ZoFreX

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by ZoFreX 11y ago
How does this fix the issue? Even if you think the Kik trademark claim was invalid... what happens when a valid trademark claim arrives?
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
I don't know if you still can but you used to be able to do this to your whole screen on Windows using the NVidia control panel. Playing first-person shooters as ascii art looks pretty cool!
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
It's entirely possible I'm behind the times, I haven't attempted game programming on the JVM in a long time.
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
An APU with Intel ethernet? This changes everything! (Lack of Intel ethernet ruled out the APU out for me) Also - How did you know about this? I can't find that page by browsing their site and I didn't even know this existed!
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
Making games on the JVM is a lot of fun, but the garbage collector does limit what you can do (the OP mentions this as one of the drawbacks of Go).
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
The same way I validate scary merge commits: Do it myself, and compare what I get to what they got.
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
Javascript seems like a great contender in this space to me. Btw, as well as using nodejs / v8, there are also Rust bindings for SpiderMonkey (Mozilla's JS engine): https://github.com/servo/rust-mozjs (not su
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
But then surely they would have fixed it much more quietly? If this had been snuck into a regular patch with no fanfare, would we even be talking about it?
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
Definitely. But this was a quick fix due to its nature. It's possible that they know their original values are good, and this is therefore the smallest change to quickly get this out of the hands of... whoever had it. Of course, I thin
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
There's no way to beat around the bush: No, it is not good. It's better than a lot of sites, but it's still nowhere near good enough. The key is speed: it's too fast. Far faster than you need it to be. Fast enough that a
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
It's not that we're young and exciting and the early attempts were old and boring. The comment you're replying to is pointing out the very different incentives between several private companies competing for and government-fu
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
My experience is different. This meme gets repeated a lot on the internet, but it jars with the stories I hear from my friends. Yes, someone not attractive is more likely to be considered creepy - but that's correlation, not causation.
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
This is nothing new, though. I think it's a mistake to blame social media, advertising, or clickbait - this has been happening far longer than any of them. Watch the news on TV or read a newspaper; how many times do they tell you that
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
I can't get the downloads, but I can get the number of ratings (from AppAnnie): Twitter: 322,769 ratings Get Followers on Twitter: 1,612 ratings Tweetbot: 1,287 ratings Twitterific: 1,654 ratings Doesn't seem like an outlier, popu
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
The amount currently paid by users (in terms of their bandwidth used for ads) massively exceeds the amount websites get for displaying those ads. If users paid directly, they would need to pay _very little_ to be outbidding the advertisers
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
An extreme example of a non-Xeon that supports ECC: Atom C2750 :)
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
I agree that mastering for vinyl happens, but you're not right about the dynamic range. CDs were popular initially because they have a wider dynamic range, the overly compressed / "loudness wars" tracks are nowhere near
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
They're setting custom fonts, but specifying the fonts should only be used for particular characters. This attack assumes the attacker has some way of getting CSS they wrote onto the target website, via some other exploit. The attacker
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
If you publish an app you get a lot of negative feedback if you ask for permissions like those without clearly explaining why you need them. It's getting better, too: Android's new permission model is more granular, like iOS'
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
If you're interested in this sort of thing I can highly recommend a subscription to Private Eye magazine, which has been investigating dodgy shell companies and who they are really connected to for years. (If you've never heard of
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
It's interesting that the highest comment isn't really discussing the article but segues from a little aside at the end of it to debunk "Health At Every Size" - a notion that is not mentioned at all in the article! The b
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
What would we prefer, a study that relies on self-reporting but is a study nonetheless, or a bunch of theories based on entirely on anecdotes with a sample size of 1? I get this study isn't perfect but it seems silly that so many comme
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
No one said "chemicals" are bad. The person you're replying to said we should be conscious of which chemicals we put into our body - which is absolutely true.
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
The author's theory? Why do I care what the creator of Autodesk's theory on weight loss and diet is? Why is Hacker News so fast to pooh-pooh the study in the linked article and declare it as fake science, but we're happy to a
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
I think your intentions are in the right place but I don't think that would have helped here - they didn't just get in via SQL injection, they have all the source code too. That hints that they had quite a lot of access. Based on
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
Welcome to FreeBSD! I'm glad you like it! By the way, you might regret mixing packages and ports unless you know what you're doing. If you're new to FreeBSD I'd recommend picking one or the other and not mixing.
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
It isn't in the OED yet (I just checked)
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
Well, there's plenty of blame to go around. For me it serves as a reminder that the right to privacy exists for many reasons, and that some of our users are more in need of security and protection than others - for some of them, digita
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
They could check when you log in, I suppose.
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by ZoFreX 11y ago
They don't have a right to know. Not in the sense that you and I have a right to privacy, free expression, choice of religion, and so on. Yes, they deserve to know, and it would be a nice thing indeed for them to find out. But they d

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