MeFi post:
Keep your friends close?
favorited 15 times, recently by chewbud, nicolas léonard sadi carnot, Soup, good in a vacuum, Mercaptan, hugsnkisses, TrolleyOffTheTracks, crawl, ryran, Pontius Pilate, uk_giffo, Skorgu, Suparnova, Olli, jvilter
6 days ago
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"One other salt-related note for web applications.
You'll probably need to use cookies to save authentication information on your client's computers so you can recognize them. Salt's are critical in producing cookies that you can later validate...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Foci for Analysis, odinsdream
Last month
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"I am very skeptical of Media Grid. I saw one of their early presentations in Cambridge and was extremely underwhelmed. It may have just been a bad presentation, but it was not clear to me that had a basic grasp on what the point of virtual..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by signal
Last month
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""Bubbler" usage in my experience is much stronger in Rhode Island than Massachusetts. I don't know why it's attributed to MA, at all, actually. I've never heard it outside of RI. When you meet RI-landers elsewhere the words we connect on..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Rock Steady
2 months ago
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"This exact same thing happened to my mother's car. It was like a 1993 Sable Wagon, and it just lit itself on fire in the parking lot one day while she was shopping. After she answered a page at the store, the woman at the customer service desk asked..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by flibbertigibbet
4 months ago
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"The thing is, entertainment based virtual worlds (I exclude Second Life here, for the moment) are fundamentally all about stories. The game itself is often stupidly boring. As a raw game mechanic, WoW is pretty terrible. For the vast majority of PvE..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pope Guilty
5 months ago
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"I think developing a metaphorical understanding of something requires pretty deep knowledge of an area. Metaphors are partially about abstraction, and it's hard to abstract from something when you have only a passing familiarity with it. You also..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by kelseyq, drezdn
5 months ago
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"Did anyone else think he would look different? After many hours of slogging through djbdns docs and config files, I had kind of built up this image of djb as a much older man who spewed magic out of his fingertips but was really, really crotchety..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Asymptote
7 months ago
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"Nthing they-probably-don't-think-you're-boring.
I think pretty much everyone has been in this situation at some point, and it's hard to handle it gracefully. For me, at least, when I'm in the majority, I don't (and I don't meant this in a mean way..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by melorama
7 months ago
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"I don't get why every post about online gamers has to deride everyone as 14 year old losers who've never left their parent's basement. That stereotype hasn't been true for a long time, and it's just a ridiculous thing to trot out in this context. Yes,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by soviet sleepover
7 months ago
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"The keyboard is a little cramped for grown-up fingers. You can learn to type on it if you spend a long time with it, but as a very-occasional user of XOs that are around the lab, I'm always frustrated by the keyboard. As someone raised on normal..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by gac, Tufa, ryanfou, Smart Dalek, olinerd
7 months ago
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"It strikes me that MefiMail would be a great way to add in mechanisms for people to get in touch with anonymous question askers without having to rely on external dummy email accounts. Just adding a "mail this asker" button, and then..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by Melinika, arcticwoman, miss lynnster, pompomtom, bugbread, brain cloud, By The Grace of God, Deathalicious, Rock Steady
8 months ago
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"I'm no communications expert, but from what I remember from my college communications course, it depends a lot on the technology the phone is using. The two primary encoding techniques for 2G cell phone networks are Time Division Multiple Access..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ragaskar, jquinby
10 months ago
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"Almost certainly not worth it.
I say this as someone who's been doing research into the design of social spaces in Second Life more or less full time for the past month or so.
What's great about SL is that presence comes for free - your..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by klangklangston
Last year
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"See all this movie of all the advertising/interface bits that were done for Children of Men. They did quite a good job with them." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by turaho, Optimus Chyme
Last year
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"The above stuff is basically right (inflatablekiwi in particular nails the ways this goes wrong), but I want to step back a little and provide some higher level context.
The basic problem here is that you want a way for clients to prove their..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Dataphage
Last year
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"I haven't used it much, but I'm pretty sure Graph Sketcher is the package you're looking for.
In the past, though, I've just used Matlab and made the cuves by hand...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by odinsdream
Last year
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"Oh, another site popped into my head. You should check out Douglas Crockford's site. It's kind of random, but he's one of the few people who writes at length about JavaScript from a serious software engineer perspective and not as an amateur. He gets..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kamelhoecker
Last year
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"I am the aforementioned third wheel in olinerd's living situation. I noticed the thread this morning during breakfast, but alas, had to run off to class before I could respond.
I basically agree with everything she said earlier - for us, it works..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by olinerd
Last year
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"I don't know what the etiquette is on this, but I'm a designer/developer on a tool that might be exactly what you're looking for. You can find the link in my profile - it's listed as my website. It's free, does many-to-many, focuses on text, but does..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by yoga, beniamino
Last year
MeFi post:
Keep your friends close?
favorited 15 times, recently by chewbud, nicolas léonard sadi carnot, Soup, good in a vacuum, Mercaptan, hugsnkisses, TrolleyOffTheTracks, crawl, ryran, Pontius Pilate, uk_giffo, Skorgu, Suparnova, Olli, jvilter
Last year
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"I'm a little confused - do you want these applications for your personal use, or do you think they're a good business proposition and think that by releasing them you can make money?
Respect your programmer's expertise. It's important that you..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rsanheim
Last year
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"From your tags, it sounds like you're thinking software startup. My experience (limited as it is) is with web software startups, so my advice's utility may vary if you're thinking about a different kind of software.
Investors don't want business..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by fishfucker
Two years ago
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"Kyleg wins. This would ensure the fastest response time and maximum enjoyment for all involved. Everyone loves a good plagiarism pile-on." [
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Two years ago
