Nicolas___

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by Nicolas___ 14y ago
This is an ok home page. Your idea could be very good or very bad, depending on how your service works. But right now, there is no way to tell because it shows nothing at all. You basically asked for some feedback on the content of some &#6
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by Nicolas___ 15y ago
These tips are good practices, but they are micro-optimisations. The function strtr might be 4 times faster than str_replace, but the time saved by using strtr will represent a tiny tiny tiny portion of your script execution time. Micro-opt
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by Nicolas___ 15y ago
You have to be more specific about the VPS part of your question...
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by Nicolas___ 15y ago
By the way, since we're on HN, there's a multi-billion dollar idea here : Create a way to add OpenId to any website, that is easy and fast to implement and friction-less for users.
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by Nicolas___ 15y ago
I recently had to choose a way to authenticate users for a prototype web app I was building. My first choice was OpenId, because the promise behind it is awesome (1 login everywhere) and I wanted to avoid depending on FB. First annoying thi
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by Nicolas___ 15y ago
The first rule of the cloud is : If you think your data requires a high level of privacy, don't store it on someone else's platform. The second rule of the cloud is : Paying for a service to get a "private" option doesn't mean the data you
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by Nicolas___ 15y ago
Thank you !
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by Nicolas___ 15y ago
http://www.weekendhacker.net/ might be what you're looking for. I think I learnt about it on HN, too.
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by Nicolas___ 15y ago
On your GitHub readme, the link to the paper is broken : http://www.math.admu.edu.ph/~raf/pcsc05/proceedings/AI4.pdf Is the paper still available online ? Do you have an alternate URL ? Thanks :)
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by Nicolas___ 15y ago
The AWS website has all the informations you need. The http://aws.amazon.com/architecture/ section provides 5 diagrams : ==> Web Application Hosting : http://d36cz9buwru1tt.cloudfront.net/architecturecenter/AWS_... ==> Content a
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by Nicolas___ 15y ago
Being able to provide you with your password in plain text doesn't mean it's stored in plain text. There are very efficient and secure encryption algorithms that are reversible, out there. Of course, sending passwords in an unencrypted emai
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by Nicolas___ 15y ago
Looks like you somehow remove the '-' characters in the domain names.
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by Nicolas___ 15y ago
- read SMS or MMS Allows application to read SMS messages stored on your device or SIM card. Malicious applications may read your confidential messages. - receive SMS Allows application to receive and process SMS messages. Malicious applica
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by Nicolas___ 15y ago
http://panoptikos.com/ did this pretty well for me in the last few months, but it's always nice to have several choices :) Care to share the tech behind the site, and how it works ?
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by Nicolas___ 15y ago
Anyone has experience with Foundation ? Is it any better than Bootstrap (Twitter's) or any other framework of that kind ?
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Ask HN: CSS and JS minification tool
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by Nicolas___ 15y ago
It would be nice to have some specific informations about what you guys are building, on top of the utopic vision email you send monthly. Many people are interested by the project, but you have to realize we already know why we are interest
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by Nicolas___ 15y ago
Maybe they have per-country data, and since Africa is not a country but a continent...
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by Nicolas___ 15y ago
What does BCC stand for, please ? (I might sound dumb but I couldn't figure it out :)
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by Nicolas___ 15y ago
There are two main options, when it comes to making money from an app : 1- sell a small (cheap) app to many people 2- sell a big (expensive) app to a few people While it is true that the most successful apps are usually pretty complex and e
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by Nicolas___ 15y ago
The problem is that many legit people with perfectly legit businesses have seen their account frozen for 180 days without any reason and without any human being to discuss the issue with. All they could do is wait and hope they get their mo
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by Nicolas___ 15y ago
Your Paypal story is exactly what makes me want to partner with someone else. Amazon and Paypal solutions sound great but they are both limited to US and UK :(
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by Nicolas___ 15y ago
These are both great solutions, but there are strong geographical limitations for both of them (US or UK only).
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Alternative to Paypal "Buy buttons" for European-based companies?
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by Nicolas___ 15y ago
There are many ways to share knowledge. The most obvious would be "write a blog". But to be honnest, you may as well use your knowledge in the process of building a tool to share it :) Here comes the engineer approach : List your knowledge,
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by Nicolas___ 15y ago
Funny thing is that today, despite the fact that everybody has a broadband connection, Minitel is still used by some people. Specifically for the 2 usages that made its success in the first place : yellow pages and adult chat. A few compa
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by Nicolas___ 15y ago
Set your main goal in life to "Share that knowledge". 29 is stupidly young to be a mentor, but it's a great moment to start working on helping others in your field of expertise. I think HN is not a place for that kind of posts. It's a place
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by Nicolas___ 15y ago
I use Duplicity ( http://duplicity.nongnu.org ) for incremental and full backups. It has built-in encryption as a default (but can be disabled). It also manages secure transfert to a distant host via rsync over ssh. I use it to store my dis