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by j_s 9y ago
Does anyone have anything automated to alert when a bundle is about to expire? I usually buy all currently available (at the $1 tier) whenever something interesting is about to dissappear. Hopefully someday they will allow paying for multip
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by j_s 9y ago
http://www.triplefault.io/2017/08/detecting-debuggers-by-abu... > Since Windows will incorrectly assume that our int 3 exception was generated from the single-byte variant, it is possible to confuse the debugge
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Detecting debuggers by abusing a bad assumption within Windows(triplefault.io)
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Thanks much for taking the time to share your expertise in answering my question!
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What is the minimum horsepower to build a WiFi KVM? The monitor part seems toughest; if it's possible to do so cheaply I don't care how fast it updates. I plan on trying out this $12 ESP8266-based device which ships configured as
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by j_s 9y ago
I agree - even mobile.
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by j_s 9y ago
This actually makes a great search tag: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=B00C5R7F8G&type=comment
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>jw1224: This seems like a good time to mention Captain Disillusion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15423432 (2017Oct)
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by j_s 9y ago
Going to have to claim one of those available rather quickly...
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by j_s 9y ago
Just spamming here a bit later to mention the ideal configuration may be Trezor/similar for a root CA cert, and using it to generate certs for an HSM providing production performance.
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> _It_ makes apps expensive and slower to develop across platforms Can you clarify specifically what you mean by _It_ there? Maybe (working backwards up the comment chain...) C++, Qt, MVC, "writing apps without spending any real eff
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I shared it primarily because it is an open-source UI project managed by Microsoft that has to support an "API" that is cross-platform, but it also meets this portion of your original criteria: > as long as you can host the la
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by j_s 9y ago
This is the blessed post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15619533
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by j_s 9y ago
_The Hidden Persuaders_ (Vance Packard, 1959) https://amzn.com/dp/B006NV977W was recommended elsewhere today. This nearly-as-ancient classic is at least an order of magnitude less mentioned but provides more depth appl
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Any mention of alternatives is anathema to open source READMEs. This is why the "awesome list of " directories wind up being so useful. Edit: Useful as in "knowing is half the battle". Being able to make an informed choi
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There is a Posit BoF at SC17 (supercomputing) Nov 14 DEN: http://sc17.supercomputing.org/presentation/?id=bof135&sess=... Posit Paper: http://johngustafson.net/pdfs/BeatingFloatingPoint.pdf A
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Beating Floating Point at Its Own Game: Posit Arithmetic [pdf](johngustafson.net)
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Detect and Track Twitter Propaganda(botcheck.me)
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Flagging feels harsh, hopefully that can be un-done. This was the original post, but a larger conversation after one hour is on this dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15619533 TL;DR: publicly classifying Twitter ac
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by j_s 9y ago
From the roadmap linked in that blog post: Xamarin Forms Gtk# Backend - https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms/pull/1174 It's all floating out there right now but maybe by end-of-year ("Q4 2017&qu
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Why isn’t someone using my software product or open source tool? A checklist(twitter.com)
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A discussion on "how a contributor can get the attention of a maintainer" touched on this briefly two weeks ago: · How to get an open source community to be interested in helping you | https://news.ycombinator.com/
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by j_s 9y ago
My favorites as an outsider: · Vagrant for WordPress dev | https://github.com/Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV · https://versionpress.net version control plugin beta | https://news.ycombinator.com&#x
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An open source Vagrant configuration for developing with WordPress(github.com)
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This sounds great but they lost me immediately as a near-complete rookie with no list of supported devices. Maybe someone else will will find this useful: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/ Can this properly support G
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Yes, and account for Microsoft giving serious usage giant credits too.
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https://hn.0x2237.club/post/15618149 Title changes 11-3-17 12:10:09 UTC EFF destroys the podcasting patent, one last time
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Recent example 2 days ago: I'm Joining Report URI | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15599906 (2017Nov:160points,64comments) >skrebbel: I don't get it. What does Report URI do? (top comment)
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by j_s 9y ago
Some (especially those responsible for [young] children) semi-jokingly refer to returning to the office as their vacation from home life.
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by j_s 9y ago
Discord has a bunch of extra filtering built-in for their equivalent.

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