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by liviu- 11y ago
Maybe you're right, but I feel like if there's one thing that will tip them off, it's the graphical similarity of the icons, rather than all the OS connections you've described.
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by liviu- 11y ago
Cause a) recently they've been showing more interest in developing for different platforms (OneNote, Visual Studio Code); b) the other major browsers have a Linux release; c) IE had a release for Linux at some point; and d) there is a
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by liviu- 11y ago
>Renaming your browser won't change peoples' memory of Internet Explorer, even if Microsoft built Edge from the ground up. The average person is still going to be thinking IE when they see it. Maybe I'm underestimating how
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by liviu- 11y ago
He means opening the previous page history-wise in a new tab.
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by liviu- 11y ago
Are they really going the completely disregard Linux users?
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by liviu- 11y ago
>Many people disagree with me on this, but their disagreement usually comes down to "the GPL is best for user freedom because it was created for user freedom and RMS is talking about user freedom." I don't think there&#x27
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by liviu- 11y ago
If this is of any consolation to you, I'm pretty sure Twitter strips EXIF data on upload.
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by liviu- 11y ago
>The argument in the article is wrong. The assumption is that companies want to extend the software and keep their extensions "locked down." I think that's by far the most common use case for avoiding GPL though.
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by liviu- 11y ago
Apparently this was another find in HackingTeam's leak http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/a...
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by liviu- 11y ago
Really neat. My nitpick is that I wish the timeline data was a bit more granular — too many languages are put at the same mark due to being released in the same year. This is not a big problem when you go through the timeline sequentially a
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by liviu- 11y ago
>Tap to start it scrolling it downward >Tap to stop it scrolling downward Always thought this is a one tap (and hold/swipe) operation?
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by liviu- 11y ago
>I'm a bit puzzled as to why dropdowns are a "4 tap operation" Either they count 'moving on' as a tap, or they just assume that on average you scroll at least twice: "First tap the control, then scroll (usua
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by liviu- 11y ago
"Of course, I'd also suggest that whoever was the genius who thought it was a good idea to read things ONE F★CKING BYTE AT A TIME with system calls for each byte should be retroactively aborted. Who the f★ck does idiotic things li
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by liviu- 11y ago
That's been more or less the de facto standard for more than a decade.
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by liviu- 11y ago
> If take his computer and host the files on the same machine for 2 weeks before handing it over to the police Your example is different as you haven't gotten approval from the law enforcement authorities, like they claim to have g
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by liviu- 11y ago
>Tinder was a huge improvement over things like OkCupid How so?
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by liviu- 11y ago
>see my recent /r/dataisbeautiful submissions on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/minimaxir/submitted/ They all seem very well-presented[0], but I can't help but ask - what do you do with
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by liviu- 11y ago
>"You need something that will motivate you to keep learning." This is so true and often forgotten. I'm surprised that both you and OP seem to think this advice is rare, as I've personally seen it mentioned more than
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by liviu- 11y ago
Armin Ronacher often writes pretty and compact Python — https://github.com/mitsuhiko
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by liviu- 11y ago
>It is an extremely lucrative time to be working in security. Is it though? The average salary of a security engineer seems to be lower than that of a software engineer, and there seem to be considerably fewer positions available. Those
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by liviu- 11y ago
The website was important only for facilitating the illegal activities. Keeping the website alive while being under surveillance by FBI wouldn't be of much benefit to the members of the community.
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by liviu- 11y ago
One of the arrested ones is 20, and he allegedly created Dendroid — a malware that can take remote control of an Android device. He designed, developed and deployed this software (bypassing Google Play's malware detection system) which
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by liviu- 11y ago
It's not so much 'Debian users' as 'Iceweasel users' — you can install Firefox from source on Debian, and even use Mint's package repo to install it.
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by liviu- 11y ago
A `<noscript>` tag seems most intuitive to me, perhaps paired with some server-side Google Analytics.
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by liviu- 11y ago
I think he means that it's best to offer both variants with a graceful fallback for no-js users. This doesn't require sacrificing interactivity, responsiveness or UX for users with JS enabled.
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by liviu- 11y ago
Sounds like a bug in HN layout. One fix is setting ".default" a `max-width` attribute, and ".comment { overflow-wrap: break-word; }`. User styles managers can fix this per user, but I sent HN an email to let them know.
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by liviu- 11y ago
Both Intel and HP have donated to OpenBSD: http://www.openbsd.org/donations.html
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by liviu- 11y ago
Well, it's no secret that Microsoft is planning to offer OpenSSH support: http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=2015060309042...
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by liviu- 11y ago
Also, Google has been donating every year since (at least) 2012, when OpenBSD started to make the donors list public.
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by liviu- 11y ago
They also have keygens for VMWare laying around, so they might have some additional lawsuits coming their way.

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