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by rgj 7y ago
In Nigeria people tend to paint the text “not for sale” on their houses to avoid it being ‘sold’ by scammers. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/2003_hou...
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by rgj 7y ago
PHP nowadays has almost all the syntactical candy of Ruby, and Laravel has all the neat stuff of Rails. But PHP is so much faster and easier to deploy. All it has against it is its bad past and ditto reputation.
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by rgj 7y ago
No, that was written for client side DOM manipulation. Only.
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by rgj 7y ago
Same error (from NL)
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by rgj 7y ago
> for some reason (possibly strong student unions?) In fact, in my experience the student union actually took advantage of that situation instead. When I started studying at TU Delft in 1991 the student union had a deal with the local b
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by rgj 7y ago
> Those professors write the textbooks and will lose out if you pirate them. I don’t know how it works in other countries but here in the Netherlands most professors write those textbooks during time they are already paid for by their e
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by rgj 7y ago
My anecdote: Around 1993 I had a Commodore Amiga with an A590 external hard drive. A big enclosure that could be connected to the expansion port on the left of an Amiga 500, containing a very precious 20MB hard disk. One day, it stopped wor
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by rgj 7y ago
Strings are not evil - user supplied input should be treated as evil. The fact that most user input is supplied as a string is a mere coincidence.
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by rgj 7y ago
The fact that they sent this specific number - the anonymous tip line of the largest Dutch newspaper - probably means that someone in the emergency taskforce team was actively leaking information to the press...
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by rgj 8y ago
1997 : I used a text-to-email gateway and hooked it up to procmail doing a sleep 300 followed by an ATDT to my cell phone. Whenever I wanted to get out of somewhere, I went to the bathroom and texted to the gateway. 5 minutes later my cellp
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by rgj 8y ago
The article states "There is no name in Dutch for this technique — it’s just second nature to Dutch drivers, and has been for years. It has been deeply ingrained in the country’s culture. “It’s just what Dutch people do,” said Fred We
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by rgj 8y ago
I'm Dutch. I've never heard of this, nor has anybody I asked about this. I've never even seen someone in the driver's seat use their right hand to open the door. Dooring is not an issue here either since Dutch cyclists t
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by rgj 9y ago
http://www.sifrgenerator.com was made to generate SIFR fonts, way before webfonts were commonly used. I spent a lot of time generating Swf files using PHP and learned a lot. The site got a lot of traffic but apparently it didn
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by rgj 9y ago
In 1998, I managed to register the root@ email address with a new Dutch ISP that ran its email on a Windows infrastructure ( so on day 1 only Administrator@ was taken). I even became friends with the guy who registered info@ It took them a
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by rgj 9y ago
How about call waiting?
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by rgj 10y ago
A few months ago, we built https://www.forcewww.com/ to make our lives, and that of our customers, and everyone else, easier.
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by rgj 10y ago
nginx map files are a sane and fast way to create URL rewriting rules. http://serverfault.com/questions/441235/maintaining-redirect...
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by rgj 10y ago
Since CNAME is not specific to A or AAAA records, a CNAME record on the root domain would also override your SOA and NS records, which is probably not what you want.
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Show HN: Naked domain to www redirector service with TLS and IPv6 support(forcewww.com)
3 points by rgj 10y ago|5 comments
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by rgj 10y ago
More things about Ansible vault that are a shame: - no file encryption, only YML - no separate values, only entire file - OMG it's s...l...o...w... - password based instead of certs - only one password - password cannot even stored in
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by rgj 11y ago
I'm Dutch and I know my offensive language. Never heard of that.
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by rgj 11y ago
Sixteen, even.
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by rgj 11y ago
And the coding style doesn't exactly avoid errors as well. "Do not unnecessarily use braces around a single statement: if (condition) action(); and if (condition) do_this(); else do_that(
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by rgj 11y ago
"1. Definitions and Terms “ACME Client Software” — a software application that uses the ACME protocol to request, accept, use or manage Let’s Encrypt Certificates."
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by rgj 11y ago
Especislly since the real security is that you can apparently change your email address without a validation email being sent. All they did was add CSRF protection but this still is very bad practice.
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by rgj 12y ago
When another Dutch ISP launched in 1998, I was able to register the root@ email address and a friend of mine got info@. It took them over one year to figure out that they might want to take those away from us. Surprising to hear that this i
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by rgj 12y ago
Venues playing music to their customers have to pay public performance license fees as well, so that skews the popular music subsidies even more?
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by rgj 12y ago
Being average looking should land you the most responses: http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/page/14/
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by rgj 12y ago
Is it me or is it impossible to navigate the documentation on an iPad?
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by rgj 12y ago
Repurposing a flag should be spread over two deployments. First remove the code using the old flag, then verify, then introduce code reusing the flag. Even if the deployment was done correctly, during the deployment there would be old and

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