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by eksith 13y ago
A "tool" in this context is something to be avoided : http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tool
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by eksith 13y ago
I thank your bad mood for brightening up mine! That was spectacular and joyful to read and I agree wholeheartedly. The sad thing is that when I was "designing for IE" as a young lad, I had no idea that's what I was doing. &qu
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by eksith 13y ago
That map is alarmingly accurate. And people say meta-data is no big deal.
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by eksith 13y ago
It's Fox news. "News" is quite often optional. I will concede that Google being an advertising company, first, played a large part in regulation getting in the way of Reader. Requiring limits on how much and which data is col
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by eksith 13y ago
Those are three related posts in a blog with many, many, many more posts. It's chief focus is privacy and your online rights, which extends well into this topic. Look more before making sweeping generalizations like that, please.
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35 Startup Buzzwords Every Entrepreneur Should Know (forbes.com)
2 points by eksith 13y ago|1 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
That's very true. To be fair, this is highly, highly experimental so first iteration will be the proverbial ducktape and cardboard solution. I think future versions will have the device embedded directly into the dash and fastened some
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by eksith 13y ago
I see. That's... quite clever and dastardly. Maybe I wasn't affected because I use a modified hosts file : http://www.winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm Although, I changed 127.0.0.1 to 0.0.0.0 for a marginal gain in
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by eksith 13y ago
It does? I tried copying text on the page as well as the URL and didn't notice anything. As far as I know, this isn't possible in pure JS; you need Flash. It's a security issue. http://stackoverflow.com/questi
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by eksith 13y ago
As long as analog sources exist, there will be analog EE ;)
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by eksith 13y ago
I'm sure there are some jurisdictions in which this would be illegal. In some places, certain "traffic aides" are outlawed E.G. Radar detectors. While it could be argued that this doesn't help you evade police, the fact
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How to Build a HUD for your Car(bwongtech.blogspot.com)
59 points by eksith 13y ago|21 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
If I may step into their shoes... Simple answer would be, "to pay the bills". I'm sure the vast number of people working for government agencies (engaged in espionage or not) are simply there to stay fed, clothed and sheltere
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PostgreSQL needs a new load balancer(databasesoup.com)
104 points by eksith 13y ago|18 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
If the resources are kept in check and the infrastructure is maintained in a sane manner, there's no reason why the service can't work well on donations alone. It's no Wikipedia after all, and certainly serving static pages w
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by eksith 13y ago
Cluster, I can understand, but why shard? I've run forums even on rickety DIY PHP + Postgres that's held up very nicely to several hundred logins and even more sessions per day on very modest hardware (1.5Ghz Core 2 duo, 2Gb memor
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by eksith 13y ago
I strongly disagree that 000webhost is in any way comparable to NeoCities. Reasons: 000webhost has a complaint list long enough to circle 8 city blocks. NeoCities doesn't randomly delete sites or secretly try to funnel to paid services
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by eksith 13y ago
Multi-file upload will definitely be welcomed. E.G. When I was first setting up my site, I copy > pasted the index.html source to other files and changed the content. But then I realized I made a mistake, so now I had to go back and uplo
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by eksith 13y ago
Authentication is easier. Application access becomes simpler as well, since even a JS tool running on a browser can connect and check your site. That also means not running an additional S/FTP server, which frees up resources to serve
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by eksith 13y ago
That would require more resources than is possible with a limited budget for the number of people the creators intended. And far more than is needed for hosting a site . What you ask for is already possible for a few bucks a month with cou
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by eksith 13y ago
Thank you for writing this and the original manifesto. I'm reminded of my first website project (which called with ambition a "Portal"). It was called Ghostnetworks and, at the time as I was running between the school library
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by eksith 13y ago
Paraffin would be excellent. In fact, wax + copper was such an excellent combination to pull away thermal energy, this was the same mechanism used on the NASA Lunar Rover : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Roving_Vehi
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by eksith 13y ago
This is to be expected. New doesn't cater to what holds the interest of the current user base so you get the things most existing users didn't bother upvoting. Basically New is unfiltered through the status quo of "HN appropr
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by eksith 13y ago
Yes, that's essentially the functionality of the flashlight, which makes it no less remarkable an accomplishment for someone her age. I don't care about the use case or whether it works well. I care that it exists.
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by eksith 13y ago
It's so common! Thanks for writing this up; everything was spot on.
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by eksith 13y ago
One of the first requests for a new UI is usually the Flat design. This is usually followed by "hey, can you add a shadow or border something?" which basically turns it non-flat. The color contrast is another big problem people se
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by eksith 13y ago
Judge Howard H. Shore : http://www.sandiego.courts.ca.gov/portal/about/depts/sd15.ht... http://www.sandiego.edu/law/academics/faculty/bio.php?ID=663 http://www.marti
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by eksith 13y ago
This makes sense. I would imagine, a prism would create a more noticeable loss of signal at the other end too since I'm guessing a splice is involved, whereas a passive leak would be less detectable.
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Students cite EU data protection laws, challenge firms over NSA data transfers(arstechnica.com)
8 points by eksith 13y ago|0 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
The comment is at top because it has constructive criticism, which is quite a bit different than just a "negative" comment. Constructive criticism can just as well be delivered with a positive tone and I've seen those rise to

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