speckledjim

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by speckledjim 15y ago
So is it legal or illegal for you to access http://foo.com ? By your logic, just because I didn't password protect it, doesn't mean it's legal open for you to load in a browser.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
How did I know you'd be citing the Grauniad... They have by far the highest readership of any sunday paper. That wouldn't evaporate overnight.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
> accessing someone else's voice mail is no less a crime if they don't have a PIN set. So by extension, you're saying if I setup a directory on my website called /admin and don't password protect it, then you could be committing a crimi
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by speckledjim 15y ago
I didn't say it was legal, I just said it was a bad analogy. If you setup a directory /admin on your webserver, and forget to password protect it, and someone accesses it, you can't really call it hacking.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
Nothing was taken. It would be more like "I leave my front door open, and you walk in and take a photograph".
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by speckledjim 15y ago
> No advertisers, no readers, an utterly tarnished brand... hmm where do you get that from? All sources point to NOTW having the highest readership of any sunday paper. eg http://www.nrs.co.uk/toplinereadership.html
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by speckledjim 15y ago
Not a great analogy. Nothing was taken. It would be more accurate to say that you left your curtains open, and someone took a picture of the inside of your house through the windows. Maybe an invasion of privacy, but not theft.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
No comparison for me. PA / MV are lovely small friendly towns with streets you can find a good array of shops, restaurants etc, lots of sunshine. SF is a cloudy windy big city with lots of homeless people begging, run down streets, etc Just
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by speckledjim 15y ago
That's a cop out. Provide examples, on a clean browser/incognito/no cookies/etc
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by speckledjim 15y ago
Never had any issue. Give some examples of what doesn't seem to work for you.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
NYC and LA are culturally far closer than Germany and Greece. For a start, NYC and LA speak the same language.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
1. I agree 2. He didn't post it someone else did, and no, I don't think it should have been posted.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
I had to stop reading at "ground breaking". I'll assume you're being sarcastic and leave it at that :)
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by speckledjim 15y ago
You should stop thinking everyone is attacking you. I think you'd be happier. Really though, there's no content here. The fact it's been voted to #1 on hackernews shows just how bad things are. Items should be upvoted on their merit, rath
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by speckledjim 15y ago
"1. IE is getting better, as much as we all hate to admit it," I think we'd all admit it's getting better, but it's still years behind firefox and chrome where it matters. The IE release cycle is also so slow that it makes it even more outd
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by speckledjim 15y ago
The circle of life... We're just in that stage of the cycle. while(true) { Start simple Add features Declare it too complex Abandon it and start again }
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by speckledjim 15y ago
Sorry yeah it looks like my test was disk IO bound rather than network bound.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
Instances are already IO bound/capped. For example, if you start up a micro instance, you'll only be able to download at like 200kbps or something. So I'd assume the connection speed is linked to the size of the instance, and the bandwidth
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by speckledjim 15y ago
Definitely the minority here on HN, on Reddit, and other similar websites, but exit the bubble, and there's a whole world of other people! Some of them even own TVs and buy newspapers :o
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by speckledjim 15y ago
I read it a few years ago. I disagree. It's like saying removing a seldom used letter from the alphabet would mean kids learn to spell better. The whole point of learning is to learn to read things and understand them. That means looking be
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by speckledjim 15y ago
Why does Opera exist? :/
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by speckledjim 15y ago
Most people can tune out adverts they're not interested in extremely well. When you buy a photography magazine, it might have 20% of the pages covered by advertising. I'd say most people buying the magazine find them useful. Maybe only 1% c
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by speckledjim 15y ago
The majority of people find advertising useful. They buy stuff based on advertising. If they didn't advertisers wouldn't spend advertising money. Advertising works, providing a service both to the advertiser and the consumer. I know that's
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by speckledjim 15y ago
"Advertising makes things shitter." In your opinion, which is a minority viewpoint.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
More intuitive ? If you're phased by the odd 2 or 1/2 here or there in maths, it's probably not the right discipline for you. Far more important step for mathematicians would be to switch from base 10 to something more useful like base 8.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
"Almost anything you can do in maths with pi you can do with tau anyway," WTF is this? I'm eagerly awaiting an explanation of what you can do with X that you can't do with 2X. It's a moot anal point. X or 2Y, using one over the other doesn'
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by speckledjim 15y ago
I know it's great fun, and fashionable to bash Java, but the Java startup time is slow, because the default settings are optimized for long running processes. If you want a quicker execution time for a short lived program, just tweak the
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by speckledjim 15y ago
A safe is obviously a safe. It obviously contains something. Encrypted data isn't so clear cut. It's trivial to make a datastore that has several encryption keys, so that you could give out one key, and it'd "decrypt" to some boring stuff,
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by speckledjim 15y ago
tldr = Chrome won't let js capture certain key combinations like Ctrl+T, to provide a consistent usable experience for users. A few developers are upset. Personally, I applaud Chrome and think they made the right call. If I'm on a web page,
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by speckledjim 15y ago
FWIW, inventing something from scratch, as far as I understand things, will only save you from copyrighted code etc. It won't save you from overly general, and trivial patents. Good luck though :/

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