VertexRed

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by VertexRed 10y ago
Yeah, I also think Quora should be a better match for this as profiles are much more detailed there
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by VertexRed 10y ago
What he said. + it's still possible to deactivate the updates but you have to dig a little deeper to do it.
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by VertexRed 10y ago
I'm going to have to be the boring guy and say: depends completely on how much resources you need. In most cases though (brace yourself for an unpopular opinion) it's enough to setup a simple dedicated server for about $20-$60 per
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by VertexRed 10y ago
I don't understand why they don't give inmates access to a computer for a few hours per day. When they're out the hard working ones will have programming skills which will help with the job hunt.
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by VertexRed 10y ago
Looks good, would love to see this take off! I've been really curious about rails lately - were there any major benefits compared to writing this in PHP?
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by VertexRed 10y ago
I don't know about you people, but if I received a counter-offer which involved an unlimited amount of free snacks I'd take it.
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by VertexRed 10y ago
1. You'd have to actually click and willingly install the software to be infected. 2. Even though he's able to randomize the banner code the redirect to the advertiser's site will most likely be caught by ad blockers. --- Sti
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Ask HN: What happened to Libery Reserve's company funds?
2 points by VertexRed 10y ago|0 comments
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by VertexRed 10y ago
This way I'll get emotional each time I open a new tab. I also didn't know about Watsi before coming across your plugin, seems like a really interesting idea! I also noticed that the "%" symbol is on the wrong side of th
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by VertexRed 10y ago
But what will the humans be working on while the bots take care of it all?
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by VertexRed 10y ago
There's no point in commenting there since the thread is dead.
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by VertexRed 10y ago
I really wonder what people will work with in the future with both the AI and human population advancing rapidly. Jobs will be taken over by robots at the same time as more mouths will have to be fed.
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by VertexRed 10y ago
When I was experimenting with PS a few years ago, progressive JPEGs were always larger than baseline which is why I came to that conclusion. This isn't however the full picture. To keep it short, baseline JPEGs are usually smaller if t
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by VertexRed 10y ago
Progressive jpgs increase the size
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by VertexRed 10y ago
Oh, I see. That must be to track how much the user's downloaded/uploaded, right?
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by VertexRed 10y ago
Don't most torrents mainly rely on DHT these days?
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by VertexRed 10y ago
This doesn't make much sense. Just because the computers at your local library are slow doesn't mean that the NSA can't get your data.
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by VertexRed 10y ago
That's not true. There are always window shoppers and people that go there just to "hang out" without buying anything. The wealthy people also have to buy their clothes somewhere and they probably stick to overpriced items in
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by VertexRed 10y ago
I recall that Google was taken down by a botnet in 2003, but I'm not able to find any articles about it. Today it's different, not only do they have a massive network, but they probably also have firewalls which drop the attacks f
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by VertexRed 10y ago
Isn't it inaccurate to base this on addresses, since nearly everyone uses more than one?
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by VertexRed 10y ago
Ah... just when you thought it couldn't get more annoying
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by VertexRed 10y ago
These 'attackers' give Krebs' more publicity than he would ever be able to generate himself. It's also useful to point out that Krebs' hasn't been the only target as half a dozen other large targets were attack
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by VertexRed 10y ago
I viewed this on my phone and it was annoying and difficult to read due to the typing effect in the header which caused the content below to move up and down.
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by VertexRed 10y ago
Wrong tab. Comment was meant for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12498976
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by VertexRed 10y ago
I viewed this on my phone and it was annoying and difficult to read due to the typing effect in the header which caused the content below to move up and down.
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by VertexRed 10y ago
I dont't see why people would want to use FLAC. The file sizes are huge and the audio quality difference is bearly noticeable compared to an encoding like .aac Or am I missing something?
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Ask HN: Does Stripe use any licenses?
2 points by VertexRed 10y ago|0 comments