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by olifante 12y ago
It's a Google Chrome app. Once installed, it works offline and benefits from the Chrome app sandboxing.
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MiniLock: Chrome app for user-friendly file encryption(chrome.google.com)
3 points by olifante 12y ago|2 comments
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by olifante 12y ago
Security is too damn important to use languages that are insecure by default and that require rigorous discipline and extensive auditing, such as C and C++. The world needs to move its entire crypto and networking layer to functional langua
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by olifante 12y ago
nice blindfolds you have there. Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, the largest prison population by far among rich countries, institutionalized rape, drone executions without a shred of legal process, militarized police and you're still makin
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by olifante 12y ago
This only works for the big players, who will anyway have the power to negotiate special agreements with the telcos. The problem is the small players, who have no bargaining power. Any form of net neutrality will have a chilling effect on i
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by olifante 12y ago
Yes, I live here. All prices are per month. If you want to live inside the S-Bahn ring, you will find it difficult nowadays to pay less than 600-700€ a month for a two-bedroom apartment. The low end of €300 is probably only realistic for on
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by olifante 12y ago
Berlin: One of the cheapest capitals in Europe, reasonably vibrant IT scene. Apartments inside the city can be had for as little as 300€ if you hunt long enough, although 600-700€ is becoming the new standard. Restaurants are cheap too: 5€
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by olifante 13y ago
don't forget that any speaker can be reversed to function as a microphone. A bit more annoying disabling that.
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by olifante 13y ago
I second Poor Economics, great book. It's fascinating how the book shows that entrepreneurship is actually MORE prevalent in poor societies than in rich ones.
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by olifante 13y ago
So, besides tptacek who are the other astroturf accounts used to infiltrate and manipulate HN?
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by olifante 13y ago
Not really a surprise for someone who was so in thrall to Benoît Mandelbrot, another world-class narcissist. Here's Taleb on Mandelbrot: "[He] had perhaps more cumulative influence than any other single scientist in history, with
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by olifante 13y ago
It's a latin thing. I'm Portuguese, and we're also devastatingly critical of our country. Talking to a French colleague yesterday, he also bemoaned the negativity of his countrymen. Spanish people also tend to be suffer from
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by olifante 13y ago
This is the crucial point that we as community are missing: yes, dragnet total surveillance is unacceptable, but it's just as unacceptable to have perfect secrecy for any entity. States MUST have the power to snoop any traffic they des
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by olifante 13y ago
The (.log js/console (dom/getElement "query")) command returns "null" instead of a DOM element. Curiously, manually running the equivalent command in the Chrome console works as expected: > goog.dom.getE
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by olifante 13y ago
At least here in Berlin many supermarkets only close at 22 PM or even at midnight. Haven't yet found any that are open on Sunday, though.
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by olifante 14y ago
Welcome to the future of intelligence agencies. Their employees are legally required to know less than the general public.
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by olifante 14y ago
Shutting down Google Reader makes a mockery of their famous mission statement: "Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful."
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by olifante 14y ago
Better yet, use Express and focus on mastering one single language for the client-side and the server-side: either JavaScript or CoffeeScript.
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by olifante 14y ago
Education is not the problem, it's the solution. Even though there's a lot of brouhaha about educated unemployment, education really pays off in Portugal, compared to countries like Germany and Austria. Studies repeatedly show that the more
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by olifante 14y ago
As in most societies, there's bound to be a pecking order of some sorts, and I'm not saying that developers are at the rock-bottom of that order. And of course developers can be self-entitled, arrogant, obnoxious people — I might even be on
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by olifante 14y ago
The average tax burden for Portugal in 2011 was 39%, higher than the OECD average of 35% but not that high compared to the rest of eurozone. Belgium had 56%, Germany 50% and France 49%. Taxes are not the main problem in Portugal. Dysfunctio
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by olifante 14y ago
That's funny, I've always felt that we Portuguese are more eager to avoid conflicts than the Spaniards, who always seem to be more assertive and self-confident than us. This even seems (to me) to be mirrored in your politics, where the left
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by olifante 14y ago
The root of the problem is that developers in Portuguese organizations have little "political" power and low social prestige. They are generically put under the "técnicos" (technicians) category, not a very prestigious term. It's kind of a
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by olifante 14y ago
Quoting the author again: What Assange wants is not a decision from Sweden's government, but a promise from Sweden's prosecutors [...]. The Swedish Prosecution Service has consistently refused to promise that Assange wouldn't b
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by olifante 14y ago
Sweden is a huge country with very low population density and one of its neighbors is Russia, a formidable military power. This means it is very dependent on the US for its security, and more likely to be vulnerable to explicit or implicit
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by olifante 14y ago
The author of the reddit comment says something about that: Assange is only sought by Sweden for questioning and has not been formally charged. While the British High Court has decided that the current advancement of the Swedish
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by olifante 14y ago
The author of that comment summarized it himself: - Assange is not charged (yet) and the High Court is wrong on that point - Assange has a fundamental right clearly recognized by the ECHR not to surrender to Swedish police
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by olifante 14y ago
I don't see anything remotely disturbing about that sentence. On the other hand, I'm disturbed by how readily you condemn other people by something they never said.
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by olifante 14y ago
East Berlin was the capital of a communist state, but it was assimilated by West Berlin, one of the major cities of one of the most successful capitalist countries.
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by olifante 14y ago
It still sounds outrageously expensive to me. In Portugal the cheapest fiber triple-play plans cost $40 a month.

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