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by gnosis 13y ago
Corporate executives often enter politics, write laws affecting their former (and/or future) employers (or hand them contracts), then retire from politics to take very well-paid jobs in the very industries they were regulating -- often
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by gnosis 13y ago
One thing I would recommend is searching for deals on LowEndBox[1] blog. Most of the popular VPS's are ridiculously overpriced compared to what you can find on LowEndBox. It's a good site to get advice and reviews of various VPS
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by gnosis 13y ago
I do use RSS clients, however. Serverless RSS clients, even. I think it's perfectly legitimate to for me to comment on why this particular serverless RSS client does not fit my needs and what I believe better alternatives are and why.
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by gnosis 13y ago
My comments here are 100% from my own perspective. I don't pretend to speak for anyone else. I hope that is ok with you.
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by gnosis 13y ago
An experimental Javascript extention to w3m, called w3m-js, used to exist.. 10 years ago.[1][2] But unfortunately the project looks pretty dead now. [1] - http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~hsaka/w3m/ [2] - http:/
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by gnosis 13y ago
I am also in favor of having applications closely integrated, but just not inside the browser (which is a completely awful, broken, weak, and insecure evironment) but inside emacs. I'm still using Newsbeuter right now, which is a separ
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by gnosis 13y ago
I've been a long-time user of Opera, who switched back to Firefox and then back to Opera a couple of times. Opera has been consistently much faster and better designed than Firefox. But it has one major, glaring fault: it's clo
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by gnosis 13y ago
I just found an article[1], which advises that, "SD Cards, while they have a write-protect switch, are actually no good for this purpose because it’s not actually hardware write protection – at best the card reader sends a signal to t
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Ask HN: Write-protected USB drives?
3 points by gnosis 13y ago|4 comments
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by gnosis 13y ago
w3m in emacs, mostly -- except for a few sites I care about (like HN) that absolutely insist on using Javascript. It might be a bit extreme for most people, but browsing the web in text-only mode (w3m is capable of displaying images, but I
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by gnosis 13y ago
Though certainly a step up from server-based spyware, this app is still browser-based, which is incredibly annoying. I'm trying to avoid using browser-based apps, especially ones that require bloated browsers such as Firefox, Opera, or
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Merits of Lisp vs Python (2006)(opensubscriber.com)
2 points by gnosis 13y ago|1 comments
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Fixme Comment(c2.com)
1 points by gnosis 13y ago|0 comments
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Great Emacs Features(c2.com)
2 points by gnosis 13y ago|1 comments
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Conventional encryption (strong or otherwise) does absolutely nothing to prevent wiretaps. If the encryption algorithm that's used is well respected among cryptographers and has no known, practically exploitable weaknesses; if this alg
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by gnosis 13y ago
"Slow down"? Please try to convince the typical manager, executive, or VC that calls the shots to slow down. Death marches by overworked, sleep deprived, and understaffed development teams are the norm in the industry. It's
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by gnosis 13y ago
I'll tell you exactly how it got left off. I've just never heard of it. Do most HN readers have the impression that polls like this are made by some some all-knowing, perfectly fair, professional editor who only puts up well resea
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by gnosis 13y ago
Skype was "secure", for some limited definition of the term. It was secure if you trust a closed-source program made by a company that could be decrypting your communication because they've got your keys, or that could have p
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by gnosis 13y ago
Even as far back as WW2 (and probably earlier), mail was being routinely opened, inspected, resealed, and passed on its way. The technology for doing this in a virtually undetectable fashion has been around for a long time, and I'm sur
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by gnosis 13y ago
"they can only get massive pipes of data via legally compelling a company" No. They could simply ask for the data, without any compulsion. Most companies are only too happy to help, and will bend right over -- especially after
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by gnosis 13y ago
I don't know what gave you this impression. The NSA are interested in any and all sources of information, and probably collect just as much or more of it from foreign sources than domestic ones. Yes, the recent media hoopla has been ov
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by gnosis 13y ago
This is a great question, but you should bear in mind that there's almost always going to be a tradeoff between security/privacy/anonymity and convenience. Encypting your email and having to deal with key managment issues, an
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Poll: What's your favorite bug tracker?
37 points by gnosis 13y ago|67 comments
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bitbucket
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bugzilla
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debbugs
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fogbugz
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github
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google code
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launchpad

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