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feelstupid | 12 years ago | on: Heartbleed

Forgive my naivety here, but is there any way to tell which sites over the last 2 years I/we have used that may require new passwords, and whether they've been fixed?

I'm kinda looking at a site that lists the major sites (Banks, Socials, Shops, etc) that shows a status on whether you're fine / should change password / await fix before change password)

feelstupid | 12 years ago | on: Detecting duplicate images with Python

I can't work out why the width would be need to be 1px bigger in width? I don't see the explanation in #3. Also, the array in #3 shows a 9x9 grid of 81 values when there are only 72 pixels?

feelstupid | 12 years ago | on: Manhattan: Real-time, multi-tenant distributed database for Twitter scale

Does anyone else find the opening statement a little misleading? Yes they originally come from one place, but they are sent from Twitter to the app of your choosing via JSON or similar. Sure there's going to be more than one request for the icon sprite and user avatars, but all from Twitter.

"When you open the Twitter app on your smartphone and all those tweets, links, icons, photos, and videos materialize in front of you, they’re not coming from one place. They’re coming from thousands of places."

feelstupid | 12 years ago | on: A Polymer element for flexible GIF playback

I can understand the need for lowered bandwidth, but the need for better cross-browser and cross-platform support is more important.

For example; Github README files, we can insert a GIF of a screencast, but obviously we can't run our own JS, CSS, or embed video. There is where GIFs are the only option, unless of course you want to redirect to an external site, but for small repos it's overkill.

The other issue, is saving and sharing. How many people have a folder full of GIFs? Has anyone tried saving a GIF from the polymer element? As you can imagine, it saves a frame, which makes it useless. Sure, you can add a button to Download a compiled version or the original, but why should we add custom controls when everyone knows Right Click Save As?

For me, cross platform compatibility without requiring an extra file (HTML to actually play) per GIF if more important than filesize and bandwidth. Bandwidth is obviously costly, but maybe the issue is knowing when to create a GIF and when to create a video instead, why is the issue with the playback why not emphasise on the creation size?

feelstupid | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: 2048 in 2048 bytes

Basically, the 'check' to see whether you have any moves left isn't in fact whether there are moves left, it's just a simply 'if no more space for new block = game over'

The addition of the block being added no matter the move is an escape round the original (and obviously more verbose, probably why excluded) method of calculating moves remaining.

All in all, decent effort, but it's not 100% true to it's aim

feelstupid | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: 2048 in 2048 bytes

If I press UP and only UP, it will have the 16's in the top row, 8's in the 2nd, 4's in the 3rd, and 2's in the 4th without fail. It then says GG 272 even though I have more moves.

Out of 3 times playing, it has some this 3 times.

feelstupid | 12 years ago | on: Flappy Bird Ported to C64

Using 'ported' assumes that you gained access to the original source code for Flappy Bird, rather than just recreating Flappy Bird on C64.

feelstupid | 12 years ago | on: UK porn filter blocks League of Legends update

Are you a new customer? The filter is on by default for new customers only at the moment. It'll be rolling out to existing clients later on (few months) where you decide to opt in or opt out (however they plan on asking).
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