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by enginnr 11y ago
I remember the painful feeling in college of solving problems in reverse . That is to say; when presented with a problem, there are no intrinsic reasons propelling me to solve it with any meaningful gusto. Only extrinsic motivators like ge
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by enginnr 11y ago
Schema has the same problems as Microformats where adoption only takes off if the market demands it, or it gains enough momentum that people can't imagine webapps without them. There are countless other standards this article overlooks
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by enginnr 11y ago
SO many problems are being solved on the same plane they were created with. What I love about Ethereum is the direct action approach where rather than simply request that those in power get their act together in any meaningful way, we jus
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by enginnr 11y ago
Well one way to test is to put honey links into an IM session and see which ones are pinged. Invariably they will be pinged from a co-lo situated in a remote U.S data center.
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by enginnr 11y ago
Similar to: http://bioischanged.com/privacy but for Facebook :) Slightly tangential, but what's to stop me flipping one bit in a JPEG and uploading it again. JPEGs are renowned for being fault tolerant to even the most
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by enginnr 11y ago
Aside from addressing potential collisions, what other use cases does this strategy have?
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Nihilistic password security questions(mcsweeneys.net)
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by enginnr 11y ago
I would liken the whole process of 'success' as nothing more than the acquisition of accolades. If you peek beyond the veil of most institutions (financial or otherwise), there is the fabled trophy you must acquire at the end. Thi
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by enginnr 11y ago
I've yet to see heart/fave/star/like buttons being context aware. I've heard anything from people using these mechanisms to read articles later, to using them as attention grabbing devices used to steal eyeball hour
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Math Trainer – Multiplication(mathsisfun.com)
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CHIPSEC 1.2.2 is finally out(github.com)
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by enginnr 11y ago
> I understand Pages has nothing to do with source control Slightly disagree. What I always loved about pages is every commit is on record and auditable by the public. This makes coders accountable for their actions if they introduce mal
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by enginnr 11y ago
Side projects start to bit rot if the creator stops caring for them with a full heart. Like anything, if you're not committed to something, it becomes a second class citizen, and in the worst case simply becomes abandoned. The only per
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by enginnr 11y ago
For those who are not clicking, this site just houses a YT video located here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBjXUBMkkE8 > Our family has been priced out! Has the Bay Area gone crazy? Real estate prices have doubled in
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Why I Dropped Everything and Started Teaching Kendrick Lamar's New Album(bemoons.wordpress.com)
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by enginnr 11y ago
Of course it's worth mentioning :) Even small projects are worth posting, like this recent one by Holman: https://github.com/tholman/github-corners
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by enginnr 11y ago
These are my babies currently: http://www.jque.re/ https://www.unicod.es/ I could keep making these, but it's do or die with side projects. You either commit to them with a full heart, or they begin to
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Encrypt and decrypt files to public keys via the OpenSSL Command Line(raymii.org)
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by enginnr 11y ago
Those who ran BBS systems wax nostalgic about being early adopters of new communication methods and systems. It's the same with the digi-native set; waxing nostalgic about Geocities and Angelfire homepages when they could be building s
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by enginnr 11y ago
If you don't like lists, then put in the necessary hard work to curate them, and you only need to do this once to enjoy Twitter There are so many ways to do it, and there is no 'one way' to browse Twitter, apart from delibe
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Show HN: The Who and Why of the Web – Q&A Format on Web Technologies and Culture
1 points by enginnr 11y ago|0 comments
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Zero-knowledge proof(en.wikipedia.org)
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by enginnr 11y ago
DNS is often the weakest link in the chain and well worth hardening if you're doing proactive sec. Combined with DNSCrypt it can be a pretty robust setup. My only problem with DNS hardening is zero-knowledge problems. See https:/
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by enginnr 11y ago
This sounds like a judgement on those who carry phones and don't think too hard about this but then call out those who go phoneless because they (the phone-equipped) don't understand the hardware. This is not a judgement. It'
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by enginnr 11y ago
Funny that this article comes out just as I wrote this: http://blog.higg.so/2015/11/03/look-at-my-invention/ > I just want to bust open the false narratives surrounding phone culture and speak about t
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by enginnr 11y ago
They are a bit late to the game on this one, and are leaving millions of customers at risk. Thankfully they use TLS for their checkout, but their store is quite well known for being cleartexted. See: http://smerity.com/artic
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Cyber collection(en.wikipedia.org)
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The What, Who and Why of the Web(blog.higg.so)
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by enginnr 11y ago
"Once launched with administrator privileges" which is very difficult unless the soft goes out of its way to ask, and most open source software doesn't ask
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by enginnr 11y ago
I'm still amazed at how the marketers are only starting to realize the health benefits of fermentation. 'Actimel' for example is a yogurt drink they sell in my parts, and the ADs for it always overplay the importance of it, a

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