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by jewel 13y ago
BitTorrent Sync seems to have done a really good job of making a decentralized system easy to use. Their pre-shared-key method of connecting computers is really simple for people to understand, and supports a wide variety of potential use
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by jewel 13y ago
I feel the same way. I've been working on an open source clone of btsync because I don't feel like closed-source products can be trusted. I've just documented the protocol so far, so there's no working code yet, but it&
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by jewel 13y ago
The problem with an LCD screen on a watch is that you have to wake up the device to see the time. As far as I can tell that is the case with this device too. Watch the video here at the 2:00 mark to see it power off: http://revi
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by jewel 13y ago
You can do this with chrome using the --user-data-dir option, which works fantastically well. For my work gmail I have the following shortcut: chromium-browser --user-data-dir=~/.profiles/work-mail-profile -app= https:/&#x2F
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by jewel 13y ago
I have a friend that backs up his photos to my computer using a combination of ecryptfs, rdiff-backup, and rsync. It goes something like this: mount -t ecryptfs ~/.photos-backup-crypted ~/photos-backup rdiff-backup ~&#x
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by jewel 13y ago
Another good source of fixed-in-the-past yet unpredictable data is the closing price of a collection of stocks from the previous day. This would make verification easier to automate.
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by jewel 13y ago
It's hard to tell from the pictures, but since the video cards share the same thermal core, I'm not sure they are going to be easy to upgrade anymore.
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by jewel 13y ago
The idea of this comic is that it's not worth spending dozens of hours (say, over a year) customizing your work environment in order to save just a few hours during that same time period. There are other factors at play besides the wall clo
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by jewel 13y ago
For reference, the raw RGB data for 1080p video at 30 fps works out to 178 MB/s.
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by jewel 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Rendering a grid would be easy to do and would help a lot. I am debouncing the scroll events right now and haven't tried making the timing more aggressive so that it doesn't sit at white for as long as it does. Ri
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by jewel 14y ago
I've been working on a problem that this browser extension would solve really well. I've got a photo gallery with a hundred thousand photos in it where I implemented near-infinite scroll by creating a really tall div and then drawing about
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by jewel 14y ago
I can see why this would be annoying when a project is first being set up, but once things are underway I much prefer having individual emails for each event. The advantage comes when you only scan the subject line for each notification. F
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by jewel 14y ago
clamav is GPL and has a virus database. I used it at a previous job to scan email and a samba file share. I couldn't find a download link but if you install freshclam it will download the signatures for you.
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by jewel 14y ago
That's incorrect. The URI library will parse the URL into a hostname, username, and password. Only the hostname is sent to the DNS server. The username and password are sent in the "Authorization" HTTP header, which will be encrypted.
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by jewel 14y ago
Since DNS records change rarely, it's trivial to have multiple active DNS servers for a domain. In normal deployments, DNS doesn't have a single point of failure. It does have "weak consistency", like you say, but that doesn't matter if t
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by jewel 14y ago
A few years ago I lost my phone while hiking, at about 10,000 feet in elevation, which I didn't discover until back down the mountain. It was raining and so I figured it was ruined. The next day, just as I was about to have my employer ca
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by jewel 14y ago
Every time the donation bar for wikipedia comes up, I think about making a project like this to reduce their bandwidth and server costs. I have no idea if something ad-hoc would work for their workload (they may have way too long of tail).
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by jewel 14y ago
For large projects, it'd probably make more sense to rewrite the critical code sections in C. rubyinline makes this really easy, and ruby C extensions aren't that bad either. One time on a contracting gig I had some code that was interacti
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by jewel 14y ago
I think computer systems are the ones that are the most impacted by daylight saving time changes. The amount of effort that is necessary to make sure a change goes smoothly might be higher than you're thinking. I worked at a medium-sized b
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by jewel 14y ago
I was going to say something sarcastic about how most of us still remember the order of the alphabet, but then I realized that there is probably another reason for their choice. Unless the software keyboard is going to have four wide rows,
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by jewel 14y ago
To counter the overhead of the JIT algorithm, would it be possible to do that work in a background thread or cache the JIT optimizations to disk?
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by jewel 14y ago
Highly related, can you make the "visited" link be a different color for the comments link on the main page? I often peruse the comments without clicking on the link, and that isn't reflected in the comments color. What would be especially
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by jewel 14y ago
These suggestions are helpful to me. I tried writing for 15 minutes every day this year, but I really had a hard time finding what to write.
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by jewel 14y ago
I do run my entire email infrastructure, in this case. During the time period where a lot of these spam messages were received, it was directly hosted on a enterprise fiber line, on its own IP address, which I wouldn't imagine was doing an
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by jewel 14y ago
I've been meaning to send in a complaint, but they should really have some canary addresses in there to catch this. Of interest, the mint spam is a lot more varied than the geico spam. The geico address gets nothing but Canadian Pharmacy
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by jewel 14y ago
I also give out a separate email address to every service I sign up for. So far geico, mint, and dyndns have lost or sold my email address. I haven't gotten any spam on my dropbox account, but I've only had an account since 2012-10-02. I
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by jewel 14y ago
I imagine you could do a rough verification via medical means. From what I understand there isn't a perfect method to determine the age of a person other than looking at the wear on teeth and bones, but that might be enough to expose a fra
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by jewel 14y ago
He misses out on another type of open source project: those supported by professionals as part of their day job, but that aren't directly related the core business of the company. For example, at my current job we need plupload, or somethin
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by jewel 14y ago
I've heard that https://github.com/stomita/ios-imagefile-megapixel works around the issue. I haven't had a chance to try it personally, yet.
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by jewel 14y ago
If you take investment money then I believe that's how your investors will define success, since it's the best way for them to get a ROI. If you bootstrap then in my opinion profitability is how I'd define success.

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