nexxer

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by nexxer 10y ago
What I usually reach when thinking along similar paths, using me (programmer) vs my doctor friends, is the failure scenario: If I introduce a bug it will hurt revenue in some way, possibly affecting the company's operations. If most do
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by nexxer 10y ago
Interesting, but I had to disable images to read through it. Too many distracting and unecessary gifs.
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by nexxer 10y ago
Per the developer at that forum thread: "To be safe, always check the digital signature of EXEs you downloaded, before you run them. The official Classic Shell installer has a signature for "Ivaylo Beltchev", and the fake one
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by nexxer 10y ago
More: allowing contact from offline users (newspapers, tv, radio) and interacting with them, mobile payments.
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by nexxer 10y ago
One thing they do is send out international bulk SMS to their users, probably through large SMS aggregators. This has a cost per SMS that's pretty hard to get around.
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by nexxer 10y ago
My mother stopped using Whatsapp completely when she saw the "your chats are now encrypted" message the first time, until she reached out and I explained it was OK.
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by nexxer 10y ago
TIM is indeed incredible, I remember spending many hours on the PC playing it. The proposed The Incredible Magnet should be mobile, a dumbed down subset for casual puzzle solving. Move the magnetic sphere from X to Y using magnets, pulleys,
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by nexxer 11y ago
Firefox extension to collapse comment trees: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hn-utility-su...
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by nexxer 11y ago
In addition to others mentioned here, I've been enjoying Weekend Reading by Assaf Arkin for a roundup of lighthearted tidbits about the dev world, in addition to some useful tips: http://tinyletter.com/assaf Example li
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by nexxer 11y ago
Interesting - played around with it but the sound is choppy and crackles between key preses on my computer. I'm thinking it's my audio setup (AMD Radeon 6770 graphics card feeding an Onkyo 5.1 receiver both graphics and audio over
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by nexxer 12y ago
Remove it Permanently does this, adding a submenu to right-click: http://rip.mozdev.org/
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by nexxer 12y ago
Apparently it infers a username from your submitted email address. However, the username key is set as unique and errors out, dumping its debug info on the page: <class 'psycopg2.IntegrityError'> at /register duplicate
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by nexxer 12y ago
in_array(needle, haystack) PHP with its argument ordering strikes again :)
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by nexxer 14y ago
I've been doing this for 7 years with great results and love the zero configuration needed for registering at any site with a unique email address. In the past few months, however, I've been getting spam that simply brute-forces usernames a
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by nexxer 14y ago
I never got used to Chrome's Developer Tools. Firebug and a properly working Scrollbar Anywhere / Grab-n-drag (lets you right click anywhere and drag up and down to scroll anywhere in the page) are the only extensions keeping me on Firefox.