billpg

76 ms·

901.
by billpg 12y ago
If I need to explain a joke, it probably wasn't very funny. I'll walk away from this one. This is just to say it was nothing to do with your username.
902.
by billpg 12y ago
Will it be "Microsoft Internet Explorer/11.0"?
903.
by billpg 12y ago
I heard they were going to make children wear goggles when playing conkers too!
904.
by billpg 12y ago
.onion establishes the identity of the key. If they ever lost control of the key and had to replace it, they would need a new .onion domain.
905.
by billpg 12y ago
Sorry, my time machine appears to be on the blink. I appear to be in the 1990s.
906.
by billpg 12y ago
One part of the Firefox dev tools I find useful in every-day browsing is the ability to delete a DIV (or similar) element whenever something causes a bad layout or otherwise gets in the way.
907.
by billpg 12y ago
It's not enough to check the hash of a downloaded executable if the hash you're checking against came from the same source as the suspect file. I find it so infuriating when I see a download page with hashes and the download links
908.
by billpg 12y ago
My worry about using my phone as the second factor is that my phone is attractive to thieves. I would personally prefer to carry around a keyring with many fobs on it.
909.
by billpg 12y ago
I wonder if they get to use 20% of their time providing security for their personal projects. (b'dom ksh)
910.
by billpg 12y ago
The end of the IOC can't happen soon enough. I just wish it could have happened before the embarrassment of my country licking the IOC boots two years ago. You want your own private road lanes in this busy city? Yessir!
911.
by billpg 12y ago
An RFC might be useful to define the file format as a general purpose data-set format. "MIME type application/my-example is defined as a resource conforming to RFCxxxx with the following tables..." The basic data-set RFC coul
912.
by billpg 12y ago
Am I reading this right? If a string starts with the characters '() {', it is handled differently by the interpreter? What am I meant to do if I actually want to store the characters '() {' in a string?
913.
by billpg 12y ago
I tried pasting this into Expresso so I could browse it with its analyzer tool, but it refused.
914.
by billpg 12y ago
I find JS a thoroughly unpleasant language to work with. When will we reach the point where JS could be abstracted away entirely? (Just like how I never need to interact with assembly language any more.)
915.
by billpg 12y ago
You don't see many people called Adolph these days. I wonder why that is.
916.
by billpg 12y ago
Warning: I really don't know what I'm talking about. I'd switch to having paid jobs only, but offer a money-back guarantee. Any users that take advantage of this offer too much could be turned away.
917.
by billpg 12y ago
That's me told.
918.
by billpg 12y ago
Just thinking about some of the comments I've written into my JS and how many text messages it would take to deliver them. Text messages are free to deliver these days right?
919.
How many bits of hash are realistically needed for key verification?(crypto.stackexchange.com)
2 points by billpg 12y ago|0 comments
920.
by billpg 12y ago
Looking at the listed "Email is..." statements, an important one was missed. Email is broken. Disagree? I'm sure your response expressing your disagreement won't end up in the spam folder.
921.
by billpg 12y ago
There seems to be a low threshold for declaring something "link bait" over here. Not long ago, I wrote something called "Never sanitize your inputs" and the content of the article was why you should never sanitize your i
922.
by billpg 12y ago
Health care is super authoritarian?
923.
by billpg 12y ago
I once saw an SD card sold as "8gb" and thought it terribly expensive for that much capacity.
924.
Increasing voter turnout with compulsory voting and (gasp) electronic voting(ideas.4brad.com)
3 points by billpg 12y ago|0 comments
925.
by billpg 12y ago
Is that a Canadian Starbucks thing? In English Starbucks I've never had a problem with asking for a "large" or "medium".
926.
by billpg 12y ago
We used to live like this. Eating organic food, getting lots of exercise, dying in our 20s...
927.
by billpg 12y ago
looks nonchalant http://blog.hackensplat.com/2012/04/php-some-strings-are-mor... whistles and walks away
928.
by billpg 12y ago
> Stopped rea I stopped reading right there.
929.
by billpg 12y ago
One data point I'd like to see is the wholesale cost of electricity throughout the day. (Very interesting page. Thanks.)
930.
by billpg 12y ago
Does "One for PCs" cover both servers and desktops?

More ›