akl

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Building the Google Photos Web UI(medium.com)
3 points by akl 8y ago|1 comments
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by akl 9y ago
The EFF does: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/digital-privacy-us-border...
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by akl 9y ago
I don't know about FB other than the building looks big, but the Google Seattle presence is certainly not small and is growing: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/google-plan...
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by akl 9y ago
Did you read the article? They are literally responding to this study.
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by akl 9y ago
Amazon employees are encouraged to patent basically anything, at least in AWS. Validity of content or relevance to future business plans isn't really a factor.
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by akl 13y ago
I think you're misunderstanding - GNU/Linux is a multi-user OS regardless of if it is run in a kvm/xen/etc container or on bare metal. Even if only one person (or no persons) ever log in, the machine is capable of runnin
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by akl 13y ago
A move away from having man pages isn't necessarily a thing to be celebrated - a well-written man page is an extremely useful thing. In the ideal case, you might have a quality man page that provides usage information and links to mo
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by akl 13y ago
Jawbone has a competing product, and even Samsung Galaxy S4's latest phone includes some of the functionality (ie: a pedometer) people look to Fitbit for. My anecdotal experiences with GS4 vs my Fitbit One shows the Fitbit One to be su
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by akl 13y ago
How so?
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by akl 14y ago
> Please, if you find an issue like this, be nice. Tell the maintainers privately. Don't post to Reddit, HN, or a public Gist. RubyGems.org is completely volunteer run. No one gets paid to work on it. Thanks for your patience everyone.
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by akl 14y ago
Your (silly) views on the Northwest aside, he also grew up in Los Angeles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall
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by akl 14y ago
I'm honestly curious - what's a use case for scripting the editing of files that's not better satisfied by using a scripting language? I see the value of Arch's focus on minimalism more than keeping ed around in this case, but I'm happy to
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by akl 14y ago
Why? We have better alternatives, and clearly things can work without it.
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by akl 15y ago
Are you sure that's a reasonable comparison?
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by akl 15y ago
I'm not sure they deserve to be called 'shitheads' either - I do like the service - but I'm still disappointed in how poorly they've handled their security issues, particularly the one back in June. I think I'd have a different opinion if
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by akl 15y ago
Sam appears to have taken Jonathan's suggestion and has posted on the facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/jonathanscard/posts/176232239115101
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by akl 15y ago
I can't help but wonder if all of this might have gone away had they even just appeared to take this issue seriously. They didn't even bother to reply to my request for access logs on my account, personally.
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by akl 15y ago
Are you seriously not aware that reddit falls over pretty much all the time on its own?
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by akl 15y ago
One might point out that "AWS" isn't down, EC2 in VA is entirely broken for a certain notable section of customers.
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by akl 16y ago
Two interesting links in here on the history of unix pipes that I wasn't aware of, http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/pipes/ and http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html#pipes The second link shows this as a formerly valid command: pr
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by akl 16y ago
Perhaps, but Apple has some extremely friendly replacement policies that I personally have used (busted iBook replaced with a black macbook!) and have heard of others running into. Just the other day there was a reddit thread about this, ac
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by akl 16y ago
is this a digital version you could link to..?
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by akl 16y ago
It hasn't been well publicized after the original announcement (and isn't prominently placed on their plans page, either) but I've had great success with Cloudkick's free developer plan on my personal virt (which is still down..): https://
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by akl 16y ago
I have IRC to thank for learning a lot about basic client/server communications and networking back in my early teens. Certainly not the best protocol ever invented, but I have fond memories of figuring out how it worked.
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by akl 16y ago
Absolutely! However, I would argue that if you are looking to conserve energy, moving the sshd port is not something that should be at the top of your list. :)
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by akl 16y ago
That's good for your mac mini, but not a normal use case for a server running sshd (needing to be quiet, that is). Something that might also work for you would be to limit inbound access from known-trusted ip ranges, as well. Running sshd o
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by akl 16y ago
I'm sure some people might argue he has, but ultimately it doesn't matter in this context; failure of 'real' economics gurus to succeed does not mean any random person is equally capable in the subject.
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by akl 16y ago
It may sound bad, but it's a legitimate feeling to have; there's a horrible feeling of stagnation and boredom when you are the technical escalation point for everyone you know - or at least there was for me.
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by akl 16y ago
Out of curiosity, what do you miss from MacOS Classic?
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by akl 16y ago
I find your comment confusing. Do you believe they should be trying to gut the Obama healthcare laws?

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