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by jmiserez 10y ago
> While the catalog does not disclose data on America’s own military or dual-use satellites (...), it does feature Russia’s defense satellites. So the Russian satellites are on the US list, and the US satellites are on the Russian list
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by jmiserez 10y ago
If you can't trust your phone, how would you ensure that it doesn't just record everything (audio, etc.) when in airplane mode and uploads it somewhere later, once you disable airplane mode. Seems to me that removing the battery w
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by jmiserez 10y ago
It's just a link to https://www.dropbox.com/help/145 (No login needed there.)
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by jmiserez 10y ago
GWT is a very different beast, it's more of a framework with widgets and everything. When I tried it (a few years ago) the resulting JavaScript looked nothing like the Java code. If the Java code you write looks almost identical to the
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by jmiserez 10y ago
I used jDojo (by IBM Rational) and it was great. It's a similar transpiler Java->JavaScript, with support for the Dojo Toolkit. One cool thing is that it's very easy and fast to define your own stubs for whatever library you ar
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by jmiserez 10y ago
Someone versed in natural language processing could make an ad-blocker that filters these things out of the articles. I think that could be a pretty cool little project.
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by jmiserez 10y ago
Or just use something like the Philips Hue Tap [1], which sends an RF signal (ZigBee) solely using the energy from your button press (no batteries). [1] http://www2.meethue.com/en-us/productdetail/philips-hue-tap-.
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by jmiserez 10y ago
According to this [1], an iPhone 4 only uses 0.024W on networked standby. So 0.7W per bulb is not really low. Even worse, it's above the EU limit which mandates <0.5W (since 2013) [2]. [1] https://www.iea.org/media&#
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by jmiserez 10y ago
That only allows exporting the passwords of the currently logged-in user. If you let someone untrusted (!) log in remotely to your computer with your user account or you give it to someone while your user is logged in it's your own fau
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by jmiserez 10y ago
The Sun affects the range? How and why, that doesn't make sense at all?
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by jmiserez 10y ago
For Ubuntu, look no further: http://askubuntu.com/a/492343/145754
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by jmiserez 10y ago
Even GCE has had (global) outages (interesting post-mortem here [1]), no provider is really safe from these sorts of issues. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11489791
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by jmiserez 10y ago
You don't have to read every line of code. But if some maintainer goes and adds something like the Win 10 autoupdate, you are allowed to go and revert that and provide an alternate fork or distribution (assuming GPL license or similar)
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by jmiserez 10y ago
> Even linux (which is awful as desktop system) I disagree. Linux is great as a desktop system precisely because you're in control, not some third-party. And in terms of desktop functionality there is no meaningful difference anymor
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by jmiserez 10y ago
Jens' first commit [1] was 3 days ago, the repo is a fork of the node-js-getting-started example repo and all older commits [2] are not by him and related to that repo. Craine's project was already done and posted here by then [3]
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by jmiserez 10y ago
Yes, and the other project was on here just 4 days ago [1]. I had actually tried it out myself so I was surprised to see this. Just writing: > I've seen a static version of this project on github, but I forgot the name of the origi
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by jmiserez 10y ago
There was a previous discussion here not long ago (11 days ago, 159 comments, 385 points): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11719543
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by jmiserez 10y ago
I just tested the two Emoji displaying Chrome extensions on Linux and compared the output with Mobile Safari. Chromoji [1] got all of them right, including the special Canadian flag emoji. Emojify got some of them right, but wrongly shows t
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by jmiserez 10y ago
There's also EmojiOne, install instructions for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS here: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/05/emoji-one-font-linux-ppa-... And from OPs article: > These fonts are AppleColorEmoji (OS X), Segoe
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by jmiserez 10y ago
There are HDDs and SSDs that do the encryption themself, rather than just being a dumb storage medium. You need to unlock it with the password or key when using it, and the disk will transparently encrypt and decrypt the contents on reads&#
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by jmiserez 10y ago
Very interesting and a good read. I was not aware that you could pass an argument in the shebang line.
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by jmiserez 10y ago
Nice. Apparently it uses Ghostscript in the background though? Another problem is that a Google search for "convert to PDF" turns up so much crap it's hard to even start looking. Same with "convert to MP4". I just
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by jmiserez 10y ago
Not OP, but a good example would be the various PDF conversion apps around. The freemium/shareware ones all suck in one way or another unless you pay (arbitrary page limits, watermarks etc), the web-based ones make batch processing ve
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by jmiserez 10y ago
> Caddy has since had more than 70 contributors and > 1K commits. That is impressive, will definitely try it. Is there a list of companies using Caddy somewhere?
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by jmiserez 10y ago
So instead of upgrading a library or the webserver you'd rather replace the webserver completely with a relatively new [1] webserver and redo all the configuration? (edit: more positive wording) [1] https://news.ycombinator.
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by jmiserez 10y ago
II have a tab group for each topic/task I'm working on. I have about 10 groups/80 tabs total, so if I open them all at once it takes a while. With tab groups non active tabs are not loaded right away, so when I'm working
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by jmiserez 10y ago
> Tab Groups Still works, I use it on a daily basis. It's just an addon now. It will probably continue to work for a few years, they've been wanting to get rid of it since 2013 ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show
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by jmiserez 10y ago
Wow, that is horrible. And equally horrible is the fact that you don't seem to find this problematic at all. If the features were/are regularly used is not really relevant: "algorithmically selected" implies a certain no
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by jmiserez 10y ago
Does it still store your credentials on their servers and proxy all your mail through the US [1], or has that been fixed? Or is/was this FUD? https://blog.winkelmeyer.com/2015/01/warning-microsofts-outl...
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by jmiserez 10y ago
That link doesn't work for me, says request not found. Can you clarify this a bit? I.e what does the Dropbox app do if you take a picture in portrait mode, and what does iOS do? Is the rotation info lost completely?

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