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by wladimir 15y ago
I don't think those cases are even comparable. Lying that you paid (through whatever means) is different from using a different user agent, which has no (direct, expected) relation to money. But if you think changing the user agent is someh
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by wladimir 15y ago
There is no law that you have to send any user agent at all, or indeed a valid one that matches your device/browser. It is just a hint for the server. Edit: and IMO, it's toxic to the hacker spirit to be too quick in condemning ideas as ill
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by wladimir 15y ago
Exactly. Buggy and slow software is a much larger, worse issue than piracy, which directly affects your paying customers. IMO good software has the same properties as good hardware: the internals accessible to diagnose and solve problems.
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by wladimir 15y ago
It can certainly hurt if you worked hard to make something and no one appreciates it (or worse, are actively hostile toward it). If it happens enough, I'm sure one can develop some kind of mental illness. Especially if he already had issues
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by wladimir 15y ago
Yes, that dystopia (at least in the beginning of the novella) is becoming reality for a lot of people. And I don't think it's getting better soon. We should consider ourselves lucky that we are the ones that program computers instead of the
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by wladimir 15y ago
I think the idea behind BS is that it saves some typing and thinking for common scraping tasks. In that light, it fits perfectly on top of some other (faster) parsing library.
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by wladimir 15y ago
The latest and greatest technology becomes obsolete the same day it is announced Interesting view... How do you define obsolete?
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by wladimir 15y ago
Many others. As a recent example, Len Sassaman. He suffered from clinical depression and eventually suicided. Mental illness in scientists/engineers gets way less exposure than with artists, which are more visible to the public.
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by wladimir 15y ago
are the HN mods right to silence an account from a clearly very talented technical guy because of his mental illness? I've also wondered about this. It's OK to use the silencing for real spammers, but for people that are considered annoyi
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by wladimir 15y ago
was it ever possible, given how deep the rabbit hole goes? I don't think so. People have always complained that the more you know, the more you realize you don't know. But lately we're more and more confronted with our limitations as huma
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by wladimir 15y ago
Depends on what features you need. I've seen wikis used as "human-friendly" VCSes. There is no branching, forking and automated merging in most implementations... But that might be good things, based on who your target group is.
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by wladimir 15y ago
And android needs some blame for not allowing their users to opt out of granting that permission I also wonder why this is not possible. The user should be the one to have the final say on the permissions an application gets, not the app
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by wladimir 15y ago
That's very wishful thinking :) The GHz race ended due to physical constraints and cost, not due to people finally realizing anything. It will likely re-start once a new technology is developed (graphene?) that allows for even faster clock
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by wladimir 15y ago
It makes a little bit of sense. When you come from a https site, you don't want to leak referrer (and thus which part of which site you were visiting) over the unencrypted internet. Though in my eyes sending referrers always has been questi
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by wladimir 15y ago
"hip" was probably the wrong word. It's more like "having the temporary advantage". I expect desktop office programs will also support real-time collaboration in the near future. It's indeed an incredibly useful feature, so there is no reas
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by wladimir 15y ago
The cloud "hipness" seems to be already fading in some circles, due to privacy and concerns about who owns the data. Non-geeks creeped out about ads following them around based on what they type in a document, or their data being accessed b
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by wladimir 15y ago
I've always wondered this about forced decryption: what if you have large random files on your harddrive? (irrelevant how they got there -- you may not even know) For all intents or purposes these look like encrypted data, and if they could
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by wladimir 15y ago
When going from https to https site, referer information is usually being sent, at least with modern browsers. So if the whole web goes encrypted (yay), the issue is solved.
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by wladimir 15y ago
I eventually settled on git, for no particular reason but to choose one. They are equivalent for all practical purposes, but require learning different commands to do the same thing. It was taking too much mental bandwidth for me to context
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by wladimir 15y ago
Old fashioned detective work is expensive and labor-intensive. Which means it will be only used when there's really something at stake. Also, your contacts might tell you that they were interrogated later on. It is visible. Data mining is d
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by wladimir 15y ago
As I understand it, the client plugin and the proxy are different programs. I don't think you have to run an "exit node" to use it. Though it obviously wouldn't work if no one would be running one, but that's a different issue.
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by wladimir 15y ago
How is using less power superfluous? It's better for the environment and it beats having to charge every device every day.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Huh? Like "don't read the article, that's just details, make something!". But it can't be Linux-based? Or use make files? To "make something" you do need to care about details. At least a bit (depending on the complexity).
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by wladimir 15y ago
cmake is not a makefile reinvention! Like GNU automake, it generates makefiles (or input files for VisualC/XCode). It configures the build for the specific target system, and library versions and locations.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Even with a structural disadvantage it may make sense to fight back. Yes, it's risky. But whether it's worth it, is everyone's own (moral, not engineering) choice. And I don't have any illusion that just geeks can "save the world", but they
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by wladimir 15y ago
I'm betting on the hostile governments. Yes, that was very clear. I wish I could be amoral like you. The worst case is, "run this tool and a government computer somewhere silently puts your name on a list" Not always a problem. If enoug
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by wladimir 15y ago
The advantage of a PTY paradigm is that there is simply an input/output stream consisting of text and control commands, which can be transparantly sent over the network (ssh), over a RS-232 link (embedded debugging), and so on. What would y
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by wladimir 15y ago
That fraction will only get smaller in the years to come as mobile devices get cheaper and more capable. I doubt this statement. The number of people that write code is bound to increase in the future, not become smaller. And that has (am
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by wladimir 15y ago
Can you quote some examples of this? Like in any community there is a lot of conservatism, but how is it influential? I hear quite some complaints that Ubuntu/Debian/kernel changes are going too fast, more than that it is going too slow. Se
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by wladimir 15y ago
It reads like a rambling. He's pitting Linux advocates against touch technology? I don't even understand why. Android is based on Linux, and Ubuntu has been developing a touch-friendly interface for a long time. And what does that have to d

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