctor?
Re:Python: Faster Way on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @05:22AM (#8813983)
It's just a reference, it's not making a value judgement about the different ways to evaluate the truthiness of a list or something.
This is fucking terrifying.
Can you actually target Facebook ads at specific users?
I'm guessing because China.
>I put some code in my forms that grabbed the email address when focus left the email input box – even if part of a larger form – and sent it back to the server. [...] Once I have that email address, I can backfill info to build a customer profile [...] This little hack is super-awesome because even if they don’t complete the entire form, as long as they fill in the email address, I get the data.

Holy shit.

Re:The reason Angular JS will fail on Thursday April 03, 2014 @09:57AM (#7522790)
tl;dr: AngularJS will fail because it is not as intuitive and easy to use as jQuery.
Re:Speech accent archive (English) on Friday January 10, 2014 @04:47AM (#7035892)
Quicktime?
Re:Netflix’s new plan: save a buck with SD-only streaming on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @04:42AM (#6989799)
You should get a VPN. Sure, it will cost you a bit extra, but Netflix has absolutely no qualms accepting your non-American credit card and you'll be able to watch other region-locked content. The VPN I use has absolutely no problems delivering HD content from Netflix and Hulu.