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by ancymon 8y ago
Overall such statement leaves bad taste. But pressure to be first or negligence makes media publish press releases without looking at them. Maybe starting it this way would make someone think about its content and not just put on their webs
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by ancymon 8y ago
Is it false and defamatory to suggest that WikiLeaks was a tool used to affect US election?
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by ancymon 8y ago
The page you've linked says "This app is disabled and does not appear in the repo". So it's not really available at F-Droid. Do you know why?
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by ancymon 8y ago
What about letting website owners to have like buttons which won't track users?
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by ancymon 9y ago
Catch-all is quite known for that. But the problem starts when you need to respond to some emails using such alias. You then need to setup account for sending which for me is quite inconvenient. Also in case of gmail the alias accounts &quo
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by ancymon 9y ago
More popular it gets, sooner people will remove everything after the plus for mailing purpose. Actually, that's quite strange my "spammers" aren't doing it yet.
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by ancymon 10y ago
I didn't try it but lately I was thinking about the same thing. I came up with conclusion that I'll try to get myself the cheapest laptop and try to log in from it to some remote dev machine. I think renting for hours Amazon Works
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by ancymon 10y ago
Why not choose less US centric fundrising platform? There aren't any? For example I am missing choice of currency. If I were to donate in dollars I would have to pay bank twice for changing currency.
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by ancymon 10y ago
I heard an advice that it's best to pay them on monthly basis. In that case when you encounter hardware problem you just buy a new VPS instead of dealing with support.
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by ancymon 10y ago
I was thinking about something like that. But this proposition seems to be about checking integrity of page components like scripts and styles.
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Ask HN: Why browsers don't verify cheksums of downloaded content?
2 points by ancymon 10y ago|2 comments
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by ancymon 10y ago
I think it's kind of overreaction and a waste of time responding that way. What is he tring to prove by responding in that maner and publishing it on the blog?
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by ancymon 10y ago
Are they are just running Nominatim? Is Nominatim reliable? Looking at Nominatim project on github it does not look like well maintained software (e.g. there is even pull request from 2012, issues with basic use cases)...
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by ancymon 10y ago
Where did you get player/club data from?
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by ancymon 10y ago
As I understand VPN providers make users share single IP. Doesn't it give some extra anonymity? For example if you create your own Droplet someone still can listen for your traffic (but not coming from your PC but from the Droplet) and
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by ancymon 11y ago
The company says: "We help programmers find great jobs at Y Combinator startups." What's so great in Y Combinator startups? I mean why do they narrow only to such startups? Wouldn't it be better to just say they help wit
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Ask HN: Can you really learn a language with Duolingo?
4 points by ancymon 11y ago|2 comments
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by ancymon 11y ago
What do you recommend then?
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by ancymon 11y ago
There's DisableWinTracking GitHub project [1]. Wouldn't installing this software solve problem for those who don't want to be tracked? [1] - https://github.com/10se1ucgo/DisableWinTracking
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by ancymon 11y ago
It's current version is "0 A.D. Alpha 19 Syllepsis". Is it done and playable? Maybe it's better to wait for some "real" release? By the way, it seems to me that open source games don't have visible milesto
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by ancymon 11y ago
I've backed the statement that OSM contains errors by saying that there are duplicated addresses. I've backed the statement that OSM is inconsistent by saying that sometimes streets in OSM contain full name and sometime only most
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by ancymon 11y ago
The flag OSM geocoder is Nominatim. It turns out it won't work if you provide only part of street name (if OSM contains full street name) or when you provide full name (if OSM contains only part of the name) [1]. So in my opinion searc
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by ancymon 11y ago
From programmer's point of view working with OSM is quite annoying. OSM is being considered more as database than drawn map. But that database is inconsistent, contains many errors and its data structures are not good to represent non
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by ancymon 11y ago
Are you by chance the same Alois who's author at ruxit blog [1]? I don't mind that "user" scepticer submits stuff which only advertises ruxit, but at least let an honest discussion happen in comment section... [1] - htt
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by ancymon 11y ago
That doesn't seem to be passive.
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by ancymon 11y ago
How automatic Twitter/Facebook pages give you income?
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by ancymon 12y ago
Why?
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Using EC2 instance as main development platform(programmers.stackexchange.com)
4 points by ancymon 12y ago|0 comments
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by ancymon 12y ago
No, those seem to be IDEs in browsers. I'd like to have complete environment.
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Ask HN: Development machine in a cloud?
1 points by ancymon 12y ago|2 comments

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