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by mverwijs 13y ago
If I were willing to make those hours for that pay, I'd start my own company.
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by mverwijs 13y ago
In the Netherlands. Being non-US, like 97% of the world, I am not allowed to vote on all those US-policies that shape my life.
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by mverwijs 13y ago
Making it very complicated to cast a simple vote.
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by mverwijs 13y ago
This may sound silly, but ElementaryOS has revived my hope of a usable Linux desktop. And then some. It stays out of my way completely. And when I need it, it's intuitive in use while looking beautifully. It's simple, but complete
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by mverwijs 13y ago
I have several O'Reilly epubs that I bought on Google Play that are not crippled with DRM. They are sold as individual apps and include an epub reader.
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by mverwijs 13y ago
> post-PRISM Post? You optimist you. If anything we're smack in the middle of it.
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by mverwijs 13y ago
Outlook integration is a paid option, but z-push (ActiveSync implementation) is free.
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by mverwijs 13y ago
As an ex-zarafa employee I can confirm it is written in-house, from scratch. Uses Extjs. Also see: https://community.zarafa.com/
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by mverwijs 13y ago
You trust the US of today. That is your right and well, that is fine. But who is to speak for tomorrow? None of us can tell what the future brings. Not me and not you. So who is to say that in ten years, when that data is still there, that
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by mverwijs 13y ago
Or: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/
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by mverwijs 13y ago
They could, I'd think, do both. Censor of topic, yet confirm the issue and take steps to fix it.
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by mverwijs 13y ago
> You start with individual journalists who have their own reputations, deep subject matter expertise, clear points of view, an independent and outsider spirit, a dedicated online following, and their own way of working. Interestingly
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by mverwijs 13y ago
I stepped away from naming hosts the year I learned to use Puppet. After being able to create an infrastructure based on code, the idea of naming hosts just seemed pointless.
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by mverwijs 13y ago
I remember reading that one of the big money makers is Opera Mini. All the content viewed by that browser comes through proxies run by Opera. This means a HUGE amount of data that Opera can monetize on.
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by mverwijs 13y ago
Reminded me of "Screw you. Pay me.", a video that advices to get a lawyer before you sign anything. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2450424
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by mverwijs 13y ago
Funny thing is: the non-profit that created this map is De Waag Society, located in De Waag in Amsterdam - a building dating from the 1400s.
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by mverwijs 13y ago
Also, there is the decription part. The browser would need to auto-decrypt on the fly all the encrypted messages that are meant for your eyes only. Without asking for a password every time. And without having to open a new application. Rend
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by mverwijs 13y ago
Hardly solved. I want it to be so simple the average Facebook user will want to use it. Emacs hardly fits that bill. Nor does popping up any other editor I think. I would just like to use the native browser interface and right before doing
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by mverwijs 13y ago
I was hoping someone far more talented than me would write a browser plugin that would encrypt everything I type in a TEXTAREA with GPG, and then prompt me for a list of friends I'd like to have read that text. Everything, from Faceboo
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by mverwijs 13y ago
Well, it's really very logical. After all, we non-US folk are the ones being spied on as well. Or mostly, even. It's only fair that we have a say in the politics of the US, as their politicians seem to find it fair to meddle in ou
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by mverwijs 13y ago
I'm surprised that I, as a non-US citizen living in the Netherlands, could sign that.
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by mverwijs 13y ago
> Every person I've shown it to, developer and otherwise, has loved it. It is unclear to me if those people also actually used the software (at lenght)?
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by mverwijs 13y ago
There was an tiny anecdote on a TED talk about the speakers grandmother working at a telephone switchboard in India. She regularly heard conversations she shouldn't have, including conversations with Nehru (the then president of India). ht
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by mverwijs 13y ago
In the Netherlands, there is a yearly list of the most rich people called "The Quote 500". Of those 500 richest dutch, I think about 15 are HFT owners and employees. See: http://www.amsterdamtrader.com/2012/10/duyfken-sails-into-qu...
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by mverwijs 13y ago
As an ops-guy (interestingly enough, at an HFT company), I used graphviz to draw out a diagram of all the network interfaces and routes that were being used when trading on a single exchange for one single instrument. It was a huge, big, co
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by mverwijs 13y ago
I don't know. I mean, the trend has been hand-held devices and laptops for the past decade or so. They don't get booted every day and will be less and less. All the while, devices are getting faster hardware, making the difference even less
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by mverwijs 13y ago
I'm unable to determine if you mean upstart to be a Good Thing, or a Bad Thing, or anything in between. To me, switching back from Ubuntu to Debian was a blessing. And I simply cannot understand this need to decrease boottimes. My laptop bo
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by mverwijs 13y ago
That really depends on your desktop. For my daily life, I use Firefox (iceweasel), Google Chrome, a terminal, some ruby or python. All of these have a channel for installing the latest version of their software without having to dist-upgrad
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by mverwijs 13y ago
I'd say switch the sources.list to 'stable' or 'wheezy' for a few weeks. After that, switch back to 'testing' and run "apt-get dist-upgrade --assume-no" and see what Debian is going to upgrade. There is no real proper way to do this, other
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by mverwijs 14y ago
There is: http://realbeautysketches.dove.com/

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