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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
> The problem is that many governments, also in Europe, still see the USA as a shining example which to follow. I've read this same argument all over the place here on HackerNews. I don't see it. And yet a lot of HNers seem to be pret
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
It's interesting — this both appeals to my intuition and is hard for me to completely wrap my head around... I can see it but I realise that I don't naturally think like that.
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
The security issue itself is described in [1]. Also worth note (at least for me, not used to reading PuTTY's release notes and issue pages) is their class/difficulty/priority breakdown of the issue. I had never seen that pattern before. The
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
Implying whatever happened so many thousand years ago will have an impact here at about the same time we observe it happening from here? (I.e. light coming from that time and direction arrives here at about the same time as whatever implica
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
Oh! Looks like we found a most unexciting difference in Fx's and Chrome's HTML5 rendering engines. Someone alert the authorities! What's happening is in fact a little bit more complex than that. Both browsers create the pre element (you can
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
Just tested it on an iPhone 3 (using an app merely called "Scan") — no reaction whatsoever.
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
That's interesting. My phone kept (mis)reading UPC-E values from the XL QR code!
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
If the Hello version works, the smaller version should work too. The <pre> will be 1-line high on HTML5 browsers, not window high, so you have to click the very top of the page body for it to focus. (If that still doesn't work, out
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
Lots of good points for and against the twitter integration. There are ways of setting up Twitter such that you'd have your privacy alright, wich I'm sure many people would still not care about—after all, what could possibly go wrong? [1]
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
I wouldn't say "fringe", but you might be on to something if you say "exclusive". From LiveJournal to orkut to Facebook and Twitter to Google+, whatever had high barriers to entry is perceived as "exclusive" and therefore "cool". It's cool
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
If CSS selector behaviour and the DOM elude you— especially if you use them in production and they still elude you—this is a must watch: it's relatively short[1], no nonsense, and though not definitive, it's a nice way to get up to speed w
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
I'm using version 15.0.874.121 on Windows (the "up to date" version as of two minutes ago), it doesn't show anything. So to add insult to injury, is it possible that this ad is somehow contextual or targeted?
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
I may be misconstruing what you're saying (please correct me if I am), but I don't see how MIT's and JSTOR's dismissing of the case makes them any less "primary witness material", should the authorities decide to continue prosecuting.
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
There was a point, a while ago, where drawing the line between Design and Art Direction was all the rage amongst design bloggers. If you read that link considering this particular distinction (that is, Design as opposed to Art Direction ),
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL84A56BC7F4A1F852 Course resources: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs106a/cgi-bin/
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
I didn't study CS in university, but my friends who have often mention subjects named after languages and frameworks (remarkably, I remember hearing about a year-long course on COBOL "because most national banks have a backend writen in C
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
I agree with most of what you said. My edit to the comment obscured its main point, which was: the expression "true geek" has shifted away from its previous meaning (again). My point being: we were geek before it was cool. (Come to think of
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
That was true before the Seth Cohen effect (or more recently: the Big Bang Theory effect). EDIT: in fact, I find the those fictional theoretical physicists' grasp of physics appalling — and I don't even pretend to know that much physics!
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
A phone number is better represented by a URI (such as the tel: URI scheme). Though I agree with you, I wonder if there is no better way to represent time as well, rather than a new HTML element.
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
That's actually a very good point. If they presented their plan the way you just laid out, I wouldn't be so ill impressed with it. I still think this plan isn't for me, and I still think they should've been more flexible with the package an
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
Google Docs offers ca. 1 GB for free, and sells storage upgrades of 20 GB at 5 USD/year. That means prices match at about 3 TB. So on the one hand, you have DropBox with unlimited storage and a limited, upgradeable number of users. On the o
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
Single plan at $795/year? Yikes. Dropbox is the absolutely easiest cloud storage service out there, that's certain, and I'm sure many people will find this a fair package with a fair price. But I suspect most teams of up to 5 people will fi
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
So before I came back here to comment I decided to skim a few of his other posts. There's no content. Ever. None. I suppose what I'm about to say can be construed as a stock phrase, but I mean it very literally: the overall tone and quality
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
> I wonder what they'd do if someone wrote a script to opt out every possible MasterCard number. I suppose that's what that pitiful CAPTCHA is in place against!
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
FWIW it's been a rule of thumb since, well, always not to buy private stuff with your credit card. Issuer banks and sometimes the CC networks themselves are constantly profiling you in order to better assess the risk you pose (and in turn h
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
Here's something immediately useful for those who can't be arsed reading the whole article: > People can remove their information from MasterCard's analysis by providing their card number on the "Data Analytics Opt-Out" page at www.mas
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
From his Minimum Wage chapter [1]: > It is unfortunate for clarity of economic thinking that > the price of labor’s services should have received an > entirely different name from other prices. This has > preven
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
(Full disclosure: Economics and Pol.Sci. major here.) One Daniel Hausman, introducing Cambridge's Philosophy of Economics [1] anthology edited by him: > > Premises assumed without evidence, or in spite of it; > > and
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
> I think your example is a bit extreme. The problem is, extreme eventually happens. Nazi Germany has been such a commonplace rhetorical device on the Internet for so long [1] that we end up easily dismissing it when it's indeed a use
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by rufibarbatus 15y ago
One sees small bits of information every now pop into HN about how they might not be as anonymous as expected, to put it mildly, but it would be nice to have an overview of how trackable your vanilla smartphone is or isn't. My intuition rig

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