SnowLprd

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by SnowLprd 14y ago
Yes, and if a significantly large portion of the market was clamoring for a waterproof smartphone, Apple probably would make one.
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My Sister Paid Progressive Insurance to Defend Her Killer In Court(mattfisher.tumblr.com)
66 points by SnowLprd 14y ago|3 comments
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by SnowLprd 14y ago
Does that mean that you could use a Google Voice number? Presumably they already know that one, so "divulging" it shouldn't be an issue. ;^)
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by SnowLprd 14y ago
> ... you can't stop people from sending you messages I did. I grew weary of paying for text messages that I have no interest in receiving, so I simply called AT&T and told them to turn off SMS entirely. Since 95% of my phone mess
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by SnowLprd 14y ago
You can call AT&T and tell them to turn off text messages entirely. I did that a long time ago. I use iMessage 98% of the time, and the other 2% goes through my Google Voice SMS, so I no longer need the ability to receive in-bound SMS o
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by SnowLprd 14y ago
I might have found this interesting if it used Markdown as its base syntax, since I prefer my content to be somewhat portable from one system to another. I like to avoid being locked into a particular piece of software, and Vimwiki's custom
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by SnowLprd 14y ago
I don't think Bryan is being lax with history at all. In fact, he completely nailed it. The only points in your comment that I found persuasive, on the other hand, are that Windows is indeed becoming irrelevant, SQL Server probably has an e
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by SnowLprd 14y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER - Looking for Django/PostgreSQL web application developers as well as designers. Happy to work with folks remotely. Well-capitalized, profitable business is based in Los Angeles. References from past and current freelance
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by SnowLprd 14y ago
No text-based summary, introduction, or blurb? Not everyone is able to view video at the moment they come across your site; if they can't immediately read what it's about, they may not come back to find out.
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by SnowLprd 14y ago
Glad I wasn't the only one to notice that. How many annoying euphemisms for "receive" can an author use in one article? "Scooping up," "nabs," "snagging"... And then there's the outright spelling error: "Who is wiling to pay for it?"
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by SnowLprd 14y ago
One of the contributors to the znc project is working on an iPhone app, currently in private beta. Register your interest at: http://palaverapp.com/
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by SnowLprd 14y ago
It's not the advertisements I find unsavory — it's the spin . Rather than just say, "We will be introducing a new type of ad that we hope users won't find too intrusive," they instead refer to the ads as "content" and spin them as conversa
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by SnowLprd 14y ago
To be fair, I wasn't presuming anything. While I applaud the release of the Linux version, I was merely trying to show that Microsoft's stewardship of Skype seems to be headed in a rather unsavory direction.
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by SnowLprd 14y ago
Ooh! Ooh! Does it have the new Conversation Ads feature? http://blogs.skype.com/en/2012/06/skype_advertising_update.h... I, for one, cannot WAIT to see these new ads, which Microsoft describes as "content that could spark additional t
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by SnowLprd 14y ago
Who said they were? Better yet, who is? Which for-profit companies contributing to open source solely for charitable purposes? One of the primary reasons anybody — individual or company — invests time and energy into an open source project
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by SnowLprd 14y ago
This change is being made without any buy-in from the community, ostensibly for security reasons. I'm skeptical, given the inherent incentives involved.
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by SnowLprd 14y ago
I agree that the default level (6) for xz probably errs too much on favoring file size over speed. My tests with compression levels 1-2 do indeed show modestly improved size and speed performance relative to single-threaded bzip2. The fact
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by SnowLprd 14y ago
That looks very promising. As others have pointed out here, pixz would be much more accessible if one could simply install it via "brew install pixz" or "aptitude install pixz".
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by SnowLprd 14y ago
I disagree with your assessment. I'm aware of xz and use it when file size is paramount -- which, by the way, is almost never. Most of the time, I'm willing to give up a few megabytes in order to save time, and in my tests pbzip2 crushed xz
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by SnowLprd 14y ago
I'll do some additional testing to see if the results are affected by caching. Not sure why you're surprised that I used .tar files for the compression testing. As I mentioned in the article, most of the time I'm creating bzipped tarballs f
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by SnowLprd 14y ago
Quite right. Clearly not enough coffee. Updated the article with better wording. Thanks!
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Massive Speed Gains via Parallelized BZIP2 Compression(hackercodex.com)
43 points by SnowLprd 14y ago|38 comments
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by SnowLprd 14y ago
Quite honestly, I was skeptical about these changes upon first looking at the Community tab in the screenshot. Then I scrolled down to the end of the post, where you can actually see the new comment system in action. It does indeed seem lik
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by SnowLprd 14y ago
It does indeed seem that way, unfortunately. Is too optimistic to think a better standard might emerge?
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by SnowLprd 14y ago
Could be region-specific. I get the impression that Time Warner Cable's management isn't highly centralized. These tests were performed on Time Warner Cable's SoCal network; I just ran them again with the exact same results, despite the fac
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by SnowLprd 14y ago
Broad DNSSEC adoption would have to include NSEC, which is needed to authenticate that the resource does indeed not exist. More on NSEC here: "All records are signed offline. When a nameserver receives a query it looks up the answer plus th
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by SnowLprd 14y ago
No subterfuge intended. Changed the post to make it clearer.
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by SnowLprd 14y ago
Article author here. These ISPs are violating long-venerated network protocol. As for who it hurts, it's a highly annoying experience for folks who are used to having the browser -- not their ISP -- handle errors for non-existent domains.
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ISPs Improve Their DNS Hijacking And How To Stop It(hackercodex.com)
68 points by SnowLprd 14y ago|50 comments
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by SnowLprd 14y ago
I agree with your overall sentiment. But I still contend that this strategy isn't going to work out for them in the long run. We live in a world where content can be accessed directly, quickly, and on demand. The industry can try to "ensu

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