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bbrizzi

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About bbrizzi

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    Comment #22617421

    Is that a new product ?

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    Comment #14662539

    Reminds me of DHH's talk about having just a "nice italian restaurant" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY

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    Comment #11845558

    Still bigger than a fork bomb !

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    Comment #7385140

    That's probably the case. The author of the article is David Kushner, writer of "Masters of Doom", so he probably knows Romero pretty well.

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    Comment #6640379

    http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ ;)

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    Comment #6626113

    I know what a honeypot (fake field that only bots fill out) but what's a timegate trap? Googling didn't bring up anything relevant. Does it check how long it took the user/bot to f…

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    Comment #6198570

    Reminded me of this quote by Steve Jobs (talking about Gil Amelio): "Apple is like a ship with a hole in the bottom, leaking water. And my job is to get the ship pointed in the rig…

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    Comment #5537339

    As the legend has it, Yahoo originally chose their purple and yellow colors because they were the cheapest paint colors in California back in 1995.

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    Comment #5423665

    Well, the Wikipedia article's history shows that she edited her own article quite a few times, so that doesn't seem to be the problem. I don't see how the error detracted her in an…

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    Comment #5423331

    What a bad article... The author talks about something (google indexing) she admits she doesn't understand. She doesn't understand that by editing her Wikipedia article, the google…

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    Comment #5393424

    I was confused, the header says "Release Date: August, 2000" but it definitely sounded like 1910 English (also, seemed weird to talk about people living on 1£ a day). Thanks for cl…

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    Comment #5298102

    Was using Stylish extension on Firefox. It does seem natural that custom user styles take precedence over "built-in" styles, but it seems like it's not always the case =/

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    Comment #5292164

    You need to add an "!important" attribute at least for the "display:none;" properties for them to work. Too lazy to make a pull request, sorry ;)

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    Comment #5285790

    I was wondering why it wasn't working for me, then I realized it queried the Reddit API from the client side... which I blocked on my work computer.

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    Comment #5243390

    When I'm stuck on a problem for way too long, I start typing it out in Stack Overflow. Usually by the time I'm done describing it, I've already solved it.

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    Comment #5238048

    www.viewdns.info has a "Chinese Firewall Test" to check if a particular domain is blocked in China.

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    Comment #5181187

    > Salar.ly - real salary info for US tech jobs FTFY - Even though the majority of HN readership is American, it's still not the center of the world. Sorry.

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    Comment #5169871

    The first technique won't work if the sales are rounded off to the nearest pixel, which is pretty much almost always the case. The second method won't work if the sales do not foll…

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    Comment #5145937

    Or you can do like 90% of the web and use Bootstrap.

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    Comment #5144157

    Mozilla explains why they don't support the FileSystem API on their blog: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/07/why-no-filesystem-api-in-f...

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    Comment #4952219

    More like "Learn scaling your web app the hard way" ;) (Page isn't loading for me)

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    Comment #4942465

    Something like Diaspora?

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    Comment #4942461

    So, should the Internet Explorer team also be banned from facebook? They too "interfere with the way Facebook is rendered to its users".