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by nikcub 10y ago
Spiegel gets an extra 3% for the IPO.
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by nikcub 10y ago
Two things to add: The settings files now have intellisense in them so you don't have to lookup each option. You can also have a separate settings.json file for that project and check it into git inside the .vscode folder and make thos
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by nikcub 10y ago
VS Code is part of the strategy to get .NET Core distributed and to support the web layers built on top of that which mostly now use open source technology (from npm and bower through to grunt, typescript and angular)
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by nikcub 10y ago
Microsoft seem to have learned a lot from Java in designing their new .NET Core CLR. It has gotten almost everything right: * a small and fast CLR (JVM) * a class library that defaults to almost nothing but primitive classes * proper and st
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by nikcub 10y ago
After reading the details of the case i'm wondering why Facebook even took this to trial. Would love to have been in the room when Facebook lawyers found out about Carmack deleting discovery material after receiving the claim and after
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by nikcub 10y ago
Studios are paranoid about copyright because of lawsuits. I can't imagine anybody contributing to a project without a screenplay purchase, spec agreement or work-for-hire contract that would explicitly set out copyright assignment.
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by nikcub 10y ago
Famous example I remember is that Joss Whedon pretty much rewrote all the dialog in Speed but never got a writing credit[0] - apparently the rules are written to prevent producers or directors adjusting a few lines to gain a credit, but t
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by nikcub 10y ago
This same story was told from the perspective of Cristian Provvisionato, the Italian who has been detained in Mauritiana, in Motherboard a few weeks ago: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-forgotten-prisoner-of-a...
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by nikcub 10y ago
That data has to be normalized for the surge in fentanyl use. Sydney has had safe injecting for 15 years, initially the rate of overdose went down ~75% to around 1 per month but now in the past few years it has spiked back up again to recor
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by nikcub 10y ago
Good for you Suboxone is a miracle drug, more people need access to it.
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by nikcub 10y ago
IPC code: https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/ipc/chromium Sanbox code: https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/security/ ppapi: https://dxr.mozill
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by nikcub 10y ago
Thanks for the pointer - i've found the same with CounchPotato - and the entire quality/category categorization much more confusing than how Sonarr sets it up.
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by nikcub 10y ago
Exactly right - cable is $120 a month, then Netflix, HBO, Amazon Prime (all US) and a handful of Australian services. Still prefer the downloaded version since our connections here can be unreliable (altho Netflix is usually good).
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by nikcub 10y ago
I'll be trying this out, it could work well with Cloud Torrent. I've largely moved away from Torrents tho and switched to using NZB's and apps that automatically download tv shows and films[0] Here is my stack: 1. NZB downloa
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by nikcub 10y ago
Firefox had no process isolation or web content sandboxing for years. It still doesn't in a lot of places even today. That meant that every little bug became a serious bug. In contrast, RCE's for Chrome and Safari require chaining
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by nikcub 10y ago
This is a neat idea but it doesn't implement the main reason I use separate profiles in Chromium - different security contexts based on how much you trust a site. Example: my main general browsing profile has flash, PDFs and all plugin
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by nikcub 10y ago
The whole point of an HSM is that you can't physically tamper with it. Vendors also provide ways to validate HSM's https://www.thales-esecurity.com/msrms/validate
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by nikcub 10y ago
In my experience with researching online drug and exploit markets as soon as a reliable Tor-hosted email provider springs up they become the default email provider for almost everybody. Previously the default provider has been safe-mail.net
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by nikcub 10y ago
There's a cost/benefit tradeoff to blocking each service and different governments have different thresholds. It is more likely that the cost of blocking Signal was negligible in contrast to the benefit, while blocking WhatsApp wo
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by nikcub 10y ago
I've helped a half-dozen friends and family members in the past couple of weeks fix their net filtering. I usually do it by logging into their routers and setting their DNS servers to OpenDNS or Google. A few things i've noticed.
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by nikcub 10y ago
A lot of his best insights required technical knowledge - adopting Ethernet, SCSI, Mach kernels, BSD userland, object oriented programming, Postscript, TrueType fonts, WebObjects (and Java server, while ditching it on the client), html5 (ov
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by nikcub 10y ago
I know a lot of scholars count Serbia as a democracy, but it wasn't until 2001. Milosevic was a classic post-soviet Eastern European autocratic strongman. While Serbia had a parliament, electoral fraud was rife. Milosevic's popula
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by nikcub 10y ago
I don't think that is true. In 2012 Yahoo had $5B a year in revenue and was the second most visited property on the web. When Thompson stepped down the board were given two proposals. The first, revive Yahoo as a premium tech firm lead
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by nikcub 10y ago
Loeb's thesis was simple - that Yahoo is worth a lot more as the sum of its parts as it was a combined entity. He was right - there were long periods of time where Yahoo on its own had a negative value. The stock price was largely driv
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by nikcub 10y ago
I'd be interested in an example of this if you have one, because I read all the source materials in this story and found his arguments compelling (after initially buying into the narrative)
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by nikcub 10y ago
> i.e. How did Snowden get on an Aerofloat flight out of HK almost a week after the manhunt started? Because Hong Kong let him go, as he wasn't officially wanted at the time: > as the US had revoked his passport (and issued an ar
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India’s Call-Center Talents Put to a Criminal Use: Swindling Americans(nytimes.com)
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by nikcub 10y ago
Is there a single plugin that has been granted the badge? The policy docs don't seem specific enough in areas where plugin developers need help (ie. don't use superglobals, raw sql or PHP scripts outside of the plugin load process
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by nikcub 10y ago
> so how else would that work for the gambling industry? It would work by denying Ivey his requests and policing your games properly, as many casinos did do. Ivey isn't exactly an unknown in gambling circles - the Bogota went in eye
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by nikcub 10y ago
Interesting that 600 employees sounds like a lot, but it works out that revenue/employee p.a is $230k+ - which is above average for enterprise SaaS[0] - and you have the 25%+ annual growth on that That said, they should be doing bett

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