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Ask HN: Are there any HTTP redirect services?
1 points by billpg 8y ago|2 comments
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by billpg 8y ago
There was me thinking the name was a typo for Simone Giertz.
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My Crazy Software Engineer Tattoo (That I Didn't Get)(blog.hackensplat.com)
1 points by billpg 8y ago|0 comments
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by billpg 8y ago
April Fools Day? European "Spring Forward" time-zone change? An actual bug?
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by billpg 8y ago
So many ads on that page!
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by billpg 8y ago
I pay the license fee because I am required to by law. If I had the option of not paying and losing access to BBC channels, I probably would. I'd miss Doctor Who but they only do that every few years now.
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by billpg 8y ago
Wait, there are podcasts and podcast players that don't use RSS? Why would anyone do that?
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by billpg 8y ago
> nobody can really claim that it wasn't a democratic decision. #include "vote-leave-broke-the-law.txt"
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by billpg 8y ago
If there's no website, what am I looking at when I follow the link?
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by billpg 8y ago
That was only around half of voters. Right on the knife edge.
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by billpg 8y ago
If you click "More details", the petition ends with "Rates fixed at time of the deal." "Let's leave with no deal. To do this, we'll need a deal." Do they want a deal or not?
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by billpg 8y ago
People like to talk about "17.4 million". Seems a lot more impressive than "around half of voters".
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by billpg 8y ago
Link to petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584 Currently... "Petitions is down for maintenance. We know about it and we're working on it. Please try again later."
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by billpg 8y ago
How do I get my browser on the list? (And it totally is a browser and not some keylogger and bitcoin miner with a copy of lynx on top.)
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by billpg 8y ago
Time was, the advice was that clicking unsubscribe links only confirms your mailbox is active and you get more junk. Does that still apply?
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by billpg 8y ago
It would be good if you could list several domains and show the countdown for whichever one is the next due to expire. Once that one gets renewed, shuffle the next one due into the countdown. Or use lets-encrypt and automate renewals.
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by billpg 8y ago
If only it could have been reduced by just nine lines.
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by billpg 8y ago
Emojis are in the Unicode range with code-point IDs above 16 bits. (The original Unicode was limited to 16 bit code-points.
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by billpg 8y ago
Ideally, we'd have started from UTF-8 and never even bothered with 16 bit chars in the first place.
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by billpg 8y ago
Emojis are a plot to make English-speaking developers care about fixing their code to work with Unicode.
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by billpg 8y ago
Where would the money go?
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by billpg 8y ago
Can't drivers just raise their prices?
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by billpg 8y ago
I read once that all OS code callable from a process begins with a NOP instruction, allowing an update to drop in a jump to the new version of that function by replacing the NOP. I had to wonder why given that is available, why reboots on u
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by billpg 8y ago
Suppose I ran a business and regularly published a statement "As of (date) I have not done (thing)." Now suppose I've been forced to do (thing) with the additional instruction not to reveal what I've done. Do I stop publ
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by billpg 8y ago
Time was, you had to be very careful where you hosted your RSS files because there were so many badly written players that polled the website every few seconds without any caching. Is this still the case?
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by billpg 8y ago
"VxWorks powers..." Powered. :(
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by billpg 8y ago
Dancing icons. It seemed like a good idea at the time. http://billpg.com/
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by billpg 8y ago
My local pizza shop offers "Buy one get one free" and "Free delivery". They also offer a discount if you only want one pizza, and a discount if you collect instead of having it delivered.
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by billpg 8y ago
Is there a test to see if my device is vulnerable?
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by billpg 8y ago
I've thought about automating my Facebook "Happy Birthday!" messages, but that seemed like the act of a evildoer.

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