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by wrboyce 12y ago
To reiterate my point, 5k is simply a doubling of the commonly used 1440p resolution allowing for retina scaling. Regarding "proprietary Apple nonsense", I direct you to the recently announced Dell 5k display… http://ww
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by wrboyce 12y ago
What the hell are you on about? 5k is a very real resolution, it is double 1440p. It means you can have a 1440p looking display, but with retina scaling. I've got a 4k display, with scaling I have a 1080p looking display and as a resul
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CVE-2014-3671: DNS Reverse Lookup as a Vector for the Bash Vulnerability(seclists.org)
6 points by wrboyce 12y ago|0 comments
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by wrboyce 12y ago
I save the QR codes on an encrypted disk image which I keep in "a safe place". There is also Authy[0] which supports backups. [0]: https://www.authy.com/users
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by wrboyce 12y ago
I've been waiting about a month for confirmation that Task 8 is correct (or incorrect, either way!). Anyone else had issues with this one?
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by wrboyce 12y ago
> ...there are about 10K days in a decade (close enough not to matter)... That is quite a bit off, there are ~3650 days in a decade. If you really wanted to use round numbers, would 5K not have been a better choice?
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by wrboyce 12y ago
I would say you assume incorrectly, and this guy is just a tool.
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by wrboyce 12y ago
Why not link the original Krebs article? http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/10/silk-road-lawyers-poke-ho...
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by wrboyce 12y ago
You come across as an asshole both in this post and the responding email. If you don't want to do the work, politely decline. Why do HN/Twitter/Whoever else need to know? Also, your website hurts my eyes. EDIT: @anigbrowl I d
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UK piracy police arrest man suspected of running proxy server(wired.co.uk)
2 points by wrboyce 12y ago|0 comments
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by wrboyce 12y ago
I am confused as to what the original could be if not "X-COM: Enemy Unknown" (AKA "UFO: Enemy Unknown"/"X-COM: UFO Defense" released in 1994 on Amiga/CD32/DOS/PSx/Windows by MicroProse)
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by wrboyce 12y ago
> Credit cards are the equivelant of saying 'i only want american customers and everybody else can go to hell'. Let's just hope your bussiness is viable enough in just the US to be this ignorant. In the UK I do as much onl
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by wrboyce 12y ago
> Personally, if remote locking is capable of a hijack, I'd call that malware, but that's just semantics. This seems a curious view for a self-professed "tech-forward developer". Your logic can extend to a lot of thin
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by wrboyce 12y ago
> Safari will remain the only browser available on iOS https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/chrome-web-browser-by-google... > ...meaning that any non-Safari browser will remain inferior by intentional design But
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by wrboyce 12y ago
https://www.fiber7.ch/fiber7-bestellen/ https://www.fiber7.ch/fiber7-verfugbarkeit/ Django with DEBUG = True in production.
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by wrboyce 12y ago
"The database, which was compromised between late February and early March, included eBay customers’ name, encrypted password, email address, physical address, phone number and date of birth. However, the database did not contain finan
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Man jailed in UK for refusing to give police USB stick password(bbc.co.uk)
73 points by wrboyce 13y ago|108 comments
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by wrboyce 13y ago
It is probably worth noting that this guy is probably somewhat biased due to being the founder of (as far as I can tell) a similar hire-people-from-me-I'm-not-quite-a-recruitment-agent type website.
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by wrboyce 13y ago
I don't agree with your statement at all. The company I work for (and have been with for about two years) has employees across more timezones than I care to count (I am based in London, my colleagues across the US, Panama, Brazil, Swit
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by wrboyce 13y ago
If you alias `v` to `f -e vim` then you can `v config` and `v -i config`.
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by wrboyce 13y ago
The article (justifying not using semicolons) seems like a rant with not real aim, beside "I am right, semicolons are wrong - and I have all these half-baked ideas to back me up". The author was actually annoying me by the time I
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by wrboyce 13y ago
> Yep, founding fathers thought of that too. No, they stole the idea from British Law.
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by wrboyce 13y ago
This just reads to me as generic nerdrage and/or an attempt to gain some internet points by piggybacking an earlier discussion on HN. It would be far quicker to view the article via Coral Cache, the Way Back Machine or some other proxy
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by wrboyce 13y ago
Your wording is... Odd. BBC Future is just owned, and commercially run, by BBC Worldwide. Nothing to do with agent locations in the URL.
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by wrboyce 13y ago
Something looks wrong here… f(-1) = 0 f(0) = -1 f(f(-1)) = -1 Your code doesn't seem to handle the f(f(-n)) == n case
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by wrboyce 13y ago
Original story: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-cables-secret-...
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by wrboyce 13y ago
It seems to have (just) changed to a non-standard (different to the rest of Instagram's) 404 page.
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by wrboyce 14y ago
Maybe I am missing something, but aren't separate heaps (i.e., no shared memory between processes) one of the things that makes concurrency such a "joy" in Erlang? Why do you feel the major selling point was the first big mistake?
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by wrboyce 14y ago
> Most Vim plugins haven’t been converted to Github projects yet. Well that just isn't true: https://github.com/vim-scripts/repositories His issue with vimscripts being not being on github seems to be made up. Also, `:set format` isn'
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by wrboyce 14y ago
I made the very same observation when Jesse Noller first blogged about it (apparently as my very first HN comment[1]!). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4842906

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