kijinbear

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by kijinbear 15y ago
Haha, you're right. I have dry skin, so I make heavy use of hand cream... which doesn't play nicely with touchscreens at all. The smudges are especially annoying on glossy screens.
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by kijinbear 15y ago
That would make sense on laptops and other small devices, but not so much if you're sitting 2-3 ft away from 2-3 large screens. Which is not uncommon for programmers and designers these days. Right now, from where I'm sitting, I can't touch
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by kijinbear 15y ago
There's Textile, but its handling of blockquotes and code samples is much less convenient than Markdown. Github's wiki used to use Textile, and it sucked.
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by kijinbear 15y ago
Completely agreed. The method described in the article requires commenters to use HTML tags and even know how to balance them. In addition, it is supposed to detect code blocks automagically, which would be prone to errors. (How do you know
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by kijinbear 15y ago
Your last point is really interesting. I use a desktop at home and a small laptop on the go, and everything I need is always on both computers. Files, bookmarks, browsing history, you name it. I can just log into either computer and keep wo
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by kijinbear 15y ago
> some of them can be overcome: external peripherals for ergonomics, larger screens, and extra storage. Once you've attached an external monitor, external keyboard and mouse, and an external hard drive to a laptop, you're using the lapt
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by kijinbear 15y ago
Actually, since you normally can't use anything but characters in the 0x20-0x7E range, the 8 char password has much less entropy: 95^8 ~= 6.63E15. I love the backtick in my passwords. If a website accepts it and doesn't give me any issues,
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by kijinbear 15y ago
Some Koreans do this: they just type up some Korean words. Since most password fields only accept ASCII symbols, the password gets entered as a nonsensical string of alphabets. For example, the Korean word '비밀번호' (meaning 'password'), when
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by kijinbear 15y ago
I'm not disputing any of that. I just get annoyed when people compare languages with frameworks. Ruby and Python have many advantages compared to PHP, but out-of-the-box XSS prevention is not one of them.
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by kijinbear 15y ago
Rails is a framework. PHP is a language. If you use a framework with PHP, it's just as easy to avoid XSS. Likewise, if you use vanilla Ruby without any framework...
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by kijinbear 15y ago
Most LiveCDs don't mount hard drives unless you specifically tell it to do so, for example, by clicking on the drive icon. Perhaps this distro disables even that capability, so you can't leave any trace on the machine even if someone got yo
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by kijinbear 15y ago
So, when you copy somebody else's work (e.g. a song) for personal enjoyment, it's an outrageous crime; but when you copy a student's essay for profit, it's fair use. You're right, it's not at all surprising.
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by kijinbear 15y ago
Just wait until people start talking about IE 26, Firefox 34, Chrome 42, etc. Now that even the Linux kernel is jumping onto the inflated-version-numbers bandwagon, it won't be long.
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by kijinbear 15y ago
It's not Google criticizing Sony, it's Andrew Hintz posting on his Google+ page.
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by kijinbear 15y ago
Looks like a ripoff of Linode's logo, topped with a bit of Minecraft texture.
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by kijinbear 15y ago
$12.99? Why pay more? Namecheap has SSL certs for $9/year.
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by kijinbear 15y ago
You'll probably need to win the lawsuit before the judge can order something like that.
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by kijinbear 15y ago
Ah, sorry. I meant UN, not EU. The article I linked to in the great-great-grandparent says UN, not EU. Western Europe sucks. Too much MAFIAA influence there.
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by kijinbear 15y ago
In the case of individual countries, it's often construed as a constitutional right. But in the case of the EU, you're right, it's a human right. Thanks for the correction.
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by kijinbear 15y ago
I have a couple of very small VPS's which cost $15-20 per year. That's less than the cost of a cup of coffee per month. There are plenty of similar offers on sites like LowEndBox.com. A few SSH tunnels on a minimal Debian install shouldn't
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by kijinbear 15y ago
I don't think there's any penalty for false accusations of copyright infringement. Likewise, nobody needs to pay for falsely accusing you of anything unless you sue them for defamation. If your ISP actually cuts off your internet after 6 fa
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by kijinbear 15y ago
Some European countries [1] and even the UN [2] have recently begun to recognize internet access as a Constitutional right. If similar decisions were made here, one might be able to sue one's ISP for breaching that right... but maybe not, a
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by kijinbear 15y ago
> DNS is a natural resource, Interesting idea, but I don't think this analogy works. Sovereign nations routinely assume complete control over natural resources located within their territories. (Maybe they shouldn't, but that's another
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by kijinbear 15y ago
I think it depends on what you mean by "due process." If you mean "whatever the law says the government can do, and/or what the government customarily does," there may have been no violation of due process. However, the phrase "due process"
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by kijinbear 15y ago
You're right. It should say: Unix time is the number of seconds since epoch, not counting leap seconds.
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by kijinbear 15y ago
The FBI still took Instapaper's blade servers, and that was wrong. I don't think it was intentional at all, but it was certainly careless, and therefore I don't think there's any need for Marco Arment to apologize to the FBI. If anything, t
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by kijinbear 15y ago
Theoretically, you're right. But how many "enterprise" intranet apps actually make use of cutting-edge HTML5 and JS5 features?
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by kijinbear 15y ago
Exactly. This "new browser version will break everything" argument applies very much to Internet Explorer, but IMO not so much to better browsers like Firefox and Chrome. There might be minor quirks here and there, but those are never going
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by kijinbear 15y ago
Being "replaced in functionality" by a superior product that costs at least 3 times as much doesn't make the inferior product "dead" any more than BMW makes Ford "dead". The author makes some good points, but the MacBook Air is a bad exampl
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by kijinbear 15y ago
The company in question is actually located outside of the US, and so are all employees who have access to the key. It keeps its servers in the US only because of issues with cost and latency, I think.

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