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by dkopi 10y ago
"I'm wondering how we can trust the encryption" You can't. Not unless the company employees security experts, has a significant bug bounty program (with significant rewards), is open to a degree about their securit archi
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"Along with the encryption, there are some other privacy features getting added into the latest version of the app. Hidden chats will give users the ability to essentially “hide” certain conversations from their usage log, accessible o
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"Everyone in the city stands to gain from growth; productivity in skilled cities rises with population, so when more people move in, all workers’ incomes should rise. But the gains from any particular property development are relativel
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by dkopi 10y ago
"The sad part is it's not even just Notepad. It's the underlying "TEXT" HWND class itself. " That's it. Notepad is only a wrapper over a text edit. Nothing more.
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One case where you would want to use endl and not \n is if you're outputting to something like a log file that's being monitored with tail -f.
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by dkopi 10y ago
TLDR: std::endl causes a flush of the buffer to the file for every new line, vs "\n" or that doesn't. Flushing the buffer for every new line is costly, and will slow down your file write. My addition (which might have been in
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by dkopi 10y ago
If that's the case, you might want to release your code as an online service. Also - keep in mind that "Legal advice" isn't necessarily "Business advice". Lawyers can't tell you how to make money, or how t
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by dkopi 10y ago
I usually don't share pictures until I'm back from vacation. I spend a lot of time sorting and sifting through the photos, picking only the best to share. People have a very short attention span. If your vacation album has more th
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by dkopi 10y ago
> and don't want script kiddies to mooch off my talent that easily. We all "mooch" off of other's talents. That's the beauty of our industry. We get inspired, we share, and we base our works on the works of other
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"But as I stood there in Cambodia, swatted by selfie sticks, bruised by elbows, perfumed by the body odor of my fellow photogs, I realized the irony of being at a temple in which no one was really present. Was Instagram ruining travel?
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by dkopi 10y ago
Photography is an incredible way to experience a new location. It isn't ruining vacations, its redefining them. In Laos, I met a young munk named Khao at the top of Phou si in Luang Prabang. He kindly posed for a photo, and then we had
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by dkopi 10y ago
My highlights after reading this: 0. Really impressive work. 1. Great link with the Dalvik opcodes manual http://pallergabor.uw.hu/androidblog/dalvik_opcodes.html This came up with a google search: https://s
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by dkopi 10y ago
"DRM and obfuscation only work to waste a week or two of the time of the person taking it apart." Not only that, it also drastically decreases the amount of people in the world capable of reverse engineering your code. It also dec
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by dkopi 10y ago
Good point. I stand corrected.
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I Clicked on the link expecting to read about a vulnerability. This is actually about blasting OS X for not having updated versions of software. Software updates are super important of course, and apple should be better at pushing the lates
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by dkopi 10y ago
An H index provides a trade off between quality and quantity. It attempts to measure both impact (citations in the case of academics, or upvotes in the case of HN), and quantity. You'll have a low H index if you have lots of low qualit
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by dkopi 10y ago
Actually, smart kids usually end up a net loss for classes. They get bored. so they skip classes, or end up sitting in class bothering everyone else. They also end up frustrating other kids because "why does it come so easy for X but n
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by dkopi 10y ago
In a market with limited supply, taxing homes for rent will raise rents to cover the additional taxes. You don't solve a supply problem by adding taxes. If anything, that will reduce the supply even more.
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by dkopi 10y ago
Tax hikes aren't a way to lower housing costs. You don't make something cheaper by taxing it.
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"A small apartment in good repair in a not-terrible part of Tel Aviv can easily cost ~6000 ils per month, before utilities." We probably have different definitions of "not terrible part of tel aviv". 1BRs (What israeli&#
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by dkopi 10y ago
Actually, no. Tel Aviv Coffee shops are ideal for tech workers. And being in tech and commenting on hacker news, I obviously state that first of all. But Tel Aviv coffee shops are packed with people of all types and shapes. Whether it'
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by dkopi 10y ago
It is :) but they have an awesome beer hall at Gendarmenmarkt.
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As far as transit goes - if you live and work in Tel Aviv, you can pretty much walk wherever you need. True, Berlin is cheaper than Tel Aviv, but it's also cheaper than most other German cities. Wages are also lower in Berlin. Drink an
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by dkopi 10y ago
I love Saigon. Nomadlist has a nice guide too: https://nomadlist.com/digital-nomad-guide-to-ho-chi-minh-cit...
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It's just that. a perception. Everyone's a bit self aware, but the truth is that people around us are also very self aware. People will look at you every once in a while, but they're looking at everyone else as well. People w
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Tel Aviv's weather is very comfortable. Hasn't snowed in tel aviv since 1951. Summers can get hot and humid, but air conditioners are the norm, and dress code is shorts and flip flops. And Tel Aviv has an awesome beach you can act
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by dkopi 10y ago
My father used to blast me for years for being on my laptop all the time. Today he actually spends more time with his laptop at coffee shops than I do.
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Commenting on this post while I'm at a coffee shop myself. If I had to pick one city for having the best coffee shops, it would probably be Tel Aviv. The coffee is great, all coffee shops are laptop friendly (and gladly provide you wit
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by dkopi 11y ago
Great write up. I wonder how developers can actually profit from developing apps for echo
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Ad blocking is just part of the game we have to play. If users are willing to go out of their way just to avoid seeing your ads, they aren't going to be clicking on them even if you find a way to show them ads no matter what. One thing

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