hobarrera

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by hobarrera 9y ago
Why not the Irony Sign? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation
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by hobarrera 9y ago
Huh, that's interesting. I guess this also varies tremendously by region. WhatsApp completely dominates non-work communication in Argentina; we don't use SMS, nor phone calls, and FB is pretty much is second place. AFAIK, in the U
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by hobarrera 9y ago
Yeah, Netflix is a monopoly, or almost a monopoly. Amazon Prime is basically US-only. HBO gets hired during GoT season and then dumped. Meanwhile, the majority of the people out there have Netflix. We even see ads on the streets and all ove
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by hobarrera 9y ago
Actually, you can even have the Messenger app with no Facebook account. Just sign in with your phone number, and it'll pick up acquaintances from your contact book (much like WhatsApp). You can still search for other people, but don&#x
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by hobarrera 9y ago
> The voters elected a Republican government Not the majority though, as far as I understand, they won even though they don't have a majority of the voters, just a majority of the districts. Or something along those lines which simp
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by hobarrera 9y ago
If I want to donate $1 per month to somebody, cashing out $20 in advance is quite a bit -- it'd probably discourage a lot of people, since the initial investment is too much.
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by hobarrera 9y ago
Authentication in Skype is awful. At one point, for reasons beyond me, I ended up having two accounts: * One account required me to log in with a username, and was associated with my main email address. * The other account required me to lo
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by hobarrera 9y ago
Wow, this is amazing. I've seen kids being told off for NOT having a mobile phone on them at school so they could reach their parents in case of urgency. It's amazing how mindsets can be so different in different places (and I&#x2
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by hobarrera 9y ago
Yet, do many people use the standalone Shazam app, rather than the Siri integration?
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by hobarrera 9y ago
On iOS, Shazam is usually used through Siri (it's beyond me why anyone would download the standalone app). I wonder if the connection is made straight from the iPhone to shazam, or Apple actually proxies this.
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by hobarrera 9y ago
My uncapped 100Mbps link costs me 0.7% of my monthly salary. The plan you mention, is about 11% of the average salary in India. Even though it's cheaper in absolute terms, it's still more expensive in relative terms. I actually sa
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by hobarrera 9y ago
They also consulted with original authors about their intentions, rather than pain over what they'd done blindly.
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by hobarrera 9y ago
It's never sent to the server; the key is derived from your passphrase, so it's never sent anywhere. It's still possible for a sophisticated MITM to replace the JS code so that is DOES send the key somewhere.
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by hobarrera 9y ago
That argument is really sound. In India. It doesn't really apply in developed countries where internet access is already present (or accessible to the majority).
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by hobarrera 9y ago
Actually, Pipfiles are more akin to the two supported mechanisms, requirements.txt is not always used with version pinning
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by hobarrera 9y ago
The lack of backup/export is the killer for me. When resetting the phone, or moving to a new iPhone, there's no way to carry over settings. The same applies if you have more than one device. If you ever have any issues, you'l
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by hobarrera 9y ago
There's also _totp-cli_, which also uses _pass_ as a backend. The big difference is mostly that _totp-cli_ uses a more human-friendly interface, rather than requiring machine-friendly input. It also predates pass's support for plu
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by hobarrera 9y ago
It targets Linux users, but is Chrome-only (and not Firefox support?). That's a really really odd, step to take, especially considering both browsers use pretty much the same extensions API.
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by hobarrera 9y ago
> you're asked only after installation. You have to pro-actively disable it. Of course it's done after installation -- how would an app allow you to configure something BEFORE it's installed?
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by hobarrera 9y ago
This doesn't really affect the scenario you mentioned. Previously users entered their email just once, and had to confirm newsletter subscription via email. They didn't need to fill in a second form or anything, just confirm they
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by hobarrera 9y ago
So, MailChimp will make more money, as users get more unwanted emails, and clients have to pay for it. Wow.
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by hobarrera 9y ago
Historically, w3schools had a lot of outdated (or outright wrong content): http://www.w3fools.com/
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by hobarrera 9y ago
What do you mean? The same button is there in the Control Center.
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by hobarrera 9y ago
Whoops, typo, I meant to say I've had it disabled all that time.
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by hobarrera 9y ago
There's still money being lost; when you buy coins, and when the developer sells them. Unless they can pay their usual expenses using cryptocurrencies, they'll need to sell, at a loss (even if possible less than CC).
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by hobarrera 9y ago
Have had SELinux for almost 10 consecutive years. $HOME has never been exposed. I've no idea what you're going on about.
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by hobarrera 9y ago
> There's literally no reason to turn it off nowadays, other than laziness/unwillingness to learn. Sometimes is as simple as not having time for that. If I've urgent work to do, I can't stop my work and well my boss&#
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by hobarrera 9y ago
But does it run Linux? Jokes aside; what's the bootloader like on these things? Can you install anything you like, or are they kinda locked down to ChromeOS? The specs look nice, and are good competition to anyone in the market for a p
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by hobarrera 9y ago
Fastmail is stupendous. The UI is great, and real humans reply pretty fast when you need support (and this hasn't been often, fortunately). Plus, they work with SMTP/IMAP/CalDav/CardDav, so if you like the tools you&#x27
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by hobarrera 9y ago
The problem is when a company which has such huge monopolies decides they won't do business with you. This guy has a for-life veto on a lot of the leading technologies, and cannot use a lot of product (in an every increasing list).

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