simgidacav

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by simgidacav 13y ago
I'd prefer 3 hours using linux than 8 hours using windows.
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by simgidacav 13y ago
This recalls me one of my oldest project: http://libdacav.sourceforge.net/ However I didn't do reference counting. Good job OP!
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by simgidacav 13y ago
So true :( so sad. I've got a bunch of friends that know how to use it. They're just annoyed if I enable it. :(
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by simgidacav 13y ago
It's not the fact that US=bad, EU=good. The fact is that you can use free software programs over xmpp which support OTR cryptography.
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by simgidacav 13y ago
How would you implement a decent backdoor in your hardware? Would it be supported by software? How do you force the TCP/IP stack of someone's FOSS operating system to send unwanted data? IMHO he was referring to some backdoor in s
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by simgidacav 13y ago
https://www.dropbox.com/help/247/en On the first I was like "ops, said bullshit"... but actually it seems like it's GPL.
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by simgidacav 13y ago
Have a good time waiting, sir. In the meanwhile you might be interested in the following fact: 1. Google is removing XMPP as protocol http://www.zdnet.com/google-moves-away-from-the-xmpp-open-me... 2. On the other hand, how
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by simgidacav 13y ago
I think there's an analogous between power and hardware/software failure. When power is centralized corruption effects are worse, exactly like when software is centralized failure effects are worse. Distribution is the answer. Dis
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by simgidacav 13y ago
The fact that they have been "good guys" until now doesn't say anything about the fact that they will be "good guys" forever.
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by simgidacav 13y ago
Exactly, this is the point. If privacy is important for you, closed source software is not trustworthy, unless it's placed downline of encryption.
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by simgidacav 13y ago
+1. I'd like to know more about this. Working on a encrypted FOSS alternative to conventional storage would totally be a perfect side project
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by simgidacav 13y ago
Immagine a net of people sharing Dropbox accounts where encrypted data is stored, and a decentralized encrypted network for handling the meta-data. Wouldn't that be nice? At this point: gpg keys shared among chains of trust. Need the
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by simgidacav 13y ago
Not to be cynic, but what prevents those guys from putting a backdoor as well? Yeah, sure, Swiss guys are good. Are they? In the end, IMHO, the only software which can be trusted is the FOSS. From this perspective Dropbox is good: the clien
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by simgidacav 13y ago
> it's probably worth remembering that this sort of data is probably gapped from the external network (no data flow outward). Lots of "probably". Indeed the whole eavesdropping story should have been secret, but it seems l
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by simgidacav 13y ago
...then they say "hey, our server with all your confidential information has been cracked, and we are leaking". Now your private info is public.
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by simgidacav 13y ago
Weirldy enough, exactly yesterday I started having a look at this[1], which seems to be very related... [1] http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkbayes/
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Python multiprocessing example(dacav.roundhousecode.com)
1 points by simgidacav 14y ago|0 comments
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by simgidacav 14y ago
My good friend, refactoring is sometimes good, but remember the ancient wisdom: don't fix what's not broken! Your old code may not be pythonic, but still it works...
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by simgidacav 14y ago
Thanks, I didn't know about "x not in D"! On the same note: http://dacavtricks.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/python-default-v...
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by simgidacav 14y ago
OT: why did you post the url with the "m=1" parameter in the end?
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by simgidacav 14y ago
Complexity. Target achieved.
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by simgidacav 14y ago
Hi HN I started this little project, feeling that the Internet needs for a Free (as in Freedom) tool like this. As the aim is building a WYSIWYG editor, "Markdown-based" means that the saved file will be markdown. This project is just sketc
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by simgidacav 14y ago
> Microsoft's ribbon menu style is not replicated in Generic. Typo?
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by simgidacav 14y ago
Very good points (indeed, I totally agree on each and every of them!), but there's the risk that someone writing a software just for sake of the task will just argue «I'm not interested in doing this, but in the task». This is exactly what
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by simgidacav 14y ago
I agree, but elegance cannot replace functionality. Apart from the touchscreen perspective ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4743643 ) I would use only plain old radio buttons.
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by simgidacav 14y ago
That's totally a good point. Following this idea, in touchscreen devices there should be only one widget for both radio-button and checkboxes (which can be represented as boolean sliders)
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by simgidacav 14y ago
I cannot see how to apply the lambda-calculus to smartphones…
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by simgidacav 14y ago
I heard that python concurrency model is based on userspace threads, so when I saw the "setDaemon" call I investigated and learned[1] the difference between daemon and non-daemon python thread (I hoped to see a different difference - oh, a
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Python dictionary tricks(dacavtricks.wordpress.com)
1 points by simgidacav 15y ago|0 comments