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by nadams 11y ago
> Can you elaborate on this or provide a pointer? In my experience ext4 becomes very unhappy/slow when you have many files/folders in the same folder (I noticed this with backuppc). dir_index may have helped me with this.
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by nadams 11y ago
While this is a great service...how is it making money? And could I make money by live casting my coding?
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by nadams 11y ago
> Windows doesn't have standard directories where libraries live. Visual Studio certainly does: Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\include Many people argue don't put libraries there - well then you are back to the original proble
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by nadams 11y ago
No - you said drop off a file somewhere. Connecting to their open AP is a crime in itself. I was trying to point out that the legal system has no idea how to deal with the legalities of accessing APs. Of course, they would have prove I had
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by nadams 11y ago
That would require committing a crime (in the US at least). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_piggybacking#Unite... This is too funny - why would you admit, to a cop, what you are doing??? You just say you are
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by nadams 11y ago
> The configuration app is a very nice touch, routers have always a pain to configure. Basically this boils down to: The average home router which has basic to no settings (many even lack channel selection) but usage is poor to suboptima
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by nadams 11y ago
> default credentials, which are stickered or engraved on their routers. Which having a seemingly random admin and wifi password with WPA pre-configured is better than no password. I remember a story where an individual connected to an o
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by nadams 11y ago
I've noticed it does that - I wonder if it locks down a thread after it gets so much traffic?
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by nadams 11y ago
After seeing a popular indie game developer connect directly to MySQL from his game [1] - nothing surprises me anymore. [1] http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&thr...
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by nadams 11y ago
> Cheating is a social problem. I want to quote Sir Ken Robinson [1]: > They have spent ten years at school being told that there is one answer – it’s at the back…and don’t look, and don’t copy, because that’s cheating. I mean, outsid
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by nadams 11y ago
> I love GH, but I only use it for my public projects. Limiting private repos ($200 for 125?) seems insane to me, and it will drive people to make public items that shouldn't be. But that's not really github's fault for pe
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by nadams 11y ago
> I think you're being oversensitive about PHP. I'm just tired of seeing the same search on github for PHP config files. > its predictably-named settings file So does every other popular application and framework on the plan
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by nadams 11y ago
You do know that you can play the same game with other languages as well? https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=filename%3Asettin... I feel like people don't accept the fact that people do stupid stuff in othe
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by nadams 11y ago
I know many people may be thinking "just throw it out". But you don't understand - you may be faced with system that is in one of those manuals and some previous genius decided that when they cleaned their office to toss that
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by nadams 11y ago
> My first thought was why would a professional, statically typed language have var. It might be because C++ has auto. Kind of related Java has Object. I haven't figured out if people want languages like C++ to be a loose typed lang
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by nadams 11y ago
> I on my part (in spite using C myself) think that typing code is not that problem, but typing the right code. What do you think of the auto keyword in C++? I've personally never found typing out the types to be a problem.
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by nadams 11y ago
> For array types, C2 introduces a new operator, namely elemsof(). This returns the number of elements in an array sigh PHP - count Python - len C++ - .size (vector) C - macro or stored C# - .Length
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by nadams 11y ago
> The alternative is Google push an update that inadvertently bricks a bunch of rooted phones. Can you imagine the kneejerk reaction from the internet then? That already happens [1] on non-modified devices. So just come up with a "y
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by nadams 11y ago
I think something got lost in translation - I'm not saying for the manufacturers NOT to release updates. I'm advocating for the ability for people like me to be able to apply the patches manually - and thus as a result the ability
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by nadams 11y ago
> Almost all users would be incapable of applying patches themselves. There are currently 357,101 registered users on XDA developers. Saying "almost" every android user can't apply a patch is somewhat far fetched. Most pro
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by nadams 11y ago
I backup my keys into keepass just like you - but I would have to restore about 20 OTP accounts. Not something I want to do more than once. And this is a workaround for a lack of a feature rather than a solution. Also - I didn't say th
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by nadams 11y ago
> Even if Google patches this, there's an incredible delay in getting the patch to users. I don't think delay is the problem - not being able to get or apply the patch yourself is the problem. Ignoring the somewhat ridiculous
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by nadams 11y ago
> Publishing an extension to the Chrome Web Store that lets anyone exploit the bug is NOT the responsible way for anyone to "highlight" a security issue unless normal channels have repeatedly failed I think that's the core
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by nadams 11y ago
> Python 2 only - disappointing. I think a quote by the SVN developers is appropriate - "patches welcome".
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by nadams 11y ago
> Can't those other sources also be spoofed? It's a lot harder to spoof say for example APs near you, signal strength to a cell tower, and/or IP geolocation - than a GPS signal. If you can spoof all of that - you probably
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by nadams 11y ago
Ingress is a great idea - but poorly implemented. I have cheated (not with malicious intent - I just wanted to prove that it could be done), and heard of other potential cheating cases as well. I definitely wouldn't use GPS as a sole i
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by nadams 11y ago
> How do you reply on behalf of all of Microsoft? Of General Electric? Of Kraft? All these companies have 800 numbers that I can call to get an official-ish reply to my question or concern. It should be just as easy to setup a shared ema
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by nadams 11y ago
> Publicly accessible email addresses are nearly impossible to manage. That's hard to believe when many companies offer a support@company.com, twitter, facebook, phone or other means of public contact. And why would every visitor co
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by nadams 11y ago
> I'm going to guess this is either totally false I tried to contact Reddit administration once - no response. They probably either ignore uninteresting emails (read: any email except where people want to give them money) - or it wa
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by nadams 11y ago
I use OTP and it's not working for me after I login - it just keeps spinning (I'm in the US). Hopefully they will fix OTP support as I need to use a special link to login...

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