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by gioele 12y ago
In addition, «GPG for data at rest. TLS for data in motion. … If you're typing the letters A-E-S into your code, you're doing it wrong.» — Thomas Ptacek https://web.archive.org/web/20090911032333/http:&#x
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by gioele 12y ago
Meanwhile, in the free software world... https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ySTZaXP5XKFg0OpmHZM0... https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/blob/master/test/shaping/..
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by gioele 12y ago
The problem is that the phrase "This is not crawling, only scraping" is to be taken with a grain of salt. If you find a page with a lot of information and you "just scrape it", you may still be subject to "sui gener
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by gioele 12y ago
> This is not crawling, only scraping from an already rendered page. They really can't complain. You may want to have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sui_generis_database_right
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by gioele 12y ago
Aren't, in this case, the window registry entries involved are more similar to udev rules?
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by gioele 12y ago
Unicode is not about what you would like to use, but about what has been used in the past. New characters are avoid as much as possible and old characters are allocated a codepoint only if you can show that they have been extensively used a
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by gioele 12y ago
There is no single glyph for The Artist Formerly Known As Prince, but you can use combining chars to obtain it. 01AC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T WITH HOOK 030A COMBINING RING ABOVE 0335 COMBINING SHORT STROKE OVERLAY 032C COMBI
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by gioele 12y ago
But it did happen. And it has been used a lot. So, for the sake of interoperability and the ability to read back these documents in a future Unicode-only world, we have to encode them.
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by gioele 12y ago
I am disappointed: I hoped the article was about a kind of glasses that would slowly improve your eyesight by keeping your eyes under constant exercise.
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by gioele 12y ago
Or they can patent it anyway verbatim and say that your previous idea is not prior art. Do you disagree? Let's meet in court.
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by gioele 12y ago
Please note that the "war on cryptography" is not over. There are still export controls in most of the world (including USA and EU). For an up-to-date reference see http://www.cryptolaw.org/cls-sum.htm
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Crypto Law Survey (2013)(cryptolaw.org)
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I naturally tend to use this "railway" approach in my code. But often I stumble upon various problems: 1. The "success, but..." scenario. Sometimes you have different types of failures to handle and this style conflates
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X86 assembler in Bash (2001)(lists.gnu.org)
80 points by gioele 12y ago|16 comments
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by gioele 12y ago
For those like me that do not know the term "tree shaking", it is «a technique to "shake" off unused code» [1]. I suppose it is dead code removal done at link time. But what is "link time" in JavaScript? [1] h
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by gioele 12y ago
Difference from FON? [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FON
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> That's why libchan uses spdy/tls as its main network transport. Just as forecast by many on HN, HTTP is becoming the network layer.
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by gioele 12y ago
> It also defeats caching and any other reasons why you would want to use GET over some other http requests. It does not break caching. Instead of just using the URL as the caching key, use URL+body. Same URL and same body = same respons
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by gioele 12y ago
Please note that there is a wrong suggestion in the site: > Why is favicon.ico not declared in the HTML code? > Looking for some sample favicon code, you've probably encountered: > <link rel="shortcut icon&quot
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by gioele 12y ago
Reminds me of the great prank vaticano.org in 1998: http://0100101110101101.org/vaticano-org/ A real piece of art.
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Summary of international crypto controls (2013)(cryptolaw.org)
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«It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spi
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by gioele 12y ago
Let's contrast with Android's take on a private API: private Content Providers. > The problem is, there are more Content Providers in the system than are documented in that package, and while you can use them, you probably shou
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by gioele 12y ago
Did you enjoy your stay in http://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Банкя ? IRI FTW.
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by gioele 12y ago
To put the comment and its author in context, Poul-Henning Kamp is the main developer of Varnish, a widely used high-performance standard-compliant HTTP cache. PHK has experience of HTTP both from the server point of view (the main job of V
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by gioele 12y ago
> So great, in fact, that we’ll be using it in Firefox’s in-content pages such as Preferences and the Add-ons Manager. I prefer applications to use the default fonts provided by the operating system. Consistency before aesthetics.
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by gioele 12y ago
> There is a typo in the url Argh, that HN parsing bug again. The HN parser has problems with angle brackets: if you write < URL > (without spaces), HN will leave the opening angle bracket untouched (good) and attach the closing an
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by gioele 12y ago
> innovation might require a very large organization, Like, you know, nations?
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by gioele 12y ago
Not related to the article posted here, but yes, move to Gandi. Gandi is expensive but Gandi is the best registrar you will ever find (if you do not have to deal with DNS records every day but only seldomly). Gandi support is great. And the
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by gioele 12y ago
How is that different from OIN [1]? [1] http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/ «The Open Invention Network is a shared defensive patent pool with the mission to protect Linux. Launched in 2005, OIN has strong industry suppor

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