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by zorbo 13y ago
There are plenty of problems that go away by themselves because there was no problem to begin with. The micro-managing managers that suddenly get a bright insight that needs to happen now , only to completely forget about it a day later. T
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by zorbo 13y ago
> TBH I'm a bit disappointed this on high up on HN. I have no idea who you are, what you've done or if I've ever read anything you've written. Yet the idea of... retreating from the public side of the internet, or per
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by zorbo 13y ago
Doesn't sound like he or she considers it "fun". Different tastes I guess. To me, all the "problems" mentioned are the whole reason I'd love to undertake something like this.
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by zorbo 13y ago
This is why all my vacations are "zero technology". I bring absolutely no electronics except for an old non-smartphone in case of emergencies. This way I don't have to feel guilty, because I can't be "productive&quo
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by zorbo 13y ago
I would put it as downright hostile and exceptionally cynical actually. Critical would be fine in itself. I once accidentally (by a third party) had an article of mine reach the front page of HN, and I was actually afraid of reading the com
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by zorbo 13y ago
> Let's just ignore the fact that you do not actually need to be guilty of copyright infringement I'm not ignoring that. A simple counter-claim will get your contents reinstated. You don't actually have to be guilty of cop
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by zorbo 13y ago
Ignoring the obviously sensationalized and wildly inaccurate headline, this is another great example of how well the DMCA actually works (not being sarcastic here). The information carrier is exempted from legal action, the party that filed
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by zorbo 13y ago
We're just arguing semantics here.
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by zorbo 13y ago
From what I've always understood, the philosophy isn't "everything is a file" (the unified namespace variant), but "everything is a file descriptor" (the API kind).
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by zorbo 13y ago
> I mean I wonder what kind of info he has given (if any) to these countries. I assume those countries already had their hands on that information (and more). If it was easy for Snowden to get his hands on it, it would have been just as
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by zorbo 13y ago
When it comes to sexual bias, hacker news readers/commenters generally discard the "evidence" bit. And of course, nobody mentions the author's obvious anti-male and age bias ("but when I viewed it through the skewed
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by zorbo 13y ago
Strange. I see only one blocked, and I've got everything blocked and auto-update turned on. I think your ghostery may be malfuctioning, because a cursory glance at the resources doesn't reveal much out of the ordinary.
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by zorbo 13y ago
I find it funny that the author chose to publish this on medium. Had he not, would I have ended up reading it? Which is better, reaching a large audience with mild incitement which is tolerated by the censors, or being able to be as provoca
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by zorbo 13y ago
If anybody is still wondering why BBC Worldwide would block its contents from viewers in the UK, it seems reactions like these are what they're trying to prevent.
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by zorbo 13y ago
It answered a question I've been asking myself, so I upvoted it.
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by zorbo 13y ago
It seems to be compatible with Dash's DocSets, so you could use those on it.
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by zorbo 13y ago
FYI, Apparently there is a clone for Linux called ZealDocs ( http://zealdocs.org/ ).
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by zorbo 13y ago
For me, DevDocs is nicer at the moment: - It's faster - I don't have to select a programming language before I can start searching - It handles keyboard input a lot better. As soon as the page loads, I can start typing, move down
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by zorbo 13y ago
I don't know about the US, but there's a project here in the Netherlands where ISPs can voluntary submit that information to a central databank where law enforcement can access it. There's some due process that has to be do
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by zorbo 13y ago
What's the price for your mental health?
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by zorbo 13y ago
I deal with pretty complex queries daily, and I completely forgot what HAVING did exactly. I guess it's because I long ago realized that if I had to use HAVING in a query, I'm doing something wrong. That's almost always a Reporting/BusIntel
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by zorbo 13y ago
evil maid attack wouldn't have worked in this situation, since she broke in and stole the laptop. I also doubt she has the know-how to perform an evil maid attack. Enabling a BIOS boot password would make it more difficult to stealthily per
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by zorbo 14y ago
Not all exploits are zero-day exploits. As I understand it, a zero-day exploit is one that is used in the wild before it is disclosed. Plenty (most) vulnerabilities are only disclosed once a fix has been implemented.
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by zorbo 14y ago
Interesting. When I do some searches on the Dutch version of Indeed.com, I get very different results: Perl (421 hits), PHP (2397 hits), Python (493 hits), Java (3173 hits). The top of the Perl listings seem to be for system administrators,
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by zorbo 14y ago
Chrome automatically recognizes searches on sites, so that you can just type "ama[TAB]" in de URL bar, and it will give you a site-specific search straight in the URL bar (provided that "ama" auto-completes to "amazon.com" for you, naturall
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by zorbo 14y ago
> because it's impossible to improve a programming language Well, since "improve" is a relative and a matter of taste, it is impossible to improve a language, isn't it? Make it run faster, and it will either take up more memory or be sl
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by zorbo 14y ago
You do realize that the curl API says this: > The default value for this option is 2. In other words, there is absolutely no issue here. It does the right thing out of the box.
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by zorbo 14y ago
> Whats the difference between this and blogging socially on wordpress.com or blogger or tumblr? My answer would be: focus. It's nice that you visited YetAnotherCon 2012, and created ten blog posts about it, but honestly, I don't really
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by zorbo 14y ago
This article is bunk. I'd advise the author to stay far away from fortune tellers and palm readers.
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by zorbo 14y ago
You can easily show those jerks by driving at high speed and braking like an idiot right before you hit a speed trap. The reason the Netherlands employs so many mobile speed traps is because people quickly learn where the fixed speed traps

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