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by octo_t 11y ago
> Branching is easy when svn first came out (and up until a few years ago) branching was definitely not easy!
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by octo_t 11y ago
It prevents ad companies from fingerprinting you, you never make the connection to seedy-ad-company-X, you only make the connection to facebook/nyt/WaPo etc
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by octo_t 11y ago
until you have a the german guy, Joseph Unker, with junker89@gmail and your validation prevents them signing up :)
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by octo_t 11y ago
40%-50% rejection is really amazing, I don't think you quite realise how tough the job market is right now. I have a friend with chemistry PhD who has - with no exaggeration here - applied for at least 300 jobs with varying levels of s
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by octo_t 11y ago
Sounds like something related to Sidewalk Labs[1]? http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dan-doctoroff-and-go...
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by octo_t 11y ago
this is basically how apache/mod_perl works.
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by octo_t 11y ago
and what should the default be for non-technical users? no trust at all? And asking each time "do you want to trust this root certificate"? (because we know how well that works....)
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by octo_t 11y ago
Exactly. Because why not?
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by octo_t 11y ago
Apple have always been known for excellent accessibility in their products. There was a story that came out when Jobs died about how he'd personally intervened when a bluetooth update(?) broke the software a kid in a wheelchair was usi
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by octo_t 11y ago
The fact that this is so out in the open on Github is pretty amazing - shows how much Microsoft is changing. Can you imagine the feature list of C# 1.0 being discussed like this?
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by octo_t 12y ago
> Or refuse content until you log in with a facebook or similar account? That's stuff real people complain about Outside of the HN bubble, I've not seen (m)any people complain about this. Its not something most people care abou
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by octo_t 12y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9393096 previous discussion from earlier today.
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by octo_t 12y ago
I wouldn't say subtle. Sociopathic perhaps...?
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by octo_t 12y ago
I would suspect things like "being used from a completely new country" or something similar. Could be those are the accounts with weak passwords that the attacker tried the top 10,000 passwords against.
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by octo_t 12y ago
I think this is the first time I've seen a person on HN be told "oh a product already exists with this name, maybe change it" and they actually have. Props :)
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by octo_t 12y ago
This reads like a tea party post from about 2007.
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by octo_t 12y ago
I can see a popup message of 'we tune our app based on your current power levels' or similar being quite persuasive in this regard too.
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by octo_t 12y ago
Its probably the hash of their explanation of the exploit.
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by octo_t 12y ago
I can't tell if this is madness or genius. Whats the use case? If the refresh takes a long time, is pull-to-refresh the best UX? If it doesn't, then you won't get a good game in?
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by octo_t 12y ago
Can we get a warning on the link for people susceptible to epilepsy, seizures or migraines? Thanks.
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by octo_t 12y ago
yeah, sure burnout is in your mind. but so is depression and other mental illnesses. Doesn't make it any less real.
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by octo_t 12y ago
This seems like fairly standard procedure to be honest, I'm not entirely sure what the issue is here...? Especially given quotes such as "To the extent that Twitter has previously suspended the accounts of users publishing the Sto
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by octo_t 12y ago
clang does a very similar thing in the preprocessor (looking for new lines if my memory serves correctly).
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by octo_t 12y ago
they. Its grammatically and syntactically valid. "Where's Mark.... Oh there they are"
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by octo_t 12y ago
Really classy comment from mvasilkov there....
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by octo_t 12y ago
how do you think group threads work? they don't exist outside the iMessage world at all.
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by octo_t 12y ago
wrt point 1, that's poor phrasing, when he says binaries, I think he means binary data, not executables.
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by octo_t 12y ago
The problem isn't big-endian, its just platforms where sizeof(size_t) != sizeof(int). I believe the problem is the legacy vim API takes an (int ), so that code will also need to be corrected: char_u *string_convert_ext __ARGS((vim
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by octo_t 12y ago
Lots of homeless people have drug addictions, mental health problems that make it exceptionally hard for them to do 20 hours of work a week. Fetishing work isn't the way to do this.
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by octo_t 12y ago
I wonder how many news articles will report on the fact she is a committed socialist: I am convinced Socialism is the only answer and I urge all comrades to take this struggle to a victorious conclusion. Only this will free us from the chai

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