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If only I had scrolled a bit first, I could have saved myself minutes. Thank you, and my support request is: please start auto-linking safe urls.
My browser does stuff like that for me. :)
From a Treo :) ?
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Why not create a non-SSL virtualhost? http://plain.news.ycombinator.com or similar.
Or just have each protocol do what it's supposed to, rather than redirecting one to another? In general, aren't advanced users supposed to like having the option to make their own decisions?
Yeah. How many users (not power users) actually type https:// into address bar? To my knowledge, if you don't include the protocol, browser default to HTTP.
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I would urge you to, like I realised I had to a few years ago, get over it. Language is not defined by a dictionary or by history; roots and origins are truly meaningless. A word is defined by its usage; it’s one of the delightful things in the world for which it can be said that if enough people say something is true, it becomes true. Uniqueness may once have been a boolean property (I cannot say for certain one way…
Should we accept incorrect usage of language that is more confusing than the correct usage? For instance, using "begs the question" instead of "raises the question". It causes a lot of confusion because people cannot even agree what the misusage of "begs the question" means and it is never a better choice of words than "raises the question" if that is what someone means.
The point is that "correct usage" is not defined by logicians or etymologists or any kind of authority, but by society as a whole, and therefore has no one exact definition. Look up "literally" in any recent dictionary for proof.
Re: Show HN: Hacker News' “most unique support email of 2014”
#84I suspect this device can't do TLS. Blame POODLE for killing SSLv3:
* https://blog.cloudflare.com/sslv3-support-disabled-by-defaul...
Also RC4 is about to die:
* https://blog.cloudflare.com/killing-rc4-the-long-goodbye/
* https://blog.cloudflare.com/killing-rc4/
* https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-web-is-world-wide-or-who-sti...
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#85> TL;DR http://i.imgur.com/LuPHqiN.png > This is what I sent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqn-EmU5KPw > This is what they got back to me with: http://i.imgur.com/LuPHqiN.png > [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treo_600 (gallery of 2-6,8-9 here: http://imgur.com/a/Gu70R ) [2]: http://i.imgur.com/xVdpUST.jpg [3]: http://i.imgur.com/2Yy8fkM.jpg [4]: http://i.imgur.com/nZ7GwC1.jpg [5]: http://i.imgur.com/OJuZmh3.jpg…
If only I had scrolled a bit first, I could have saved myself minutes. Thank you, and my support request is: please start auto-linking safe urls.
My chrome extension for sorting posts based on points also auto-links comments and posts https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-sorter...
Re: Show HN: Hacker News' “most unique support email of 2014”
#86Funny, but this post doesn't follow Show HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html). Should be a "Tell HN" instead.
Re: Show HN: Hacker News' “most unique support email of 2014”
#87I don't think it's possible for something to be the 'most unique'.
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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…
Can it run Cyanogen? The Blackberry Passport is one of the few modern keyboard phones, it uses Amazon's appstore for Android apps.
Yes, and CGM 11 (KitKat) as well.
The CGM wiki isn't entirely clear on this - there's a specific build for the Q which is somewhat outdated [1] so you should use this [2] [3].
Be aware that you'll need to tweak it a bit to make it super-responsive with 4.4 - at least for me, the N5 has really spoiled me (...especially after I went back to 4.4)
> The Blackberry Passport is one of the few modern keyboard phones, it uses Amazon's appstore for Android apps.
The passport is cute, but I didn't consider non-Androids (I'm a flasher:) and I wanted something in the "second/backup-phone" price range. The keyboard would likely be nicer than the Q's though.
[1] http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=xt897
[2] http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=moto_msm8960_jbbl&ty...
[3] http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Moto_msm8960_Info (get the _jbbl or it won't flash)
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"unique" comes directly from the Latin "unus", one. The modernist, American wishy-washy uses of the word to mean "unusual" are a sad travesty of thinking. One should simply use the word "unusual" if that's what one means to say.
From looking at the origins, it seems to me that pretty much the same objection could be leveled at your use of the word "one" as a pronoun instead of a number.
touché
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
"unique" comes directly from the Latin "unus", one. The modernist, American wishy-washy uses of the word to mean "unusual" are a sad travesty of thinking. One should simply use the word "unusual" if that's what one means to say.
Language changes all the time. Everyone knew what was intended to be communicated. I don't really see what the problem is, it's not like there's some platonic ideal of the English language to be violated.
In practical, non-platonic terms the new meaning (remarkable like a few others) is incompatible with the old (unlike any other).