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by alter8 14y ago
> ??? x = &arr; Does this compile? I thought an array was treated like a constant pointer, inexistent in memory so you cannot take its address, increment it, or attribute it another value. Although the point made by RegEx ab
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by alter8 14y ago
> it isn't solving any real problem for the user. It is only creating nuisance. That's the whole purpose of it - creating enough nuisance so that average Joe can't get out of Windows ecosystem. Each OEM will implement the disabling opti
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by alter8 14y ago
I'm too lazy to install Tor, so: http://isax7s5yooqgelbr.onion.to/
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News Flash: Surface Pro has a better Retina Display than the iPad(theverge.com)
5 points by alter8 14y ago|0 comments
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Curriculum issues and geometry in education(njwildberger.wordpress.com)
1 points by alter8 14y ago|0 comments
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by alter8 14y ago
This guy did it with 6 characters by removing {}. But it lacks the detailed description available in this post. EDIT: I didn't check properly. You only use {} for a minor detail. http://utf-8.jp/public/jsfuck.html
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by alter8 14y ago
Add telnet streaming for extra points, like they did to World Cup 2006: http://ascii-wm.net/doc.php
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by alter8 14y ago
This is not an answer, but there is a previous discussion in a submission of mine: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4136682
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by alter8 14y ago
Ah, so you only get those blurred answers if you come from a search engine. That's the first time I see it in action. I have javascript disabled so I get an opaque block over the answer.
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by alter8 14y ago
I could put the answer in the title, but it would get edited back to OP's title.
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Is WPA2 security broken due to Defcon MS-CHAPv2 cracking?(revolutionwifi.blogspot.com)
38 points by alter8 14y ago|15 comments
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Final Fantasy VI bug, early airship, character weirdness, play as General Leo(kotaku.com)
7 points by alter8 14y ago|0 comments
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by alter8 14y ago
Hardware implementors suck at implementing firmware. Didn't you ever had trouble trying to boot from a pendrive? They couldn't get it right with BIOS, why should I think they won't screw it in UEFI? And if they screw it, what will be the wo
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by alter8 14y ago
Don't businesses use the corporate versions of browsers? EDIT: never mind, it would be useless in this case, Google does not keep the old versions. Crap. http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/browser/ http://support.google.com/a/
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by alter8 14y ago
Symlinks are not synced automatically, only when restarting Dropbox, or pause/resume syncing.
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by alter8 14y ago
Explorer works like an alternative player when creating the thumbnails, so it can use the same codecs as media player. You could have only the codecs and remove media player, and thumbnails still should work. There is a 64-bit media player,
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by alter8 14y ago
When I run into a website that breaks my experience, it slows down my computer, crashes the browser and takes away the comment I was about to write. No, thanks.
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by alter8 14y ago
> Eliminating abstract math education in the early school years, or allowing young students to opt out of rigorous math classes, will only serve to increase the disparity between those who “get it” and those who don’t. Those who have a
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by alter8 14y ago
If you don't post frequently you can pinpoint where you got the mark. Search posts by your user and see where the auto-dead begins. I did some trollish posts on my first account, but got a ban because of a front-paged duplicate instead. Det
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by alter8 14y ago
> (And ideally, stop allowing users to put documents on their desktop -- it just confuses things and nobody has ever come up with an intuitive way to integrate that with the concept of user folders (my desktop is inside my user folder,
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Firefox Olympics Doodle about:home
1 points by alter8 14y ago|1 comments
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Gource: software version control visualization - videos(code.google.com)
1 points by alter8 14y ago|0 comments
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Polymorphism and inheritance are independent of each other(accelerateddevelopment.blogspot.com)
1 points by alter8 14y ago|1 comments
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by alter8 14y ago
We can't even request features anymore. The topic linked on the bottom, which was treated specially and kept open for replies, suffers the same problem. EDIT: the whole problem is gone as I finish posting. HN is back to its former shape. I
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Avian: subset of Java for building self-contained applications(github.com)
1 points by alter8 14y ago|0 comments
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by alter8 14y ago
Thanks for reminding me about that post. I was about to skip it because it no longer appears on hckrnews.com. I had a bad experience with a disappearing post of mine.
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Debugger, responsive design view and more in Firefox Aurora(hacks.mozilla.org)
1 points by alter8 14y ago|0 comments
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The Falling Slinky Problem(allendowney.blogspot.com)
1 points by alter8 14y ago|0 comments
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by alter8 14y ago
They don't? Orkut showed you who has seen your profile (but not in real time).
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by alter8 14y ago
Don't know if anyone will read this. Requiring to enable JavaScript was expected, but enabling images too? I rarely see web pages that don't even try to work at all with images disabled.

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