errantmind

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by errantmind 9y ago
You do give up privacy just by having a profile on facebook. It makes it easy to tie your browsing habits to your account, even if you are logged out. See previous discussion : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14694451
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by errantmind 9y ago
One of the reasons it is hard to make friends as an adult is because the associate between sincerity and naivety grows stronger over time. The more you get burned or see people get burned, the more closed off you become to real interperson
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by errantmind 9y ago
These days I work with Cassandra on a daily basis. The company I am contracting with switched to Cassandra a while back for their primary data store. A few poor decisions later and they were spending tens of thousands of dollars a month ru
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by errantmind 9y ago
I also ran FreeBSD for ZFS for a while. I ended switching and using ZFS on Linux and haven't had any issues, aside from a pool migration bug which the maintainers fixed very quickly: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/
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by errantmind 11y ago
I really enjoy Bret Victor's talks. Here is one where he discusses his driving principle: Creators need an immediate connection to what they create (e.g. immediate feedback) http://worrydream.com/#!/InventingOnPri
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by errantmind 11y ago
Can't you preload fonts by base64 encoding them and embedding them in CSS? Ref: http://sosweetcreative.com/2613/font-face-and-base64-data-ur...
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by errantmind 12y ago
I'm not sure where this is coming from as I can mark messages as spam without opening them using both the android app and browser. Also, in the settings you can set it to ask before displaying images.
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by errantmind 12y ago
CyanogenMod's Privacy Guard is useful for dealing with this situation. There is a setting to enable it by default on newly installed apps. No matter what permissions the app says it requires, you are prompted when it actually request
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by errantmind 12y ago
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