irrationalidiom

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by irrationalidiom 13y ago
I didn't mean to say most companies sell user data, but rather of the companies that sell user data, most are not straight forward about it. Example: Onavo, Dolphin Browser, Opera Mini, Ask Toolbar What I am emphasising is that while t
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by irrationalidiom 13y ago
This advice is dangerous, because the author fails to mention other precautions the user can and should take, such as: * Use a Linux live CD on the "burner laptop" -- don't trust the preinstalled OS * Change the MAC address o
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by irrationalidiom 13y ago
> I don't think this is an invasion of privacy at all. I vehemently disagree. Most companies will just hide the fact they are collecting (and often selling) user data within slimy legalese. Consumer protection includes niceties such as
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by irrationalidiom 13y ago
I can't speak for their dictionary, but KingSoft has an antivirus/internet security program which is nigh on impossible to uninstall, including extremely misleading messages on their uninstall screen. I wouldn't touch any of their other stu
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by irrationalidiom 13y ago
After reading some of the insightful comments above, I'd like to add that it would be good to round out your skill set beyond web development. Learn C, it will teach you great things. Learn Linux (and read the source code), you'll learn a l
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by irrationalidiom 13y ago
> I consider myself pretty good; I honestly have no baseline... This is your only blocker to success. I also had a lack of self confidence -- I put this up to the pedestal we put university degrees upon. By what you've done so far, it s
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by irrationalidiom 13y ago
I second this. Take the first professional job you can get (and you can start freelancing and putting stuff on github to help you get that job), you can use that to bounce into a higher paying job after a year or two. Once you're inside the
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by irrationalidiom 13y ago
Government funding for student places has increased slightly over 10 years, and full fee income (private places) has increased massively. See page 124: http://www.unimelb.edu.au/publications/docs/2012-annual-repo...
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by irrationalidiom 13y ago
Australia is similar in the regard, except the Federal government covers part of the full course cost, the rest being covered by a CPI indexed loan (HECS) which needs to be paid back once employment income exceeds $38k per year (taken from
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by irrationalidiom 14y ago
There is also a Python based "gpglib"[1] which currently is able to parse and decrypt GPG messages. All heavy lifting is done via PyCrypto so its quite fast. [1] https://github.com/hitwise/gpglib
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by irrationalidiom 14y ago
awesome david! it's great to see this after hearing you talk passionately about it at work almost 1 year ago :-) are you using flask for this? we've got 2 things using it atm, and it's been fantastic.
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by irrationalidiom 14y ago
Arch Linux. It's fast like Slackware (which I liked when I tried it), very customisable by using PKGBUILD/AUR (similar to Gentoo portage, which is amazing for absolute control) and has an excellent wiki ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/ ). You'
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by irrationalidiom 14y ago
I want to thank the flask team for this. we are using flask + gevent in production and it has been highly performant (1200 requests a second for our app) and stable :-)
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by irrationalidiom 14y ago
Cheers, it has been added. :-)
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by irrationalidiom 14y ago
I have noticed some older versions of WebKit do not support WebGL or are less stable, so please ensure your libwebkit is up to date for maximum enjoyment :-)
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Show HN: Web Screensaver for XScreensaver. Make any page your screensaver.(github.com)
1 points by irrationalidiom 14y ago|3 comments
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by irrationalidiom 14y ago
having a controlled state for foreign repos is absolutely essential. having worked with all-in-one repos, where external stuff is thown in... then rots... submodules are a better way, making keeping external code up to date. simple yet cont
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by irrationalidiom 15y ago
With regards to scalability, I second this. We are developing a web service with it, and as our project has grown we have had no problems moving from decorated functions to class based views. We looked at Django but quickly realised that ou
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Show HN: @, a self modifying shell script/swiss army knife(github.com)
2 points by irrationalidiom 15y ago|1 comments