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New comment by nollidge in "Show HN: Everyone Panic – Almost-free downtime phone alerts using Twilio"

nollidge — Thu, 29 May 2014 18:13:35 +0000

This is the most comprehensive list of gateways I've found:

https://github.com/cubiclesoft/email_sms_mms_gateways/blob/m...

New comment by nollidge in "Is This How We'll Cure Cancer?"

nollidge — Thu, 22 May 2014 20:03:27 +0000

Betteridge's law of headlines:

"Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines

New comment by nollidge in "9m.no – Short URLs for the Unicode Age"

nollidge — Thu, 22 May 2014 13:57:27 +0000

Typo.

New comment by nollidge in "Using the wrong dictionary"

nollidge — Wed, 21 May 2014 13:28:38 +0000

> I like using a word beyond my normal inner-dictionary that is the right one, in the right place.

This is often referred to as le mot juste.

New comment by nollidge in "How a Raccoon Became an Aardvark"

nollidge — Tue, 20 May 2014 15:39:50 +0000

Yes, that is absolutely what I'm saying. Obviously not because it's Wikipedia's policy, but because all information is provisional. All information should be regarded with varying levels of confidence never approaching 100%.

If you ask about my breakfast, I could be lying to you or recall yesterday's breakfast instead of today's or whatever.

New comment by nollidge in "How a Raccoon Became an Aardvark"

nollidge — Tue, 20 May 2014 15:34:36 +0000

I don't see why you have to impersonate me to make this point.

New comment by nollidge in "How a Raccoon Became an Aardvark"

nollidge — Tue, 20 May 2014 15:33:33 +0000

How would you know I'm telling you the truth?

New comment by nollidge in "How a Raccoon Became an Aardvark"

nollidge — Tue, 20 May 2014 14:06:07 +0000

It seems to me the problem is that people think there even exists such a thing as an authoritative source.

New comment by nollidge in "Anki – Powerful, intelligent flashcards"

nollidge — Fri, 09 May 2014 18:35:16 +0000

How can there be no screenshots?

New comment by nollidge in "We'd lose our security certificate if we allowed pasting"

nollidge — Tue, 06 May 2014 13:12:58 +0000

> That 250MB password will be run through scrypt by javascript

No, it will not. Nobody does this.

New comment by nollidge in "It's Different for Girls"

nollidge — Fri, 02 May 2014 21:18:22 +0000

How is this a rebuttal? If anything, this furthers the author's case.

EDIT: nevermind, the language was fixed.

New comment by nollidge in "Gimli Glider"

nollidge — Fri, 02 May 2014 14:10:21 +0000

I did not successfully parallel park in my test and still passed. Thankfully I learned how on my own, but still.

New comment by nollidge in "Gimli Glider"

nollidge — Fri, 02 May 2014 14:08:06 +0000

U.S.? If so, me too, and I think we have horribly insufficient driving instruction here. Maybe it varies by state, but yeah, we didn't go on the freeway, I didn't really learn how to parallel park, I didn't learn anything about highway ettiquette (i.e. keep right unless passing), etc.

I wish we were required to have many, many more training hours before being licensed, especially in the colder climates with icy conditions on the regular.

New comment by nollidge in "An Opinionated Guide to Modern Java Development, Part 1"

nollidge — Thu, 01 May 2014 17:38:31 +0000

Agree completely, that's why I said "probably" :)

EDIT: Comments are useful for explaining things like:

1. Non-obvious side effects

2. Code that's working around a bug in a 3rd party library

3. Code that calls into some non-intuitive 3rd party API

4. Citing your work (e.g. "adapted from stackoverflow.com/blah123")

5. Why you used pattern A instead of the more standard pattern B

New comment by nollidge in "The Launch of the Mayday Citizens' SuperPAC"

nollidge — Thu, 01 May 2014 17:37:03 +0000

I just hit "donate" and it took me to:

https://mayone.us/fec_compliance/

Sincere thanks to everybody who complained to them about this - I wouldn't have donated without HTTPS.

New comment by nollidge in "An Opinionated Guide to Modern Java Development, Part 1"

nollidge — Thu, 01 May 2014 16:14:16 +0000

Yeah, I'm of the opinion that if you need a class/method comment to explain what it takes in or spits out, you probably named it badly.

New comment by nollidge in "Burying the URL"

nollidge — Thu, 01 May 2014 14:17:48 +0000

> When you stop by the local coffee shop, do you take note of what its address is?

Postal address? No, but I do know (for example) I'm on Main street, in that tiny alley one block west of 4th Ave, in the building just left of that weird giant sculpture of a bird.

I'm constantly aware of and can describe my relative location, even if I'm not always capable of expressing it using an absolute designation like postal address.

On the web, though, there is no such relativity. One website is not near or far from or above or below another. I cannot conceive of my location, much less express it, in any way but absolute address.

So: since I do not travel to reach places on the web, how do I know where I am? The address bar.

New comment by nollidge in "Introducing Anonymous Login and an Updated Facebook Login"

nollidge — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 19:30:32 +0000

> I suppose it still tells that service that I have a FB account.

Which barely more invasive than telling them you breathe air, no?

New comment by nollidge in "Introducing Anonymous Login and an Updated Facebook Login"

nollidge — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 19:27:14 +0000

If anybody else is wondering what the hell "f8" is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_f8

New comment by nollidge in "The Absurdity of LinkedIn"

nollidge — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 18:35:21 +0000

See this post elsewhere on the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7674630