michh

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by michh 15y ago
I disagree. SMS spoofing is a serious problem but not such a gigantic privacy issue as sending my phone number to every website I visit. If it were merely some string that uniquely identifies me across different domains no matter how many t
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by michh 15y ago
I don't really care about the layout, I care that they destroyed my favorite social network. Google+ does not offer anything near the functionality that Reader had.
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by michh 15y ago
Yes it is. Sounds like it's not the kind of company I'd like to work for, so I guess in a way it's useful that they use that term.
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by michh 15y ago
A couple of weeks ago for me. from what I understood the museum is struggling very much financially. Such a shame.... Perhaps a couple of wealthy hackers reading this can donate in his memory? It's a legacy worth preserving.
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by michh 15y ago
Short summary, because the Google translation sucks: His house was raided by the authorities and his computer equipment was seized because he linked to a piece of software called RealAlternative which seems to be some sort of reverse engine
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RealNetworks financially ruins Dutch web developer for linking to freeware(translate.google.com)
10 points by michh 15y ago|1 comments
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by michh 15y ago
Does anyone know how Last.fm is doing? I still love it, but I've seen a lot of friends move away from it, to services that don't quite do the same like Spotify and Grooveshark. Is that just my friends or have they experienced a massive exod
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by michh 15y ago
It works on the iPhone 4 as well (or at least: it did on mine). Was amazed by how fast and easy that was.
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by michh 15y ago
Imho this article is too much of an oversimplification. It's forcing artifical labels on some things that don't really fit very well. It's fairly useless if you've already heard about most of these and it's a false start if you haven't. If
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by michh 15y ago
Whether it's justified or not, it's about double the current market value for these kinds of apps in the iOS app store ecosystem. So yeah, people will complain, even though it's the amount of money you'd probably easily spend on a cup of co
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by michh 15y ago
I don't expect to be able to upgrade the graphics card or the CPU but swapping out the harddrive or adding more memory used to be relatively easy for iMacs. Certainly not impossible. What if in five years your harddrive crashes and they've
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by michh 15y ago
It wouldn't surprise me if they'll just give unidentifiable traffic the lowest possible priority on their network to discourage it.
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Dutch carrier has been secretly spying on customers for at least 9 months(translate.google.com)
63 points by michh 15y ago|17 comments
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by michh 15y ago
Ugh, custom scrollbars. If you're going to do it (but please, don't), do it like this. Not with some crummy Flash applet. I'm talking to you, Vimeo.
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by michh 15y ago
I have a 3.5" OCZ Vertex2 that's being used on a daily basis (with lots of swapping) since Oktober. No problems as of yet. I've had another one (2.5") in my Macbook since early january. No problems either. Performance might have degraded, b
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by michh 15y ago
They're even working on a fully automated solution. That's a hell of a difference compared to 'download the original movie and upload it to youtube yourself'.
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Google responds to negative feedback, makes video migration easier(pastebin.com)
17 points by michh 15y ago|4 comments
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by michh 16y ago
He forgets to note that you don't actually need to pay $99 if you just want to sync your contacts and calendar and have push email. Google lets you do that for free, even on iOS. It takes a little more effort to set up than on Android (you
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by michh 16y ago
PHP might not be the language of choice if you start hacking a project for yourself. And sure, it has tons of problems and weaknesses but you can't deny one thing: you can very easily get very cheap dev-power when you use PHP. Sure, those p
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by michh 16y ago
I used to love midnight hacking. Really did. Was way more productive during the night than during the day. It changed a couple of years back. Don't really know why. Maybe it's just that I'm more busy nowadays and have to go to work/class in
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by michh 16y ago
the user-agent sniffing is a pretty neat trick. if people catch on to that and start checking with curl first, you could even serve the friendly content the first time someone fetches it with curl.
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by michh 16y ago
I'm a msc-student in Groningen. I hear the CS programmes at Delft, Utrecht and Twente are nice as well. The cultures/approaches are all different though, have a look at their websites and see if anything resonates with you.
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by michh 16y ago
If they're distributing .dmgs or .exes and their server gets rooted the result is exactly the same. And if the download and webpage are hosted on the same machine (like, practically always) the checksum won't help you either. If you want to
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by michh 16y ago
Well, I know from personal experience the universities in the Netherlands are pretty decent when it comes to CS. Added bonus is that practically everybody can speak English (and don't mind doing so).
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by michh 16y ago
Any specific field? CS is quite broad and it might be wise to choose a university that has a strong research tradition in the field(s) that you're interested in.