Wilya

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by Wilya 14y ago
I don't really argue one way or another. Just wanted to precise that the anonymous user issue is a bit irrelevant. They couldn't do anything before, they still can't do anything. What changes (if they really do what the original blog post s
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by Wilya 14y ago
Err, it most likely is also a Google account, even a basic one, or at least linked to one. Unless you know a trick that I don't. As far as I know, the migration from Youtube accounts to Google accounts has been forced some time ago (I tried
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by Wilya 14y ago
You can't thumb up on Youtube without a Google Account (which is not exactly the same as a Google+ account). And, I already get the +1s (or thumbs up, or whatever it's called) of the people I follow on Youtube, in my Youtube stream. And I d
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by Wilya 14y ago
While I don't specially disagree with you, the difficulty of a problem and its benefit to humanity are two completely orthogonal issues. The fact that it's ultimately aimed at selling ads doesn't make what Google does (for example) in NLP a
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by Wilya 14y ago
Is MSN P2P ? It's been a long time (like.. oh. 7 years maybe ?) since I've used it, but iirc it was centrally routed. Only some things like file transfers were P2P.
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by Wilya 15y ago
Since nobody seems to have actually tried it: you will still get blocked. Though the message has become: "Our automated system will not approve this name. If you believe this is an error, please contact us.[0]" [0] http://www.facebook.com/
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by Wilya 15y ago
Note that you are not always forced to be in someone's contact list to contact him. It's a user configurable setting. I wonder if call-blocking for incoming calls from persons not in contact list is done at server level or client level.
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by Wilya 15y ago
Skype is at its core a p2p idea, so this is expectable. That's sort of the same thing that was done for bittorent users, except with a single centralized authority. The interesting thing is that they do this without making a call. They only
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by Wilya 15y ago
> Without a firewall rule that drops incoming packets, outside can readily reach your internal network with the proper route (your router already knows how to route external/internal, since it's its very role), even with NAT. That's tru
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by Wilya 15y ago
The page loads [0], which, given its name, probably means they do some lazy loading. I've seen it too. [0] http://www.minisprout.com/wp-content/plugins/jquery-image-la...
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by Wilya 15y ago
I think so. I am neither a lawyer nor a cryptographer, though, so I might be missing something.
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by Wilya 15y ago
The gist of the law ([0]) is that, unless you only use crypto techniques for authentication and checksumming, you have to document the process and provide the source code to be able to import it. That's... interesting. I'm French and I had
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by Wilya 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3878438 I guess. Though it's actually more like 7 hours than 40 minutes.
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by Wilya 15y ago
Oh, someone did beat me to it. I think too much (and slowly), it seems. The useragent is much too random, though. As explained quite nicely on the eff page, it defeats the purpose. You've managed to uniquely identify yourself as someone wit
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by Wilya 15y ago
That's a very low value. With JS off or blocked, my browsers convey between 16 and 21 bits (the latter meaning unicity in their dataset). The amount of information conveyed by the HTTP_ACCEPT headers is especially preoccupying. There is not
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by Wilya 15y ago
The bit about talking to browser vendors is kind of off the track. Microsoft would be against, but Google would be happy to oblige ? Seriously ? Google Analytics is probably the most widespread user of tracking cookies out there. Besides, w
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by Wilya 15y ago
To be completely honest, if all you want is get a job at a big company, directly applying is probably more efficient than creating a startup. You don't get the same welcome package, though.
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Don't tell me how to enable JavaScript(riversoflambdas.tumblr.com)
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by Wilya 15y ago
The fetchnotes site with "JS off" is.. err.. nonexistent. While I don't ask for an awesome experience, and I understand that the app behind can really need JS, it would be nice to have at least an okay-ish landing page, instead of just link
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by Wilya 15y ago
I've always assumed that the laptop rule was because it blocked X-rays, and so you could hide something under it. In that case, the size is irrelevant. It's just to prevent having to check manually too much. Besides, rules just change depen
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by Wilya 15y ago
Depends on what you expect, really. Setting up isn't much harder than, say, an Arch. Hardware support is generally ok, though if you want 3D acceleration, Nvidia is about the only safe option (ATI is absent, Intel can be tricky or non-suppo
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by Wilya 15y ago
1.0.14[0] and 1.1.17[1] have been pushed to the FreeBSD ports tree too. [0] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=753841+0+current... [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=756257+0+current...
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by Wilya 15y ago
Well, to be honest... Quantcast actually gives 1 million pageviews a day (and not a month), which is, yes, 10/s (and 550 times less than Tumblr). Either Quantcast numbers are very off, either Posterous can indeed run on very few servers
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by Wilya 15y ago
I'm not sure I could write that code right without Eclipse, or at least not without quite a few runs through the compiler and looks to the docs.. I'm not a Java guru, but I have used it quite a lot. It's not hard in itself, but it is over
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by Wilya 15y ago
You could want to use the iPad as the client. Ie use an iPhone to give internet connection to the iPad. (I guess that what the GP meant)
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by Wilya 15y ago
The way they do it is elegant, and could be used in many other places than just the iPhone. All you need is a browser that supports websockets. I'm not really aware of that stuff, but I'm a bit curious. Do websockets really work over mobile
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by Wilya 15y ago
In the video, the guy shows that, by tethering, he can access Hulu even though he's not in the US. So, yeah, it seems they proxy everything through their servers.
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by Wilya 15y ago
Well, for the price of an iPad, you can get a high-end netbook. So, at some point, people have made the choice to get the iPad over the netbook, and cope with the disagreements.
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by Wilya 15y ago
I'd be very sad if that loud minority made it so that non-technical people associate "programmer" with the image of a drunk frat boy. That's not going to happen, of course, but I think people judge that this sort of guys give a bad image of
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by Wilya 15y ago
Time zone setting can (and should) be a user-specific setting. Since a server application most likely isn't running as a the same user as the "real" logged-in user, there's no reason anything bad would happen.

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