dexen

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by dexen 14y ago
> (...)compression at the SSL level. HTTP also includes optional compression, but this one applies only to the body of the requests and responses, not the header, and thus does not cover the Cookie: header line. HTTP-level compression
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by dexen 14y ago
> It does not protect anyone's privacy unless the recipients believe it was set by a real human being, with a real preference for privacy over personalization. User choosing a particular browser advertising itself as `privacy oriented
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Apache man disables Internet Explorer 10 privacy setting(theregister.co.uk)
5 points by dexen 14y ago|4 comments
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"The easier college gets, the dumber you look for not having a degree".(smbc-comics.com)
1 points by dexen 14y ago|1 comments
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"The easier college gets, the dumber you look for not having a degree".(smbc-comics.com)
2 points by dexen 14y ago|1 comments
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by dexen 14y ago
Why is there no paid subscription option? Do you have any plans of such? I'd like to upgrade to a paid, supported service if my website gets any traction.
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by dexen 14y ago
We can confirm a particular account got paid, but we can not rule out a person got paid -- simply because it's easy to get new account to be paid at. So parent post's point stands -- his campaign can't reliably claim they ignored the bl
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Apache httpd ignores DNT header from MS IE 10(github.com)
13 points by dexen 14y ago|2 comments
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by dexen 14y ago
> Can someone who's worked with APIs that accept updates give a code example of something that would be better if you accepted patches instead? Concurrent edition of tabular data by several users. User loads a HTML <form> wit
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by dexen 14y ago
While the microphone and buttons (if any) fit well on device's edges, I wonder how do they provide earpiece? Do they drill a hole through the display, or is it some sort of flat panel speaker? The later probably would be bad for privacy.
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by dexen 14y ago
> I'm not sure it is obvious. Swipe-image-of-a-knob-to-unlock repicates exactly on a display what has long been a moderately common physical widget on mobile phones, mp3 players, portable consoles etc.: a sliding `Lock' or `Hold' butt
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by dexen 14y ago
If you like watching about this, I recommend ``When we left the Earth'' miniseries by Discovery Channel. Focuses on people of the early space era, with narratives provided by several known and unknown participants. http://en.wikipedia.org/
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by dexen 14y ago
Business owners seem to enjoy being acqui-hired -- not as much as selling company for a couple millions, but it's still quite good nonetheless. On the other hand, investors may get little, if any, of return on an acqui-hire. See article in
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by dexen 14y ago
Probably makes sense, but you'd have hard time to pull this one off given the state of modern-day press and other media. Suppose scientists calculate seawater contains, on average, N parts per million of Uranium and aim at inceasing it to j
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by dexen 14y ago
> I think this is catastrophically broken because of a known issue of how SHA-2 breaks its input into blocks: when A is aligned to a block boundary, sha(A || B) = f(sha(A), g(B)). If that's the case, wouldn't it suffice to mix A and B
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by dexen 14y ago
Genius LuxeMate i200 is a viable substitute. Very sturdy and reliable -- survives heavy bashing of intense programming and heavy-handed gaming. Navigational keys (arrows, PageUp/PageDown and friends) are conveniently placed. Complete with
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by dexen 14y ago
Came here to say just that. Another prediction: such partnership won't help Google very much, but will hurt Microsoft a bit -- due to Yahoo shying away from Bing and possibly MS e-mail technology. It may also well help developers -- Yahoo's
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by dexen 14y ago
> Cool folding prop (but scary - if it doesn't unfold properly, it could make quite a mess). Hard to tell from the video alone, but the rotor look just like my RC helicopter's: blades attached to the hub by one gudgeon pin each. If th
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by dexen 14y ago
> Am I the only person who thinks this whole approach is broken? Broken? Depends on your perspective. If you care first and foremost about your users' data, it sure is broken. But FB is not a hosting company. If you care the most most
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by dexen 14y ago
Agreed on the `messier' part. How's extract($arr, EXTR_IF_EXISTS) not validating enough?
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by dexen 14y ago
That's not how the code works; I can assure you after using it for some time. The client code (the callee) is in control of variables and lists explicitly what will be provided, either as default or as an actual (keyword) argument. When usi
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by dexen 14y ago
I'm often using compact()/extract() in similar, but not necessarily identical pattern. For example: $foo = get_some_value(); $bar = get_other_value(); my_function(compact('foo', 'bar')); function my_function($args) { # opti
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by dexen 14y ago
Joint Strike Fighter programme (produced F-35) C++ coding standard: http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/JSF-AV-rules.pdf Been posted to HN before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3967316 From a cursory read, it mostly boils down to ``d
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by dexen 14y ago
Please explain the use of "scare quotes" -- do you emphasize ease of the hack, or do you imply inside job rather than acutal hacking?
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by dexen 14y ago
Obligatory jwz quote: ``Zawinski's law of software envelopment'' Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can. (obviously Myspace did not read mail ;-)) [EDI
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by dexen 14y ago
Thousand times this. I still own a 22'' Trinitron (20'' working area) that beats any `FullHD' hands down, by resolution and by any other measure as well -- from lag to colorspace -- and it wasn't even top of the line back then. Heck, it eve
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by dexen 14y ago
Only relevant on exceptionally old and broken hardware. Any decent CRT or LCD provides http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDID which lists both standard and non-standard modelines and frequency range. X.org takes that into account, unless you
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by dexen 14y ago
> NewEgg has to hire guys who sit there for hours installing Windows from the non-existent install disks (...) Your argument hinges on the assumption the retailer is somehow `entitled' to being profitable, and consumers' rights come s
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by dexen 14y ago
There used to be a pretty decent Linux driver for PowerVR Kyro and Kyro 2 GPUs back in the day†. I wonder if it could be updated to the current breed of chips. † I recall playing Quake 3 Arena on it on Linux, with framerate matching or exce
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by dexen 14y ago
Which is what Git does: every commit actually is a directory/file tree and a small note a.k.a. `commit message'. You could re-create the effect by hand, by placing `.commit' file in root of the multiple directories you speak of. However, Gi

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