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by pikzen 11y ago
Every single method relies on detecting something sent by PhantomJS. The author even admits that it's spoofable in the first few tests, but then the 4 last do not have this mentioned. Forking PhantomJS to send out data that looks like
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by pikzen 11y ago
Unless you're working on embedded hardware with proprietary compilers, #pragma once is supported by all compilers (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragma_once ). You can safely assume it'll be available on y
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by pikzen 11y ago
The amount of people buying off-region DVDs is awfully low. There are a thousand betters reasons to reject DRM such as not owning your product anymore ("That iTunes music ? Yeah, they can revoke your access at any time.").
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by pikzen 11y ago
>Akamai and Amazon are complicit because they are the CDN on a bunch of the links on the page. Yeah, and google is an accomplice to thepiratebay for having links to them on their search results. CDNs do not review what content is served
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by pikzen 11y ago
OP is referring to http://bluishcoder.co.nz/2015/03/24/contributing-to-servo.ht...
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by pikzen 11y ago
We do the same thing with code and as long as the license is respected, things go smoothly. There's no reason it can't work with mods.
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by pikzen 11y ago
Having sane tools, languages and adequate performance maybe. :)
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by pikzen 11y ago
>'Pretty' Windows apps, in particular, are a royal pain to create. Unless, maybe, if you target Metro. 1. Learn how to work with XAML (1.5. Know how to make good looking UIs) 2. Done. Really. If you're forcing yourself to
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by pikzen 12y ago
To be fair, we DID have a huge problem with obstruction. The laws regarding quorum were so large that even if very few people were missing, you could delay the law once again. The 2009 reform was passed while Nicolas Sarkozy was still presi
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by pikzen 12y ago
OP is going a bit far, but I believe he's referring to http://www.numerama.com/magazine/32780-loi-renseignement-qua... Basically, our Defense Minister's twitter account posted a quote of Christiane Taubira (t
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by pikzen 12y ago
Except that you can't do that when they're in small suitcases held by security officials. Which it was, because the DGSE and CRS were in plain sight near the National Assembly, and there were no signs of IMSI catchers before this
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by pikzen 12y ago
We have a Consitutional Council, and they're somewhat useful. They censored the "graduated riposte" part of the HADOPI law a few years back. We do not have a Constitutional Court. The Fifth Republic was explicitly created to
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by pikzen 12y ago
Yeah, I'm referring to the part where they use data. That said, didn't WhisperSystems remove the SMS part recently ? Or was it just SMS encryption ?
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by pikzen 12y ago
La Quadrature du Net has also affirmed that while they were demonstrating in front of the National Assembly, there were two IMSI Catchers. And the law wasn't even passed yet. Great example of what will happen. ( http://www.fr
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by pikzen 12y ago
>grumpy oldtimers I wish I was a grumpy oldtimer, but I'm more of a dirty youngun'. Note that I didn't say "don't use boost". Boost is amazing and you should use it if it saves you time. It's just that
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by pikzen 12y ago
Boost makes you enter header and linking hell. I'm talking "an entire day to figure out how to include that in your makefile and why the fuck doesn't it link correctly" level hell. You can also count on having 10MB+ of l
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by pikzen 12y ago
>Yes dual booting is possible. But as always installing windows second makes everything else unbootable (until fixed). Yeah, I'm 100% sure you fucked up. Windows' bootloader offers me either Windows 8.1 or starting GRUB, from w
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by pikzen 12y ago
Welp, time to register an account on jabber.org I don't really understand why they took the XMPP API to such lengths (it even displayed OTR messages as [encrypted message], that's not really the kind of thing that comes to mind in
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by pikzen 12y ago
1) >implying the mindset on HN hasn't always been "push things and break shit who cares" 2) /r/programming and other software development subreddits are actually closer to slashdot's ideologies (excepting &#
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by pikzen 12y ago
>Then it becomes a) pull out phone, b) unsleep display c) use lock screen widget d) authenticate using passcode/TouchID. What if I want another widget on my screen ? Do I put it there too ? Where do I stop ? And in any case, it is s
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by pikzen 12y ago
> Is MongoDB useless as a database, or are people being bitten for thinking it's a silver bullet and throwing it at every problem? A bit of both really. NoSQL databases allow for rapid prototyping, as do weakly and dynamically typed
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by pikzen 12y ago
This demo is taking up an entire core of an i5 2500k. To update a table. It barely updates once every two seconds on a three years old phone. My terminal is faster than that and doesn't even use 1%. A native application is faster than
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by pikzen 12y ago
Additionally, try RequestPolicyContinued[0] because the original RequestPolicy dev has stopped maintaining it. [0] http://requestpolicycontinued.github.io
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by pikzen 12y ago
>paranoid Is it really paranoïa when this is already the case ? Google's entire business is based around getting your data and selling it to advertisers. More and more startups and companies offer a "free" service in excha
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by pikzen 12y ago
If you're willing to work with a service that you're paying for AND that penalizes you for erroneous bounces, that's kind of your problem.
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by pikzen 12y ago
Alternatively, don't validate email addresses with a regex because it's pointless. Check that at least an '@' symbol is present and just send a damn email already[0]. Or better, don't send a damn email at all and le
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by pikzen 12y ago
This is absolutely not related to the subject at hand though. If you're talking in a general case, it's because it is actually hard. Send the buffer to your gpu, have it execute the command, send it to your screen which probably h
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by pikzen 12y ago
>"hundreds of millions of corpses" Except that those millions of corpses were not caused by Marx or his theories but by a flawed implementation of it by some power hungry dictators. In terms of tech, don't blame the spec i
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by pikzen 12y ago
No mention of end to end encryption, or encrypted storage. I suppose the primary target is enterprise and people who like when it just works , because I can hardly see a product designed for my "personal data" not allow encryptio
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by pikzen 12y ago
>You do realise that node.js is basically just V8 right? Aside from the fact that I don't need a goddamn 400MB runtime running all the time, the major problem is that node.js (and javascript, by extension) are awful tools for anyt

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