blazingfrog2

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by blazingfrog2 4y ago
> I don’t understand the thought process of putting someone down based on what they do for a living Discounting the counter productive condescension required to be the one putting the other guy down, we should all be honest with a simple
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by blazingfrog2 4y ago
> I'd be proud of it, if they were a good person, took care of themselves I honestly don't know how anyone (good person or not) can properly take care of themselves on a Taco Bell hourly salary.
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by blazingfrog2 8y ago
On iOS it requires installing a VPN profile. My understanding from their FAQ is that it is to allow DNS proxying in iOS but it’s not clear to me if that’s all it does. Up to this day, seeing the VPN logo in my status bar has always meant my
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The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections(washingtonpost.com)
901 points by blazingfrog2 9y ago|499 comments
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by blazingfrog2 11y ago
Is that VPN setup an "always on"-able setup so that iOS just routes traffic through it without having to manually switch on the VPN client? I run the VPN server bundled with OS X Server and I haven't been able to achieve that
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by blazingfrog2 11y ago
Don't forget that the ball can come very fast and the keeper will need a split second to adjust. In other cases, the kicker can be masked by another player preventing the keeper to see the ball until very late.
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by blazingfrog2 11y ago
After logging many thousand of hours of dutifully watching soccer (over 30 years of full-on love for the game), I was able to match the given situations to similar ones I'd seen before and get close enough most of the time. It's s
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by blazingfrog2 11y ago
Or you could use the PowerShell command line. http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/03/1...
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by blazingfrog2 11y ago
> Americans care far less about what others will think of them As a European expat in the US, I find this statement to be very accurate. It can be maddening at times but I've grown to find this characteristic one of the main attract
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by blazingfrog2 11y ago
The average for June through September here in the State Capital, Sacramento, is just over 89 degrees Fahrenheit (or almost 32 degrees Celsius). This is not a matter of comfort but of health.
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by blazingfrog2 12y ago
Not to sound snarky but Saddam was boasting sitting on an arsenal of WMDs before the world found out there was zero truth to it. That's why UN inspections are used, however effectively, you just can't rely on Government propaganda
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by blazingfrog2 12y ago
After a long time at Apple and then Palantir, he recently started as Head of Engineering at Pinterest so, yeah, a team leader. http://recode.net/2014/06/10/pinterest-hires-long-time-apple...
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by blazingfrog2 12y ago
> other people or corporations can't make changes to my property without my permission. IANAL but it seems you have given permission: Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, Apple and its principals reserve the ri
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by blazingfrog2 12y ago
You may already be aware of this but a fellow HNer operates a service I use frequently for this exact use case called historio.us. I use the chrome extension to add stuff that I might want to revisit and, when I do need to, I have histori
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by blazingfrog2 13y ago
Anybody else feeling uneasy about committing to spending serious cash immediately for a scheduled delivery 7-10 months away for something that could have many legal ramifications (with the associated delays)? At $50/card, with anywhe
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by blazingfrog2 13y ago
Flat may be fine. However, from what I've seen in the video, the Coin is not only flat but also almost totally anonymized. The cashier would not be able to verify the name against a photo ID or even take a picture of the card. This
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by blazingfrog2 13y ago
Just noticed that too. What surprises me the most about this is that only ONE business/landmark is listed at 0,0 in the entire Google Maps.
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by blazingfrog2 13y ago
He flies drones in the office.
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by blazingfrog2 13y ago
Not at this point. Feel free to sign up for the beta on our site and take it for a spin, I'll make sure to get you your credentials quickly. PS: by the way, big fan of historio.us...
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by blazingfrog2 13y ago
At Ask Ziggy, we are also 100% self-service.
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by blazingfrog2 13y ago
He is absolutely free to share it. As he said in a previous rant, "this is a free country". However, it seems foolish of him to expect the entity he represents to continue employing him when his views go against that entity's
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by blazingfrog2 13y ago
The piece did not say "third party". I'm assuming these clients are the official Twitter mobile apps.
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by blazingfrog2 13y ago
He is supplying products (various physical rewards and the emotional reward of being a backer) at prices that, he thinks, are adequate to the demand that is out there. Isn't that capitalism 101? Plus, the early numbers are showing he got i
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by blazingfrog2 13y ago
+1 It's called sleep envy and, some nights when I can hear my wife drift off in minutes and I'm not even close to it, it throws me into that mental tailspin that goes through multiple stages like the whiny "why-me", plain anger, frustration
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by blazingfrog2 14y ago
I speak to human beings daily. I've known dozens, or maybe hundreds, of human beings who have never been so rude as to pay more attention to their devices than to me when in the middle of a conversation. I don't know you but, if you're no
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by blazingfrog2 14y ago
I don't know you or your background but I'm going to guess you may not be part of that younger generation (late high school, early college years) who was literally born with a computer in their crib and came into their teen years with with
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Every recorded meteorite strike on Earth since 2,300 BCE mapped(osm2.cartodb.com)
25 points by blazingfrog2 14y ago|40 comments
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by blazingfrog2 14y ago
"The attack was injected into the site's HTML, so any engineer who visited the site and had Java enabled in their browser would have been affected," Sullivan told Ars, "regardless of how patched their machine was." How can one find out if
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Harvard Professor Finds That Innovative Ideas Spread Like The Flu(fastcompany.com)
1 points by blazingfrog2 14y ago|0 comments
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by blazingfrog2 14y ago
Spot on. Once you have kids, your self ceases to exist and 100% of your brain power (and patience for that matter) are redirected to the task of rearing those children. After all, it's not like parents have a life to live, a work/personal l

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