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by jakejake 13y ago
I suggested the same thing in a comment a long while ago and it didn't go over that well! I don't see any technical reason why there couldn't be open, standard DRM. Possibly a reason is the motivations for DRM doesn't r
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by jakejake 13y ago
The term drop-out is what I was searching for, that will work nicely. Thank you!
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by jakejake 13y ago
I remember reading about that trustwave incident, that is definitely messed up! I was just really trying to say that adding a rogue CA to the browser trust list vs installing a plugin both require admin permission and are both "noticea
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Ask HN: Opposite of Conversion?
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by jakejake 13y ago
I think that's a very good point and it seems to me the spirit of that argument is "write code that is so clean that it doesn't need comments." Or the inverse of that could be "if your code needs a lot of comments
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by jakejake 13y ago
I know I've heard about this somewhere before, but it seems to me somewhat a hassle to setup MITM attacks if you already have admin access over all the machines. Just put a browser plugin that logs everything and lock down the machine
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by jakejake 13y ago
The word definitely has gotten re-appropriated a bit to where I hear people using it to describe a harmless prank or joke among friends.
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by jakejake 13y ago
There are certainly fortunes to be made as well as lost. I probably would not put "serious" quantities into bitcoin myself either, but it definitely is more interesting to watch it when you have a small amount in it.
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by jakejake 13y ago
You can but you'd need to convince browser vendors to add your CA to their list of trusted CA's in order to get rid of the security warning.
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by jakejake 13y ago
I almost did a spit-take when I read this. I actually do very little work in Python so I have no personal opinion on the subject, but I have a few close friends that are hard-core python programmers. I imagine the nerd rage that braces wo
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by jakejake 13y ago
It's been a while since I've seen a discussion on code comments here on HN but I have noticed in the past that there's a vocal group who are fairly passionate against code comments. I was actually expecting a wave of downvot
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by jakejake 13y ago
We try to keep things modular and so we open source components and various things in our software that might be of general use. Likewise we try to send pull requests back on components that we use. Several of us have our own open source p
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by jakejake 13y ago
This is probably not a popular view, but I don't really understand why comments are viewed by some people as a bad thing. I agree that useless, redundant comments are not helpful. But that doesn't mean all comments are useless.
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by jakejake 13y ago
Same here. I thought the title would more appropriately be something like "10 startups that are providing Docker-based services."
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by jakejake 13y ago
I didn't get anything from the article about squeezing maximum money from every customer. No customer wants to feel like they're being gouged. But, neither do they want to see a good service go out of business because the owner
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by jakejake 13y ago
I think Bluetooth is a fair comparison with the aesthetic quality of glass. The recording capability is what pushes glass into new territory though, in my opinion. I can imagine people actually flocking to a glass wearer for attention, hop
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by jakejake 13y ago
I figured it was called bro because brogrammers maybe don't care about how anything works - they just want the answer..? Anyway, I think this looks to be an awesome utility. People often smugly refer another programmer to use man. Bu
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by jakejake 13y ago
To me it seems like using NoSQL simply to avoid the hassle of creating a schema is not really a good reason to choose it over a relational DB. Each solution brings it's own pros and cons. It's helpful to understand what kind of
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by jakejake 13y ago
Pixl is definitely cool. I don't think it's a really fair comparison for one thing Pixl is more like Photoshop rather than Illustrator. Pixl is a Flash app which probably makes a difference to some people as well. Both are reall
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by jakejake 13y ago
The story is pretty sad and not reflective of the tech community in my opinion. It sounds like a group of either a) nerdy guys with severely lacking social skills or b) just garden-variety douchebags.
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by jakejake 13y ago
All ya gotta do is just start working all day and night and you'll be crunching with the best of them! I think I know what you mean though - some companies have a very leisurely pace and sometimes even discourage those who try to work
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by jakejake 13y ago
If you can't change the deadline, there is too much work and you don't wanna go into crunch mode, you have to cut features. I personally use a gant chart and any other planning docs that make sense when scheduling a project. It
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by jakejake 13y ago
I finally got rid of my last domain on network solutions. There's a form for requesting the authorization code, but despite submitting it out multiple times on various occasions I never received anything. The support docs indicated b
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by jakejake 13y ago
ah that's fantastic - I mis-read and thought that was how you launch the app, rather than package it. thanks!
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by jakejake 13y ago
I have the same conflicting feelings about it. One the one hand, yes the HTML should be semantic and not have things in it like "col-2". My thinking is that it's not so terrible as long as it's classnames. The tags an
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by jakejake 13y ago
Thanks for putting this together! Do you have any links to scripts or examples for doing the packaging as you mention? I've been trying to keep my eye on this for a while and never seem to find anything. I think really the holy grail
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by jakejake 13y ago
I actually find this a really interesting question and as an older programmer I'm interst... QUESTION CLOSED. TOO BROAD.
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by jakejake 13y ago
It's true that if he said nothing he might have been taken to jail for 8 hours instead of being detained for 3.5 hours. But it's also possible that he talked and talked until eventually, under stress, he said something stupid tha
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by jakejake 13y ago
This is just a classic example of not knowing your rights. Of course they will make you think it will be worse if you don't cooperate. The opposite is always true - the only thing that will happen by talking is that you will make thi
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by jakejake 13y ago
I don't know about other devs but I sometimes worry about bad karma, which is why I try not to be an arrogant dickhead, even though I know I am important to the company. Just the pungent stink of both arrogance and professional ignora

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