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u124556··on Poll: Do you want a smart watch?
No, I have a phone.
u124556··on Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event
For those not able to see the video, text updates [here](http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/2fwmcl/apple_special_...)
u124556··on Emscripten and asm.js: C++'s role in the modern web
Bugs exist. Report them. Doesn't change the intent of asm.js to be immune to buffer overflows.
u124556··on Emscripten and asm.js: C++'s role in the modern web
It would be interesting to see node.js and meteor working with emscripten. Then you can forget javascript and keep it all in c++.
u124556··on Ragnarok MMO open-source HTML5 client
I wonder in how many years we'll be able to play WoW or GuildWars2 on our browsers.
u124556··on Tabnabbing: A New Type of Phishing Attack (2010)
That works for us but not the average celebrity Joe.
u124556··on Tabnabbing: A New Type of Phishing Attack (2010)
Is there any valid use case for the onblur event on the window object?
u124556··on Tabnabbing: A New Type of Phishing Attack (2010)
An attacker could still create a subdomain like http://mail.google.com.evil.com/. The problem comes for mobile phones not showing the whole domain due to lack of screen space.
u124556··on Writing Extensions for Firefox Is Barely Worth the Trouble
For userscripts in chrome, TamperMonkey is much better than the built-in script manager.
u124556··on Testing a way for you to make purchases on Twitter
And then you can buy from the page with the details. Forcing you to go back to the twit to buy would be a bad idea.
u124556··on Testing a way for you to make purchases on Twitter
Amazon does use more than 140 characters to present a product.
u124556··on AM – Attribute Modules for CSS
Yes, I was just following the example on the site but something like .btn.important would be even better.
u124556··on AM – Attribute Modules for CSS
What's the problem with `class="btn large rounded"` and then in css:

    .btn {}
    .btn.large {}
    .btn.rounded {}
    .btn.large.rounded {}
u124556··on How Memorizing “$19.05” Can Help You Outsmart the MTA
Why not just ask how many rides do you want instead?
u124556··on Twitpic is shutting down
>Its basically like a URL shortener shutting down

Did anything major happened after some of the early URL shorteners died? We survived just fine.

u124556··on Show HN: Give 7 billion people a physical address
And because if it isn't on Google maps it doesn't exist, right?
u124556··on Show HN: Give 7 billion people a physical address
I was thinking some of the names will probably offend people in some language.
u124556··on The bttn – the simplest user interface
Do you sell Buthons?
u124556··on Bitcoin Available at 10,000 Indomaret Stores in Indonesia
He probably meant the number id for the electricity meter/gauge in their home.
u124556··on Time Travel Simulation Resolves “Grandfather Paradox”
We all know no one attended the party, so maybe time travelers just didn't want to disturb that part of history?
u124556··on Time Travel Simulation Resolves “Grandfather Paradox”
If you had a program that generated a random number, and somehow send a hash of said number to the past to be used as a salt to generate itself. Would the new random number be truly random?
u124556··on Tribler – Search and stream torrents
The nicest feature to me is the serverless search. This week several torrent websites have been DDoSed and people doesn't know where to get their torrents from.
u124556··on Kotlin, the Swift of Android
Built in Singletons? I'd like to see built in Dependency Injection instead.
u124556··on Show HN: Call emails, not phones
Can I register and still get callers to leave voice mail?

How about using an alias instead of my email in the url?

u124556··on A Single Div
> the problem that html5 was supposed to solve but didn't

I always thought html5 solved it, but then came bootstrap and got us back to div-hell.

u124556··on A Single Div
Yet she uses a <div/> instead of an <img/>
u124556··on A Single Div
You can inline svg.
u124556··on MySQL: Why “My”?
Go to your ORMs configuration and change 'mysql' to 'pgsql' ;)
u124556··on A URL shortener service in 45 lines of Scala
What would be the minimum path size in the shortened url to ensure a large enough capability of storage without letting users guess other urls easily?
u124556··on Diaspora social network cannot stop IS posts
The beheading is beyond our control, but should we not talk about it?
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