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991.
by scintill76 13y ago
I have heard this named as a difference between liberals and progressives. Progressives want to reform away everything they think is wrong, in the name of societal progress. Liberals, while not being conservative (opposed to change), care
992.
by scintill76 13y ago
At least one good thing can come of posting here and becoming top comment: others may see it and take more care to cater to these users in the future (and since it is top comment, the commentor is apparently not alone.)
993.
by scintill76 13y ago
Sounds like it might be worth it to write a drop-in replacement DLL that doesn't parse XML, or at least in a way that doesn't require mshtml. The XML files that are being parsed appear to be static resources within the analyze DL
994.
by scintill76 13y ago
Then you should probably use something like JSON or XML, or at least do the file combining/splitting with something like tar or zip.
995.
by scintill76 13y ago
If you've actually got, say, a JPG file embedded in the middle of a CSV or something, it's just not designed for that IMO. But if you use the reserved control characters, you can at least output any text data without escaping (at
996.
by scintill76 13y ago
I think the answer is that those shouldn't occur within your data. If you're dealing with binary data, why are you using a text-based file format? If your data is textual, it shouldn't have control character delimiters with
997.
by scintill76 13y ago
The US doesn't have federal sales tax, but many states do, so Americans have this too.
998.
by scintill76 13y ago
Do the 1k people have special privileges in this area? The guidelines say the title can be changed if the original is misleading, which would seem to apply here.
999.
by scintill76 13y ago
> such as the ability for userspace programs to downgrade/upgrade the BIOS at will? I assume some amount of privileges would be required to reflash. By "at will", do you mean that once those privileges are acquired, there
1000.
by scintill76 13y ago
"Fantastic job on integrating the psychiatric profile and semantic analysis, everyone. It looks like we were so accurate that we independently faked the exact same email he actually wrote!" Arrington's exact quote, "sho
1001.
by scintill76 13y ago
I have been thinking about this lately. I see your point and it's hard to argue with, but I think there is a line somewhere where the nature of the surveillance changes because of the scale. We've got a lot of legislation and ju
1002.
by scintill76 13y ago
You could try cash transactions on localbitcoins if you're worried about bank delays. You'll probably pay a premium for it though, and introduce new risks of being mugged or something. The problem for exchanges especially (maybe
1003.
by scintill76 13y ago
Then keep your BTC on an exchange for as little time as possible. Deposit right before selling, withdraw right after buying. In my experience, Coinbase credits the BTC within minutes of sending to a Coinbase address, so exchange rate fluc
1004.
by scintill76 13y ago
Exactly. One thing, in her defense, is that the email sounds a little flippant (at least the one-sentence quote we get secondhand!) I'll give the emailer the benefit of the doubt and assume it was meant as an insensitively playful bu
1005.
by scintill76 13y ago
That username one was pretty ridiculous. For all we know it was an auto-assigned username to someone named something like Faggo T., and no slur was meant. These same bristling SJW's would be flaming anyone who pointed out a non-Anglo
1006.
by scintill76 13y ago
weixiyen seems to be ignorant of, or omitted, the fact that there's a difference between "read text messages" and "read the SD card" permissions. If some Flappy Bird clone wants to read/write the SD card, mayb
1007.
by scintill76 13y ago
I suppose you would say splitting your C++ into separate source files is a "workaround" for slow compilation times, too? It could be, but both are probably good practice anyway.
1008.
by scintill76 13y ago
> What they should have done was waited an hour then done an O(n) scan of all transactions globally in history to find the transaction by inspecting for parameters which exactly matched the ones they provided. Oh, you mean the scanning t
1009.
by scintill76 13y ago
I don't think it should be called a bug. Peter Todd (well-known Bitcoin developer), said[1]: > [...]I'm a bit hesitant to bake in assumptions about malleability when we have no solid idea if ECC signatures are or are not malle
1010.
by scintill76 13y ago
> I wouldn't try to "understand" a restaurant that served my cochroaches in my pizza, I'd just avoid it and bad mouth it to everybody I know. This is Hacker News, where we like to "understand" enormous failu
1011.
by scintill76 13y ago
Why should changing the site a webview points at, be breaking any rules? The whole point of a web page is that it can change and is outside the client. (See below; if there is a rule, I'd be curious to know what it is.) Maybe if App
1012.
by scintill76 13y ago
I'll also agree it was bad for them to be deceptive. But it goes to show how stupid the app review process is. If you can alter your app enough that it wouldn't have passed review, by merely changing an external server that does
1013.
by scintill76 13y ago
> The company and its reputation was built on aggressively bad-mouthing and trash-talking anyone and everyone they could. Interesting, this Wired article[0] seems to back up this perception. In this light the 67signals page may be somew
1014.
by scintill76 13y ago
This is quite frustrating. I don't use Gmail or Google Apps mail, so that I can't be compromised by a malicious insider (however unlikely) or a flaw in their authentication systems. Instead my security is exactly as weak as my r
1015.
by scintill76 13y ago
Well, OK, but a certain level of assured "ownership" is beneficial to everybody. Twitter handles, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, etc., would not be very useful if Twitter, ISP, postal service, telcos, etc. fre
1016.
by scintill76 13y ago
They only have your outbound mail (which admittedly may include quotes from inbound mail), and are (ostensibly) not storing it long-term. I've been running a split setup like this for a year or two. I found that my free-with-apartment
1017.
by scintill76 13y ago
Eh, seems just as likely you'd lose your keys if you lose your config. At least, I keep both in ~/.ssh
1018.
by scintill76 13y ago
> scanners often cannot connect because of misconfiguration/incompatibility or lack of a routable IPv6 host address Isn't this likely to keep you out of your own system too, at some point (accessing from unusual location withou
1019.
by scintill76 13y ago
Part of the reason this is a problem is because someone probably said "Who could need more than 16 bits' worth of codepoints?", so I'd err on the side of extra codepoint space.
1020.
by scintill76 13y ago
No kidding. This is either a lie "Golly, I had no idea, I am shocked! Until this news story blows over.", or a scary truth. If a contractor for the NSA was able to find more shocking abuses of liberty than the Commander in Chief

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