Aldo_MX

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by Aldo_MX 13y ago
I didn't said that I want an ad-less app, I said that I don't want to have ad traffic wasting precious megabytes, not everyone lives in a country with cheap internet.
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Somehow I found duck.co easier to remember
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> Plus, those apps CHOSE to be offered for free WITH ads. It wouldn't be ethical to the developer to take ads off of those apps in the first place, even if you could. As a user I'm not going to allow your app to waste my limi
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by Aldo_MX 13y ago
> When a Human Robot is confronted about an issue with his or her work on the product, they will respond with the following sentence every time: “your requirement was not found in the specification for this project. We require additional
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by Aldo_MX 13y ago
Skype freaked me Contact customer services. You’ll need to know 5 contacts from your contacts list, the month you created your account, and your signup email address.
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by Aldo_MX 13y ago
You can always submit a patch, remember that the source is Open, and everyone is welcome to contribute. My cringe with Firefox are misfeatures like window.onbeforeunload. They deliberately break the expected behavior due to an unreasonable
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by Aldo_MX 13y ago
Apparently it didn't gain much traction here. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6011094
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by Aldo_MX 13y ago
This is relevant for email marketers: In some cases, senders may be able to know whether an individual has opened a message with unique image links. As always, Gmail scans every message for suspicious content and if Gmail considers
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Or possibly they could use heuristics to detect a newsletter and deliver the first fetched image to every recipient of the same newsletter.
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Javascript in iOS is not a good idea, unless you are just prototyping/building a basic app.
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> The ability to download your Gmail messages will be rolled out over the next month while Calendar data is available to download for everyone today. Oh...
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Not really, in this year I had changed only 1 filter, the initial setup may be cumbersome, but the end result is worth the effort. And about the spam to random addresses, in 8 years the most extreme problem I had faced is spam to censored a
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by Aldo_MX 13y ago
catchall FTW I follow the following pattern with websites: If the website is important (ex. government), I use <sitename><4_numbers>@<private_domain>. My filtering rules are extremely strict, and every mail that doesn&#x27
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I have seen the opposite cases as well: The one born into a rich family tends to get spoiled, become wasteful and when the money exhausts becomes poor. The one born into a poor family develops a hard-working attitude, becomes more careful a
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by Aldo_MX 13y ago
I meant to crack private keys, it will eventually become viable to spend resources researching/developing an attack vector to break those abandoned wallets. Migration to better cryptos will certainly happen, but remember that the lost
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I'm pretty confident that in the future it will be possible to break abandoned wallets.
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by Aldo_MX 13y ago
> New problem: Downloading. Large JS apps have to asynchronously load potentially very large codebases, every time the app is loaded Unless you use an old browser, this is not a problem anymore. http://www.w3.org/TR&#x2
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by Aldo_MX 13y ago
I use GnuWin32 and I'm pretty happy with it: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ DISCLAIMER: I just copy/pasted the steps to install GnuWin32 from a text file with instructions that meets my needs . This means that
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for(; ; ) { print "I don't like your compiler."; }
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Checkmate, one line. Import OS.*; OS.Run();
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I find surprising the fact that you say it uses about 15Gb, 6 months ago it used around 10Gb and at this point I can imagine that around 2016 it will need around 100Gb and the number will keep increasing...
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by Aldo_MX 13y ago
If you register a new account, verifying by mobile is mandatory now :(
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To be honest, with out-of-print books I don't care about copyright and I just simply photocopy them, if the publisher wants my money they should reprint the books or release them digitally. IMHO the copyright should get voided when the
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by Aldo_MX 13y ago
To be honest, I do act like a jerk when one of the following conditions are met: a) The user has arbitrary bad orthography because the user believes "her writing looks cool". b) The comment represents ignorance towards something t
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by Aldo_MX 13y ago
I would love if in the future Google (or any other company) begins selling digital editions of books that can only be acquired in paper. Digital books are the future.
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I changed my password to "photoshop", because I was expecting an advice from adobe telling me to pick something more secure, nothing happened :/
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If you spoof your user agent, or use IE11, you don't get redirected to the "crying" page (the page uses 301 redirection BTW). Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko Also worth noting, a
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I'm sad because you don't upgrade your browser!(internetexplorertan.com)
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Who said the web was designed to be printed? I said the web was tought to be printed, all the effort of CSS (circa 98) was about styling the web in a way that made sense for print, not for interaction.
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> It was poorly designed by a group of people who chose to ignore existing understanding of layout models. Can you please elaborate how tables were the understanding of layout models 15 years ago? The web was not thought to be interactiv

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