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by eksith 13y ago
This is Google Reader, no? ;) I like the idea and it seems to be a public, vetted (courtesy of votes/comments), version of a feed reader. The only problem I see is if the content creators object if anything more than the title itself,
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by eksith 13y ago
Yahoo Blog on users with JS disabled (stats as of 2010): http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/many-users-javascript-d... For clients in the UK, it's a legal thing: https://www.gov.uk/definitio
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by eksith 13y ago
Without revealing too much detail... one of our clients happens to be a purveyor of online temptation and, although prostitution per-se may not be paying, the "companionship" model apparently still does sell (if the traffic is any
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by eksith 13y ago
This is what we did on a recent project. The times were left at UTC with a hover tooltip (JS with a fallback to title="Coordinated Universal Time") and we used the "timeago" plugin for jQuery http://timeago.ya
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by eksith 13y ago
People who need to disable Javascript are a vanishingly small portion of any potential market. Depends on who your target demographic is. I'm a "no-javascript guy" and my cousin is as too (well, "gal") for c
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by eksith 13y ago
This would depend which weather data provider is being used. On my AccuWeather app, there's a graph showing the temps and whether it will rain etc... by the hour, but I'm not sure how accurate it is.
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Moore’s Law could stay on track with extreme UV progress(arstechnica.com)
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by eksith 13y ago
Those MTA machines usually have security cameras pointed at them and (at least at the stations I frequent) cops are abound. Of course, I don't know exactly to what degree the readers are tamper-resistant. This is another reason I try n
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by eksith 13y ago
That's an interesting point. We take credit card/bank card forms for granted in that nothing is returned to you except another copy of the same (hopefully) agreement, the card and monthly statement. Not the copy of the document yo
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by eksith 13y ago
Ah, touché! I left out that part. I guess then it really only matters that the bank accepted the altered terms.
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by eksith 13y ago
I doubt that would work. Besides, the ones I've seen include a link to the original text on their website as well. Now if I take a screenshot of that (or maybe hit Archive.org for it) at the time of signing and if the text is different
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by eksith 13y ago
Yeah, thrown out or severely reduced probably. It's pretty obvious he was very confident (and maybe a bit foolhardy) doing this or he wouldn't have put such a large number. I'm curious as to whether he's done something s
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by eksith 13y ago
Technically, the man did nothing wrong. His bank agreed to the altered terms. I've seen some credit card and bank card forms that include language which make the agreement void if its terms are altered in any way, but if it doesn'
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by eksith 13y ago
Once upon a time, I've stood in both a factory floor and in the unemployment line. At one of them, I still felt like a human being. Guess which.
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by eksith 13y ago
Amazon: Building better robots with human flesh. I wouldn't be surprised at all if Amazon suddenly announces a secret R&D project involving a floor of robots pretty soon. In fact, the type of monotonous line-following, retrieval an
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Raspberry Pi Spies(forbes.com)
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by eksith 13y ago
It would be appropriate if 0.org went to http://www.zeroproject.org
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by eksith 13y ago
Let's take that premise to OCR then. This whole debacle started with JBIG2 settings that I guess duplicated(?) one section and inserted it where similar text exists. Only it was marginally similar. According to Adam ( https:/&#x2F
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by eksith 13y ago
By "lossy" you mean "17" may look like a crappier "17" with reasonable confidence, but will never, ever , become "21" at any compression setting, then I don't mind lossy. That's not asking
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by eksith 13y ago
Accepted :) And I apologize as well. My posts were venturing over to the pushy/rude side and I don't want that to be the case. Truth is that I do enjoy seeing new projects like this because it forces me to look at things with a fr
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by eksith 13y ago
"We do not normally see a character substitution issue with the factory default settings..." It shouldn't be seen with any setting. Nothing you can do to the device (short of involving a hammer) should change the content
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by eksith 13y ago
because you wouldn't use anything from him because he isn't OpenBSD My sarcasm detector must be malfunctioning. Who said I don't want to use his software or install anything linked on HN because they're new? I&#x
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by eksith 13y ago
This conversation started when you said you don't see any rational basis for the criticism of running wget/install as root when no vetting takes place on conventional installations. My post wasn't a plug for Nginx, but an imp
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by eksith 13y ago
Your assertion is that if we want to vet the code, there are steps to do that and no conventional installation includes these steps, correct? Well, getting the "trust us, this is easy" type installation instructions here isn'
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by eksith 13y ago
I had an idea like this when I thought about creating a small server on an Arduino that I can use to control/get status updates for a pellet stove for my cabin (TBA). Luckily, there's already code for that, in case you're int
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by eksith 13y ago
>"If you weren't vetting the code you downloaded before, you don't lose anything by blindly running the commands on one line instead of three." Nginx is included in the OpenBSD base system (as of 5.2) and it does get
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by eksith 13y ago
While I appreciate the time and effort that went into this, I'm more concerned with security than just speed alone. It's still relatively easy to throw hardware at the load problem (up to a point, naturally), but safety shouldn&#x
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by eksith 13y ago
Fair point. Well put. I suppose it's easy to widen the scope of what "Open Source" actually entails and have it fall outside the realm of Free Software.
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by eksith 13y ago
No good. You need to line your walls with at least 2mm thick aluminum sheets with welded seams and 5cm overlap at the doors. Edit: I guess it's true, HN is forever meant to be devoid of humor.
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by eksith 13y ago
'e.g., when a guy asked how to make money by building Open Source software he replied something like "get another job"' He's right in a way, don't you think? Let's look at it in another way: Open source i

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