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by mooism2 15y ago
I don't understand what information this proposed "search-referer" header contains that the referer header does not.
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by mooism2 15y ago
> Those who get into the service can send emails to anyone on the service without it being caught in a filter. Which is fine until an important person's PC/phone/tablet gets malware. How often do important people use infected devices?
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by mooism2 15y ago
This page crashes Firefox 10.0.2 as packaged in Ubuntu 10.04.
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by mooism2 15y ago
Privacy and free data / data portability are in tension. If we're friends on Facebook, you decide to switch to Google+, you import all your friendships/etc from Facebook onto Google+, isn't that an invasion of my privacy (disclosing informa
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by mooism2 15y ago
Have you checked the source code?
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by mooism2 15y ago
Why does it seem odd?
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by mooism2 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication says that Chrome on XP supports SNI since Chrome 6.
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by mooism2 15y ago
Sure, but they don't make clear their expectation that SPDY runs over SSL by default.
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by mooism2 15y ago
RFCs generally (or at least "modern RFCs when I was paying attention", which was about a decade ago) don't like to over-specify. e.g. RFC 2068 (HTTP/1.1) includes this paragraph: HTTP communication usually takes place over TCP/IP connectio
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by mooism2 15y ago
The ietf draft confused me by saying spdy runs over tcp, instead of saying it runs over tls over tcp. Probably I am misreading it --- I'm out of practice at reading rfcs, and I expect it would have been all over HN if they were no longer ma
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by mooism2 15y ago
When showdead is on, you can see submissions and comments that have been flagged to death. When noprocrast is on, you may only view HN for maxvisit minutes at a time, and must stay away for minaway minutes before returning.
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by mooism2 15y ago
In some jurisdictions it is illegal (civil offence) to record a phone conversation without informing the other party (which is why whenever I phone my bank I am told my call "may be recorded for training purposes" long before I am put throu
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by mooism2 15y ago
What sports do you cover?
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by mooism2 15y ago
A "lock-in bug"?
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by mooism2 15y ago
Try setting the noprocrast setting in your profile. The maxvisit and minaway fields are in minutes.
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by mooism2 15y ago
It's legal to price discriminate based on age (discounted cinema tickets for children and pensioners), gender (free entry to certain nightclubs for women), occupation (teachers get educational discounts on some software, even when they only
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by mooism2 15y ago
Your tutorial doesn't explain why it changes "green"'s colour but not "blue"'s.
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by mooism2 15y ago
Title of linked page: I want a domain for my IP NOW! Title here on HN: I want an IP for my domain NOW Pls fix.
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by mooism2 15y ago
86 comments worth of discussion here --- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3644907 (But the earlier HN post linked to Linus's profile instead of to this specific post.)
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by mooism2 15y ago
WARNING: Not SAFE FOR APPLE FANBOIS (or, down-vote me to obscurity) Flagged for a flamebaity title.
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by mooism2 15y ago
Click on your username to get to your profile, then click on “saved stories”.
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by mooism2 15y ago
The developer tool can be configured to not display line numbers (and who knows, maybe it comes configured that way by default), so how are the screenshots deceptive?
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by mooism2 15y ago
A shame that it is tied to Google Profiles :-(
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by mooism2 15y ago
What do you mean, "fraud"?
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by mooism2 15y ago
I would have more sympathy towards the "blocking ads is theft" view if ad-supported websites and applications didn't routinely claim they were free. Either it's free (and we have no obligation to load ads, not that they should be involved a
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by mooism2 15y ago
Something I've noticed about my own behaviour is that when I'm tired or lazy or in a rush I'm quick to downvote. When I have the time and energy I'm more likely to post a comment asking "Isn't this wrong because...?" or "What about...?"
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by mooism2 15y ago
The author doesn't link to the question and answer they posted, so it's hard to know whether they posted a reasonable question and answer, and were unfairly disparaged by the denizens of the php tag, or whether they posted a clueless questi
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by mooism2 15y ago
Why disallow root login? What's wrong with allowing root login via public key only? Or via a public key limited by command="..."?
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by mooism2 15y ago
See also join(1).
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by mooism2 15y ago
I'll be paying attention to what disaffected Ubuntu users switch to... but I'll try the new Ubuntu out before I (possibly) switch away.

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