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by zeeed 12y ago
Let's assume you drive in Germany and take an Uber passenger and get involved in an accident fatal for the pax, after you fail to reanimate him and your tires are slightly overdue for a change. The family sues you for reckless driving
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by zeeed 12y ago
Ride sharing is completely legal in Germany, the court order makes the difference between ride sharing (which is unregulated) and ride sharing FOR PROFIT, which, in Germany, is a regulated market. So no, it's not a ban. It's the r
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by zeeed 12y ago
great site. took some time to look through the tutorial and love the navigation. the ux is completely OK for discovery and the value added is great. Same problem for me in firefox (latest version): no text field, means I'm stuck with a
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by zeeed 12y ago
First of all: congrats for finding it and kudos for asking for advice on how to deal with the issue. If your doubtful about what way of disclosure would be the most prudent (and you sure don't want the disclosure to backfire on yoursel
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by zeeed 12y ago
I was wondering if the author came up with that graph himself so I looked around a bit. The graph was coined originally by a hungarian psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi [1] and published in 1997 and has not been undisputed. Personally,
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by zeeed 12y ago
thanks for the reply. I indeed had not considered the login-aspect of it. I'm not working in the website/online service business (and neither do I use facebook) so this helps me understand better. For the rest, I added a clear not
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by zeeed 12y ago
except for HN where the post is #1 right now. This is beyond my understanding. What is it about a FB service outage that makes it so important? (this is not an attempt to troll, it's a serious question)
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by zeeed 12y ago
> software isn't the same thing as physical architecture. and software isn't the same thing as a design pattern (neither are components). The pattern describes the /concept/ and allows the builders to call an arc &quo
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by zeeed 12y ago
if mobile/tablet-only is OK, try wickr (wickr.com). It works fairly well for me. They have a $100.000 bounty for someone who manages to break their code/get communication contents and they're sponsored by the EFF. The downsid
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by zeeed 12y ago
nice. it requires a 3rd party FB, Google, AIM, ICQ, ippi, iptel or MSN account but it says they optionally use OTR. Not 100% secure IMHO but close. Why do they have to rely on a 3rd party for authentication? This still gives (at least, if y
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by zeeed 12y ago
nice, thanks! it's too bad that it's not possible to change the behavior from 'caps lock' to simply imitate the shift key.
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by zeeed 12y ago
that's as good as saying "i'm sick of arcs, square windows, rafter roofs and linked lists". of course patterns aren't the end-all-be-all of software development. but it's the trait of a good craftsman and engin
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by zeeed 12y ago
In addition to checking added parts, do check your USB peripherals carefully (keyboard, mouse, game controller) if they have been exchanged/tampered with.
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by zeeed 12y ago
the bluebox security scanner app has been updated to verify if your version of android is exploitable. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bluebox.la...
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by zeeed 12y ago
it masks the username
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by zeeed 12y ago
this is an extremely weird case of humblebragging.
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by zeeed 12y ago
the article is paywalled, the link only gives the abstract. there is an informative summary here: http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.fr/2014/06/women-young-p...
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by zeeed 12y ago
FWIW: I had the same issue on three machines. What worked for me was to unhide the network, i.e. broadcast the SSID.
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by zeeed 12y ago
this. and do get a patent attorney asap so that you don't run the risk of having worked in vain.
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by zeeed 12y ago
what's the nature of the project that you're managing? also, what is the size of your team? have you already worked with this process or are you about to deploy it?
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Dropbox' defence to Snowden statements(theinquirer.net)
2 points by zeeed 12y ago|0 comments
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by zeeed 12y ago
here's the comment thread from when the topic last surfaced 6 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8051533
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by zeeed 12y ago
Given that his blog is about web design, I would think he's talking about markup-validation, rather than unit-tests or static analysis
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by zeeed 12y ago
I, for one, am glad that hitting back is not the only strategy available to ensure that the chances of this happening again are minimized. And I'm glad that there are governments in place in this world that share this perspective.
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by zeeed 12y ago
What happens to a message if it's not received? Will it be retransmitted or is it lost? Do I know if my message has been received by my contact (1:1) or anyone (1:all)?
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by zeeed 12y ago
What this stresses is the importance of finding your own problem, that is, choosing your own path instead of having an attitude of waiting to be assigned with a problem and then subsequently becoming unhappy, which is what Feynman calls out
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Humanoid robot for $2000(theverge.com)
3 points by zeeed 12y ago|1 comments
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by zeeed 13y ago
Not that disabling the setting would keep them from reading or mining your chats though. All that happens is that now you don't get reminded of it anymore.
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by zeeed 13y ago
in other news: Some random official warned about threat decades before Fukushima, Chernobyl. Government agencies, by their very nature, might have never entered the realm of common sense and proper risk management. There are a lot of good h
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by zeeed 13y ago
Security through transparency and readability for a bigger audience.

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