Carpetsmoker

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by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
FastMail just uses SpamAssassin btw; I'm not sure if they have any modifications, but based on the results it seems just the standard SA.
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by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
When I announced my own analytics thing here a few months ago I got quite a few signups from the HN thread, and based on the bug reports, support requests, etc quite a few of the users are just running it on their personal blog. I'm aw
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by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
As someone who runs one of those 3rd-party analytics: the JS you add to your site is small, readable, and can be downloaded and included from your own CDN. Hell, you don't even need the script, you can just write your own (not very har
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by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
> - https://github.com/zgoat/goatcounter (Golang) (Commercial Licensed) Small correction: it's not really "commercial licensed", it's completely Open Source/Free Software according to the OS
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by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
Ask the former secretary of state how well that went for her. It's not always an option, even if they can't read your email casually, your company may still have perfectly legitimate reasons to keep it under their control for reas
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by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
I agree there are certain similarities and problems in the US. But mass-censorship, concentration camps, and a true surveillance state on the level of China don't exist in the US. Some, like an expansion of the surveillance state, are
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by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
In the Netherlands there was a court case which ruled that an employer cannot just read an employees work email, as even work-related emails are considered private information. There are some exceptions of course: if you notify the employee
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by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
When people write it like that?
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by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
You can just use <br>
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by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
This is also very advantageous in diffs; diff-ing a Markdown file with many 1000+ character lines is rather hard.
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by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
HTML tables are hard to write, read, and edit though. If you want to make the document easily readable both as HTML and Markdown (quite useful for a README, I think) then it's not a very good option.
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by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
Emojis are fundamentally different, as they're essentially just codepoints being displayed. That's fairly easy to implement, as every system has been doing that for years. What you're proposing would require massive rewrites
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by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
> numbers should probably be shift-typed I tried this for a week several years ago; it was not a success. Aside from all the muscle memory re-learning, I also found that I used the number more often than I had thought. What I do these da
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by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
> I'm seriously wondering whether there is a better chance of establishing a reasonable dialogue with China than to stop you guys from messing stuff up. IMHO China is much much worse, ranging from censorship (often over very small i
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by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
The current administration will go away, but I don't see the forces that put him in power going away any time soon. I can't predict the future, but I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't the last clearly unsuitable Republ
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by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
Considering that Trump wants to keep manufacturing in the US (big issue during the campaign, no comment on whether this is a good or bad policy), this seems rather unwise in the long run. Basically he's showing that the US is an unreli
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by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
Sending spam on the gmail web UI is considerably harder than a few lines of shell script needed to spam over SMTP. And arguably, the web UI should really add the same Received headers.
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by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
If host A is using gmail to spam me, then I can block host A, but if gmail would remove this I can only block all of gmail (or the gmail account, but a new account will be created 2 seconds later, whereas creating new IPs is much harder). I
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by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
Which is pretty much the entire point of QUIC, since updating gazillions of network appliances to support newer versions of TCP is rather hard and will take decades, if not longer. With QUIC, that's no longer needed.
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by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
Yes, but if Google does it it's worse ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
It only works well if you have a decent amount of large enterprise customers (like RedHat); I don't think it will work out well for GitLab, which is mostly aimed at small-to-medium businesses. I don't think it's viable for mo
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by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
The alternative is GitLab not being able to hire developers to actually build GitLab since the "kindly ask to please pay"-model doesn't really work very well. "The community" is often vastly overrated anyway IMHO. P
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by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
Rather makes sense, because for many open source projects with a single or handful or contributors it's not a very important feature, but for larger teams (i.e. companies) it is, which ensures they pay their fair share while still keep
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by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
Ireland, using the hotel's own website. Jurys Inn in Cork, in case you want to avoid it :-)
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by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
I would imagine that repairing it would mean it'll be out of commission for a few hours up to a few days, for example by waiting until the repair techs arrive or whatnot, interrupting regular operations. Depending on how the costs are
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by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
My guess would be that this figure also includes costs for downtime and the like, but that's just a guess. Would be interested to see a more detailed breakdown of the $400k.
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by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
I once accidentally entered the wrong checkout day when booking a hotel (one day too many); I immediately emailed and phoned them within minutes: they could not change the date, and had to pay one day extra. Work was paying, but don't
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by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
The biggest plus AirBnB tends to give over hotels is having your own kitchen, and not having to rely on restaurants. In my experience many hotels are essentially just a room with a bed and some uncomfortable furniture; not a great place to
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by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
AirBnB essentially just copied Couchsurfing and added money to it, pretending it was a new innovative "disruptive" idea (although the platform has since evolved a bit). There's nothing wrong with that, of course. I just disli
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by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
I already posted this on Lobsters, but the "1,217 specifications totalling 114 million words" is pretty off-base. To copy my comment from there: This calculation is wrong. For example searching for HTML[1] reveals different versio

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