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by roddux 10y ago
That may be true, but Signal offers almost an equal value proposition (unless I've missed something amazing about Telegram) whilst remaining the better option. I know too well that not enough people care about privacy, sadly.
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by roddux 10y ago
This should be the top reply. I thought this was common knowledge on HN?
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by roddux 10y ago
I've had one of these for YouTube for years, really excellent feature. Opening a new tab with yt <songname> is such a habit now.
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by roddux 10y ago
Ah, I didn't realise this. Thank you!
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by roddux 10y ago
I have it bookmarked :)
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by roddux 10y ago
To save on having to have two versions of Firefox, you can start a new instance with: $ firefox --no-remote --new-instance --profile /path/to/alt/profile
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by roddux 10y ago
We have almost the exact same legislation here in the UK, by the name of IR35. In essence it means that you can't take paid leave or sick days, otherwise it counts as "disguised employment". Another interesting requirement is
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by roddux 10y ago
I think you missed the humour, friend.
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by roddux 10y ago
I was waiting for somebody to mention Dark Souls! It has by far and away one of the best combat systems I've ever played. Amazing game.
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by roddux 10y ago
An entire page-long article, with no details! Amazing. While having more awareness about cybersecurity is never a bad thing, I dread to see how this money is spent.
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by roddux 10y ago
I looked for a while to see who else listens to metal for programming! Glad to know I'm not the only one.
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by roddux 10y ago
How to create an echo chamber: the guide Why are people so aversive of practical discussion? If not Facebook (which most people use, unlike specific discussion sites) then where? I admit that not all Facebook debates about politics are very
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by roddux 10y ago
At the end of this scam, you still end up with your money back. Unless the scammer is investing the money or holding it in an account with decent returns, while also doing this on a huge scale-- this doesn't seem ALL THAT worthwhile. N
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by roddux 10y ago
uBlock also doesn't engage in the shady practise of selling spots on it's whitelist, as I recall.
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by roddux 10y ago
I was under the impression that this was common knowledge? I knew it as the 3-second rule.
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by roddux 10y ago
What features does Dropbox actually use that requires it to have this level of access? The author didn't go into detail.
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by roddux 10y ago
Seems a bit premature to make this sort of announcement before we've seen any actual photos taken by the device.
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by roddux 10y ago
Probably a service to left-pad strings :^)
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by roddux 10y ago
"How to Set Up and Deploy to a 1000-Node Docker Swarm -- for your first CRUD webapp"!
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by roddux 10y ago
I've written something similar for Google finance, but manually parsing minified Javascript isn't nearly as neat as this :^)
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by roddux 10y ago
I wonder how much data you could reliably transmit without the video/audio quality of the base video notably changing. Does YouTube cut out audio frequencies that are beyond the hearing range?
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by roddux 10y ago
Wait, why are people still using the pre-fork chain?
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by roddux 10y ago
For those who don't know: Little Snitch is an OS X firewall, which prompts the user to allow/deny any outbound connections. This is a very detailed write-up, a good read.
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by roddux 10y ago
Honestly I only skim read this wondering if there was a policy not to talk about Half Life 3! Interesting read, though.
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by roddux 10y ago
Pokemon go has many static elements in the UI (a pokeball front and centre being the most notable) -- I'd guess matching against a static template would be pretty fast. (Not my field, though.)
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by roddux 10y ago
>If I would have used something [..] Python with Django [..] I would have been spending my days on fixing slow parts of the app >GoSnaps uses NodeJS as the backend language/platform Is NodeJS really that much faster than Python
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by roddux 10y ago
For what possible reason? I'm eternally out of touch with what mainstream front-end devs seem to think is a good idea.
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by roddux 10y ago
Google have been blasting holes in Flash and the Windows kernel for quite a while now, by virtue of having a huge number of machines performing effective fuzzing. See http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.co.uk/ for some neat w
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by roddux 10y ago
Oh, damn! Haha, not sure how I missed this. Thanks for the link :)
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by roddux 10y ago
That's a forkbomb, if memory serves? haha

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