m_ram

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by m_ram 12y ago
Wow, this is brilliant if it works well. If anyone from Unchecky reads this, you should repeat this experiment with your software installed and post it on your blog.
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by m_ram 12y ago
Firefox differs from Chrome in that it will enable Flash for a whole page, rather than per-element. This means you still need an extension for blocking Flash ads on Flash video sites.
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by m_ram 12y ago
Mate seems to be under active development. They're currently adding support for Wayland and GTK3 for the next release [1]. It's not like they're just repackaging GNOME 2.32 for the latest distributions. [1] http://
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by m_ram 12y ago
http://www.wolfram.com/programming-cloud I think the relevant part is "Start coding and deploying now–for free." Whereas before you had to spend at least a few hundred dollars on Mathematica.
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by m_ram 12y ago
It has been done [1]. Rule #2 of the audit project will solve the problem for future builds [2]. [1] https://madiba.encs.concordia.ca/~x_decarn/truecrypt-binarie... [2] http://istruecryptauditedyet.com/
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by m_ram 12y ago
From your first link: "There is no explicit “Enable/Disable” button any more. We would like to promote the use of searching and feel that Baloo should never get in the users way. However, we are smart about it and IF you add your
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by m_ram 12y ago
If you use a country code TLD, make sure it's on Google's list of generic ones (e.g. .io): https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1347922?hl=en
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by m_ram 12y ago
> Violating all expectations and trends, new Java users on GitHub even grew as a percentage of overall new users, while everything else went downhill. This further supports the assertion that GitHub is reaching the enterprise. This is mo
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by m_ram 12y ago
You'd need a spotter because your risk of choking would increase by a lot.
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by m_ram 12y ago
The second word isn't necessary. "You" can be singular or plural. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/you
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by m_ram 12y ago
I can recommend the Pi to someone who has never used Linux before because there are so many resources available that are Pi-specific. It's the same reason I recommend Ubuntu for newbies even though I prefer other distros for myself.
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by m_ram 12y ago
I've been planning to start a blog for the same reasons you listed. I'll probably use a static site generator like Pelican [1]. A lot of people use Disqus for comments on static blogs, but I'd rather not rely on external serv
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by m_ram 13y ago
I'm pretty sure it's based on the most commonly searched phrases with phrases containing words on a blacklist deleted. Add in some magic to throw off the spammers and competition.
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by m_ram 13y ago
Here's the whole thing unsorted: http://pastebin.com/z7BzEnhC and in case you want to learn about NAPTR: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2915.txt
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by m_ram 13y ago
debs/rpms: http://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel
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by m_ram 13y ago
https://www.netflix.com/YourAccount "Playback settings" > uncheck "Play next episode automatically"
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by m_ram 13y ago
My favorite is "Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating" from 2010-04-07. It was deleted when they were bought by IAC. Thankfully, nothing is ever really deleted from the Internet: http://www.columbia.edu/~jhb21
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by m_ram 13y ago
Relevant discussion from a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6912229
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by m_ram 13y ago
This is probably obvious to people who do email marketing, but I just tested whether gmail bounces bad addresses. They do bounce addresses that have never been registered and addresses that have been deleted. This means that even before thi
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by m_ram 13y ago
More info from upstream: Press release - https://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2013/11/red-... Release notes - https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US&
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by m_ram 13y ago
I was about to argue with you about it not being very confusing, but then I read the "About" section on the front page: "This site allows you to navigate the bitcoin blockchain (a database which holds information about all tr
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by m_ram 13y ago
I used Winamp heavily until the version where they added video support. That version was extremely buggy for me and I used the previous version for several years until I found Foobar2000. It looks like 2.90 was when they added video support
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by m_ram 13y ago
From the "Quotes Falsely Attributed" page [1] on the official Churchill Centre website: "If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you
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by m_ram 13y ago
It looks like it's not quite 30%, but still high enough to make an opt-out worthwhile [1]. As someone who is afflicted, I can say that it would be a deal-breaker. [1] http://blog.23andme.com/23andme-research/cilant
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by m_ram 13y ago
I don't have the answers that you seek, but you can find out how to format HN posts here (it doesn't support <p> tags). https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc Also, HN doesn't have private messaging, so
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by m_ram 13y ago
The privacy issues were discussed in Sept. 2012, a month before Quantal was released. 22-Sept: Slashdot thread http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/09/22/1319216/ubuntu-will-n... 23-Sept: HN thread htt
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by m_ram 13y ago
Forbes interviewed DPR (Ulbricht or not) in August. "Roberts isn’t actually the site’s founder, he revealed in our interview. He credits Silk Road’s creation to another, even more secretive entrepreneur whom he declined to tell me anyt
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by m_ram 13y ago
I agree with you 100%, but I come from the other side. There are just enough articles on design and business to give me additional perspective and knowledge, but not too many that I lose interest or have a hard time filtering them out. I&#x
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by m_ram 13y ago
In case anyone else is curious, DRM in the kernel stands for Direct Rendering Manager [1]. It has nothing to do with the DRM that's usually discussed on HN. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Manage
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by m_ram 13y ago
Excluding Nexus devices, which manufacturers are currently hacker-friendly (i.e. let you to unlock the bootloader without exploits)?

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