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by ordinary 14y ago
a bloated mess that slows computers to a crawl This is simply not the case.[0] [0] http://dottech.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/dotTech_AV_Com...
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by ordinary 14y ago
Windows provides this feature natively, since Vista or 7 (I don't remember which): when you shift right-click in an explorer window, the option 'Open command window here' appears.
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by ordinary 14y ago
There's no point in hashing the password before you send it, is there? A MITM could just as easily grab the hash and send it to Google instead.
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by ordinary 14y ago
I thought Google's Street View cars couldn't drive very fast to be able to take those pictures. When not driving at full speed, it's not really a good learning set. I'd argue that the vast majority of the roads where one drives faster tha
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by ordinary 14y ago
Either they overlooked it, like many people here seem to have done, or they realised that a story on how Microsoft is in a fight to the death with Google and Facebook is much more interesting and much more likely to draw tons of readers tha
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by ordinary 14y ago
Why would Microsoft hold out? Is SPDY technologically inferior in some way? Does it give Google some competetive advantage? Does not supporting it give Microsoft some competetive advantage? Is there a fourth reason that I'm missing?
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by ordinary 14y ago
That's C-SPC.
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by ordinary 14y ago
I didn't even realize I was squinting at the tiny letters until I read this comment. Thanks for pointing it out, future me's eyes are grateful.
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by ordinary 15y ago
It's pretty. That's all, I think.
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by ordinary 15y ago
The Google effect has an inverse too: the tendency to ignore information that can not be easily found online.
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by ordinary 15y ago
It doesn't seem to work for me unless I switch the two commands: PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a;history -n'
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by ordinary 15y ago
So this confuses me a little, I would be glad if someone could explain it to me: why does the MPAA get a voice in the proceedings, if they are not a party to it?
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by ordinary 15y ago
Intro CS classes turned into highly intimidating environments where the males had significant computer experience and may well have spent several years programming already When I started my first year of CS at uni, I had almost no experie
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by ordinary 15y ago
In the 3 or so years I've used RefControl, I've added 5 exceptions. Sourceforge used to break (but not any more). NYT relies on the referrer to determine whether you're allowed through the paywall. Some image hosts use the referrer to detec
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by ordinary 15y ago
All workers are entitled to a legal minimum of 5.6 weeks of paid holiday. This is incorrect. In the Netherlands, at least, 20 days is the legal minimum, though most people get 25.
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by ordinary 15y ago
Why didn't she write this post herself? Don't get me wrong, it's great that you want to help her out, but it would probably make a better impression if she went out there herself.
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by ordinary 15y ago
When I was 15, I had to get a TI-83 for school. There was a fairly lively program trading scene, so I got a handful from friends. The 'EDIT' menu proved too tempting for me to resist and, TI-BASIC being what it is, everything went downhill
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by ordinary 15y ago
For anyone else who didn't know what "CYA" means: Cover Your Ass.
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by ordinary 15y ago
Quote from the article: Note that disabling Web History in your Google account will not prevent Google from gathering and storing this information and using it for internal purposes. It also does not change the fact that any information ga
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by ordinary 15y ago
I've manually edited install.rdf to make it compatible with recent versions of Firefox. I've been running GS for 3 months now, no issues.
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by ordinary 15y ago
No, this is one of the many problems inherent in allowing incompetent people to create and enforce modern tech policy.
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by ordinary 15y ago
I get annoyed by advice about how one should always always put a passphrase on private keys. It makes unchecked assumptions. The private keys on my laptop are stored on a fully encrypted drive that locks every time the computer sleeps. Yo
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by ordinary 15y ago
It takes a bit of effort, but it can be made compatible with newer Firefoxes. It requires unzipping the xpi file and modifying the install.rdf file: <em:maxVersion>10.*</em:maxVersion> Repackage (xpi files are just zip files
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by ordinary 15y ago
I'm a C++ programmer and that's actually the thing I miss most: DDG does not know the difference between 'C' and 'C#' and 'C++'.
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by ordinary 15y ago
On the other hand, "mail is what [he does] most of the time". I don't mean to belittle his achievements, I'm generally a fan of Stallman, but if that's really the case, then maybe we should call him a manager, rather than a developer.
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by ordinary 15y ago
I have to say, this is pretty clever PR.
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by ordinary 15y ago
The saying is "preaching to the choir"[0]. :) _____ [0] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/choir#Noun
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by ordinary 15y ago
This seems to be happening with many presidents in their first 200 days. See Johnson, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Bush Sr. for examples. Also check out Nixon, who manages to go up on both metrics for the first 200 days. The numbers support th
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by ordinary 15y ago
The Berne Convention, signed by pretty much the entire world, including all of the countries involved with this case, states that "the copyright law of the country where copyright is claimed shall be applied".[0] ___ [0] http://en.wikipedi
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by ordinary 15y ago
The HN title is very confusing. I was full of righteous fury when, initially, I interpreted it to imply there's a difference in quality between girl-thoughts and boy-thoughts. Could you please replace the hyphen in the title with an em dash

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