ElliotH

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   by ElliotH 14y ago

   (is your ReCaptcha reference to it being broken? If so then I think my point is proved by how quickly it was fixed) As for making it harder for humans, I very much see your point, but the solution isn't to come up with some of the trivial c
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   by ElliotH 14y ago

   The more I see of 'original' captchas, the more I think people should be taking the same attitude towards captchas as they do to cryptography. Just use a well known library that has proved to be hard to break by the test of time and heavy u
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   by ElliotH 14y ago

   http://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/files/CCDP/CCDP_Briefing13June... has some good information on the counter arguments to this bill. (Some of the media seems to be printing the Home Office briefing with only a little mention of critics). If U
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   by ElliotH 14y ago

   I'd double check that next time you buy a new ThinkPad. I broke the screen on mine recently, and chose to replace it myself after being quoted an eyewatering (nearly cost of laptop) amount to have it repaired. The tech support person told m
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   by ElliotH 14y ago

   Nice easy skip button in the top corner.
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   by ElliotH 14y ago

   I'm slap bang in your target audience, and at first the idea sounds great. Personally I wouldn't want a "get a site like this for free" ad on my page. I also kinda agree with ohgodthecat that it's a bit disordered. I love the animations and
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   by ElliotH 14y ago

   There's a lesson in how to make a product in VLC's success. It has a horribly unfriendly interface, and is certainly not pretty, but it doesn't matter - Whatever media file you point it at, you can feel confident that VLC will play it, with
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   by ElliotH 14y ago

   Only real issue I can see is that a length 10 string of random lower case letters is given the same rating as a 10 letter long dictionary word (whereas ofc the dictionary word would be cracked first).
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   by ElliotH 14y ago

   Unarmed according to The Guardian, may be supported by armed police.
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    by ElliotH 15y ago

    Anyone know who Blue Systems are? Their website http://blue-systems.de/ says nothing.
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    by ElliotH 15y ago

    " It does this adaptively and works even in full-screen programs like emacs and vim" Would imply it does work well.
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    by ElliotH 15y ago

    For those people who were clueless as me about Path and Pair and found them hard to Google: Path - https://path.com/ Pair - http://trypair.com/
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    by ElliotH 15y ago

    A pity, I use this frequently, all my sites use this for CSS simply because they're small and make small style fixes easy.
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    We Can Do Better: An Apology from Sqoot(blog.sqoot.com)

    33 points by ElliotH 15y ago|71 comments
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    by ElliotH 15y ago

    It's a pity, I can't imagine I'm the only person in the world who shudders at the idea that my computer should be made 'easy' for me (at the expense of flexibility and power). I'm a type of customer, just as much as the so called 'average u
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    by ElliotH 15y ago

    ArchLinux is a very poor distribution to leave with someone who doesn't have the knowledge to fix these problems. When you do pacman -Syu you should be looking on the front page for update news, you should be looking at the list of packages
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    A Plea for the Right to Parody (zine.openrightsgroup.org)

    2 points by ElliotH 15y ago|0 comments
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    by ElliotH 15y ago

    This is an advantage of the android style permission system in this case, the 'Services that Cost you Money' section could reveal this dodgy behavior quite easily.
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    by ElliotH 15y ago

    I'd favor this now, but for Google I find the phrase "<place> time now" works more consistently than just "time".
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    by ElliotH 15y ago

    Up here (and since you posted 0minutes ago, I imagine a refresh or two would fix it for you)
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    by ElliotH 15y ago

    While I think it's quite messed up that a company as rich as Apple can't abide putting credits for people who have put some really good work in (I've even made small updates to OSM in my time) I do think that this is a very classy move by t
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    by ElliotH 15y ago

    Internationalized URIs
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    by ElliotH 15y ago

    Ooh thanks for this :) Got a "DNS Prefetch - Anchor" on Gmail
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    Track a Moving Ball in Real Time using HTML5 and JavaScript (lusob.com)

    2 points by ElliotH 15y ago|0 comments
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    by ElliotH 15y ago

    I'm not sure that charging more is the solution, there's no shortage of people with more money than sense! I don't see why Apple don't invite the developers of high-ranking iOS apps to an early-access program in order to keep their best app
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    by ElliotH 15y ago

    Well you can solve that by charging for access to the beta program surely?
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    by ElliotH 15y ago

    Yeah, scroll is very odd behaving on Android 2.3.
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    by ElliotH 15y ago

    sigh there is nothing wrong with non-full screen windows. I'd like the option to have full-screen, sure, and on a netbook screen they make sense. However, what about on my big widescreen monitor, having a maximized web browser on there is
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    by ElliotH 15y ago

    I'm not entirely sure this is valid. I'm happy to be shown that I'm wrong, but it doesn't seem to support environments meaning that you couldn't implement define, making it essentially not a scheme interpreter. I'd be impressed by an actual
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    by ElliotH 15y ago

    Mavis Beacon was the only game on my home computer when I was a child. I'm a little 'freestyle' at times, but in general I use the correct fingers.