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by casca 13y ago
For some context, Daniel Stenberg is the lead developer in the widely used curl and libcurl OSS. He is extremely responsive on the mailing lists and will often provide detailed answers to difficult questions.
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by casca 13y ago
Pretty use of D3.js. Obviously this is your business but it would be great if there was some sourcecode to share with the community. The report that the data is based on is not worth much. They claim to use Volume, Success, Global and Influ
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by casca 13y ago
This is an interesting post, thank you.
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by casca 13y ago
I believe that the biggest problem with Malcolm Gladwell's writing is that one may be left with the impression that it's journalism. To understand why he does not provide critical analysis of the topics he writes on, this quote fr
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by casca 13y ago
Social Fixer is great - I've been using it for a while and it makes my infrequent forays onto Facebook less miserable. From what I can tell, Facebook has removed the Social Fixer page on Facebook and are requiring the author to make si
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by casca 13y ago
"We have 100 vacancies, but we’ll be fortunate if we can fill half with hires in the UK,” says Errol Damelin, the boss of Wonga. Often talent has to be imported from America or elsewhere, but immigration rules for hires from outside t
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Tweeter isn’t Twitter, but people are throwing money at it(cnbc.com)
2 points by casca 13y ago|0 comments
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FBI demanded Lavabit SSL private key(wired.com)
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by casca 13y ago
Mr Lazaridis and the ridiculous dual-CEO structure are significant contributors to the failure of Blackberry. I have friends there and not one believed that he would be as prescient as saying "If that thing catches on, we’re competing
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by casca 13y ago
For Icelandic names, it's easy to identify the gender by looking at the last name. For example Bjarni Benediktsson is definitely male while Katrín Jakobsdóttir is definitely female. Another strategy is to use gender-neutral terms until
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by casca 13y ago
I think that this is a great opportunity to clarify laws. There are a few EU countries that require phones to be SIM-unlocked at the end of contracts. The question is - will this fall foul of those laws, as people can use the device with ot
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by casca 13y ago
While I agree that this is a phenomenon, it's too soon to tell how it will play out. It's not possible to be meaningfully productive if you're unable to focus, so this could just be a function of the ages which are represente
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by casca 13y ago
Ivan has consistently provided excellent resources for configuring SSL. The docs and analyzer have made it so much easier to get people to take the steps to fix their SSL setup. He also has a book that is coming out and will presumably be e
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by casca 13y ago
More than 50% of PCs in China are infected? That seems unbelievably high.
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by casca 13y ago
A PR stunt that's been going on for 5 years and this is the first mention of it? Heathrow is generally a pretty miserable flying experience but you'd think that they'd be able to get it in the press a little sooner if it was
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by casca 13y ago
Please know that the 4-digit pin is easily removed by someone with non-specialist tools that are widely available. Touch ID is too new to assess whether this is also the case for the new Iphone, but it's quite possible that there is a
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Project Mkultra: One of the Most Shocking CIA Programs of All Time(gizmodo.com)
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The priciest part of your takeaway coffee? It's the cup, not the beans(telegraph.co.uk)
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CyanogenMod Inc. – A Betrayal to the Spirit of Android(ootpapps.com)
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How to tell your mother and bosses why they should protest surveillance(slate.com)
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by casca 13y ago
From the FAQ: Can I see your mozconfig/build environment/configuration files? The answer is: No, this is my baby. While I'm quite happy with FF as my primary browser now that historical memory issues are mostly resol
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On Internet, Brazil is beating US at its own game(america.aljazeera.com)
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by casca 13y ago
This is a different problem with fingerprints and biometrics in general. You leave them around wherever you go so they are easily collected by others for reuse. But to provide a very basic level of protection for unimportant data, they shou
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by casca 13y ago
At this point in time, the 4-digit PIN on the IPhone is protection against someone casually looking at the phone when you've left it on your desk. It takes 10 minutes to remove the PIN lock and keep the data intact without using specia
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Inattentional blindness(psychologyofgames.com)
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Updated SSL/TLS Deployment Best Practices Deprecate RC4(community.qualys.com)
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The hotness-IQ tradeoff in academia(hardsci.wordpress.com)
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Intel - Accountable to You(blogs.intel.com)
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A lot to learn from "Business Records FISA NSA Review"(metzdowd.com)
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by casca 13y ago
It's very interesting that Microsoft is the first large tech company to do this in the current cycle. So many of their peers are also wallowing in cash and seemingly unwilling to make large investments so the pile keeps growing. Compan

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