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It strikes me that this developer chooses to write an abstraction on top of JS for solving his recurring problems, over simply using language features readily available. Promises a…

I wonder if this would actually be useful to support in HTTP? (An `Estimated-Content-Length` header or similar, only valid with `Connection: close`.)

You're asking this of a casual user.

That's cute, and we 'foreigners' know that. But there's nothing we can do, and to us it's just an annoyance we have to sit out. Note that I otherwise support Wikipedia on this.

Curiously, the clip plays for me in the Netherlands. But there was little on SOPA in it.

I wonder why the HN account name field is optional, for getting in the shared circle. Currently, it looks like anyone can add themselves just by having an email and G+ account. Som…

Well, Google wouldn't replace their login process because they are the BrowserID primary. If you have a gmail account, BrowserID expects you to be logged in with it, which essentia…

I think the intention is for the primary to be your email provider. So if they become compromised to that extent, then I wouldn't feel very safe about my email account in the first…

Here are the beta 2 release notes: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricOcelot/TechnicalOverview/Beta... I probably missed it; what's so radical about this release? It's not even an LTS.…

As a Dutch citizen, I am ashamed our own government's CA was compromised. And I'm a bit angry, because this hardly concerns just us but the entire secure web. Frankly, I'm hoping f…

Ah, good to know, thanks for the pointer. Another update on the status page, btw. It appears to be a power failure.

The specific availability zone they're talking about is eu-west-1a. Servers we have there are reported as 'running', but are unresponsive. Other zones seem fine, but starting new s…

I'm not sure what people like about Personas (or the equivalent in other browsers). It always stands out, distracts, and for me even messes up the great website I may be viewing at…

I can attest to that, both from reading and writing code with Docco documentation. It's also great IMHO for getting an uncluttered view of code. In many cases, no matter how well w…

It's the background. In Chrome or Safari, open up the inspector and disable it. Smooth as ever. Specifically, it's the `background-attachment: fixed` that's killing performance her…

Slightly related, the genre list page was also terribly laggy to scroll for me. And this is on Chrome on a new series iMac.

Really? I'm normally as paranoid as the next guy, but this only requests read access. Stuff that anyone can find out about you any way if you already have a (public) Twitter accoun…