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   by adtac 9y ago

   Let's do some XKCD what-if math because I love doing stuff like this. An average truck can house anywhere between 20,000L to 40,000L [1]. Let's take an average 30,000L. An average truck can also travel at anywhere in between 56 kp
2. 812.▲
   by adtac 9y ago

   What if someone wanted to say "I'd like to reduce my body fat"?
3. 813.▲
   by adtac 9y ago

   Why would you outlaw 'fat'? This makes no sense.
4. 814.▲
   by adtac 9y ago

   >GitHub is having a minor service outage It's definitely not minor.
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   Ask HN: Has YC ever funded an open-source SaaS?

   3 points by adtac 9y ago|1 comments
6. 816.▲
   by adtac 9y ago

   What updates do you want to see in MS Paint? It's feature complete. Bug fixes?
7. 817.▲
   by adtac 9y ago

   Isn't copying the password to clipboard a vulnerability? I think a better idea would be to fill in the password through something like xdotool
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   by adtac 9y ago

   I was wondering how HN would spin this into Evil-Google. It's just tiring at this point. This is a perfectly valid security guard that protects their users.
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   by adtac 9y ago

   I created https://github.com/adtac/climate a while ago. It's basically a lot of shell commands in one tool. (Note: it's mostly an educational tool; for example, you could enable an option to make climate prin
10. 820.▲
    by adtac 9y ago

    You don't need to log in to see the top half of it. The bottom half is an annoying, uncloseable "LOG IN OR SIGN UP NOW" popup.
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    by adtac 9y ago

    That's the problem: no one is using plain vanilla HTML pages with lean JS/CSS anymore. Just go to any news website, disable your cache, disable any adblockers you might have and see the total data transferred or number of network
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    by adtac 9y ago

    There are now entire industries built around those 2-3 weeks :D But then again, when you write a pretty awesome kernel at the age of 21, you end up doing stuff like that.
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    by adtac 9y ago

    A few weeks ago I started a simple open source project that got a little bit of traction over here in HN. Since then I've had 4-5 active volunteers contributing to the project and I'm ever so thankful for them. But I've got t
14. 824.▲
    by adtac 9y ago

    I should really write an article titled "Is Betteridge's law true?"
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    by adtac 9y ago

    I disagree. Advertising has been around since the 1800s and I don't really think it'll be going away anytime soon. And besides, Google is diversifying its portfolio these days anyway (GCP, Google Home, Waymo, and tons of moonshots
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    by adtac 9y ago

    I meant huge in terms of functionality. It supports so many things that you can't possibly need everything.
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    by adtac 9y ago

    >Eventually the code will grow to be the size of jQuery anyway. Um what? jQuery is huge. You won't possibly use everything in it.
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    by adtac 9y ago

    That's insane. http://webkay.robinlinus.com/ has some more interesting methods. One of my favourites is querying every IP address in your local network and seeing which ones are up to generate a profile on you.
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    by adtac 9y ago

    > This is an issue for a really small segment of users. Not really. I'm from India; while my home network connection is pretty good, when I'm travelling anywhere outside the metros, the mobile network speed is abysmal. However
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    by adtac 9y ago

    I'm sure Facebook is still tracking you in some way. Some low hanging fruits: IP address, user agent, screen resolution, network speed based tracking, geo location, presence of various web technologies. With all this and Facebook'
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    by adtac 9y ago

    You've ever been to one of those pages that embed Facebook's comment engine? Yeah, those are the worst. I did some analysis on a random page with just three Facebook comments. Requests to Facebook's servers accounted for 1.5
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    by adtac 9y ago

    Author here. Not exactly an LRU cache (doesn't remove old elements from memory), but I think it's useful anyway. Lemme know if you have any questions.
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    Show HN: Like Python's lru_cache, but for shell functions(github.com)

    1 points by adtac 9y ago|1 comments
24. 834.▲
    by adtac 9y ago

    Sorry, I'm a bit curious: you got fired from Google just because you refused to go to the US? That seems a bit harsh.
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    by adtac 9y ago

    Although bear in mind that open sourcing it might require you to spend some time on the project answering to bug reports and stuff. You might not even intend to add any new features, but if someone else comes in with a new PR, you'll p
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    by adtac 9y ago

    I'm not from the US, never been there. But I thought the context here was obvious. Even still, it's regulated in almost all countries.
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    by adtac 9y ago

    Because they are regulated. A job at McDonalds is an actual hourly wage job regulated by the government.
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    by adtac 9y ago

    Nobody is forcing me. But when Uber undercuts competitors by a large margin using inhumane practices, the competitors tend to vanish over time. In the end, guess who is your only choice.
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    Ask HN: Is an open source SaaS model viable?

    15 points by adtac 10y ago|5 comments
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    by adtac 10y ago

    https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents#English_W... A data dump of all English Wikipedia articles as a torrent. In case you are not able to access that, here's the direct link: https://itorr