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by wjh_ 10y ago
I don't have any experience with this, but I suppose it's probably due to a) a lack of awareness and b) a lack of support. For one, people probably aren't aware enough of unicode to think to use a unicode character in their p
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by wjh_ 10y ago
It's not so much the productivity that means things to me. I want to feel like I'm achieving things, and if I sit about all day doing nothing then that isn't going to happen. The only way to achieve things is to be productive
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by wjh_ 10y ago
I'm thinking perhaps browsers should ask for speaker permissions, much like they already do for microphones and cameras.
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by wjh_ 10y ago
Agree with this one, they also want volunteers and have a variety of technical projects they're working on.
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by wjh_ 10y ago
A lot of the discussion here makes me think that perhaps there should be a coffee meetup HN thread or something similar posted regularly. Comment where you are, a way to contact you, and try to meet new people :)
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UK Government proposes porn-viewing ID(boingboing.net)
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Where WhatsApp Went Wrong: EFF's Four Biggest Security Concerns(eff.org)
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by wjh_ 10y ago
I've found it to be very useful, my college firewall blocks pretty much all ports except 80 and 443. Using this I can both host websites over HTTPS, while being able to SSH into my server.
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SSLH – Access https and ssh from the same port(rutschle.net)
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Bitmask encrypted email(bitmask.net)
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50 Shades of Go: Traps, Gotchas, and Common Mistakes for New Golang Devs(devs.cloudimmunity.com)
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Vim 8 pre-announcement(groups.google.com)
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UK surveillance bill includes powers to limit end-to-end encryption(techcrunch.com)
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I just invented Bitcoin(hackaday.com)
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UK Government Expands Crackdown on Online Piracy(torrentfreak.com)
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XMPP IRC Gateway – IRC with XMPP Client(biboumi.louiz.org)
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Laziness is a virtue(openlife.cc)
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by wjh_ 11y ago
Because I still find the theory interesting, I'd just prefer a CS course that tends a bit more towards the practical than the theoretical. Having seen a lot of the optional modules at several universities it looks like this would defin
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Ask HN: Computer Science university courses in the UK
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Scalable and secure web application framework in C(github.com)
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I moved to GitLab. You should too(github.com)
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Snoopers charter given thumbs up, logs of everything possible(arstechnica.co.uk)
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Generation Byte(stilldrinking.org)
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PIA runs BitTorrent VPN traffic through VPN to avoid bans(torrentfreak.com)
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Ultimate Hacking Keyboard Crowdfunding Campaign(crowdsupply.com)
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Ask HN: How would you sell open source software?
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by wjh_ 11y ago
That does actually seem like it might be better, I admit Forge and Java would probably seem quite daunting to someone new. I'll see what he thinks! The only issue though, is that I think a lot of his motivation stems from potentially s
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by wjh_ 11y ago
What you say about Minecraft rings true. I've been trying to get my 12 year old brother into programming for a while, never really succeeded. Today I setup Forge and taught him how to make an item for Minecraft. That got him excited ab