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by egwynn 11y ago
I’m using an RSS reader that doesn’t show the URL. And there are many more urgent things in the world besides bitcoin. So I’m going to go with “kinda” and “no” respectively.
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by egwynn 11y ago
I agree. But he does recommend tails in the TL;DR at the top.
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by egwynn 11y ago
Third parties are happy to extract value from data you share. Even if you’re not doing anything wrong , controlling that information has an impact. The way I see it, saying “I have something to hide” is, WLOG, the same as saying “I want to
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by egwynn 11y ago
A lot of sites have moved to non-binary gender representations. Some do it because they see heteronormativity as a close-but-not-quite-close-enough false dichotomy that leaves too many people out in the cold. I’m not sure if that’s why Amaz
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by egwynn 11y ago
I think the story is that they were, and then they weren’t, and now they will again.
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by egwynn 12y ago
I wish I knew what Brad Johnston’s idea for correct English pluperfect construction was. The article doesn’t explain it, and reading his comments on other websites doesn’t give me a good “ground-up” explanation, it only points out where oth
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by egwynn 12y ago
Not really that relevant, but it always sort of bugs me when people use the `kill` command with numbers instead of symbol names. I think it’s the programmer in me getting scared of “magic numbers”, but I find it much nicer to be able to wri
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by egwynn 12y ago
The page you have tried to view (Python without an operating system) is currently available to LWN subscribers only.
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by egwynn 12y ago
One really nice aspect of keybase is that it can be used at a number of different levels that suit one's own flavor of paranoia. You can use it as a key repository, just grabbing people’s keys and using your own PGP/GnuPG apparatu
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by egwynn 12y ago
I noticed that too, and I hoped the author was going to give more info. I’m pretty sure you won’t be able to see inside an HTTPS request. That would defeat the whole point of HTTPS.
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by egwynn 12y ago
s/dcma/dmca/
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by egwynn 12y ago
Coinbase is behind Cloudflare. It’s probably Cloudflare’s fault.
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by egwynn 13y ago
The `Date` section says Fri Apr, 18 2014 2:45 PM EDT — Fri Apr, 18 2014 4:00 PM EDT But the `About` section says ... targeted to launch on April 14 at 4:58 pm EDT ... Looks like they copied and pasted the `About` info from the
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by egwynn 13y ago
This is unsettling, to be sure. If there's anything to this, I'd really love to hear a response from the actual FreeBSD folks. But it should be noted that this guy has a relatively rocky history with *BSD, and his nearly context-f
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by egwynn 13y ago
Matt Gemmell described it pretty well: https://twitter.com/mattgemmell/status/301735038733676546
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by egwynn 13y ago
I'm sure all of the people reading Hacker News on their phones are enjoying this post...
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by egwynn 13y ago
Looks great! I'll give this a try. I've been using LaunchControl for this job so far. http://www.soma-zone.com/LaunchControl/
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by egwynn 13y ago
That's part of the idea, yes. But I think the big reason they need money is to source the old computers, probably do a bunch of testing to make sure they work well enough, and distribute them to their audience. EDIT: I'm not sayin
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by egwynn 13y ago
There was news yesterday about Apple talking about a fix in the works: http://mashable.com/2014/01/22/iphone-screen-of-death/
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by egwynn 13y ago
Was this ever a secret? I thought this was a relatively prominently advertised feature in iOS 7.
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by egwynn 13y ago
Never mind that the function casts (coerces? constructs?) ints to bread and ints to bacon. Let alone how it's got a special "plus" operator that can work on bread/bacon and return a sandwich...
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by egwynn 13y ago
I'm sure bullying is still a relevant and worthwhile topic to discuss, but this article is from May 29, 2012. I can't help but think it'd be better to post more recent material on the matter.
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by egwynn 13y ago
It's so sad/frustrating when you need to look up a restaurant's page on-the-go and then you find out it's flash-only.
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by egwynn 13y ago
I think a lot of us already saw the various other sources debunking the fridge-as-faraday-cage theory. That said, low temperatures do increase the internal resistance of batteries. If you put your phone in the freezer for a while (probably
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by egwynn 13y ago
Also, I'd like to offer some words of caution to those who want lots of "external" (i.e. not bash-native) data in their PS1 string. Running outside programs can be expensive. For personal workstation use, things like the abov
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by egwynn 13y ago
It should probably emit the example PS1 with single quotes instead of double quotes. This: export PS1="\h:\W\$(parse_git_branch) \u$ " will execute parse_git_branch only once (at the time PS1 is set) but this: export PS
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by egwynn 13y ago
It wouldn't work to make the user perform the HMAC, since it requires having the secret, and then the user could share the secret. You need the server to calculate magic = HMAC(secret, username) and then give 'magic' back to
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by egwynn 13y ago
If you make the magic string an HMAC of the user's name and some secret, then they should be non-transferrable.
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by egwynn 14y ago
This is the least useful web page I've read in weeks/months.
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by egwynn 14y ago
See also: http://www.lookshelves.com

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