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by desdiv 9y ago
Are there any big users of Skia outside of Google? Sounds like the Skia team has all the talents and is very well funded, so I'm a little surprised that it failed to catch on (outside of Google).
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by desdiv 9y ago
I tried to find her email on her keybase page but it isn't there. Ironically her Github page is listed, but her Gitlab page isn't.
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by desdiv 9y ago
I bet the malware author is really regretting not translating the ransom note and payment instructions into multiple languages now. EDIT: Sorry, my mistake. It's already in 28 languages, like the posters below pointed out. I only ever
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by desdiv 9y ago
The point is that it's an arbitrary user submitted script. In this case it was just the time, but it could have easily been a botnet command and control message or some other malicious content. It's standard security practice to
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by desdiv 9y ago
>The malware obtains the time and date by creating a new environment variable called $hcresult that contains what’s being returned by sending an HTTP request to the Google hosted link by executing this command: >curl -sL https:/
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by desdiv 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money
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by desdiv 9y ago
I stand corrected. Thank you for the correction.
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by desdiv 9y ago
The icons are Creative Commons licensed so there's always the cheap-ass option of not paying them.
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by desdiv 9y ago
The icons are embedded SVG so you can just copy and paste it from the page source. The icons are Creative Commons licensed so you don't even need to accept their TOS.
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by desdiv 9y ago
Kidnapping has been around for thousands of years, and yet so far no jurisdiction managed to criminalize paying the kidnapping ransom.
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by desdiv 9y ago
Pretty much all GPL'd code comes with a GPL license header, so you'd need someone to strip that header off. It would be hard to hide the identity of that someone, thanks to Git. Once that someone takes the stand, the truth becom
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by desdiv 9y ago
A comment above, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14321901 , does a similar thing as you, except they use the Github API to fetch the list of usernames. I don't know your use case, but maybe this is useful to you to
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by desdiv 9y ago
>Flexe did it without spending a nickel on facilities and already has 25 million square feet of storage, about 25 percent of Amazon’s capacity... This comparison is extremely misleading. Amazon either leases or outright owns their wareho
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Westfield: Wayland for HTML5/JavaScript(github.com)
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by desdiv 9y ago
"With equipment" doesn't require the battery to be actually plugged into the laptop. Most laptop manufacturers ship the laptop and the battery in separate plastic bags, and this still qualifies for the exemption. The rule wou
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by desdiv 9y ago
It's basically the same strategy as Yelp. When there's a string of bad reviews on Yelp, it's basically Yelp's way of telling the shop owner: "Gee, doesn't it suck that these spammers are bad mouthing your busin
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by desdiv 9y ago
>China for instance has banned shipping all lithium ion batteries via China Post Fedex and UPS both treat lithium ion batteries as dangerous goods, with the exception of batteries shipped "with equipment" i.e. shipping a lapt
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by desdiv 9y ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" -Upton Sinclair Zillow has an accurate estimate somewhere in their database but it's not in their financial intere
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by desdiv 9y ago
I'm pricing out a Thinkpad T570 and they gave me this choice: http://i.imgur.com/M7OShL6.png I wouldn't take it even if it's free. Dell actually charges you for adding vPro.
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by desdiv 9y ago
The author should seriously consider factoring out his build scripts and start a crowd-funding campaign to open source it for X thousands of dollars. Hell, I don't even know Rust and I'll donate ten bucks. The five platforms suppo
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by desdiv 9y ago
>clojure.inst requires java.sql.Timestamp Just curious, why haven't they switched to java.time.LocalDateTime? Java 8 has been out for 3 years now.
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by desdiv 9y ago
It's a form of signaling[0]. In this case, it means: "Like you what you see here? Well unfortunately we can't sell it to you since we don't have the manufacturing capacity. So you'll have to license our IP so you ca
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by desdiv 9y ago
>BigCo's like Apple or Samsung are probably ARM partners, so no per-design/unit fees. Nope, all ARM licensees pay a per-unit royalty, regardless of their partnership level[0]. Being the biggest might help Apple and Samsung ne
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by desdiv 9y ago
Rent-seeking is an economic term that refers to things like Microsoft getting $5 to $15 for each Android device sold despite doing jack shit to improve Android. It has nothing to do with property rental. [0] https://www.howtogeek
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by desdiv 9y ago
These links work. Don't ask how I got them. https://archive.org/download/Pierrpersongmail.com_drive.part... https://archive.org/download/Pierrpersongmail.com_drive.part... https://
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Intel Xeon Scalable Processor Family: Skylake-SP Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum(anandtech.com)
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If you catch Zika and return home, any mosquito that bites you will get infected as well, and will in turn infect other people[0], some of whom might be pregnant. Granted, someone from the continental U.S. dying of Zika is about as likely a
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by desdiv 9y ago
All I see is praise for Tesla on HN. I rarely see sentiments like "Tesla makes great cars, but I just wish their ECU and other critical systems wasn't internet connected" or "I refuse to buy any Tesla products until they
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by desdiv 9y ago
>oh, noticed `0.5` turn into `.5` and `black` turn into `#000`. not sure how that will make it more JSX compatible That's for minimizing code size. In both of your examples one byte is shaved off. Arguably this is a case of prematur
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by desdiv 9y ago
To save you guys a few clicks: <svg viewBox="0 0 104 97" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M14,85l3,9h72c0,0,5-9,4-10c-2-2-79,0-79,1" fill="#7C4E32&quo

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