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by nickspacek 10y ago
I'm embarrassed to admit that I never realized that "Cisco" was, in addition to the company's name, short/slang for San Francisco, nor that their logo was meant to evoke the Golden Gate Bridge.
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by nickspacek 10y ago
Funnily enough, for a while I haven't been able to use Hangouts screen share in Chrome ( https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=649487 ) but works in Firefox. A couple of years back I was ha
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by nickspacek 10y ago
We live near the border, and I've never seen anyone questioned (myself included) when bringing dairy across; it's one of the primary purchases of people visiting the US side.
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by nickspacek 10y ago
I wonder if they do this to limit the potential of rolling breaking changes out to their enterprise Google Apps accounts and the like? The servers running the Google Apps accounts and applications probably have a different update policy. It
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by nickspacek 10y ago
He's (maybe) saying the Russians would also support Trump for the benefit of causing America to lose face on the world stage.
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by nickspacek 10y ago
You're correct in that software (including games) is almost always licensed, but I think you're also being a little pedantic. There were certainly fewer games that required "phoning home" for verification and fewer games
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by nickspacek 11y ago
Anecdotal, but suspend has always been a huge frustration for me (T510). Between trying different video drivers and kernels and having them bork the machine I decided to see if any modern release of a distro would just work out of the box (
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by nickspacek 11y ago
You're right, I did have that on my mind when I was posting and was hoping not to catch too much flak! Someone down the thread mentioned keeping things running, debugging, etc. which is part of what kept me from doing it on my own as I
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by nickspacek 11y ago
I have to admit I use IFTTT to take an RSS feed from our kid's elementary school and post the entries to a Facebook Fan Page. The idea being to avoid having to teach my wife to use an RSS reader, now she (and another hundred or so peop
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by nickspacek 11y ago
I check HN multiple times per day every day, and I hadn't seen it yet.
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by nickspacek 11y ago
Not to nitpick but DNS requests only reveal hosts being visited, not URLs. Non-HTTPS requests reveal the URL to the ISP.
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Complete Meiosis from Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Germ Cells in Vitro(cell.com)
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by nickspacek 11y ago
Agreed with the harm to locally-made innovation. In my city (Fredericton, NB) the tech industry has hade (seemingly) more and more bigger companies (Raytheon, Siemens, Salesforce, IBM) setting up shop and bringing better wages. It's a
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by nickspacek 11y ago
I'm no lawyer but I'm not sure that allowing others the ability to view and fork your repositories is the equivalent of granting them a real license to the code. I don't think the definition of fork implies much in the way of
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by nickspacek 11y ago
This should be great. I work on a Cordova app where data submissions by the user are queued in some custom iOS code and regularly attempted if there is connectivity. When I read about Service Workers it sounded like they would be able to do
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by nickspacek 11y ago
Heroku is more like Elastic Beanstalk than Amazon API Gateway. API Gateway is more of a Backend As A Service as I understand it, like Parse.
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by nickspacek 11y ago
I use my Chromecast every day and love it. We rarely have a PC in the house to use anymore and use our phones or tablet for most day-to-day activities on the Internet. As such, it's really easy to share a video with the rest of the fam
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by nickspacek 11y ago
Chrome's auto-update is barely noticeable and quite polite, in that it doesn't nag you to restart (or forcibly shut down your current work). Doesn't stop you from shutting it down and barely slows down the next time it starts
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by nickspacek 11y ago
I thought this was a buffered-writes issue, where (perhaps based on the filesystem?) the OS may have buffered some of the disk operations in memory and by asking it to unmount you can ensure that everything gets flushed to the drive. Not su
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by nickspacek 11y ago
Similarly to GZIP applied by the Web Server, you could build your minification in, although given that the approaches are more varied and less standard it might not be the greatest idea.
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by nickspacek 12y ago
Only domain/IP-level blocking would work for public/free WiFi-style connections. The filtering wouldn't be able to inspect the contents of the pages that are transferred without perform MITM decryption/encryption, and to
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by nickspacek 12y ago
Reason being that with SSL you can't read the contents of the Request/Response (including page content) without MITM, which would require you to install a certificate on the user's device. That may be an option in some situat