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by ry_ry 8y ago
Things tech is allowed to do in 2018: * Disrupt ${thing} * Solve a clearly defined problem * Harvest personal data for a variety of ethically questionable reasons. * Distributed transactions ledgers (NOTE: Blockchain only) Noth
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by ry_ry 8y ago
oh cool, thanks! for anybody who cba to take a proper look but is idly curious, a quick browse of the stuff they pulled turned up... * a couple of duped windows installers for... something... i'm not brave enough to run. * something li
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by ry_ry 8y ago
For my son, I wanted a name nobody else was using. We called him Google+
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by ry_ry 8y ago
In 2017, GitHub received eight requests—all from Russia—resulting in eight projects being taken down or blocked (all or part of six repositories, one gist, and one website taken down). Huh, seems odd. Any particular reason they all origin
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by ry_ry 8y ago
Oh gawd, if he was paid market rate it's a pretty questionable decision... At least he didn't write his own css preprocessor or something, I guess!
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by ry_ry 8y ago
Perfect is the enemy of good. Although i understand Voltaire was using an cracked version of HoTMetaL Pro to make his web pages, so the whole premise is a little questionable.
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by ry_ry 8y ago
It probably doesn't bear repeating at this point, but Brian Herbert's dreary offerings are pretty dismal and should be avoided by all but the most ardent Dune aficionados jonesing for a spice-fix and/or sci-fi masochists hopi
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by ry_ry 8y ago
I know a guy that made a model ship in his spare time. It doesn't carry any passengers or cargo, doesn't meet even the most basic safety standards, and frankly doesn't do anything you couldn't do with a canoe. I bet it l
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by ry_ry 8y ago
I'm almost kinda slightly entirely with you on this. I believe in freedom of speech, and genuinely believe that even positions I consider utterly reprehensible deserve the same liberties as everybody else, but I try to avoid helping th
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by ry_ry 8y ago
Learning from experience is pretty cool. Learning from other people's experiences is better.
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by ry_ry 8y ago
They would presumably still harvest user data, it would just be less obvious.
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by ry_ry 8y ago
Marquee still renders in Chrome, and possibly others, which I can't help but imagine is an easter egg by the devs!
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by ry_ry 8y ago
Shoes and decks are consumables - getting a sponsorship, even if it's the occasional freebie from a local shop is a huge enabler for cash-poor skaters. The benefits are there for the brands too - don't underestimate the community
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by ry_ry 8y ago
All the big tech companies are pretty well represented here - it is most likely an employee spotted and flagged the issue whilst having a wee browse over their morning coffee.
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by ry_ry 8y ago
Schadenfreude aside, why? Edit: that sounded confrontational, it wasn't supposed to be - I'm just curious!
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by ry_ry 8y ago
Huh,I'd always thought they fell under fair use in the same way a review does. You learn something new every day... Multiple times a day in my case!
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by ry_ry 8y ago
Eventually you become the thing you hate... In Gmail's case, that will eventually be Wave!
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by ry_ry 8y ago
TeMPOraL had the most plausible explanation up thread a bit - apparently it's there as a copyright claim safety-net for Wayback Machine, but making a feature that runs counter to the whole point of the site publicly available makes my
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by ry_ry 8y ago
If that's the case you could buy up defunct domains, exclude everything via robots.txt and selectively purge sites from archive.org That seems like a pretty glaring flaw in something designed to create an enduring record.
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by ry_ry 8y ago
That was... vague Why would the robots file on an active site be applied to the archived content?
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by ry_ry 8y ago
I've always thought of it like this - If the state is likely to be a common concern, or referenced in another component, them redux it up. If the rest of the app doesn't know/care then scope that state. If you're using P
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by ry_ry 8y ago
123reg charge for whois privacy too, as do a bunch of other registrars. Always felt like mild extortion.
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by ry_ry 8y ago
@HN's chemists - I was under the impression regular ketamine use caused irreversible bladder damage[0] - Is that due to much higher recreational dosage vs medical, or would this be something that couldn't be prescribed long-term?
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by ry_ry 9y ago
The in-game stuff is the tip of the PVP iceberg as far as Eve goes. Whole alliances have been killed off using a handful of reddit sockpuppets impersonating their members, brought down by a player flipped at a social event, or simply implod
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by ry_ry 9y ago
Emoticons
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by ry_ry 9y ago
JQuery still has a huge legacy footprint, and likely will for years to come. It's not without some degree of irony it has eventually become the IE11 of JS libs.
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by ry_ry 9y ago
I'd assume just replace words with synonyms containing the appropriately weighted letter/s? The hard part is going to be keeping the flow of the text, whilst brute forcing a thesaurus into it!
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by ry_ry 9y ago
Kings of lowsec watermarking.
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by ry_ry 9y ago
Later, we just told select people we had implemented some crazy undetectable watermarking, and the leaks stopped - effectively identifying the culprits in the process.
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by ry_ry 9y ago
Phone post, so may be a little disjointed... Until very recently I was frontend lead for a fairly large UK site, and one of the best hires I ever made was a 32 year old former-recruiter with no commercial programming experience, and no CS b

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