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by Wilya 14y ago
Maybe I don't go to the right videos, but I don't find Youtube comments that bad. They are mostly useless, sometimes a bit too brutally honest, but nothing that offensive. I find comments on mainstream news sites, and on sites using Disqus
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by Wilya 14y ago
I find the FreeBSD one more embarassing, to be honest. The GNU version just does a ton of annex stuff (hex handling, usage(), etc). I have no idea what the hell the FreeBSD one is trying to do.
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by Wilya 14y ago
Dedicated servers, even the cheap ones, tend to offer a ton a disk space. In Europe, Ovh and Hetzner have entry-level offers with 2 or 3 TB at 50€, you might find something in the same prices geographically closer to you. Other than that, t
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by Wilya 14y ago
Generally speaking, SVG is more integrated to the DOM than canvas or WebGL. Every shape you draw is a DOM node, which means you can easily interact with it (mouseover events, ...), but also that it's rather "heavy". It doesn't scale for eff
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by Wilya 14y ago
Yeah, it's amusing how the article focuses on the pageview numbers, which aren't that impressive. A catchy rant making it near the top of HN will easily give you similar numbers. The number of social shares seems more interesting (3k Facebo
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by Wilya 14y ago
If you allocate more memory, programs will use it. Web browsers are notorious for abusing this, but it applies in lots of other places, including system cache. In other words: if you allocate 1GB of RAM to a system and 256MB to another, the
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by Wilya 14y ago
On the plus side, it now loads much faster than the rest of the web.
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by Wilya 14y ago
I guess the real question is: Is this article a DEA PR piece or an Apple PR piece ?
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by Wilya 14y ago
> The [] keys are closer to the central row of your keyboard than the less comfortable (). > You don't need to hold the shift key to type [] therefore you can code faster. That's true only for a standard US-qwerty keyboard layout. M
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by Wilya 14y ago
"After that the 4k selected will participate in a coding session (perhaps kind of like a mini hack-a-thon) sometime during the summer, from which 1k “geniuses” will be selected." Based on what the website and press releases say, it seems li
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by Wilya 14y ago
There aren't really any mail.app-like clients, with a heavily simplified interface. Most clients I can think of have very traditional interfaces, or are aimed at big mail users and lean on the heavily configurable side (like, say, mutt). I'
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by Wilya 14y ago
Last I checked, Google+ had an User-Agent whitelist. Anything not in the list would get a "Your browser is too old, please upgrade" page.
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by Wilya 14y ago
Twitter's single timeline format is very much not designed for following all updates from someone (which is what I'm interested in for a blog). There are ways around it (keeping your subscriptions count very low, list tricks, etc), but it
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by Wilya 14y ago
The learning curve of Chef is pretty steep. The article touches on that, saying that documentation is bad, and I would add that the community provided recipes aren't very good either. But, the whole interest is that it's a one time investme
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by Wilya 14y ago
He's far from the only one. Most people with thousands of followers monetize them, one way or another. There's a ton of bloggers out there hungry for pageviews. So what ? Why accuse him right now, out of the blue ? And what does that have t
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by Wilya 14y ago
Someone had made something like that for internship reports, when I was in college. Very handy, when you needed a bonus paragraph here and there on "How this experience made me a better person".
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by Wilya 14y ago
Isn't that obvious ? Ninjas are fast, so they type faster. That's what coding is all about, after all.
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by Wilya 14y ago
> no links are ever broken. I'd take my broken links over Google's "Did you mean..." any time. Practically speaking, except for constantly recommended stuff, Google's memory doesn't go more than a year or so back in the past, unless you
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by Wilya 14y ago
Phantomjs is mainly useful for JS-heavy pages. If you want to scrape that fully, you will need a heavy client-side, and there aren't that many alternatives.
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by Wilya 14y ago
Is navigator.javaEnabled() (used in this page) accurate ? I deactivated Java plugin in Chrome's about://plugins (and restarted everything just to be sure), and it still returns true. Did I do something wrong ?
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by Wilya 14y ago
Depending on what the parent calls deep knowledge of WSGI, I also find the idea a bit strange. I don't have much knowledge of WSGI internals, apart that it passes urls in one direction and responses in the other. I suppose when I hit perfor
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by Wilya 14y ago
> why not CSS Disabling useless CSS stuff is pretty much what Readability is all about. Besides, CSS generally doesn't claim much of my CPU to display peripheral stuff. Javascript, on the other hand ...
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by Wilya 14y ago
From what I could understand when this bit me, OSX uses a different normalization form from what Linux uses (I'm not even sure of what that means, but hey). OSX uses NFD, while pretty much everyone else uses NFC (by default). So, if you u
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by Wilya 14y ago
A2DP is bluetooth audio, in "headphones mode" (high quality). And yeah, I can attest making it work on OSX can be tricky.
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by Wilya 14y ago
I'm always amused by these posts praising how everything just works on the Mac, and how it's so nice not having to worry about [annoying linux/windows stuff #351]. Am I really the only one blind to this effect ? I've used a mac. It's nice.
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by Wilya 14y ago
I wouldn't call it a failure, but it's not really a success either. At least not yet. I don't know anyone who uses it, nor do I really hear about it apart from the people developing it. Sometimes, people mention it, in a "Maybe you should t
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by Wilya 14y ago
The BSD in general (I mostly know FreeBSD, but I doubt OpenBSD is much better) haven't been perfect for running desktop software, and especially the big desktop environments, for a long time. If they ever were adequate. It can be done, but
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by Wilya 14y ago
I considered editing my topmost comment to say something along the lines: "Edit: warning, this is not entirely true, read the posts below". Now I'm just going to tell my mum I'm in the LA Times.
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by Wilya 14y ago
The real question is why did you need something newer in the first place ? Are years of bugs, misconfigurations, random crashes worth the minimal improvement end-users will get in the end (when everything finally works for everyone) ? Yes,
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by Wilya 14y ago
So. A traceroute to thepiratebay.se is kind of amusing. From my home (Sweden), the packets seem to go to Frankfurt, then New York, take a link via an ip which reverses to intelsatone.net to a cambodgian ip (500ms latency right here), then r

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