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Re: Show HN: Hacker News' “most unique support email of 2014”

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Post by danellis »

wpietri wrote: post #108
danellis wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know why Weird Al thought that was necessary, but this supposed less vs fewer "rule" does not describe actual modern or historical usage. Self-appointed grammarians can choose to stick to whatever usage they like, but going around with stickers and marker pens only makes them look like pedantic bores.

Huh. So now you're against new meanings?

No. I'm saying it's fine for people to stick to the usage they prefer, which may organically bring about a change, but there's no need to be critical of other people for using what is a commonly understood usage.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News' “most unique support email of 2014”

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Post by geofft »

Animats wrote: post #47
geofft wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I totally agree (although you need more than SRI, since you also need some way of signing the original content, but I'd love to see a full spec for this sort of thing). However, SSL is what we have right now that works. And I think, of the browsers that do support SRI (possibly in prerelease versions or behind feature flags), they require the page to be delivered over SSL anyway.

HTTPS is broken by content delivery networks who terminate SSL connections. HTTPS Everywhere makes the problem worse, by increasing load for static pages and breaking caches, forcing sites to use a content delivery network. Take a look at that HTTPS certificate that you think means you're talking to the site of your choice. If it says "cloudflare.com", "incapsula.com", "edgecastcdn.com", "palmwebservices.com", "cdnet…

I agree with all this. However, HTTPS works today at least somewhat, and nothing else does, at all.

If you want to work on a spec to make cacheable, signed hypertext documents, I will be totally down for helping. But no such spec exists today.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News' “most unique support email of 2014”

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Post by jarrettch »

keithwarren wrote: post #24

I had this same phone, in the post iPhone era we tend to forget that smartphones did exist and some of them were actually pretty fantastic devices. From the 600 I upgraded to the 700w and that was probably my favorite phone of all time.

While I never did own a Treo, I did have a Sony Ericsson P900, which came out about 2-3 years before the iPhone I believe. My friends thought I was crazy for buying such an expensive phone, but I was happy with it for so long that I kept it for about 5 years. Lots of flagship phones made years later still didn't match the features of that phone. I still have it, so maybe I'll try booting it up as well.

I think my experience with that phone is the reason I'm in love with the Samsung Galaxy Note series now.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News' “most unique support email of 2014”

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Post by codezero »

yuhong wrote: post #59
codezero wrote: post #57

I had a similar issue when I broke out my iBook from 2000ish. It seems like the root certificate authorities had changed, or the certificates sent by websites weren't able to be resolved. Whether that was the changes to SSL/TLS, or the root authorities, I didn't get into :P

If you are using Classic Mac OS, Classilla has the most up-to-date SSL/TLS support (with both SHA2 certificate and SNI support!)

Thanks for the heads up! I was actually running a very old copy of Linux on the system, running a system update actually solved it :)

Re: Show HN: Hacker News' “most unique support email of 2014”

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Post by wpietri »

danellis wrote: post #111
wpietri wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh. So now you're against new meanings?

No. I'm saying it's fine for people to stick to the usage they prefer, which may organically bring about a change, but there's no need to be critical of other people for using what is a commonly understood usage.

Well in that case, you're wrong. There is a need, and it's to have words for meanings. Language is a commons, and we all get to discuss how it's used.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News' “most unique support email of 2014”

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Post by [deleted] »

danellis wrote: post #111
wpietri wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh. So now you're against new meanings?

No. I'm saying it's fine for people to stick to the usage they prefer, which may organically bring about a change, but there's no need to be critical of other people for using what is a commonly understood usage.

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Re: Show HN: Hacker News' “most unique support email of 2014”

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Post by danellis »

wpietri wrote: post #115
danellis wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No. I'm saying it's fine for people to stick to the usage they prefer, which may organically bring about a change, but there's no need to be critical of other people for using what is a commonly understood usage.

Well in that case, you're wrong. There is a need, and it's to have words for meanings. Language is a commons, and we all get to discuss how it's used.

"commonly understood usage"

That means they do have meaning. I'm sorry if you had trouble understanding the meaning of the words in the post. I think everyone else got it, though.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News' “most unique support email of 2014”

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Post by j45 »

yourad_io wrote: post #43
j45 wrote: post #9

My palm Treos are still the most productive devices I've ever owned. Android is starting to get close but that keyboard and shortcut keys to go directly into an app on the Treo has been unrivalled. Hoping with the sale of the Palm Trademark, and WebOS being free, which is a generation ahead of all mobile operating systems, before the javascript app craze came up, might, in some way, come to lead and inspire the way a…

I was recently looking for a sliding qwerty keyboard phone and to my dismay I realised that while we weren't looking, the NSA took them all away! In my quest I found a phone database where you can search by features (I forget which one right now) and sorted through all possible candidates. My hopes went up momentarily when I saw the Dell Venue Pro[1] before I clicked "next" and saw how wrong they got it[2]. Eventuall…

This looks pretty sweet. THe treo I was speaking about was a little earlier than that and didn't have a sliding keyboard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treo_650

I'm pretty used to the swiftkey touch keyboard now, but the one feature that the Treo destroyed any phone that I ever used was the ability to press function and calendar on a keyboard and the app would move right into creating a new item on your calendar or to-do list.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News' “most unique support email of 2014”

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Post by wpietri »

danellis wrote: post #117
wpietri wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well in that case, you're wrong. There is a need, and it's to have words for meanings. Language is a commons, and we all get to discuss how it's used.

"commonly understood usage" That means they do have meaning. I'm sorry if you had trouble understanding the meaning of the words in the post. I think everyone else got it, though.

You misread what I wrote. I'm not talking about words having meanings. I'm talking about having words for meanings.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News' “most unique support email of 2014”

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Post by Joona »

allending wrote: post #91

Speaking of HN support emails, we emailed Daniel at 4:10PM a few days ago and got a reply at 4:12PM. Send a follow up email and another reply 6 minutes later. Brilliant.

That is very impressive. Almost as fast, or maybe even faster than me answering on IRC!
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