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by daxelrod 12y ago
Sweet! I'll take a look, thanks. I considered PushOver and Boxcar but I didn't like the idea of forwarding all my email to them.
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by daxelrod 12y ago
Part of my job involves writing software on OpenVMS. We actually just recently ported something that needed OpenSSL and were happy to find an up-to-date version.
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by daxelrod 12y ago
The iOS push notifications are what has been causing me to move my email over to GMail. Otherwise I'd much prefer something like Fastmail. I'm sure solutions exist for push notifications. Has anyone had success with any of them?
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by daxelrod 13y ago
My first thought is that it has something to do with the fact that you get a Sierpenski Triangle from a Pascal's triangle when you assign one color to even numbers and another to odd: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P
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by daxelrod 13y ago
It's a quote from Numberwang Episode 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJDu5D_IXbc&feature=youtu.be&...
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by daxelrod 13y ago
I use something similar, Invisible Hand. http://www.getinvisiblehand.com/ I haven't had a chance to check out Buy Happy yet, but it seems to me that displaying competing prices on product pages rather than when adding
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by daxelrod 13y ago
The mechanism seems similar to PRoot ( http://proot.me/ ) which uses ptrace to intercept filesystem operations to create a userspace chroot. I wonder if there's value in creating a library for intercepting filesystem o
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by daxelrod 13y ago
The phrase "two greater amper one" seems to help me. My tendency otherwise is to type the ampersand before the greater-than.
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by daxelrod 13y ago
> Another problem is simply walking around with 2 phones which is an opsec indicator for feds that you are up to something and req targeted surveillance. They have full automated access to every cell tower db to look for this as per snow
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by daxelrod 13y ago
BIOS passwords are not always useless, depending on model. I had a Thinkpad T42 on which I managed to set a password for editing BIOS settings that I did not remember. I the laptop into IBM for repairs to the monitor, and as part of their r
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Alan Turing's Body(theatlantic.com)
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by daxelrod 13y ago
Is this true even for packages where the sender specified no signature was required?
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by daxelrod 13y ago
Sure you have. https://twitter.com/AlanHungover/status/393822237926903808 Users complain all the time about being required to change their password every week to something unmemorable because of crazy complexity r
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by daxelrod 13y ago
> constructors should be as safe as they can be, which means no allocations, partial or not. Can you expand upon what you mean by "safe" here? If you mean "unable to fail", I vehemently disagree. Constructors should v
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by daxelrod 13y ago
Do you use standard off-the-shelf consumer hard drives at those prices? Most companies I've worked for have shelled out quite a bit more for "enterprise" class hard drives. I've always struggled to understand what these
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by daxelrod 13y ago
Be careful with what ECC algorithm you use. Bruce Schneier recommends against ECC in [1]: > Prefer conventional discrete-log-based systems > over elliptic-curve systems; the latter have > constants that the NSA influences w
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by daxelrod 13y ago
It's the implementation of this that's the difficult part. You also need to standardize how names are canonified into these legal constraints for when someone moves into the state. Worse, there are lots of expectations that your s
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by daxelrod 13y ago
> This is the first game indie game bundle Are you talking about Humble Bundle? The first few Humble Bundles were all indie games.
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by daxelrod 13y ago
I was skeptical, but I did some searching, and you appear to be right! The difference seems to come down to string handling: http://timelessrepo.com/json-isnt-a-javascript-subset
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by daxelrod 13y ago
I understand that you're advocating for helping people develop a thick skin. Where I take objection is when you start talking about abuse. There's enough other kinds of adversity out there to be resilient against. > My experien
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by daxelrod 13y ago
NPR did a piece examining this phenomenon: http://www.npr.org/2013/08/21/209579037/why-millennials-are-...
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by daxelrod 13y ago
Yes, it is common for them to ask. (It doesn't mean they get it, though). A large part of the US is not practically walkable and has insufficient public transportation. In order to "go out with friends", sometimes to even see
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by daxelrod 13y ago
For anyone interested in applying functional concepts to Perl, I highly recommend Mark Jason Dominus's Higher Order Perl[1], the full text of which is now available online for free. It starts by teaching a reader moderately familiar wi
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by daxelrod 13y ago
This is an excellent idea, I'm surprised I've never seen it before.
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by daxelrod 13y ago
We, the electorate, can be blamed for believing him. Or for feeling forced to choose the lesser of two evils.
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by daxelrod 13y ago
Wait, is there already a government-imposed web filter on mobile phones in the UK? And you can't opt out? When did this happen? What were the justifications given when it was put into place? Does it also apply to GSM tablets and device
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by daxelrod 13y ago
The old VLC for iOS used iTunes's transfer capabilities rather than presenting an HTTP server. Here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/cRwg8Rr.jpg Not quite as slick as the context menu you're suggesting thou
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by daxelrod 13y ago
Who said anything about seeing it before every movie? Add it to the other metadata presented about the movie (probably next to the indicator whether the stream is SD, HD, or "Super HD").
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by daxelrod 13y ago
This seemed hard to believe for the US, but then I found a source: http://www.aclu.org/free-speech-technology-and-liberty-women... . I have not yet been able to find a list of states that do this. The premise is that newbor
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by daxelrod 13y ago
Interesting. That doesn't seem to square with this item from GitHub's ToS: > By setting your repositories to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view and fork your repositories. https://help.githu

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