bbrizzi
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Comment · 6 years ago
Is that a new product ?
Comment · 9 years ago
Reminds me of DHH's talk about having just a "nice italian restaurant" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY
Comment · 10 years ago
Still bigger than a fork bomb !
Comment · 12 years ago
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.
Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
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 fill up the form and dismisses it if it was too fast?
Comment · 13 years ago
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 right direction."
Comment · 13 years ago
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.
Comment · 13 years ago
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 any way, and, as I highlighted it, it was a quick 2-minute fix.
I also don't think the Google algorithm is to blame. If her Wikipedia entry had followed the style guidelines ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Biogr... ), her birth date would have been parsed correctly.
For the record, I didn't find her post funny or even particularly well-written.
I guess if there's something that can be taken from this article it's "Program or be Programmed". The author didn't understand the inner workings of the Google Factbox data, so she assumed computers control her identity and her online information. However, with a little more computer knowledge, you can figure out how to control this data yourself.
Humans control the computers; it's not the other way around.
Comment · 13 years ago
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 crawler would update her infobox data pretty quickly.
Her birth data was added to the wikipedia entry today and the google infobox is fixed. It took less than 2 hours. Not something worth whining about.
Comment · 13 years ago
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 clearing that up.
Comment · 13 years ago
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 =/
Comment · 13 years ago
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 ;)
Comment · 13 years ago
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.
Comment · 13 years ago
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.