zimbatm

85 ms·

841.
by zimbatm 12y ago
One use case I can think of is if you want to use the same packaged versions between the developer machine (OSX) and your deployment environment (Linux). It not 100% the same but it could help uncover issues before they are deployed. And yo
842.
by zimbatm 12y ago
> The Garden City Police Department had cannabis oil activist Shona Banda’s Facebook account shutdown because she was using her social media network to raise money for her legal defense On what grounds is it illegal to raise funds ?
843.
by zimbatm 12y ago
Real name is a simplification. It assumes that users are less likely to misbehave because they can't change their identity. This is also true for other systems where users can invest value into their accounts but still have the option
844.
by zimbatm 12y ago
I don't think that Facebook asks for real names to prevent bullying. It's a policy to help advertising metrics and create a community rooted in the real world. Bullying happens regardless of those rules anyways. The biggest issue
845.
by zimbatm 12y ago
Reversely, I wonder why `rm` hasn't been patched to abort when the `/` path is passed as an argument (with maybe a --no-really-i-mean-it argument for the really rare cases where that's what you want) EDIT: not sure why this i
846.
by zimbatm 12y ago
Steampunk would finally become real
847.
by zimbatm 12y ago
Just installed little snitch. Almost every app on my mac is trying to access some resource on the web, most of them over port 80 or a mix-and-match of both 80 and 443. And then the OS itself has a variety of services that does the same. My
848.
by zimbatm 12y ago
Do we know if he really did ? I thought this was all speculation from the prosecutor to shine a bad light on the character. He never was convicted of it for sure.
849.
by zimbatm 12y ago
Have you thought of intercepting keyboard strokes to maintain your own internal state of the text ? Instead of having Keyboard-->HTML-(extract)->innerText you would have Keyboard-->innerText-(render)->HTML. Contenteditable is
850.
by zimbatm 12y ago
Would it be possible to depend on the earth's magnetic field for positioning ? Migratory birds use it but I don't know how precise it is.
851.
by zimbatm 12y ago
In the other hand, it helps prevent people to build needlessly complex abstractions. That's what I like about go: relatively straight-forward code to read in most project that I have seen.
852.
by zimbatm 12y ago
What's the story for building a little HTTP server or command-line tool ? Go has a great batteries-included standard library.
853.
by zimbatm 12y ago
Might be better than what I'm currently using. The `git changelog` command from the git-extras package is also quite useful. It just takes the git log messages from the git history until the last tag and updates the `{History,Changelog
854.
by zimbatm 12y ago
This article made me want to try human genome editing. It's obvious that given the possibility people are not going to be able to resist.
855.
by zimbatm 12y ago
> They told us they would stop notifying us of plots and other intelligence matters What does "other intelligence matters" mean ? Also historically, what are the cases where this intelligence was useful ? Being more specific wo
856.
by zimbatm 12y ago
Does it mean that all your workstations need to install the company CA to access HTTPS websites ? What about SSH or TLS+IMAP ?
857.
by zimbatm 12y ago
Now that it's been adopted by multiple countries it's only a matter of time before some start competing on price. Hopefully it will start to become affordable soon.
858.
by zimbatm 12y ago
Why JavaScript, why !
859.
by zimbatm 12y ago
CoreOS is not huge but is also much bigger than these systems. The virtualbox image for example is 113MB compressed and 358MB uncompressed. http://alpha.release.core-os.net/amd64-usr/current/coreos_pr...
860.
by zimbatm 12y ago
The best reason to have new-less constructors is because it's now possible to use them as higher-order functions. [1,2,3].map(User)
861.
by zimbatm 12y ago
This article is just badly written. It doesn't provide or make reference to a precise documentation of the issue. It's not clear whenever it applies to `delete x` or also `delete obj[x]`. It doesn't provide a reproductible us
862.
by zimbatm 12y ago
It would be interesting to shift the discussion a bit. What does the government need to protect users and corporations from that sort of hacking ? Is the government's role only to attack or in what levels can it help safeguard our onli
863.
by zimbatm 12y ago
I tried ipfs, it's impressive. The only challenge it to re-write paths to be relative instead of absolute as ipfs has it's own "/ipfs/$hash" prefix.
864.
by zimbatm 12y ago
Note that cache is not always a solution. Cache is a terrible answer for first-time user experience. A lot of stuff on the web is loaded outside of the cache too for various reasons. Caches gets flushed.
865.
by zimbatm 12y ago
Is there an antivirus company with NSA ties to report on Russian viruses ?
866.
by zimbatm 12y ago
Thanks, I just found that Tesla has an adapter for it's cars to connect to SAE J17772 plugs: http://my.teslamotors.com/roadster/charging/j1772-mobile-con... . Too bad Tesla didn't standardise on that for
867.
by zimbatm 12y ago
OT: For electric cars to succeed someone really needs to step-up and standardise the plug. It's ridiculous to have charging stations that are tied to a particular brand of cars.
868.
by zimbatm 12y ago
Got the same impression. Now what is needed is to split the docker daemon into little parts with least privileges. An example of that, yesterday while trying to see if I could implement `docker build` using available commands, I found out t
869.
by zimbatm 12y ago
The difference is that OwnCloud is marketed as an operating system and is aimed at holding all the user's personal information. Users who aren't necessarily knowledgeable enough to distinguish trusted and untrusted "applicati
870.
by zimbatm 12y ago
Unfortunately OwnCloud is fundamentally broken because all "apps" share the same process and have to be written in PHP. The bigger the ecosystem gets, the harder it is going to be to deal with security issues. If OwnCloud wants to

More ›