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by sauere 12y ago
Read the part on pointers in the "The C Programming Language" book. Or go to your favorite coffee shop with a C-buddy, buy him some drinks and let him explain ;)
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by sauere 12y ago
If thats the case, okay. Obviously still not ideal - you would want to have even IO load distribution on all drives - but hey, better than nothing.
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by sauere 12y ago
Hard drive age a bad parameter to use. It should be the hours the drive was actually powered on.
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by sauere 12y ago
Prediction: money will be paid, cutting down trees will continue
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by sauere 12y ago
It's the EU. After they have regulated the "curvature quality standards for cucumbers" (this isn't a joke, see http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX... ) they ne
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by sauere 12y ago
Yup. And good old, fat USB B is still seen on most printers and hard drives.
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by sauere 12y ago
I could care less that it is now reversible. Yes it was annoying, but having to keep 4++ different cable types, adapters and all is just as annoying. What bothers me more is the durability of the pins. The contact surface wears out rather q
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by sauere 12y ago
When scrolling down for a while, i find it hard to see if a comment is as the top level (no parent)
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by sauere 12y ago
I see the motivation behind it and appreciate the cause, however it is not just about the tools. Yes we need better tools but that alone wont help. 1-Click solutions often promise a lot but only end up giving a false sense of security. I be
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by sauere 12y ago
> 90% of participants just try to open a web-browser and type in "what is the IP address of google" Oh god.
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by sauere 12y ago
That feel when you see a Debian Security Advisory on the top of HN. Common guys, don't scare me to death. It thought this was going to be heartbleed all over again.
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by sauere 12y ago
How about do GermanHackernews instead of BerlinHackernews?
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by sauere 12y ago
While small firms might lack the technical expertise or budget to protect themselves, large companies have a different problem. Look at Google, Apple or Facebook. There is just sooooo much different attack space. Thousand of servers, thousa
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by sauere 12y ago
b-but m-muh terrorism
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by sauere 12y ago
Stellar PCS is a german ISP company that is specialized in bringing internet access to inaccessible regions via satellite. Clients include research stations or oil rigs. In this video you can see a SPIEGEL journalist showing them evidence t
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Sysadmins see evidence that they have been hacked by GCHQ [video](spiegel.de)
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by sauere 12y ago
Yep. Depending on the scenario, i don't think this the loss of readability is worth it. Using gzip on the webserver already cuts enough.
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by sauere 12y ago
Semi-OT: i am amazed to see how many big sites do not have gzip/deflate compression enabled in their webservers. Especially on mobile connections this can actually make a difference.
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by sauere 12y ago
The main problem is that the ruling political parties in Germany are - please excuse the language, i don't know how else to put this - sucking US d*ck big time. The way the whole NSA/Snowden thing has been handled in Germany is a
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by sauere 12y ago
Take a look at this: http://www.staticgen.com/ > node.js compatible hosting looks expensive for my purposes DigitalOcean offers node.js-ready VPS for $5/month
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by sauere 12y ago
Yeah uhm, you might not want to cause any trouble if you have 200+ US army installations in your country http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Army_inst...
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by sauere 12y ago
Oh, a "bitcoin server".
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by sauere 12y ago
Imagine where Germany would be today if the US would not have been stealing trade secret, patented designs and other stuff over the last 70+ years.
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by sauere 12y ago
With proper formatting i'd actually give it a read...
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by sauere 12y ago
Good work but it can't compete with the best video ad ever made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUG9qYTJMsI
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by sauere 12y ago
This is the first static site generator i have seen that actually deserves to carry the lable "simple". Good job. /edit: you might want to include a Markdown parser.
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by sauere 12y ago
First of all: Rails is a framework Django is a framework Node.JS is a platform/framework ASP.NET is not a framework, but a language PHP is not a framework but a language, HHVM is a platform That being said: you did not specify what exa
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by sauere 12y ago
Mailchimp is 100% PHP.
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by sauere 12y ago
I lived near the A. Unfortunately not in NYC anymore.
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by sauere 12y ago
It indeed is beautiful piece of "UX" design. And as someone who live in NYC for quite a while: to only thing you can count on in the NYC subway system are the directions.

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