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by longwave 10y ago
Similarly, Pampers nappies have only been available to Prime customers for some months now.
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The FBI's Firefox Exploit(lawfareblog.com)
2 points by longwave 11y ago|0 comments
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by longwave 11y ago
Correct title is "Fitts's law" as it is named after Paul Fitts.
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by longwave 11y ago
The company accounts [1] break this down a bit, reporting the staff numbers as 123 "builders", 73 "operators" and 40 "pushers". A slide deck about SoundCloud [2] explains that "builders" are the desig
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Why the Sun 2 has a message “Love your country, but never trust its government”(nohats.ca)
266 points by longwave 11y ago|59 comments
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by longwave 11y ago
http://www.zend.com/en/resources/php7_infographic
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by longwave 11y ago
The performance improvements along with the support policy should hopefully encourage many sites to move to PHP 7 within a year; PHP 5.6 will be unsupported in 8 months (though it will receive security fixes for another year).
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by longwave 11y ago
The performance improvements in this release will hopefully encourage people to upgrade, even if the new features don't. Common PHP applications run 70%-100% faster on PHP 7 than they did on PHP 5.6, comparable with or better than HHVM
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by longwave 11y ago
Amazed that Dennis Ritchie used a non-monospace font, I don't think I have seen any other serious developer use one. Also amused to see the Jerkcity comic open in Jordan Hubbard's screenshot.
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Why Airbnb is dead to me(drupaler.drupalgardens.com)
358 points by longwave 11y ago|230 comments
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“We Own You” – Confessions of an Anonymous Free to Play Producer(toucharcade.com)
3 points by longwave 11y ago|0 comments
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by longwave 11y ago
That is simply not true, there are some limitations though these are being removed in newer browsers: http://caniuse.com/#feat=clipboard
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by longwave 11y ago
That particular incident was in the Daily Star rather than the Mail.
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by longwave 11y ago
For anyone interested the block that has been sold is 51.174.0.0/15. The remainder of 51.0.0.0/8 still belongs to the Department of Work and Pensions though none of it is publically routable.
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by longwave 11y ago
Unfortunately this isn't possible on newer keyboards, as Ctrl and Fn have different sized keycaps.
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by longwave 11y ago
In some models, you can swap Ctrl and Fn in the BIOS. I find it much easier to hit a Ctrl-Shift combo with Ctrl on the far left.
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by longwave 12y ago
"RT" stands for Right Time where the railway is concerned.
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by longwave 12y ago
I realise you're trying to be facetious, but probably this one: http://mina.naguib.ca/blog/2012/10/22/the-little-ssh-that-so...
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by longwave 12y ago
This reminded me of the best TCP timeout story I've ever heard, the case of the 500-mile email: http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
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by longwave 12y ago
It's something to do with the ad banners, as with ad blocking turned on it works perfectly.
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Happy 100th birthday, Hedy Lamarr, movie star and Wi-Fi inventor(cnet.com)
2 points by longwave 12y ago|0 comments
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Why your previous developer was terrible(medium.com)
2 points by longwave 13y ago|0 comments
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by longwave 13y ago
This was originally presented was in 2004, but since then has been refined in a number of ways. The detailed paper that includes the full key extraction attack was only released today, coinciding with the GnuPG security update that mitigate
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RSA Key Extraction via Low-Bandwidth Acoustic Cryptanalysis(cs.tau.ac.il)
344 points by longwave 13y ago|95 comments
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by longwave 13y ago
$ curl -I internet.org HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error Cache-Control: private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate Expires: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT Pragma: no-cache X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff X-Frame-Opti
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by longwave 13y ago
Tab Clear? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_Clear
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by longwave 14y ago
I seem to remember it looks for gnome-clock to discover your location, and gives up if that's not found, although the GTK version does unhelpfully just exit without a message. It can't work without knowing your latitude and longitude to wor
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by longwave 14y ago
Create a config file in ~/.config/redshift.conf with the manual parameters you use, and redshift-gtk should work. Sample config is at http://jonls.dk/2010/10/redshift-1-6-released/ - I only need to set lat and lon to get it to run, though
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by longwave 14y ago
Redshift is an open source equivalent for Linux and Windows: http://jonls.dk/redshift/