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wooptoo
9y ago
That's quite a commitment for a company, to maintain a piece of software for 25-ish years. I have fond memories of using Macromedia Flash 4 and 5 many years ago to create animations and simple scripted pages. I loved how well integrate
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9y ago
LOL.
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wooptoo
9y ago
Just don't bother with companies who don't have a bug bounty system in place.
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9y ago
The remote-remote feature is great! Does any other client have such a thing? I basically need Google drive -> ftp.
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wooptoo
9y ago
A similar `slow bomb` could be created for attempted ssh connections to a host using a sshrc script. For example clients which do not present a key, just keep them connected and feed them garbage from time to time. Or rickroll them.
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9y ago
Any luck using this with BeautifulSoup?
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9y ago
For nginx: # deny access to HG and Git repositories location ~ /\.(hg|git)/ { deny all; }
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wooptoo
9y ago
This version of Chrome has support for running headless (without the need for a graphical environment at all). Awesome for automation and testing.
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9y ago
Great article! An equally educational one for a torrent client in C# https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12035568
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9y ago
They do have IPv6 - I just checked the admin dashboard.
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9y ago
Great release! Is there any way to donate to SublimeText? We already have licenses at work, but would like to donate $10 or so to show support.
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wooptoo
10y ago
Or you could use Chrome Apps, i.e. a desktop shortcut which opens a web page in a separate window.
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wooptoo
10y ago
Not true at all. Python3 evolved in leaps and bounds in the last few years gaining many essential features for a modern programming language. Things like async/await, new frameworks showing up all the time shows a growing ecosystem. Th
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10y ago
Too bad they didn't jump on the Android bandwagon years ago when they were still in good shape.
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10y ago
Couldn't they replace it with something like Disqus? It's a great way to have social comments without the fuss of maintaining the whole system.
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10y ago
That's great work. There's also rclone which I use for one-way backups of Gdrive contents.
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10y ago
> what stops a user from removing the DRM components I think inertia and convenience. Casual users won't hack around trying to rip Netflix when they have already paid for it. Also since services like Netflix are in the cloud they a
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10y ago
I'd say much less than it used to be. Those emails saying "An item from your wishlist is now on sale for $9" is highly effective.
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10y ago
That's a bit disheartening. Instead of having a basic standard to start with, we will now have none. The issue that FSF and others appears to have is with the Content Decryption Module which is a binary blob at the moment. Standardisin
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10y ago
There's an upcoming tech job fair named Silicon Milk Roundabout in east-side London: https://www.siliconmilkroundabout.com/ A lot of the big names in the industry send their product and tech team leaders there trying t
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10y ago
Such a shame. Samsung printers were among the best in the industry. I feel that HP were pretty mediocre in the last few years and they're just riding the hype train. What we need are printers which are more "open". Cheaper to
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10y ago
> someone's PHP code quality is higher if they've done more than just PHP. That's how most quality frameworks for PHP were born, by folks having used other languages. That being said, I find Symfony3 to be very decent. I w
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10y ago
Swift should be mature enough by now for development. Or start with version 3 when it comes out.
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StackOverflow Careers should stop accepting business from predatory employers
(meta.stackoverflow.com)
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Web API design by Apigee - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8qU9uFznmLsdFBHS1I2c1ZLRk... Restful service design - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8qU9uFznmLsUEZ3TEFMbDZQcU... Notes on RESTful APIs - h
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10y ago
They have a strong image advantage too. They are the only company to put the user's rights, privacy and best interests first and foremost. For years they were the only ones to carry the open source flag in the browser space. They had t
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> it will take Chrome and IE/Edge years to match. Or just a few months to fork and improve. I'd really like to see the Chrome and Firefox teams converge over Servo. But maybe Google suffers from too much NIH syndrome to do that
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Subpixel hinting mode can be chosen by setting the right value in your environment, for example /etc/environment or ~/.pam_environment Available settings: FT2_SUBPIXEL_HINTING=0 # Classic mode (default in 2.6)
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How long before other companies (like Medium) will start doing this? That's why I'm advocating hosting your own blog. Github Pages basically provide free hosting for static pages, and you can use a blog generator like Pelican or J
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I've used Slackware back in the day. Nowadays it feels like it's a terribly outdated distro. Why would anyone still use it? The packages are pretty much up to date but the distro itself feels dusty.
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