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by latitude 12y ago
Let's not go there. I wish I named it something else. It was a dorky name for a toy project, who'd knew it would get any traction. Incidentally, I do own backvp.com.
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by latitude 12y ago
There are backups and there are backups. For some people, like yourself, archiving backup is the one true backup, while others make do with rolling hourly/daily/weekly backups or even something as rudimentary as copy-pasting folde
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by latitude 12y ago
Author's here. A bit of a background on the project if I may. I wrote the original version several years ago. It was purely for myself, to automate the way I was doing the backups at the time. I also threw together a website and put it
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Show HN: Bvckup 2 – Simple Fast Backup for Windows(bvckup2.com)
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by latitude 12y ago
It'd be interesting to see if this is going to work on scale... but I don't think it will. There's something inherently wrong with the idea of a machine bossing people around.
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by latitude 12y ago
I have the same reservations as eps. It's not how Chocolatey works, it is how it's administered. With Steam and Microsoft I can be reasonably certain that I will not be getting an infected update. With Chocolatey, being a smaller
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by latitude 12y ago
Yup, exactly. It used AuthentiCode executable signing to bind VeriSign's timestamps to the documents. Basically, this allows for an unlimited use of VeriSign's mature and robust timestamping infrastructure for a cost of a single s
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by latitude 12y ago
I killed almost a year on a similar project and it flopped majestically . I even worked out how to do the whole verification part that it works out of the box without the need for any software or 3rd party service. You just needed a Window
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by latitude 12y ago
I don't know why you are in gray, but that's a valid point. I too had to switch to IE to get fonts.net to release the font files.
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by latitude 12y ago
The site looks great. Not sure how it performs against your target audience, but it looks great. A couple of nitpicks though - 1. "Sign up for free 30..." button at the bottom of the home page should really be white/on&#x2F
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by latitude 13y ago
There's some bias, no doubt, and the sample is barely representative. But the thing is that there's lots of new hardware, like Thinkpads, that ships pre-configured with higher DPI. Drop by drop, but this will tilt the scales .. if
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by latitude 13y ago
1-2% is a bit low. I actually tested this several months ago for one my projects and it was about 5% (on a sample of few hundreds). That's a very respectable 1 in 20. Not that I disagree with your ROI point, it's just that playing
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by latitude 13y ago
All sizes in dialog templates are indeed specified in "dialog units", which are based on the metrics of the dialog's font. So in theory if you are to double the font size, all dialog elements would just double in size and all
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by latitude 13y ago
Just to be clear - supporting High-DPI on Windows is not as simple as adding scaled up resources. Instead, it is an absolutely royal pain. For one, you can't just throw hires bitmaps into a resource section of .exe and expect them to m
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by latitude 13y ago
Alternatively - int send_fd(int conn, int fd_to_send) { struct msghdr msg = { 0 }; struct cmsghdr * hdr; char buf[CMSG_SPACE(sizeof(int))]; msg.msg_control = buf; msg.msg_controllen = sizeof(buf); hdr = CMSG_FI
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by latitude 13y ago
You are asserting a made-up argument. Having an active public project behind a logo is not a necessary condition for not re-purposing the logo for another project. This particular concept just happens to be taken. Every good logo is trivial
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by latitude 13y ago
> As such, why not just leave the logo of Tox in peace? I have plans for it. It wasn't just an idle doodle.
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by latitude 13y ago
> Your basically claiming I am not claiming this, this is how things work in the logo design industry. There are of course copyrights, trademarks and legal matters, but there are also professional ethics. Ideas and concepts are getting r
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by latitude 13y ago
As I said in the (edit) of the original comment, the originality is secondary to the timing. When you finalize a logo, you typically run a quick due diligence (a Google search) to see if you reinvented a wheel. If you did, you scrape it and
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by latitude 13y ago
Oh, I see you helped yourselves to my Secure Chat logo - http://dribbble.com/shots/479881-Secure-Chat http://logopond.com/gallery/detail/165288 https://www.google.ca/search?q=
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by latitude 13y ago
This works and it works reasonably well. I had used simultaneous-open TCP punching as a fallback for UDP punching when I was doing [0] and it did help in 10-20% of cases when (a fairly elaborate version of) UDP punching failed. That's
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by latitude 13y ago
Here's an autopsy of my foray into this domain - http://swapped.cc/certtime My takeaway is that this is a variation of an insurance business - you have to sell people on needing protection for times when sh#t hits the
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by latitude 13y ago
Thinkpad W520 w/ RAID. It must be a laptop. Can't really take a desktop on a vacation, can I now? :)
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by latitude 13y ago
Alright. Color me convinced. Though limiting it to the breach of other clauses doesn't make much sense under the same argument - those who are breaching hardly give a damn about the license.
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by latitude 13y ago
This is it. This is not the only way, but this is what worked for me as well. od2n, the main problem for you at the moment is that you don't know what you don't know. So you have to try and recreate things in order to understand what's invo
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by latitude 13y ago
With all due respect for Tufte, his focus has always been on the presentation and visualization of the data. While this has an overlap with the design skills required for the end-to-end software design, the overlap is only partial and not e
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by latitude 13y ago
A software being used to facilitate the spread of malware. Or being used as a part of a scam operation. Or being used by an entity that creates a negative impact on the company's brand.
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by latitude 13y ago
Clause 1 is a standard DISCLAIMER in many O/S licenses. That's the source of it. Clause 2 - Correct. This is a straight-forward translation of the legal speak. Again, fairly standard, you've just not been paying attention :) Clause 4 - As I
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by latitude 13y ago
Well, then you don't agree to it. > I cannot modify the software? Why not? To spare the company supporting randomly modified versions. Also, the "cannot modify" clause is a weaker version of a universally used "You shall not decompile
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by latitude 13y ago
But how come it makes sense for online services then? I've seen this in more than one license to date, I'd say it's not that uncommon. From what I can tell, this is a way to deal with the unforseen abuse situations.

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