jrcii

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   by jrcii 11y ago

   You've also got these guys http://neurosky.com/
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   by jrcii 11y ago

   http://i.imgur.com/gyjMJ9H.jpg
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   by jrcii 11y ago

   I'm happy with hover.com. They're part of Tucows, who I've been a fan of since the good ol' days.
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   by jrcii 11y ago

   My understanding of the biggest challenge is that each point in the cable must be strong enough to carry the weight of all the cable beneath it, which by the time you reach the upper atmosphere would be tremendous even using carbon nanotube
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   by jrcii 11y ago

   It looks like you could lock down the environment variables with rbash http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/66627/is-there-anywa... But that's getting into no-man's land I guess
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   by jrcii 11y ago

   I did try this in Firefox's safe mode before posting that comment, and got the same behavior. Could it be a Firefox for Mac thing?
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   by jrcii 11y ago

   You can remove ignorespace from HISTCONTROL for the latter, and for the former, can't you just remove chattr's execute permission for that user?
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   by jrcii 11y ago

   I do, in fact, disable JavaScript for NYT using a Firefox addon called YesScript.
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   by jrcii 11y ago

   > how many design, UI and functionality choices would you make differently? I'd start by not hijacking clicks with JavaScript. In Firefox, double clicking the body of the article (which I do often to search for terms in the article)
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    by jrcii 11y ago

    There have been generations in the west who freely and easily enjoyed rights like privacy and freedom of speech by inheriting the fruits of their predecessors' hard-fought battles. The next generation will not be among them.
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    by jrcii 11y ago

    Some file systems support append-only permissions, although I've never used them. I wonder if that would work with bash's history file?
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    by jrcii 11y ago

    Some shells do have this built in, for example bash's history file, typically set to ~/.bash_history
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    by jrcii 11y ago

    > There are still a lot of developers for these systems. I hear Initech is hiring.
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    by jrcii 11y ago

    The article refers to quotation marks as "inverted commas", I've never heard that before.
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    by jrcii 11y ago

    Given this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn#Working_conditions I'm disappointed they're in a position to take over anything.
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    by jrcii 11y ago

    What protocols and software stacks do they use? How are they networked? What are the steps in the verification process? What prevents it from being able to work in real time? Where is this type of information formally recorded? I had a hard
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    by jrcii 11y ago

    Given the crowd on HN I'm surprised there isn't at least one person chiming in that works on these backend bank systems.
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    by jrcii 11y ago

    I've asked bankers at the branch about this before and received a vague answer about how they need time to verify things, but I strongly suspect they were just non-technical and didn't know.
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    by jrcii 11y ago

    Regarding international payments, I dug into this a little one day out of curiosity and ended up here: https://www.frbservices.org/eventseducation/education/fedwir... The PDFs on that page appear to show you preci
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    by jrcii 11y ago

    > CRUD to a database Even this can be deceptively complex, since most CRUD databases sit behind user authentication, for example, which leads down the rabbit hole of properly storing user credentials. There are simple tasks in software d
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    by jrcii 11y ago

    I do need the "send mail later" feature, however I use Boomerang for this.
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    by jrcii 11y ago

    It seems that IVR phone systems could benefit. Maybe the state-of-the-art just hasn't had the chance to propagate, but it always strikes me as inelegant when I hear, "Your account has a balance of... ONE, HUN-DRED, DOLLARS... AND.
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    by jrcii 11y ago

    Only semi-related, I've discerned a Postgres > MySQL/MariaDB sentiment on HN for the last year or so. Is that just my imagination? If not, why is that? MySQL in my experience is a very powerful RDBMS, maybe I just haven't
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    by jrcii 11y ago

    If there's one thing JSON excels at, it's encoding executable instructions.
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    by jrcii 11y ago

    The guidelines say to avoid "gratuitous negativity" in comments, yet it seems quite common for HN users to be gratuitously negative with their downvotes.
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    by jrcii 11y ago

    All source code that's available to me falls under the "I'll do whatever I want with it" License unless it's related to work for a high-profile client. Most of the time these licensing debates and discussions are an
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    by jrcii 11y ago

    Slightly off-topic, but for anyone unaware, NetBSD is a wonderful operating system (it happens to be my favorite). Rock-solid reliability, very organized file system, great package manager (pkgsrc), and compatible with virtually every platf
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    by jrcii 11y ago

    The only problem with the Neo 900 is it's in the ballpark of $1000 and production is very limited because it relies on rare parts.
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    by jrcii 11y ago

    I guess I'm cynical but I'm worried that Goldman's takeaway here is to make the financial products, transactions, and their position more complex/opaque in the future.
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    by jrcii 11y ago

    I would pose a more general question, why is it so hard to find a file in Linux? Across all distributions I've found in difficult to predict where a particular binary or configuration file will be, and this is one of the reasons I pref