eksith

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by eksith 13y ago
I think in some way, Google bot behaves as a headless browser (a la PhantomJS albeit their own special sauce). Their goal is to mimic an actual human user visiting a web page so even JavaScript may be getting parsed/evaluated so dynami
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A QR code that means...(duckduckgo.com)
1 points by eksith 13y ago|0 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
It's called a "Viola Organista" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_organista Precious little detail on the construction and the only website of a builder seems to be down intermittently. https:/&
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by eksith 13y ago
It's the serifs. Kerning you can get away with if the letter spacing isn't egregiously small, but in this case the letters are practically touching. Some people find it easier to process, but I never found out why.
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by eksith 13y ago
If money was no object, I'll use said money to buy more time. With that time, I'll create an opening on my website/Twitter account or what-have-you and maybe post a video saying "I'm willing to hire a freelancer&quo
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LogoThief(logothief.com)
58 points by eksith 13y ago|35 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
I feel bad your startup failed, but I'm grateful you decided to open source the project. I wish more people did the same since there are plenty of lessons to be learned. Plenty of public bulletins and blog posts discuss -- sometimes at
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by eksith 13y ago
That's all well and good, but let's take a look at what the trigger was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5615120 . If you ran a community -- and realistically there's nothing stopping you from doing so --
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by eksith 13y ago
I was thinking the same thing. Kinda shocked this isn't standard practice since GPS came to public use in the first place. Now, of course, we'll have to wait and see whether GPS data would also develop a habit of disappearing alon
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by eksith 13y ago
I like this! I'm right now reading Ars on it and it works pretty well. A tiny request: Would it be possible to allow changing the background graphic? Maybe a wallpaper of my choosing? Also, a method to "archive" in addition t
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Password hack of vBulletin.com(arstechnica.com)
45 points by eksith 13y ago|45 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
Thank you for this. I really like that it's a totally self-contained (not even dependent on system fonts) and has nifty tricks for efficiency.
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by eksith 13y ago
> What is this? > Is that how kids use it? Me and my friends are a lot older but we also use it as a photo sharing service - for sharing random stuff from your day, not on yourself. > Completely OT but what&#
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by eksith 13y ago
I think how it works is that the charge initially goes to Wallaby so the merchant is paid. They then charge the amount taken from Wallaby from one of the listed cards according to where the charge originated from and which deals your listed
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by eksith 13y ago
Now there's a good use for "Big Data" ;) I'd love to see a comprehensive database of donor-politician relationships along with causes they've championed and bills introduced/voted on. In lieu of the "appro
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DIY home theater chairs(avsforum.com)
5 points by eksith 13y ago|0 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
The mall is more "consumer friendly" ;) The video is from someone who lives RC. I've only seen one live demo of a "pro" RC pilot doing his thing and saying it was awe-inspiring is a massive understatement. These are
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by eksith 13y ago
Likely risk management. He was working with two other people, but the sudden change in that dynamic obviously didn't sit well with them. It's hard to realize it sometimes, but doing something on your own even if you do have custom
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by eksith 13y ago
Link to actual project site : http://www.osvehicle.com
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by eksith 13y ago
Ah, yes, well that too ;)
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by eksith 13y ago
The more I see stories like this, the more I'm convinced, truly security conscious people should be browsing the web in Lynx.
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by eksith 13y ago
I'd love to know how you've set things up [ if you don't mind me prying ;) ]. It would be interesting to see someone else's approach.
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by eksith 13y ago
Implementing our doc store on Postgres a while ago in lieu of switching to MongoDB suddenly seems like a very good call. We had nothing against Mongo (frankly haven't gone into deep analysis of how it would turn out). It was simply the
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by eksith 13y ago
I was wearing headphones (just finished listening to a song) and the "Yeehaw!" made me jump out of my seat.
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by eksith 13y ago
Nope, I thought the same! Spoiler Good thing we weren't around to poison the Earth back then or these would be sprouting toxins like no one's business.
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by eksith 13y ago
Same reason the US flag was 'flapping' in the 'wind' on the Moon. ;) Without any air, there's nothing to stop the head from travelling without running into control issues. The gas molecules actually act as a buffer
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Your user agent(duckduckgo.com)
107 points by eksith 13y ago|71 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
Indeed, you do remember correctly. This was especially fun on dialup. But it was OK because the forum was running phpBB, which would invariably be hacked/spammed, so you'd be getting a free dialer which was guaranteed increase d
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by eksith 13y ago
Table based layouts (still being used on practically every forum I frequent) weren't so bad until mobile came into the picture. With fixed sizes, they just weren't flexible. Plus the added bandwidth of sending hundreds of <td&g
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by eksith 13y ago
Is it just me or does "clearly, not cleverly" essentially go out the window when the pro programmers get their hands on things? Agreed that hugs always win. Programmers especially need to give (and hopefully receive) more.

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