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by jarek 13y ago
Does this really matter in 2013? Serious question. I could see ECC having been useful in 2000 in the midst of the megahertz race, but I'm not too convinced about today...
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by jarek 13y ago
Maybe they'll open an office in Sarnia? /s
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by jarek 13y ago
Yeah, this is a joke. "Send your address to a stranger over the internet so they can ship it from a warehouse employing a small number of large corporations so you can be anonymous!" Pay-as-you-go phones bought in a grocery store
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by jarek 13y ago
> Well, wait until you have a power bill, water bill, gas bill, garbage bill, phone bill, cable bill, mortgage, credit card bills, car note, doctor's bills, lab results, dentist's bills, vet bills, student loan bills, newsletters from y
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by jarek 13y ago
I would caution against using a service like Google Groups for this, actually. There's been too many changes to corporate-backed services like this (Yahoo! Groups' 2010 mess, remember Google Groups was originally a usenet reader to begin wi
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by jarek 13y ago
Do you by any chance have details on that? I'm genuinely curious but with a brief search all I could find was a reference to Latin commuto which implies a "to change, to transform" meaning, I'm guessing applied to a change of environment or
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by jarek 13y ago
"flag"
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by jarek 13y ago
> Does anyone else find Seth Godins advice to be totally devoid of actionable suggestions? Same as most motivational and self-help advice, then?
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by jarek 13y ago
I must have missed the part where MetaCosm stated his developer was buying health insurance in an age-discriminating market.
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by jarek 13y ago
> All the banhammer dramas, all the time. Thank god there's none of that on HN.
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by jarek 13y ago
But not by default, and not the previous "big photos in one column" layout for first page of photostream. (There's even a leftover link to change the layout at the bottom one's own details=1 page that 404s...)
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by jarek 13y ago
The details=1 query string is added when you click "Edit" in your own photostream's header. Funnily enough, at the moment the details=1 layout even preserves the old "Did you know you can change the layout of this page?" link at the bottom,
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by jarek 13y ago
Front page looks too busy at 1280 px wide. I can't quantify why - maybe it looks too appy rather than like a page. I used to rant a lot about Flickr showing me 500 px wide photos with oceans of whitespace on my large screens - now it looks
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Canadian traveller problem(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by jarek 13y ago|0 comments
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by jarek 14y ago
How will you trace him based on the HN account? All that's required to sign up is a username/password combination. Looks like reddit is the same. Generate a random password and access them via tor to not get your IP logged and there isn't m
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by jarek 14y ago
Like he just did on HN...
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by jarek 14y ago
Given first name and birth date (from age down to seconds), any authorities worth their salt can find him in a minute. edit: well, unless he was not born in a territory under the authority of the authorities in question, and is an undocumen
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by jarek 14y ago
> Silly HTML pages I've written in vi over puTTY terminals look practically identical to that page. Sure, but it's a hint that the person might have written it in vi. Only some people would write HTML in vi. Sure that group overlaps qui
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by jarek 14y ago
Mail something to a friend in New York, ask them to remail via a super-busy mail box and destroy the original envelope. Sure it'll technically be possible to review CCTV around the mail box, but then the investigators have to find out who a
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by jarek 14y ago
That's the output of whois voidnull.com. Too obvious to be the guy making the challenge, of course, but it's not exactly classified information, and has already been "posted" in a public place (the whois records).
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by jarek 14y ago
> Assuming malicious intent on the part of the provider, the envelope sent to SDF will have a post office stamp from the city from which he sent it. Unless they got someone to remail it from the other side of the country.
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by jarek 14y ago
May I ask why you replied specifically to my comment if your statement wasn't addressing anything I said?
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by jarek 14y ago
Why would they bother to? Is there a shortage of opportunities for talented people to apply their effort instead of cramming an interview?
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by jarek 14y ago
Was this meant to be a response to my question to `coldtea, or a general comment? The exact same words could be used by an IE user describing Chrome, or a Windows user describing OS X. They make no reference to "better." (Not to mention tha
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Two Generals' Problem(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by jarek 14y ago|0 comments
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by jarek 14y ago
> Why do people get out of their way to use some marginal browser when there better both proprietary and open source options available? What is your apparently universal definition of "better," please?
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by jarek 14y ago
So wise.
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by jarek 14y ago
Couldn't you say the same about Ubuntu? It's far more widely marketed to end users than any other distro.
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by jarek 14y ago
> Even the most alarming certificate errors are usually innocuous, in my experience - someone forgets to renew a certificate, or fails to get a new one for a domain change. That doesn't mean it's OK to ignore them, but we really need sy
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by jarek 14y ago
> I would argue that popularity is actually a great indicator of the quality of an OS Windows is tons better than OS X then?

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