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by martinml 13y ago
I guess it depends on your setup. On Windows XP + ClearType + Chrome the difference is _huge_, it has a much better font smoothing.
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by martinml 13y ago
http://phantomjs.org/
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by martinml 13y ago
This was one of the reasons WhatsApp was a big success, at least in Europe, and I suspect it's a reason it's not as well known in USA (they usually have hundreds or unlimited texts included in their plans). You can't expect t
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by martinml 13y ago
If you use a native click-to-play solution, it will prevent it unless you're victim of some kind of clickjacking attack. If you use a show-then-hide-with-CSS script (there are several for Chrome, for example), they won't prevent i
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WhatsApp issued takedown against alternative clients a week before acquisition(raw.github.com)
208 points by martinml 13y ago|66 comments
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by martinml 13y ago
That changed. The app is now[0] free and it's $1/year, in every platform. [0]: http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/20/3787472/whatsapp-for-ios-...
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by martinml 13y ago
That's what I've read too, but there doesn't seem to be any official story. I've also read that they closed because it was being abused with services like Classicfon where you earn a few cents per hour you call them. VoI
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by martinml 13y ago
Not exactly what dewey was referring to, but for example they unilaterally cancelled their VoIP service to a large part of their customers in Europe, without any kind of explanation.
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Joining Naughty Dog's Kennel(allenchou.net)
1 points by martinml 13y ago|0 comments
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MyOpenID will be turned off on February 1, 2014(myopenid.com)
2 points by martinml 13y ago|0 comments
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by martinml 13y ago
You're probably thinking of "tag". The "ref" parameter doesn't have anything to do with Amazon's affiliate program (which is what I understand you're talking about).
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by martinml 13y ago
An opcache code just stores the bytecode so you just avoid the parsing step in each request. It does not inherently optimizes anything, although it has been tried with APC in the past (but finally abandoned). I don't know what's t
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by martinml 13y ago
Also about 2), haxe: http://haxe.org/doc/start/php
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by martinml 13y ago
If the payment gateway decides to not implement this kind of protection, the payment goes through anyway (I'm guessing it'll be more expensive for the merchant, but still).
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by martinml 13y ago
Well, yes, an unlocked/unlockable bootloader is not the same as a rooted phone, that's correct. But the former often leads to the latter: for example, the process of rooting a Nexus phone involves flashing a new recovery system, w
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by martinml 13y ago
It is on practical terms!
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by martinml 13y ago
Because for example "beam" matches [^g-z] . That is, it has a letter somewhere that is not between g and z (namely e and a ). I came up with ^[a-f]+$ but I'm guessing it could be shorter :) Edit: ah, every word in l
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by martinml 13y ago
Discourse seems to be working on that problem: http://meta.discourse.org/t/feedback-improved-topic-summary-...
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by martinml 13y ago
More details in /r/netsec: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1sqppp/ebay_remoteco...
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by martinml 13y ago
That's starting to change! Android 4.4 (KitKat) includes a new WebView component based on the Chromium open source project Will the new WebView auto-update? (...) There are large engineering and logistical challenges. We're not
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by martinml 13y ago
Previously on HN... :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6804897
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by martinml 13y ago
I thought it was a benchmark of the same hardware with 5.6 vs 5.7. I see now that they changed more than that.
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by martinml 13y ago
Well, the performance under the same conditions was 500KQPS before, so definitely there was an improvement!
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by martinml 13y ago
It's just blogspam. Here is the original source, which according to The Wayback Machine was created almost a year ago: http://www.crucial.com/promo/DDR4.aspx
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by martinml 13y ago
I've found network folder sharing (cifs or vboxfs) to be quite slow and buggy for certain tasks. Is there any known good alternative?
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by martinml 13y ago
If you can use a password to generate/link a new certificate, wouldn't that mean the weakest link is again the password? Sorry if I am misunderstanding, it's a very interesting topic but I'm not sure I get it :)
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by martinml 13y ago
How do you solve multi-device login? Also, that seems to require JS, which may or may not me a problem.
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Prebrowsing(stevesouders.com)
2 points by martinml 13y ago|0 comments
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by martinml 13y ago
Note that testing/jessie and sid are vulnerable. Not that anybody should run a server with testing, but still :)
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by martinml 13y ago
They seem to be using Google Apps for the e-mail. And they claim: > The attacker was able to bypass 2FA due to a flaw on the server host side Which flaw is this? Is it a known issue for Google? I would like to know more details.

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