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by wreegab 13y ago
I clicked the link and here is what I am greeted with: "Purchase article full text and PDF: £22" Seriously..
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by wreegab 13y ago
Just found you can zoom with the mousewheel. Zomming in on what appears an interesting feature reveals more and more details. This is just awesome. I can't help but feel more insignificant than usual when exploring this sky map.
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by wreegab 13y ago
Could this be due to throttling down as per heat? First benchmark would cause more heat to be generated, thus throttling down going on?
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by wreegab 13y ago
How do you define "Javascript libraries"? I just tried Forbes' front page, and I got 108 scripts being pulled + [all inline JS of top page combined] = 109 scripts. Just for ad.doubleclick.net, it's 30 external javascript
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by wreegab 13y ago
This Business Insider article has over 100 scripts: https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/Quick-tour-%... For a barely six-paragraph article...
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by wreegab 13y ago
> "The great thing about textual stylistic analysis is that everyone has a specific way of communicating that can be identified " How scientifically well supported is this assertion?
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by wreegab 13y ago
Any place you can think of where a government will invoke "public interest" to silence those who challenge this government's trampling of human rights.
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by wreegab 13y ago
> 1. PUBLIC - Software engineers shall act consistently with the public interest. In some places, "public interest" can go counter to "human rights". So I would rather have (order of precedence apply): 1a. PUBLIC - So
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by wreegab 13y ago
Kudos to you to have read the whole thing and followed through with comments. I stopped reading after I came upon two fallacies, early in the article.
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by wreegab 13y ago
"Linux-ng" as in "Linux Next Generation"?
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by wreegab 13y ago
Who is "RMS"? Edit: Ah never mind, searched for "who is RMS", got Richard Stallman.
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by wreegab 13y ago
Also, sophos.com revealed to facebook.com, through an iframe, that I went and read an article on sophos.com about a facebook.com's vulnerability.
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by wreegab 13y ago
Need volunteer translators for that GPLv3 project I am working on.
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by wreegab 13y ago
From the text: "It is impossible to use this new slice value to access the last three elements of the original array" Shouldn't this rather be: "It is impossible to use this new slice value to access the last element
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by wreegab 13y ago
I'm completely skeptical about the benefit of CDNs to users. I would like to see some hard data about the number of web sites a user visit typically to understand how this is a meaningful argument. As of now, I lean toward thinking the
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by wreegab 13y ago
If it is in the cache, why is the CDN needed anyways?
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by wreegab 13y ago
It could have been worst, imagine if the author instead had spent some of his precious time whining on a forum about how other people should spend their spare time on stuff he considers to be more valuable. Hacking things to make them do
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by wreegab 13y ago
Excerpt: "it also vastly expands the universe of things that could go wrong, particularly when it comes to privacy". Very funny, from an article sitting in a web page filled with tracker scripts and whatnot.
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by wreegab 13y ago
That link... All these resources for a six paragraphs article... http://imgur.com/3l4FuER
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by wreegab 13y ago
You're right, my mistake. There was a typo in my grep ('btrad.com')
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by wreegab 13y ago
I noticed Ghostery doesn't prevent this tracker: betrad.com. Any idea why? EDIT: my bad I meant betrad.com.