troels

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   by troels 13y ago

   I love Rails, but I think it might be better for you to go with a PHP framework. PHP is just dead simple to get running and deploy. I would suggest something like Yii or Codeigniter, both of which are somewhat similar to Rails in their arch
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   by troels 13y ago

   Agree. Another benefit of having the site mainly static, with dynamic parts loaded over ajax is that it becomes much easier to apply efficient http-level caching.
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   by troels 13y ago

   Nice. Looks similar in design to the now defunct wallsome (Which used basecamp as the backend). Were you inspired by that?
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   by troels 13y ago

   > He's obviously not advocating treason, but one of the comments goes to great lengths explaining that those controlling the data collection are duly elected. I certainly didn't elect them.
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   by troels 13y ago

   That's clever - I hadn't thought of that. But then I suppose we could maintain a list of IP's of known trackers and block on that level.
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   by troels 13y ago

   I wonder if there are ways to legally insure against trolls. Say, a patent lawyer might open up an insurance. As a company, you pay a monthly fee of some amount (say $1000). If nothing happens, then money goes straight in that lawyers pocke
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   by troels 13y ago

   Surely, the racism part is. But since race isn't announced through the name tag, I imagine it's less prevalent.
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   by troels 13y ago

   Oh. That could be cause for an ackward situation, I guess.
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   by troels 13y ago

   Curious. I'm not a native speaker, but I thought "bugger" could be used in that way. Not so?
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    by troels 13y ago

    I don't know anything about you, so what you say could be true, but the way you present it makes you sound rather delusional.
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    by troels 13y ago

    Nah, they endorse you by accident, most likely. Linkedin incessantly buggers its users with requests to endorse ones connections. You almost have to make an effort NOT to endorse, if you navigate the site.
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    by troels 13y ago

    Depends on how you validate an email address.
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    by troels 13y ago

    Don't know where the OP is from, but that's more or less how it works in most of northern Europe.
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    by troels 13y ago

    I wonder how they define "device". Does my contact lenses count? Arguably they give me quite an advantage over not wearing them.
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    by troels 13y ago

    Well, in more forgiving languages, such as python, you are just implicitly being "hacky" as you put it. E.g. errors - if they ever occur - will happen in runtime. Java tries to move this to compile time, making them visible. It&#x
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    by troels 13y ago

    You can't choose though. There is no viable alternative to Facebook, so it's either that or nothing. Not much of a choise really.
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    by troels 13y ago

    Why on earth would they name their company/product that? Or am I just missing the joke here?
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    by troels 13y ago

    Oh yes, and what I understand it is par for the course that intelligence agencies do trades with each other for that exact reason. Either explicitly or implicitly (As in - We know you operate in our country, but we'll turn the blind ey
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    by troels 13y ago

    A bit late, but I wonder if any one knows of a reliable way to detect support for prefetch/prerender, without having to actually fire one off and see if it goes through?
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    Perceptual hashing of images(hackerfactor.com)

    1 points by troels 13y ago|0 comments
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    by troels 13y ago

    I would imagine that it doesn't prerender the next page until the first is actually displayed.
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    by troels 13y ago

    I guess we'll just have to use a VM then. They can "root" that all they want.
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    by troels 13y ago

    I think that was the OP's point really. But you're right in that it has already happened with DRM - rootkits are just the natural next step in this direction.
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    by troels 13y ago

    Run your browser in private mode, or create a separate user account and run the browser under that. Or just use a different browser for the "secure stuff" (E.g. your online banking etc.). Then it doesn't matter what kind of xss trickery the
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    Startupbootcamp Accelerator Offers Participants A $1M Loan(thenextweb.com)

    1 points by troels 13y ago|0 comments
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    by troels 13y ago

    I read that as "Or it should come with a free three-month personal curse". Which it already does ..
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    by troels 13y ago

    Yes, that's one way of doing it. I guess it's not different from the US, where most companies are incorporated in Delaware.
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    by troels 13y ago

    Yes, but for legal/tax reasons, UK is much more attractive than most other EU countries.
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    by troels 13y ago

    > I feel a weird sense that karma will have it's revenge on me if I cross the line of enjoying some success vs being a greedy, selfish prick. I know it's not rational but I just feel that this could be a temporary gold rush and I don't
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    by troels 13y ago

    I love how you're framing people as "huggers" or "non-huggers". Similar to the good old "technical" and "non-technical".