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by acabal 14y ago
Pass seems excellent but for me is also almost-there, because it doesn't unlock when I log in and I have to mess around with public/private keypairs. I prefer using passphrases because I travel a lot and if I lose my private key, it would
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by acabal 14y ago
I was just recently looking for a simple password manager for Ubuntu, and Seahorse is so close . It unlocks with your login key so if you're logged in you don't have to keep entering a master password each time you need to retrieve a pass
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by acabal 14y ago
Definitely ridiculous. But this creates a case for hosting your own stream, instead of relying on a capricious 3rd party who is too scared of media cartels to serve its customers properly. It might be a little more work to set up, but tha
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by acabal 14y ago
This is going to become less and less common, if only because routers/modems distributed by ISP's typically are passworded by default now. In Germany (where I'm staying) it's almost impossible to find an open wifi network anywhere, despite
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by acabal 14y ago
The open source driver does work OK except that the power management is messed up, so when I use it my laptop's fan goes at full power 24/7. That gets pretty annoying after a while, which is why I end up using fglrx (which of course has
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by acabal 14y ago
I've been using two Dell laptops over the past 5 or so years with Ubuntu. Usually they work fine, but every release breaks some little thing that used to work before. Sometimes it gets fixed with an update, but more often than not you're
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by acabal 14y ago
I've been using GPG to password-protect files for a long time. It's so easy that I'm surprised more people don't use it. (Non-security-researcher suggestion follows, take with a grain of salt): Note that the default encryption algo used wi
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by acabal 14y ago
My site, Scribophile, was freemium from day 1 and was profitable from day 15. Freemium is still an excellent way to hook people on a service, because there's no risk to them. If they find your service truly useful, they'll pay without que
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by acabal 14y ago
The most interesting part for me is the quote from Doubleday's LeBaron R. Barker: "Paperbacks could undermine the whole structure of publishing." That sounds very reminiscent of modern-day publisher's demands of restrictive and onerous DRM
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by acabal 14y ago
Thanks, I've added a note about htmlentities. Actually it's better to use htmlentities, and I got the two functions confused while writing! Another reason why such a guide is needed :)
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by acabal 14y ago
Hi HN! I'm the author. I've spent a lot of time writing PHP, and one thing that always struck me was that PHP often has many different ways of approaching what should be simple tasks. Some ways are clearly flawed, but can still be found
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Show HN: PHP Best Practices, a short guide for common and confusing PHP tasks(phpbestpractices.org)
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by acabal 14y ago
Interesting, but with an important flaw the author acknowledges: > The important downside of these results is that the people using the system were not aware that points are calculated in a different way. As I mentioned in that HN-meta-
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by acabal 14y ago
When I first started in corporate programming and had to pick up on big projects that someone else had left off, I often found myself saying the same thing a lot. "Man, they did this in such a dumb way. Why didn't they do it this way? Th
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by acabal 14y ago
As I mentioned below, I've run a social network called Scribophile for about 5 years now. What I've learned is that you simply can't engineer away a social problem. People will always find a way to be jerks; the only way to mitigate them
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by acabal 14y ago
HN is just like any other social network. I've run a social network for writers called Scribophile for almost 5 years now. People have said exactly what you're saying in this post about my site, all the way from day 1 to the present day.
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by acabal 14y ago
That's nice, but calling Braintree a startup is quite a stretch. (The article doesn't, it's just the HN headline.)
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by acabal 14y ago
I was considering buying this one last week (it was between this one and a Dell XPS 14). The only pro it has over the Dell, besides price, is the keyboard. I use the pgup/pgdn/home/end keys at the side of the keyboard all the time and can
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by acabal 14y ago
I think it also has to do with where your IP is geolocated. I was testing search results for my site, Scribophile, which is a writing community. When searched from a fresh US IP, it ranked 3rd in the results. When searched from a fresh E
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by acabal 14y ago
Nostalgia! I absolutely loved the soundtrack to this game.
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by acabal 14y ago
Which, I think, is a valid fear to have considering MS is basically just decreeing this. Like they say, rights disappear in degrees.
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by acabal 14y ago
Literally anywhere but my personal space. Why not have /etc/<username>/? I could even live with a single ~/.config/ but very few apps use that.
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by acabal 14y ago
I hate having dotfiles in ~/ for the same reason why I hate "My Documents" in Windows: because it's supposed to be my space that I organize, not a generic dumping ground for your config files, brand-named folders, or other nonessential
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by acabal 14y ago
My site, Scribophile, requires that people sign up with a "pen name", which has to sound like a real name. You don't have to use your actual real name, just something that sounds like it could be a real name. The idea wasn't to prevent t
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by acabal 14y ago
This exact same thing happened to me today! I'm in Germany, so I put the Olympics on TV. But I don't yet speak German, so after an hour I wanted to watch them in English. I went to the NBC web site, but they geolocate your IP and only stre
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by acabal 14y ago
I think it's the other way around--it's a shame Gnome chose to built yet-another-window-manager instead of building upon the solid and tested Compiz. Very NIH-y of them. (Though Compiz most certainly has been on a measurable decline since
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by acabal 14y ago
Sorry, but the buck has to stop somewhere. For example, if a handful of users can't figure out how to use a mouse, then do we replace all mouses with Wacom tablets because they're so "inelegant" and "unintuitive" to a few people? No, beca
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by acabal 14y ago
I wouldn't compare learning folders to learning car ignition timing. That's more like learning about inodes--something that's interesting but irrelevant to anyone but enthusiasts. I would instead compare folders to knowing that your car's
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by acabal 14y ago
I don't know. I think that at a certain point people have to accept that there are just some things must be learned in order to operate a computer. It would be nice if computers could just read the mind of the user, but until then, the us
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by acabal 14y ago
Yeah but that's the problem... I don't want a special mystery Dell ISO, I want to use stock Ubuntu and have it Just Work. Using Dell's ISO locks you in to that certain image (upgrades are very likely dependent on Dell), it locks you in to

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