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1. 421.▲
   by thamer 15y ago

   This is an old spamming technique. See this ServerFault answer: http://serverfault.com/questions/122228/how-do-i-do-an-exact...
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   by thamer 15y ago

   Bert, your facebook profile ID is in that URL (the number starting with 1389...). Also, there is no restriction on who can see pictures when you a direct link to an image. This is mostly due to the fact that CDNs used to store static files
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   by thamer 15y ago

   See also: What is the "Facebook lockdown"? What does that mean? http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-Facebook-lockdown-What-does...
4. 424.▲
   by thamer 15y ago

   How about "$AGE_RANGE I have no interest in watching TV, streaming or cable"?
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   IOS 5 Changelog and Thoughts(ieatapples.com)

   3 points by thamer 15y ago|0 comments
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   by thamer 15y ago

   Taxi companies are against this kind of competition because of the licenses they had to pay in order to be authorized to take passengers. These start-up companies operate without such a license. I believe the same charge was brought against
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   by thamer 16y ago

   Your App Engine app is over quota, game.min.js can't be loaded: http://game1-main.appspot.com/baked/game.min.js
8. 428.▲
   by thamer 16y ago

   Re: “is 6 dollars less than 5 pounds”, this is how Wolfram Alpha interpreted it: “TrueQ[$6 (US dollars)<5 lb (pounds)] ”. It interpreted pounds as a unit of mass, not as the currency and gave “False” as a result. You have to pick “Briti
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   by thamer 16y ago

   A counterpart to /dev/random is /dev/urandom ("unlocked"/non-blocking random source) which reuses the internal pool to produce more pseudo-random bits. This means that the call will not block, but the output may contain less entropy than th
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    by thamer 16y ago

    http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one'
11. 431.▲
    by thamer 16y ago

    Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2136267
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    by thamer 16y ago

    http://www.yottaa.com/ also tracks multiple location, and keeps tracking over time.
13. 433.▲
    by thamer 16y ago

    Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR2_M8kL_3o
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    by thamer 16y ago

    In comparison, YouTube has a page with your connection and your ISP compared to others: http://www.youtube.com/my_speed
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    Secret code in Amazon SES banner(awsmedia.s3.amazonaws.com)

    3 points by thamer 16y ago|2 comments
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    by thamer 16y ago

    Hi David, Interesting take on it, your HTTP verbs seem to be pretty well used. I'm not sure that expressing commands with a query string would be very easy to remember though. The advantage of /COMMAND/ARG0/ARG1.../ARGN is that you can pret
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    by thamer 16y ago

    I think there should be a way to disable GET for some commands, this seems to be a serious concern. That said, you'll always be able to access Webdis using GET; you present a common case that justifies the existence of such a feature. I hav
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    by thamer 16y ago

    Good question :) I started Webdis because I thought it would be a cool project, after seeing suggestions about such an interface on IRC #redis. Other that the cool factor, the main benefits are IMO: * Javascript clients can access your Redi
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    by thamer 16y ago

    (I'm the author of Webdis) I agree with you, and to be honest this is what bothers me the most in the current state of the project. The top point in the list of TODO/IDEAS is currently “Add better support for PUT, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS? How
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    by thamer 16y ago

    (I'm the author of Webdis) As antirez pointed out, there are indeed ACLs in Webdis. You can enable or disable commands using a CIDR match and/or HTTP Basic Auth. (ex: disable all write commands for everyone, but enable SET for authenticated
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    Mark Pilgrim Ask Me Anything on Reddit(reddit.com)

    100 points by thamer 16y ago|29 comments
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    by thamer 16y ago

    Slim Amamou, who is named in the article as the on who discovered this code, has been arrested. His phone is still updating his Google Latitude position, moving between several government buildings. http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2
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    by thamer 16y ago

    As the author said, it does hang in zend_strtod.c, and it seems to happen in 32-bit only. Debug trace: #0 0x0832257f in mult (a=0xe1931e82, b=0x8781590) at /usr/src/php-5.3.3/Zend/zend_strtod.c:720 #1 0x08322757 in pow5m
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    by thamer 16y ago

    Here is some Erlang code doing pretty much the same: https://github.com/nicolasff/mazes-erlang And a sample output: http://i.imgur.com/uV4XR.png I find that the Kruskal mazes often have long walls or large open spaces; they don't have t
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    Getting shot by a handgun(answers.google.com)

    238 points by thamer 16y ago|126 comments
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    by thamer 16y ago

    Facebook isn’t. From http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics : “About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States”
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    by thamer 16y ago

    Ubuntu 10.04 + Chrome “7.0.503.1 dev”: http://i.imgur.com/nKmC0.png
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    by thamer 16y ago

    Have you tried it? This was posted in January, but doesn't seem to work anymore. curl -A Opera 'http://www.facebook.com/ajax/typeahead_friends.php?u=4&__a=1' for (;;);{"error":0,"errorSummary":"","errorDescription":"","errorI
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    Amazon S3 Announces Support for Bucket Policies(aws.amazon.com)

    14 points by thamer 16y ago|3 comments
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    by thamer 16y ago

    True, they did break into his own network, but that wouldn't matter if Facebook had a secure login page (SSL).