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by whughes 18y ago
They already do this (mostly): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=21e... It's a surprisingly underappreciated option.
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by whughes 18y ago
What kind of communication app worth cracking would not run primarily on Windows machines? That's practically a prerequisite to widespread use.
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by whughes 18y ago
I've always used the ssh -D proxy as a SOCKS proxy, not a HTTP proxy. It works well, though, and it's dead simple to set up.
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by whughes 18y ago
As I recall, the bleeding-edge Safari, Firefox, and Chrome JS engines are all pretty competitive. IE and Opera are behind in public, but Opera is writing a new engine. The multiprocess structure and UI are the only real advantages Chrome ha
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by whughes 18y ago
These are likely above-average comments. The people who would take the time to look at this article and comment instead of skipping over it are probably going to make higher-quality comments. This article does seem to be slightly out of Dig
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by whughes 18y ago
I assume he's playing off of the usage of 'literally' regarding a metaphor.
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by whughes 18y ago
Social networking isn't search. It's much harder to change social networks than OSes or browsers or what have you. If you plan on switching, you have to get all your friends to sign up and use the service.. and then they have to get all the
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OLPC switching to ARM(arstechnica.com)
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by whughes 18y ago
Great interview. The page formatting was off, but the interviewer asked some interesting questions which go beyond the usual contemporary Java/Web material.
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by whughes 18y ago
Perhaps it wasn't the most tactful thing to say, but this is most certainly the right forum to discuss this. His post was about this very situation. It's 100% relevant. While I don't agree with his viewpoint myself, discussing what we want
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by whughes 18y ago
I may be getting things confused here, but I usually see captive portals do HTTP redirection (looking from a sniffer). That would involve tampering with the headers, correct?
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by whughes 18y ago
I suspect that Orkut is the Google equivalent of the ROKR, the iTunes phone that preceded iPhone. It's a moderately successful trial until Google can really sink its teeth into social networking, whether through its own service or an acquis
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by whughes 18y ago
Huh? I don't see how you contradicted what I said.
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by whughes 18y ago
There isn't much of a reason. It's a purely psychological barrier, but it exists, and you have to account for it. Prices are getting lower and lower for mobile apps, and that's just what the market accepts now.
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by whughes 18y ago
On the contrary, brown rice is more popular than chocolate. Consider that most of the world's population survives primarily on rice with some other protein sources and water.
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by whughes 18y ago
No, I think that's the firewall modifying the headers. I still encounter the portal page when I use a different DNS (although the portal hostname doesn't resolve). I'm not sure if they have even figured out how to do DNS authentication yet.
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by whughes 18y ago
What about obligations to external parties, though? Family, VCs, employees, whatever -- one may not have enough leeway to fail on the first few shots. What was your situation?
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by whughes 18y ago
Gmail acts as a POP client too, if you want to wrangle with that. It's in the options.
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by whughes 18y ago
Western Europe has a lot of weight in the English-speaking Web, perhaps disproportionate to the population. Particularly prominent are the Netherlands, the UK, and Germany as well. There seems to be a number of French developers who work on
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by whughes 18y ago
What makes you think we're moving toward a Microsoft Internet? It seems to me that we're moving in precisely the opposite direction. Flash is really one of the last few closed holdout technologies.
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by whughes 18y ago
What's your definition of 'sell'? Should Best Buy report back to Apple whenever a card is sold? Or are we just talking about shipping to retail? There's also probably a chance of collision, considering the volume of iTunes certificates Appl
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by whughes 18y ago
If you charge a price and people are willing to buy, then yes, your product does magically become substantially valuable.
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by whughes 18y ago
I think you're making a good point, but it's misguided here. We're talking about a 2x speedup for strlen on pretty much every Linux system and probably other systems as well. That's millions of machines. This optimization has probably saved
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by whughes 18y ago
You're missing an important piece of the puzzle. A significant amount of the child sexual abuse in the US is perpetrated by families and close family friends. That's totally different from abductions and the sex trade, which you bring up in
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by whughes 18y ago
Censorship is quite a reasonable suggestion for HN. We aren't here to express our political views, we're here to read good content. If a site gets in the way of that, then by all means it should be banned.
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by whughes 18y ago
He could, but is there any reason to assume that he will? There's always out-of-nowhere conditions that can kill off an operation. He appears to be having no trouble thus far, so I don't see any reason to predict that he will encounter trou
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by whughes 18y ago
Shop is a fairly traditional (slang-ish, more like jargon) term for business. Talking shop and all that.. Still, I agree, it's not as common to hear these days and does have weird connotations now.
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by whughes 18y ago
It's not AGPL, though, so IIRC you can use it in any web apps you come up with without having to publish source.
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by whughes 18y ago
Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/836i6/hey_reddit... The IT guy from the video is a poster there, so there is some useful information if anyone is interested.
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by whughes 18y ago
Ack, I'm getting my terminology confused. I meant posts in the usenet/forum sense.

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