Hannan

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by Hannan 14y ago
>> ...and with a little bit of analysis could most likely make a fairly accurate educated guess about exactly which page you requested. Could you elaborate on this? I would have assumed that with the request URI being encrypted tha
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by Hannan 14y ago
The 5-year survival for the earliest stage (I) neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer treated with surgery is 61%. The latest stage (IV) is 15%. Stage II puts you at about 50%. That just doesn't seem like he "more than likely" would have surviv
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by Hannan 14y ago
It's not so much of a mistake, per se, but a function of dealing with estimated tax payments as a self-employed person with fluctuating income. I could very easily pay the amounts required, and then suffer a bad Q4 and have a much lower ta
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by Hannan 14y ago
>> If less tax was paid than required you have to pay that + interest...which really isn't that unreasonable. If I pay too much, do I get interest back on the overage?
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by Hannan 14y ago
>>I can open several emails at once and compose several at a time. Can't do that with Gmail. With the new Gmail compose, you can... sort of. It will stack them at the bottom, but only show two "open" at a time (at least on my comp,
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by Hannan 14y ago
>> It's not possible to create a system which protects the and privacy of users with integrity, but not of criminals. Do you have more information or references on this? It seems very intuitively correct to me, but I was hoping som
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by Hannan 14y ago
Liberal arts education seems to get a bad rap around here (I did take less higher math and science than would have been required at a state university), but the average class size for my college was twenty. Occasionally more, but there's a
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by Hannan 14y ago
>> it simply means you probably won't go to jail. ...for a super long time. My bet (admittedly founded on nothing) is that they book you regardless.
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by Hannan 14y ago
Do you feel the same way about someone operating an open wifi access point? To me the active distributor is quite a bit worse than someone operating an open wifi connection or a Tor exit node.
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by Hannan 14y ago
Point taken, but it's more like if you got an email saying "Devices on Google Play is available in your country starting at 12:00pm!" And then you went there it said "Devices on Google Play is not available in your country. Please check b
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by Hannan 14y ago
Look on the bright side, at least they told you. Mine just vanished with no explanation. :)
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by Hannan 14y ago
The way I've seen it done usually is that the mail server tacks on the confidentiality notice after the user sends the message. So they would see it on a reply, but never on the initial message. Maybe other companies show it to you on comp
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by Hannan 14y ago
I've often wondered what the total size per year is for corporate email legal disclaimers, both bandwidth and residing on disk, world-wide. Personal signatures would be an interesting stat as well. Does Exchange (or any other mail servers)
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by Hannan 14y ago
As a primarily CRUD developer, I use mod all the time. Primarily for zebra striping in browsers that don't support :even or related CSS.
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by Hannan 14y ago
>> The problem is that at the time I took my job, I didn't have much choice, I was in a shitty position, no job, no money, no home, etc. and I took the fist position which came along. No shame in that. I graduated in 2001, and was
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by Hannan 14y ago
While my mom was in home hospice, someone purchased these for us to help her: http://goo.gl/9YcQh After she passed, my Dad just threw them in the guest bathroom. Using both paper and these (preferred order is up to the user) seems to fit
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by Hannan 14y ago
>> It's pretty indicative of the age group here on HN. For reference, I'm 23. I'm not sure exactly what it says, but I'm a decade older than you, and I lost countless days to this game. The best opponent I had was four years older
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by Hannan 14y ago
How would that work? As in, what percentage of the technologists would need to agree to that to have it happen? It seems to me (with my extremely limited view of economics), that it would just create shortage of supply, and so the technolo
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by Hannan 14y ago
This varies considerably. I can assure you as a USian that I regularly chill out and have a beer by the beach. :) Though we do also have "family friendly" beaches where you can only have alcohol in areas around the beach, not on the beac
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by Hannan 14y ago
New Jersey is about 170 miles North to South from the tips. But parent said "I've driven across New Jersey," which can be as little as 40 miles East to West depending on where you measure from.
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by Hannan 14y ago
If you try to log in with a valid username, but no password, you'll get a link to email yourself a newly generated password. The text of the email is: New Hacker News pw: <new password> So someone probably thinks they have your use
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by Hannan 14y ago
True point and this is probably off topic, but out of curiosity, what is the recommended approach for his point about logging messages/requests? On previous projects, we've gone through all sorts of machinations to detect a password in our
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by Hannan 14y ago
Living in London was quite expensive for me. He estimates four months: "All my expenses come from the £10k but I can only make money from products (e.g. no consulting). London is expensive, so this gives me about 4 months."