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by tragic 12y ago
> The illegality of an action doesn't appear to immediately affect whether someone does something or not. It does affect how sneakily they do it. That's also a matter of social censure though. I mean, every thread I've see
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by tragic 12y ago
Don't laugh too quickly. Given a slow enough connection and a big enough file, the pigeon (with flash drive strapped to leg) will win. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers#Other_av...
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by tragic 12y ago
> I never cease to be amazed at the creativity of piracy apologists in coming up with new scenarios where piracy is the only solution. It doesn't need to be the only solution. It simply needs to be the most economically viable so
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by tragic 12y ago
Ehh...depends what you're doing. 99% of the time, I just need to crop an image to a certain size. GIMP is actually much better than photoshop for this particular exact task. Nice UI for resizing the selection box in place. Other simp
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by tragic 12y ago
> You mean for developers? More for concerned citizens. There is a difference between add-on code for particular proprietary content platforms, and writing DRM support into the web standard . Not implementing a Flash plugin doesn't
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by tragic 12y ago
I do hope you never use the word 'sinister', which of course comes from the old belief that left-handed people are somehow the spawn of the devil. Or refer to someone getting "their pound of flesh", which is Shakespeare&
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by tragic 12y ago
Yeah, Chrome's auto-detect sorts it out. Weirdly it's inconsistent (chapter 6 has the meta charset tag in there). Bit entry level so far, even for a moron like me, but enjoying it.
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by tragic 12y ago
Getting loads of text encoding oddities everywhere - is that just me?
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by tragic 12y ago
Indeed. You can write a letter to your congressman. Comcast can write a cheque.
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by tragic 12y ago
I guess the answer is that there are ways of finding such things out, that I'd rather not even think about. If you're the sort of person who calls out SWAT teams to people's houses and then brags about it on Twitter, then you
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by tragic 12y ago
There's a link in the article - looks like the kid also managed to irritate a slightly more competent black hat crew who dumped all his personal info onto Pastebin. But in general, BK is a very competent journalist who is often able to
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by tragic 12y ago
It's a moot point. For all practical purposes, and with some exceptions, tax havens around the world are run out of London, by our substantial and much-admired financial services sector. So, as far as I'm concerned, the correct te
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by tragic 12y ago
Well, exactly. If I want to travel a distance that could be usefully traversed in a cab, then it's both kidneys and half a pound of bone-marrow. Also, I only ever get taxis when I'm in a state of refreshment sufficiently advanced
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by tragic 12y ago
I don't know - some modern satnav systems are able to get hold of live traffic info and suchlike. That was always the point of The Knowledge - to know (for example) which major thoroughfares to avoid so you aren't going to be si
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by tragic 12y ago
Well, if the end result is I can travel a mile in a London cab without selling a kidney, I can't say I'm too worried about Uber coming in.
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by tragic 12y ago
The exceptions to the rule are where the writer/star/director is aware of their own ridiculousness - see also Curb Your Enthusiasm. I haven't seen The Room, but the ne plus ultra of that kind of self-indulgence for me is Ga
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by tragic 12y ago
Indeed, decoupling is probably the wrong word here: I haven't seen an ORM implementation that was not tightly coupled to the database layer, which in the end is surely the point of an ORM - to represent stuff from the database in appli
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by tragic 12y ago
Having worked with both, there's a trade-off. Given that in Django you're (mostly) explicitly importing classes and modules rather than autoloading, it's handy to have them all in one place. OTOH, when your project grows, you
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by tragic 12y ago
Has already been posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7488554
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by tragic 12y ago
Looking at the changes, it's like every small niggly pain-point I've had with my particular Jekyll use cases (faffing around to get sass watch going in a separate shell, using 'posts' for things that are not in any sense
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by tragic 12y ago
The present hegemonic doctrines of fundamentalist Islam are a product of "modern civilized society". The Iranian revolution was in 1979 (and Iran was a prosperous, modern industrial country at the time - it is not so prosperous
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by tragic 12y ago
It seems like people have vastly varying ideas about what constitutes a 'technical interview'. For my money, I'd expect that most interviews in any field are technical to some degree. If you're hiring an HR person at a
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by tragic 12y ago
It really depends what you need. I just launched a pretty trivial Angular app, which required ngRoute and a local storage interface. Total size of the three: 112.7k. All the standard-issue angular modules put together amount to 129k. For no
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by tragic 12y ago
> (15) Calling software features 'technologies' is [non-]transparent ... (Easy rule: technology's physical, software's not) If we're going to be pedantic about it, let's consult our friends at dictionary.com
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by tragic 12y ago
My brother works as an IT project manager consultant for big old companies that will remain nameless. Daily rate something like £450-500, so call it $750. Under utilisation is true enough, but you also have to take into account the tax effi
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by tragic 12y ago
I'm rather taken with Tidal: https://github.com/yaxu/Tidal/ It basically allows you to procedurally generate thumping dance music by live coding in a Haskell DSL in Emacs. Which, given Haskell's rather a
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by tragic 12y ago
Hmmm... Never ascribe to conspiracy what can be adequately explained by bureaucracy. The feds love them some standards.
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by tragic 12y ago
I can certainly sympathise with the abstinence-only pride and shame cycle. My projects typically start with a test-first approach, which evaporates when the clock starts ticking. It seems to me, first of all, that there's a threshold o
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by tragic 12y ago
I might remember it now that I know KDF = key derivation function. Since the GP mentions Django, it's worth remembering in this connection that there are extra security concerns with expensive KDF algorithms. There was a vuln in Django
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by tragic 12y ago
That doesn't surprise me, but IE10 in IE7 compat mode in IE5 Quirks document mode still didn't blink for me. Farewell, old friend. (Wonder if marquee still works. EDIT: yes, it does. Thank the lord for that.)

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