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by jvdh 15y ago
Makes a whole lot of sense to me. Text input in a browser should be handled a lot more carefully than text input to "regular" system applications.
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by jvdh 15y ago
The world on its head, we need an article on hackernews to tell us how 90% of the users are experiencing the web. ;)
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by jvdh 15y ago
I don't think that Daring Fireball is a good example for a membership based blog. Gruber made all feeds freely available in August 2007. The membership button is still there, but besides a T-shirt, it doesn't provide you with anything new.
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by jvdh 15y ago
Actually, I think that the sleep-light on the MacBook Pros came first. The small bar of light that's right next to the IR receiver on the front-right of the body. That bar is actually a series of those small holes to let the light through.
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by jvdh 15y ago
My first thought was, cool! I still have my Commodore 64, and it still works (tested a few weeks ago). Second thought was, damn! How the heck am I going to get that on a floppy to load it on my Commodore?
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by jvdh 15y ago
"I don't think we (tech people) appreciate just how magical the public is going to find Siri." I think that that is exactly why we (tech people) hate it so much. We like to be in control of what happens, and Siri is all about giving most
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by jvdh 15y ago
Agreed. Stating that a big nerd is one of the worst candidates for spokesperson of a good cause is similarly pointless. Yet somehow he still continues to be just that.
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by jvdh 15y ago
The ECMAscript standard is actually a bit more prohibitive: you can only use Unicode letters or (non-space) combining symbols in variable names. IE has relaxed this a little bit, by allowing variables to contain (but not start) with symbols
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by jvdh 15y ago
Did you even read the article? The point is that the only difference for HDMI cables is the price. Either you get signal or you don't. So you're probably fine for a 3ft cable for less than $10.
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by jvdh 15y ago
At some point we have to wonder what it is that this trading actually is for. Investing in companies, fine. The risk that you take with your invested money evolves over time, true. But at some point it just becomes ridiculous that people ar
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by jvdh 15y ago
The Foundation series was a great read, I read it when I was young and it influenced a lot of how I viewed the world around me. Having just reread it, I must say that it shows that Asimov did not really want to write the last parts of the s
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by jvdh 15y ago
It's been a long time since I came up with this solution, and not necessary anymore for TextMate, but something along these lines may help you: http://osdir.com/ml/editors.textmate.general/2005-05/msg0010...
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by jvdh 15y ago
This is actually a sad state of affairs. It used to be that the salesperson was exactly the kind of guy who could solve this. Now they're just too busy padding deals with stuff almost everyone knows you don't need.
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by jvdh 15y ago
You're forgetting about the AUP, especially this part: Customer Communication Please remember that the staff at this* are, like you, only human. We expect to be treated with the same level of respect as you'd expect us to treat you, so plea
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by jvdh 15y ago
He "plagiarised" many others as well. You have to wonder though whether plagiarism even applies to the ravings of a mad man.
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by jvdh 15y ago
offlineimap.org ?
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by jvdh 15y ago
The vocabulary you need for scientific discussions can't be measured in these kinds of tests, because it is really very specific. So your english vocabulary may stil be a bit bigger. The words that are measure here are the words that you'd
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by jvdh 15y ago
In itself the renegotiation is not that bad, and often works out. What makes it worse is that the government openly admits that it has a very big problem in staying solvent. This makes it harder for them to get new loans in the future. Also
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by jvdh 15y ago
Basically, it renogatiates the terms of outstanding debts to a new interest rate, and longer terms. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_default
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by jvdh 15y ago
This article is not about physical access, it's about remote security. If you have physical access to a machine, then you can almost always read the files off of it, except in certain cases with encrypted volumes.
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by jvdh 15y ago
And this is bad why?
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by jvdh 15y ago
I clicked around the site too, but I couldn't find how long they've been at it yet.
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by jvdh 15y ago
True, but the positive fundamental property of these tokens is that it is very very unlikely that someone ever messes with your device without you knowing it. Which prevents a MITM attack.
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by jvdh 15y ago
True, on the other hand there are still 40 million of those tokens out there, which are all compromised and have to be replaced. So that is still very much present tense.
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by jvdh 15y ago
Quote from the article: Sources close to RSA tell Ars that the March breach did indeed result in seeds being compromised. The algorithm is already public knowledge. As a result, SecurID offered no defense against the hackers that broke int
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by jvdh 15y ago
Dude, seriously? We are talking about the land of the free, and you continue to be astonished that people from first world countries just go to the US to do business and then leave again? The Netherlands has had a visa waiver program with t
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by jvdh 15y ago
Not a problem at all. I've been to the US (from the Netherlands) over a dozen times to participate in a scientific conference and have had no problem at all. Maybe some grumpiness, but that's about it.
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by jvdh 15y ago
Just about everything of David Allen's Getting Things Done concept is taken from somewhere else. He just combined them into one workflow system that seems to work well for most people.
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by jvdh 15y ago
My point was that there currently does not seem to be a way, but that I think it would be a very cool idea.
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by jvdh 15y ago
A childrens book is not a regular kind of book. The book is filled with full-page images that support the texts and these are better appreciated in hardcopy form. Also, you're not going to sit down with your baby and read them a bedtime sto

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