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by thorax 17y ago
Yep. They all knew I did it because I told them a breakdown of what I discovered the next day. As I said, there was nothing sinister in the questions, and they all knew me well enough not to be surprised by a little surprise sneakiness.
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by thorax 17y ago
In the old days of LiveJournal (decade ago) there was some brutal honesty meme which was supposed to be 100% anonymous. I made like 50 (exaggeration) different surveys and then made 50 different "private" posts of the link to each individua
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by thorax 17y ago
Why do you say that? In theory much of their value is actually in the sharing/networking aspects. Since they control the backend service and the API, I'd say it could reasonably be a win for them to open source all of their client variants.
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Please, Evernote, wake up. I wanted you to win.(mattie.net)
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by thorax 17y ago
$30 for as many machines as you own, work or personal, for your own individual use. Probably the best $30 I ever spent on software, given how many many times I use it per day.
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by thorax 17y ago
For screen capture stuff I tend to use http://jingproject.com
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by thorax 17y ago
Seconded: * Synergy * Beyond Compare * Dependency Walker * Sysinternals tools (of course, use http://live.sysinternals.com for easy download goodness) Why isn't 7-Zip on that list? ( http://7-zip.org )
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by thorax 17y ago
That is, it is impossible to generate malformed webpages while using XHP. While the purist in me thinks this is great if everyone else uses it, the immense amount of productivity lost when I first started using kid templating (e.g
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by thorax 17y ago
Ironically if they made their password the same as their username it might actually make it harder to spot in a keylogger context. (But trivially easy to guess.) Making your password: http://google.com would be pretty sneaky.
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by thorax 17y ago
IANAL, but I would be careful making such a public post, due to SEC regulations disallowing public notice of equity investment opportunities of private companies. I've seen people point to Section 5: http://www.law.uc.edu/CCL/33Act/sec5.ht
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by thorax 17y ago
They'll never have Tree Style Tabs I imagine, so I'm stuck forever with Firefox for that extension. Not that I mind Firefox, but Chrome gets to do a reboot and start again without carrying legacy support/etc with it. Early versions of Firef
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by thorax 17y ago
I feel we've just been introduced to the realities of the new world of warfare. Getting inside information on Google, Adobe, etc, would be of immense value for cyberwar. I don't think the information is as nearly useful for economic purpose
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by thorax 17y ago
I don't think anyone is saying the technology isn't cool (and I see no one using the word "useless" but you). I believe most people are warning about the demonstrated technology for this task: > Sikuli is a visual technology to search a
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by thorax 17y ago
Very cool, but would have major limitations outside of the just making a "personal script" or, at best, a script for a heavily locked-down enterprise/academic setup. Because it uses literal images, it seems like any change in OS theme, OS v
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by thorax 17y ago
I really like seeing the number of points next to comments. When I come to a discussion late, it's the best weapon I have to skim through lower replies to catch the "theme" of the discussion. It's especially important on nested replies that
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by thorax 17y ago
I had problems with that after some Firefox version upgrade, and haven't looked into it after. I kept expecting someone to make this extension as part of Firebug.
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by thorax 17y ago
It's hard to see VMWare's strategy on this, but here's my guess: Maybe they've actually got some finance guys looking at their P/E which is in the 70 range. So they're probably using their premium stock price as a good way to pick up some b
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by thorax 17y ago
Maybe because that fragment makes sense sometimes? "I marveled at its awesome power." If you use "Its awesome." by itself, it does catch it.
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by thorax 17y ago
We're talking about the multiprocessing package/modules in Python: http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html It uses fork under the covers, so small worker processes aren't an option for that module (unless we forego interpret
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by thorax 17y ago
Sure, except when that doesn't make any sense. I embed Python in my application. My highly graphical application requires XY,000 KB of memory. It's probably not wise to re-invoke my entire app Z times simply so that Python can properly take
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by thorax 17y ago
I think it's interesting that you can start saying years in the form of twenty ten at 2010, but there are other year forms that we still can't use yet. We used to say things like "Back in '86, I saw my first movie" but that form won't sound
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by thorax 17y ago
Man, the first one ate up a lot of my productive time. Now a new one? That's not fair. Great work-- looks good so far.
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by thorax 17y ago
I saw the title and actually thought it meant Zynga was going to be making games for hobbyist bot programmers. Talk about a let down upon reading. From the "cheating mafia games" department: I wrote a proxy server that would allow you to ch
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by thorax 17y ago
That would work great for my part-- I'd assume moderators/admins could see it, too. I'd hate for people to abuse the anonymous nature of it sometimes and be rude-- we haven't had any "private" messaging so far on HN, so this would open a li
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by thorax 17y ago
I pretty much only flag posts for: dupe terrible-title spam-site not-even-arguably-hacker-related
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by thorax 17y ago
The only oddity for a feature like that is that it's a bit like "judging" their comment. I don't know how to explain it, but I'd almost rather the flag options be worded as "Sorry, this comment seems: uncivil" or "Sorry, this comment seems:
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by thorax 17y ago
Yeah, time to double-check your own backup procedures, everyone. You don't want to be posting similar questions, right? Remember the old saying: if you haven't tested restoring your backups, then you don't really have backups. (Not that I'v
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by thorax 17y ago
I'm really done with tabs only at the top. I use the Tree-style Tabs extension for Firefox and can't imagine going back. You will notice an increase in browsing/research productivity because you don't spend so much time managing tabs that h
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by thorax 17y ago
My favorite airport would be the first to start using these.
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by thorax 17y ago
Big fan of his work: http://radnauseam.com/ He put together the redesign of ErrorHelp for us (and the new Disqus and Etherpad, too, I believe). Also, we've been having decent luck at 99designs, where we're trying a contest right now for T

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