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by claudius 12y ago
I also got Singaporean and New Zealand as well as the three native languages (albeit in different ordering) while being a German native speaker. I’d claim it to be mere chance that these are somehow related to standard German sentence struc
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by claudius 12y ago
Hm, curious. What would be tell-tale signs of a native German speaker? :)
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by claudius 12y ago
Hm. It guessed Finnish, Greek and Russian for my native language (German in reality) and a South African/Singaporean/New Zealand accent, where I have no idea how that could have happened – certainly not because I spent any amount
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by claudius 12y ago
Thank you :) I was after some reason why one could possibly think this to be opt-in rather than opt-out, but it appears that there truly is none.
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by claudius 12y ago
And, err, how is a “pre-populated opt-in box” not exactly the same as opt-out? In order not to receive spam, the user has to take an action (i.e. opt out) by unticking the box.
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by claudius 12y ago
Why would you spend an hour a day in a traffic jam? Is there something wrong with your public transport system?
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by claudius 12y ago
The perceived efficiency of bipedal movement comes mostly from the ludicrous efficiency of biological actors when converting chemical into kinetic energy – a cyclist (or even runner) can go a day on the chemical energy that would get a moto
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by claudius 12y ago
Fair enough, that is indeed a – possibly major – difference, although Google department A sharing data with department B, which gives stuff to department C could be argued to be similar, as the size of these departments easily match those o
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by claudius 12y ago
Is there really such a major difference between you giving your data to your email provider who then sells it to other companies or you giving data to your email provider who then uses it very much the same way these other companies would d
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by claudius 12y ago
Why? What potential gain could possibly justify breaking the entire protocol and extension-ecosystem?
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by claudius 12y ago
To be honest, I find it more acceptable to pull out your notebook to work than to pull out your smartphone and…look at pictures of cats? Given that loads of people do the latter, the former doesn’t seem entirely inappropriate anymore, altho
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by claudius 12y ago
They are still supporting XMPP for c2s connections, though; i.e. if you are on a phone, you can use XMPP to connect to Google. What they don’t support is s2s, which – unless you somehow run your own XMPP server on your phone – has nothing
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by claudius 12y ago
Kernel Normal Form, I assume, a specific formatting standard.
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LibreSSL – An OpenSSL replacement(openbsd.org)
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by claudius 12y ago
Of course no country has such an obligation per se. But if your government constantly attacks my infrastructure, why oh why should I even consider paying a penny for your service? Given that many American companies still market to users out
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by claudius 12y ago
The PIGS countries would be much worse off outside the eurozone than inside, to see this, just compare the recent economical dips to the massive increase in activity following the introduction of the Euro in 2002. And to say that a country
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by claudius 12y ago
> We can save much more of a user's time by creating simple, intuitive interfaces than we can checking cache misses (in most modern development). And at least for regularly-used software, you can save even more user time by not opti
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by claudius 12y ago
Honestly, by now I also want Britain to leave the EU. If these guys think of themselves as an isolated island in the middle of the Atlantic rather than an important piece of Europe ten kilometres off the coast of France, fine, but they shou
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by claudius 12y ago
I tried that first but it didn’t work in Firefox :\
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by claudius 12y ago
http://jsfiddle.net/pd9yB/156/ Like so? (Code from libressl.org and Arbel’s demo).
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by claudius 12y ago
You get the TLS you configure the servers to use and a server that only does opportunistic TLS is certainly not a “secure” server.
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by claudius 12y ago
Is it just me or does anybody else also find it really annoying that the blinking cursor there (behind the “everyone”) is not actually a cursor and one cannot delete text with backspace?
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by claudius 12y ago
E-mail between secure servers is perfectly secure (and end-to-end encryption only adds content encryption but keeps the amount of metadata generated the same). The problem is that Google’s email servers are not secure; nor are those of any
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by claudius 12y ago
Hm. I’m obviously not a lawyer and also not a software engineer in an enterprisey setting. But some ideas might be: - all internal data storage formats have to be completely specified - an open data format (RTF, PDF, txt?) has to be support
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by claudius 12y ago
Of course the lowest bidder is supposed to win, as all bids are supposed to fulfil the requirements laid out in the contest and these requirements are assumed to be fully sufficient for the task at hand. Theoretically speaking, of course.
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by claudius 12y ago
Maybe my visual capabilities are just more limited than yours :) That said, I wouldn’t call things like ‘end of statement’ or ‘end of this block’ noise . They have very real effects and using ; and } over "\n" and "\t"
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by claudius 12y ago
$ wc -c a.cpp t.cpp 399 a.cpp 380 t.cpp 779 total $ cat t.cpp #include <iostream> using namespace std; namespace utils { template<typename T> T square(const T& n) { return n * n; } } int ma
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by claudius 12y ago
> With whitespace sensitivity, "oops, I missed a brace" and "oops, I missed a tab" is exactly the same. No. There are two braces per block and as long as you are consistent and always use braces even for single-statem
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by claudius 12y ago
> My argument is that market should decide. Or maybe, just maybe, the people should decide instead of random companies who don’t pay taxes. And ‘the people’ usually decide by voting for their favourite MP who can then implement their wis
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by claudius 12y ago
> Crap laws should be ignored. So who gets to decide which laws are “crap laws” and which laws are proper laws that should be obeyed? Last time I checked, this was usually not the job of some random startup firm but rather the responsi

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