SpoonMeiser

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by SpoonMeiser 12y ago
Python You don't have to worry about memory management, pointers and the like, and can just focus on the algorithms. All that stuff it super important to also know, but probably easier to learn about them separately.
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by SpoonMeiser 12y ago
Just one question: Can it automatically hide any links to techcrunch? That's the killer feature that's missing from all of these things.
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by SpoonMeiser 12y ago
Ha ha
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by SpoonMeiser 12y ago
Surely that's the null hypothesis? It's up to proponents of organic food to prove a benefit.
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by SpoonMeiser 12y ago
Exactly what I was thinking
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by SpoonMeiser 12y ago
I have a gpg encrypted file on a server that I manage manually - made slightly easier by the gpg plugin for vim. Not found a password manager with a UI that I get on with yet.
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by SpoonMeiser 14y ago
theoldreader.com looks like a good alternative
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by SpoonMeiser 14y ago
re point 2. I don't see a problem with using a regex to validate email, unless you get false negatives. Rejecting anything that could be a valid e-mail address is bad and will cause frustration for someone at some point. I don't think a
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by SpoonMeiser 14y ago
The problem I find with something like gnome, is that it pulls in a huge amount of dependencies, and it isn't always easy to cleanly remove it.
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by SpoonMeiser 14y ago
My wife has a horrible time with HSBC, and I always get a bit aggitated when I see people recommend them, so I'm glad to see other people sharing their horror stories about them. Her situation is that she visits family in Canada once a year
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by SpoonMeiser 14y ago
I like the Barclaycard (I think) fraud thing. You get called by a computer that asks you to identify yourself by picking a piece of personal information from a list. It might ask for the month and date of your birth, for example, and give y
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by SpoonMeiser 14y ago
I like the Barclays mobile app. You authenticate it once using a pin sentry device, and give it a pass code, and from then on you can just use that pass code to get your balance using the app. The app also acts as a pin sentry when you want
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by SpoonMeiser 14y ago
HSBC are also (or at least were very recently) in the habit of calling customers and launching immediately into security questions without even identifying themselves first, which is wrong for all sorts of reasons.
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by SpoonMeiser 14y ago
"We're announcing Go version 1, or Go 1 for short" I foresee the next version being considered harmful.
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by SpoonMeiser 15y ago
This really doesn't sound like a problem with the update function, this just sounds like web applications 101 - don't trust user data.
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by SpoonMeiser 15y ago
Is it just me, or doesn't this sound very similar to SQL injection, only as applied to an ORM instead? That is, if my understanding is correct, they're taking user posted data and trivially turning it into a command to update data. This doe
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by SpoonMeiser 15y ago
"The full set are true monospace fonts, each character being exactly 0.5em wide" Umm... a 0.5em width m?
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by SpoonMeiser 15y ago
That's a good analogy, because until recently, I was writing all my PNG files by hand.
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by SpoonMeiser 15y ago
Also, it says that directly on the site itself.
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by SpoonMeiser 15y ago
Great. Can it be adapted to hide any stories from TechCrunch instead?
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by SpoonMeiser 16y ago
Can't wait to try this out on my touch-screen phone or tablet PC... ...oh, wait.
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by SpoonMeiser 16y ago
This is excellent advice.
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by SpoonMeiser 16y ago
s/solve/cause/
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by SpoonMeiser 16y ago
I can't log in with either my 'free' or 'open' accounts. The client outputs something like this: 12:53:03.051 I [ap:1387] Connecting to AP B2.spotify.com:4070 12:53:03.054 I [ap:937] Connected to AP: 78.31.8.17:4070 12:53:03.073 E [
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by SpoonMeiser 16y ago
What struck me about the memo, is the constant references to 'the problem', without ever defining what the actual problem was. People not working long hours might be a symptom of a problem, but it is not a problem in and of itself. You ask
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by SpoonMeiser 16y ago
The correct term is "crawl", not "creep"
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by SpoonMeiser 17y ago
It is? Why?
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by SpoonMeiser 17y ago
What about a million and one?