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by levemi 10y ago
eFax does it everywhere. I paid $0.99 to send a fax and ended up with two monthly statements for $16.99 that were not refundable. It's disgusting and it should be illegal.
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by levemi 10y ago
There's some confusion here about dual licensing projects. Maybe an internet lawyer can comment. The most successful project that I know of that uses dual license is qt which offers a GPL license for open source and a $500+ per month l
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by levemi 10y ago
> "Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships." The sizable problem with this statement is that it is using a solution to pigeonhole a person. It takes a bit of au
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by levemi 10y ago
This story isn't about Valve but the author sure made it seem like it was. A third party site uses Valve's API to enable users to bet skins on esport competitions. This third party site uses Valve's API. Valve is in no way in
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by levemi 10y ago
> boost competitiveness between workers. I do not think that this is a good thing...you want collaboration, not politics and back stabbing.
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by levemi 10y ago
Voltaire has a nice bit of insight on "the power of positive thinking" shared through his story about Candide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candide Worth a read before you start decorating your home with pow
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by levemi 10y ago
That table layout is really bad on a large screen, at some point there's a nice max for a font and I really don't need giant fonts or text as images. That image is gigantic [1]. And that header hiding animation is so annoying. Why
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by levemi 10y ago
The desert is full of life that would be impacted by these panels.
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by levemi 10y ago
These problems pale in comparison partly because these sustainable forms of technology aren't being used any meaningful scale yet. How much area do we have to cover with solar panels to power a largish metropolitan area?
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by levemi 10y ago
Whatever the realities of the cost of solar, I tend to worry about a future in which we cover vast swaths of areas with solar panels and the impact such a thing will have on the environment. I don't know if anyone has done good studies
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by levemi 10y ago
That's not Firefox proper, that's a webview. Nobody can build an alternative browser for iOS. As for an example of competing services that can't be installed on iOS, look to f.lux.
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by levemi 10y ago
I don't understand why Google gets attacked when at least you can install competing services and you can't on iOS. Why does iOS get a pass? If Google built the hardware itself it could lock it down all it wants? That's the re
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by levemi 10y ago
I like that it uses shaders and modern OpenGL and not fixed functions. It looks like very good clean OpenGL!
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by levemi 10y ago
You're still trusting the client. Any system that trusts the client is flawed. Time to read per page varies, and if you read the original article it says the scammers are mitigating chances of alerts by clicking through a book over a t
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by levemi 10y ago
I think you're on to something, for example the Uber app probably also uses the `true` constant in places, which could be used by `if` comparisons, and Uber could actually be using `if` comparisons all over the place. Who knows what so
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by levemi 10y ago
You'd be remiss to not also point out that there are kurdish groups that blow up bombs with the intent of killing civilians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan_Freedom_Falcons#Atta...
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by levemi 10y ago
> if the Snapchat backend looks anything like the ux works What does this even mean. > Just because some company moves a lot of bits doesn't mean they know what they are doing. You have to have some measure of competency to be a
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by levemi 10y ago
Isn't SnapChat built entirely on AppEngine? Why haven't they moved to GCE if it's so terrible?
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by levemi 10y ago
It probably doesn't. I use MinGW on Windows. Once Windows 10 adds the announced linux support I guess I'll start using that instead. :) I can build .exe's that run fine on Windows this way and executables that run on OS X (us
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by levemi 10y ago
Agreed, IntelliJ IDEA is so good I can't really use other editors for projects. For editing regular files outside of a project I still use vim or TextEdit/Notepad. I prefer Intellij so much I use CLion instead of Xcode on OS X and
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by levemi 10y ago
It does not take a few seconds to get fuzzy search working on emacs in any shape or form. You have to add an addon like helm or icicles to get anywhere near atom's functionality. And you have to learn how to get addons to work. It work
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by levemi 10y ago
Not sure if you're trolling, because that's a pretty ridiculous question. The obvious answer is Atom's immediate usability and the much easier learning curve over Emacs which requires an incredible amount of research and effo
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by levemi 10y ago
Negative. NeoVim does away with supporting the ancient systems that are important to Bram for some reason. I seriously doubt they will merge.
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by levemi 10y ago
Oh this comment by CIO led me to think 2FA wasn't... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11480221 You should not be able to overcome 2FA with social engineering wtf!
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by levemi 10y ago
No, OP didn't have 2FA enabled on their namecheap account. It was namecheap's fault for improper handling of the social engineering attack but OP could have protected themselves by having 2FA
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by levemi 11y ago
This is explained by political topics being a lot more accessible than technical topics. Also given technical topics require investment in them, more specific technical topics have a more limited available audience. For example for a given
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by levemi 11y ago
Conservative "think tanks" are super good at reframing concepts in a favorable way, referring to estate taxes as "death taxes" for example. Maybe we need a crypto "think tank" that can help, but it doesn't
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by levemi 11y ago
Probably leaked on purpose to gauge the reaction to it before publishing it and then officially looking like idiots. I can't imagine what they were expecting. Is there a non-government agency, a private or public company that is suppor
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by levemi 11y ago
For context, see the author's take[0], who would like debian to stop shipping xscreensaver if they wont update it since the author gets lots of support requests for things fixed in newer versions. [0] https://www.jwz.org&#x2
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by levemi 11y ago
> I'm not sure if that is Imgur intentionally trying to prevent people from not seeing their "Download our app" banners everywhere, or a bug in AB, but it is very annoying. It's a problem with Alien Blue, not imgur.

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