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by mooism2 14y ago
Article is from March 2011. We still can't rely on SNI as Windows XP is still widespread. If you are using a CDN then caching is not much of an issue. Modern browsers cache https assets when you set the headers properly.
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by mooism2 14y ago
You brute force the username+password pair. As a bonus, you don't need to know the e-mail address, so you're automatically trying to break in to all the accounts in parallel.
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by mooism2 14y ago
It also keeps out beginners. Depending on the forum (I'm not familiar with lichess) that might be a drawback or a bonus.
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by mooism2 14y ago
“Leave your email to get discounts when we ready!” Grammar: should be “...when we're ready!”
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by mooism2 14y ago
Where?
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by mooism2 14y ago
Looks normal to me.
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by mooism2 14y ago
Do you mean a veterinary physician or a military veteran?
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by mooism2 14y ago
Hopefully they will extend those hours before launching fully in the UK. Tech support only being open 6pm-2am would be annoying. I've no idea where the OP is, but I imagine US/Canadian east coasters aren't terribly happy about support hours
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by mooism2 14y ago
As an ordinary web user, if CloudFlare suspect you may be malicious (your IP address being on a spam blacklist seems to be enough) they will show you a warning that you should scan your PC for viruses and ask you to complete a captcha. (The
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by mooism2 14y ago
C compilers have been optimising switch statements like this since at least the 90s, haven't they?
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At least the hypocrites know what they're doing is wrong.
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Use the feature requests link at the bottom of the page.
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Great! Why couldn't they say that up front instead of making it seem like magical thinking? It's not very good humour, because it made me feel like they thought I was an idiot, instead of making me smile.
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by mooism2 14y ago
That page is full of meaningless marketing fluff. In a typical build system, the dependency arrows go down. ... In tup, the arrows go up. This is obviously true because it rhymes. ... This makes it very fast. You've changed your notation
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by mooism2 14y ago
Having said that, I've just seen https://plus.google.com/100479847213284361344/posts/QhmBpn5G... and learnt that yes, it is possible to run Ubuntu/etc including kernel on the newest Chromebook. Although “there's no way to set the legacy b
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by mooism2 14y ago
I'm wary about getting a Chrome laptop to run Ubuntu on, because (aiui) there is no way to run a kernel on it other than the ChromeOS kernel. I worry that an update to the Ubuntu userspace could cause it to rely on features present in the U
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by mooism2 14y ago
How do you get your title (Windfarms adversely affect global climate) from the title on the linked page (Are global wind power resource estimates overstated?) ? The abstract says that winds would be reduced but not that this would be har
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by mooism2 14y ago
To update the punchline of the old joke for a new era: Invoice For performing 1 (one) Google search: £0.01 For knowing exactly what to Google: £999.99
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by mooism2 14y ago
You celebrate it if you want to, but I won't. Why Feb 24th? And why devote a day to celebrating Apple?
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by mooism2 14y ago
> Back then LiveJournal, Blogger, Wordpress allowed people to blog. But I had to remember your blog address, you had to remember mine and we had to check in on each others blogs from time to time to see if there are any new updates, a
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by mooism2 14y ago
IANAL but breach of contract. You have made an offer through your website, the customer has accepted that order through your website, at which point by default a contract exists between you. You can wiggle round it a bit with your T+Cs, but
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by mooism2 14y ago
1. Why Quora specifically, rather than, say, StackExchange? 2. Why does Google need to buy Quora? If Quora has relevant answers, why aren't they appearing in the search results anyway?
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by mooism2 14y ago
If HN incorrectly hellbans someone... they piss someone off. If a retailer incorrectly hellbans a customer, that is, they tell the customer that their card will be charged, and that the goods they ordered will arrive in the post, but withou
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by mooism2 14y ago
I've seen the idea that self-driving cars will lead to lower car ownership expressed before, and I'm not convinced by it. If you own your own car, you can leave things in it, whether useful things or mere decorations. You can't leave things
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by mooism2 14y ago
Sorry, do you mean tablets will kill off TV as in the huge flatscreen sitting in my living room? Or do you mean tablets will kill off TV as in broadcast/cable/satellite/Netflix/etc?
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by mooism2 14y ago
Sorry, I don't mean to be rude. But I think you will get more useful feedback if you ask your question in a forum that is primarily for writers, rather than in a forum that is primarily for IT/business people. (Unless your site is aimed at
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by mooism2 14y ago
I don't think it means anything in English. But maybe writers (your target market) find names with non-obvious or hidden meanings appealing? Ask them, not us.
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How did the ! get removed from the title?
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by mooism2 14y ago
I'm tempted to hide sshd behind websockets, partly for this reason. It seems too much hassle to be worth it though. (To be clear: my concern is about reducing my exposure the next time there is a sshd 0day exploit.)
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by mooism2 14y ago
Because you're only removing the directory entry. The file contents are still on disk, it's just there's no easy way to know where on disk.

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