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by throwaway6845 10y ago
It may not be in the spirit of HN, but deliberately being 3 years behind on the latest technologies is a really good way to stay employable without driving yourself mad keeping up with the latest and greatest. After 3 years, the flash-in-th
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by throwaway6845 10y ago
Browsing any infected website, HTTPS or otherwise, may give you a virus.
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by throwaway6845 10y ago
He's not necessarily "forgetting" it and I wish HTTPS-everywhere advocates would stop ascribing forgetfulness or bad motives. Some of us have a different opinion based on our own genuinely-held beliefs. Requiring HTTPS everyw
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by throwaway6845 10y ago
I would kill to _pay_ with an iPad. Absolute biggest hate at restaurants: waiting too long for the bill. I have eaten. I have enjoyed it. I now want to go somewhere else for a drink, or catch my train home, or whatever. Don't make me w
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by throwaway6845 10y ago
Yes. This is why I never go to Indian restaurants any more. Love the food, can't cope with the false bonhomie, so I order takeaways instead. (UK resident.)
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by throwaway6845 10y ago
> Why does Google profit from HTTPS over HTTP? Because it removes the ability for ISPs to act as a competitor to Google by injecting ads and profiling customer browsing. You may not like that ISPs have done that (I don't) but it&#x2
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by throwaway6845 10y ago
Which has long been my suspicion why Google is so keen on promoting HTTPS. If all sites are HTTPS, Google kills ISPs' ability to inject ads and to profile customers. Not through any sense of altruism, but because Google is only interes
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by throwaway6845 10y ago
I find Javascript is quite a good reason not to write in Javascript, but YMMV...
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by throwaway6845 11y ago
I partly make my living through OSM. The better Google Maps gets, the less compelling OSM is, and therefore my earning power is reduced. Google has the right to compete, of course, it's just not in my interests to help them.
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by throwaway6845 11y ago
> As Google suggests, it strains credulity that Plaintiff or class members would forego access to a free Gmail account and higher quality Google Books or Google Maps because their brief transcription of a single word might, indirectly or
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by throwaway6845 11y ago
Agreed. I run a small-town community website. Instituting a real-name policy stopped the trolling overnight: people behave much more reasonably if they know they might meet the person they're yelling at in the street tomorrow. The key
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by throwaway6845 11y ago
Less nannying. Yeah, browser manufacturer, I know you want me to use HSTS and you want me not to browse to HTTPS sites without certificates and all that. That's fine. I can understand that (for example) Google wants to be the only org
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by throwaway6845 11y ago
> My machine, my rendering rules Indeed, but also: my server, my choice not to serve pages to you. uBlock, ABP etc. are fairly easy to get around if you're serving your own ads/analytics.
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by throwaway6845 11y ago
> now Firefox is lightweight and privacy minded Yeah, I'm not so sold on that. Go to https://somethingorother without a proper certificate (e.g. a private dev machine) and Chrome, while alerting me of the issue, gives me
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by throwaway6845 11y ago
But now accepted as EPSG 3857. I always found their argument a little specious given that EPSG 4326 exists.
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by throwaway6845 12y ago
Most 8-bit coders are very sceptical of Elite Systems. Like many others I was approached to port Spectrum games to an iPhone-emulatable format at effectively piecework rates. Like many others I refused. It's good to see the Spectrum re