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by ronjouch 11y ago
For non-native speakers wondering like me, urbandictionary says STEM = Science, Technology, Engineering, Math
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by ronjouch 11y ago
Yeah. Hearing the word "legacy" at the sole mention of $MORE_THAN_ONE_YEAR_OLD_FRAMEWORK made me smile. Food for thought on this: - Joel Spolsky in Things You Should Never Do, Part I [1], saying source code doesn't rust.
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by ronjouch 11y ago
> Someone like me is not "just a niche". It's also the type of person that recommends (evangelizes even) a browser or app to every single friend he has. Don't forget that's exactly how Chrome "beat" Fi
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by ronjouch 11y ago
No problem, and thanks for the frank follow-up. -- Regarding the ISP part, I fully agree it would be tough to implement; I was throwing this idea because I had never seen it being expressed and wanted to see if commenters could point to rel
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Hey, thanks for acknowledging the idea. May I point you to the conditionals in my post implying the possibility of a honest debate? Instead of aggressively caricaturing and strawman-ing me, could you try to discuss it? - Where do you see th
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by ronjouch 11y ago
I'll just add one word to Jordi's sentence: "just give me a way to _conveniently_ give you that money directly" . Like you can't ask people to encrypt their email if it makes their life harder, you can't expec
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uBlock too. Or maybe it would be possible to use the upcoming iOS 9 content-blocking extensions [1], or is it a feature/api usable to Safari only? [1] https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/re
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by ronjouch 11y ago
Yeah, good to mention it here explicitly. The Wikipedia page linked above has a nice summary of its "compatibility": DFSG compatible Yes FSF approved Yes OSI approved No GPL compatible Yes Copyleft
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> I think a large part, why smaller, "indie" engines like haxeflixel, godot, cocos-2d etc are surviving is because of the much lower entry level. I wonder if the big ones like unreal, unity and crysis are going to collapse some
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by ronjouch 11y ago
Yup. The WTFPL is an actual, (semi)-recognized license used in other projects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL
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Sorry, got busy just after posting. Here's a GitHub issue: https://github.com/Polytonic/Glitter/issues/8
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Sure, will do, I was just thinking it was some error of mine.
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Neat, thanks for your work! Newbie interested in OpenGL here, I followed the instructions but get a segfault, any idea? I pasted my session at http://pastebin.com/hxXauQSQ
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Hey, I didn't know about multiple arguments in search keywords! Are you talking about http://kb.mozillazine.org/Multiple_parameter_keyword_searche... ?
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Mostly the same as emanuelmaues above, just a bit lighter: uBlock Origin, Self-Destructing Cookies. Differences: - No HTTPS Everywhere because I (think I) remember to check for HTTPS when it matters, and access those sensitive sites via boo
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Asked myself the same question, did the same experiment, and reached the same conclusion :) . Another unclear thing is the update rate/policy of privacy.trackingprotection's blacklist.
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I think too this is a good setup. Self-Destructing Cookies, especially, is rarely mentioned in such discussions, but is a godsend to enable cookies for the convenience of staying logged only in domains you trust (e.g. I have: archlinux.org,
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Thunderbird and end-to-end email encryption – should this be a priority?(blog.mozilla.org)
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Brilliant. Considering they can still use their own service, does the recursion mean infinite $$$, or a stack overflow?
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> I don't think they're adding new features. Wrong, tons of new features land in major releases. Here are the release notes for the feature-packed 5.0, released a few weeks ago: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org&#x
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> Is it the authors celebrity? Kinda, yes. The author is Jeff Atwood, founder of StackOverflow (you probably don't need a link) and Discourse ([1], ruby-based modern open forum software). He's also a hardware "enthusiast&q
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My take on this is: less "big" trips relying on the car+plane teleportation combo, and more smaller bicycle / hiking / camping rides. Feasibility and attractiveness of this options will depend on your surroundings, sure.
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Re-read my question, I think you're slightly misunderstanding my point. To quote my original post, "I traveled a fair share too and generally enjoyed & learned from it, but so do I when I simply spend holidays staying in my h
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Interesting. Were you raised by globetrotter parents, or is it a penchant that developed over the years?
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The first few paragraphs strike a chord, but don't propose a lot of answers, and the end is just a collection of destinations: Why do we travel? (Am talking about recreational travel, not business) A friend of mine was mentioning inc
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> If I remember correctly, ad blocking software overlays the ad with blank HTML right? Don't know why you're being downvoted, you're simply unsure about a (wrong) assumption and asking about it, which to me simply calls fo
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by ronjouch 11y ago
See also this nice summary by Michael Meeks of under-the-hood changes in LibreOffice 5.0: https://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2015-08-05-under-the-...
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by ronjouch 11y ago
Also if you're using django, give django.nV ( https://github.com/nVisium/django.nV ) a try: "a purposefully vulnerable Django application. comes with a series of writeups for the vulnerabilities we've a
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> None of these uses requires the ability to play quake3 inside firefox, or are really applications inside a webpage. Maybe, for now. But WebRTC/WebSockets have a value proposal for real-time interaction in collaborative office suit
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> The safety of the implementation language is far from the only concern when considering the security impact of modern browser features. [...] Those kinds of things are not solvable with a safer language (in some cases that probably mak

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