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by zeveb 8y ago
To be fair, part of the problem is that each of us has been bitten throughout his career by issues which could have been prevented by being able to predict the future. We then move from the truth that if we had known the future, we could h
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by zeveb 8y ago
I think maybe it's something like the fashion adoption curve: first almost everyone thinks something looks radical and weird, but a few people adopt it; then a few more think it looks acceptable- enough , then it becomes slowly more ma
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by zeveb 8y ago
Nothing stops the others who are contributing to that consultant’s underlying free software from taking pride in their work. Nothing stops you from spending your bench time improving (or replacing!) that free software with others. Free S
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What we wished for(smashingmagazine.com)
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by zeveb 8y ago
My one concern with pass is that it doesn't encrypt filenames; it's a real pity, as that's an information leak itself.
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You broke the Internet? Let's make a GNU one(youtube.com)
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by zeveb 8y ago
I don't understand why people have them in their homes (just make a pot of coffee, folks!), but I do understand why they have been so incredibly successful in offices: they are clean & convenient, and don't require everyone to
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by zeveb 8y ago
I think it's because a meme-repeating Twitter account looks more real than one which is randomly saying 'hi' (or whatever) over and over and over. It's pretty clever, because the malware needn't even necessarily be
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by zeveb 8y ago
> I find it pretty incredible that a researcher would reject these very general principles out of hand, simply because Russia's landmass is located at higher latitudes. I suspect that the article has its own motives, based on the od
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by zeveb 8y ago
> blocked for years He was nominated on the 16th of March 2016; the election was on the eighth of November of the same year, and his nomination expired on the third of January 2017, less than a year later. No matter how you slice that,
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Businesses can always raise prices to cover higher costs. If they can’t, they’re not viable in the first place. Interesting that 'individuals can always ask for a raise to cover higher costs; if they can't, they're not v
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by zeveb 8y ago
Lisp isn't a functional language (in the sense that you appear to mean; it has functions as a first-class type, of course, but that's different). This code is imperative: (tagbody start (decf x) (forma
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Demon Underneath: John DeLorean and the Invention of the Future(theoutline.com)
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by zeveb 8y ago
Really? Given that the United States form a federal republic, and that under their Constitution most authority is retained by the states, and that the military is one of the few things not relegated to the states, it would make sense f
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Extensions used to have carte blanche to change the browser, which was a security risk … I don't buy that. It's my browser running on my computer, it's my choice whose code I choose to run on it. If, say, emacs
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by zeveb 8y ago
> My rule of thumb is that if I went into a restaurant and asked the waiter "I want a sandwich, but I don't care what kind -- surprise me!" and they brought me an object, how angry would I be at the waiter who brought me t
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by zeveb 8y ago
> For starters, you're assuming I'd want to live off the investment, instead of continuing to work. Okay, fine. You mentioned that you're a student, so I'll assume that means you're 22: if you're a man, tha
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by zeveb 8y ago
That's why I'd like to suggest a three-phase solution: the first phase is advocating for using JavaScript for progressive enhancement only; the second phase is a JavaScript blocker; the third phase is using three-phase power to de
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by zeveb 8y ago
If they would simply get rid of all HTML submissions pages where users may enter their passwords, then the system would probably acceptable. If the Firefox Account UI were entirely browser-managed, it'd be okay . I'd still pref
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by zeveb 8y ago
I don't believe one really can. That's a good argument against Apple's walled garden IMHO.
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by zeveb 8y ago
Sadly, the sync functionality is gated behind an insecure authentication system, so one really shouldn't use it. This is a pity, because Chrome's sync is even less secure. Compounding the pity, Firefox used to have a more sec
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by zeveb 8y ago
I’m really excited to see this! I’ve got it compiling right now. Can’t wait to give it a spin.
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Securing your site like it's 1999(24ways.org)
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by zeveb 8y ago
What would prevent malicious software running on the computer from installing a malicious version of Mozilla? What's their attack model?
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Apple does the very same thing. As my dear old mom used to say, 'if everyone else were jumping off a bridge, would you?' The fact that Apple constrain their users doesn't justify Mozilla doing the same. My browser belon
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by zeveb 8y ago
Amusingly enough, his charts & images don’t display without JavaScript. Are they interactive, or is he himself using JavaScript when a simple img tag would suffice?
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Fortran is still a thing(wordsandbuttons.online)
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You conveniently left out the second clause of the sentence: it’s not good; it’s neutral. There are three moral valences: good, neutral & evil. ‘Money laundering’ is neither good nor evil, but simply neutral. The things it attempts to
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Can you provide me with just one example why money laundring is supposed to be a good thing? Money laundering isn't good; the actions which are termed 'money laundering' in the law are neutral . > And can you explain
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by zeveb 8y ago
> I simply don't understand why some people won't buy the product because it's not open source Because we want the freedom to use it however we wish, to modify it to behave as we wish and to share those modifications with

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