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by eksith 13y ago
The ease of use has to approach at least Skype level (and even then you'll exclude a wide swath of users who don't know how Skype works). There's an old joke about Unix to the effect of "it's not user unfriendly; it
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by eksith 13y ago
I don't use the same password on other sites, but do use the same email (not the one on my HN profile) in a lot of other places. I'm still not "less angry" at Adobe. Probably irrationally so, since data leaks can happen
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by eksith 13y ago
No argument here. It's really a shame and, if you think about it, email is the least evolved method of electronic communication for the masses in every day use (with the exception of possibly IRC). BBM would have been the ideal email r
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by eksith 13y ago
>If someone can't be bothered to send you an e-mail or call, you might want to reconsider how close those people are to you. My relationship with my family is completely orthogonal to their choice of platform.
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by eksith 13y ago
I'll make a slight addendum: Most people have an email address if they frolic online, however I rarely meet people who prefer to conduct communications over it. Of course, they need one for FB or Twitter either way, but... Either the
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by eksith 13y ago
"usually" Is a bit harsh IMO. It can be a lot of times, but then that's a symptom of a much bigger problem. It's hint, more often than not, that the environment is toxic and it may be time to dust off your CV.
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by eksith 13y ago
I'm early 80's, while I get the cheek ;) I can't see that working on a serious level. Neil de Grasse Tyson has a great view on this problem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaW4Ol3_M1o Edit: And more detail on
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by eksith 13y ago
Well, I don't do much of #3 & #4, but do plenty of #1 & #2. I count on the community to vet the loudness of private time-wasters. And so public watering holes become more palatable.
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by eksith 13y ago
That's speculation. I've seen servers get compromised due to FTP problems, SSH misconfiguration, unpatched Apache vulnerabilities, third-party stats monitoring software with 0-days and even SQL injection. Defacement (I consider ma
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by eksith 13y ago
I was formerly on solar before moving to an apartment. Hence the "I've used an old eMachines PC... in the past ." Besides that, the power supply barely made past 200W, which is basically 2 incandescent bulbs.
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by eksith 13y ago
Anyway, do you know what I do when there are discussions online about my employer? I stay the fuck out of it. This is an excellent policy. Employee participation (unless they're CEO/Founder, CTO or some combination ther
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by eksith 13y ago
That's indeed overkill ;) I've used an old eMachines PC with a couple of network cards and a switch in the past. An order of magnitude better than the Linksys router from my ISP it replaced. Also never had to reboot until I moved.
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by eksith 13y ago
I've found pfSense really shines on old PC hardware since the embedded boxes I've tried it on tend to slow a bit. Something with a still functioning HD and at least 256Mb memory does pretty well with it.
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by eksith 13y ago
That's terrible. What will this to morale of people already working there? I know most folks are infatuated with appearances, but surely actual productivity and output should trump employees who "look good".
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by eksith 13y ago
This idea did not sit well with VTM Group, the people serving as the management, PR, legal, and membership and licensing department of the USB Implementers Forum The hands, the mouth and collector of thoughts cannot be separat
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by eksith 13y ago
I like this idea. If there's some benefactor to the Open Source community (or even if they pass along a collection) for the VID, that could even work. They just need to properly implement the standard and the VID can effectively be the
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by eksith 13y ago
Your definition of "clone" needs a bit of adjusting, methinks. Also, your history of posting one-sentence replies and dismissals isn't terribly productive.
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by eksith 13y ago
Which cannot be opened in SumatraPDF (the only reader I'll install since it's open source) for some reason. Besides, an image is a lot easier to share, plus I don't need a reader.
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by eksith 13y ago
There are a few plugins for FF available that capture the whole screen. Not sure of any quirks though.
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by eksith 13y ago
Is most of this even necessary? Couldn't you get away with: function IV( $size, $ssl = false ) { if ( $ssl && function_exists( 'openssl_random_pseudo_bytes' ) ) { return openssl_random_pseudo_bytes( $size,
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by eksith 13y ago
I like it. Nice and clean though, I'm not too big a fan of "flat", it gets the job done without too much fluff. For a developer strapped for time, something simple to slap on the back (no pun intended) definitely works. Tinse
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by eksith 13y ago
Maybe they're using another form of pattern recognition. Time of day for the originating traffic vs. area of site being visited or particular type of stock etc...
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by eksith 13y ago
What a wonderful and innocent time in the computer world it was back then. Thanks for sharing this. It seems they all treated mail as a message board; just a means to share ideas publicly. And if you weren't going to put it on those li
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by eksith 13y ago
This is sarcasm, I'm guessing. The suggestion being RMS wasn't a crackpot at all. We were (well, most of us were) just naïve and didn't think much of his advice back then.
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One could argue he hasn't changed at all. On the contrary, it's the obligation of the actor to act transparently toward those acted upon. In your case, you were the actor dropping in on RMS so the obligation was on you to be trans
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by eksith 13y ago
Well, if they really enjoy the challenge (and it is challenging), then yes. But I think there's something sad about being forced into it because hiring practices are archaic elsewhere. It doesn't have to be this way. I don'
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by eksith 13y ago
This may be another reason people are eager to start their own company in lieu of working for someone else. If the questions are rubbish and completely unrelated to the actual job, then there's a huge disconnect between the interviewer
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by eksith 13y ago
I can't be the only one who thought of Ghost in The Shell while reading this. If anything, this is a way to explain away the presence of white 'blood' in the cyborgs of the series. I can understand the power issue, but I wond
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by eksith 13y ago
It's no different than the innumerable YouTube videos showing how to lock pick. They're not picking the locks of any specific location, just showing the methodology. But high-powered lawyers can be persuasive to your detriment if
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by eksith 13y ago
Ha! It was pretty funny to see practically the entire front page full of nothing but the key. I had friends who had their accounts banned by Digg at the time (I don't think they were ever reinstated), but soon afterwards, they threw

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