nextw33k

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by nextw33k 11y ago
"you should never use your own crypto code" The sentiment behind that is to keep out those that don't know how to code. If everybody followed that advice there wouldn't be crypto code. If you have the ability to create g
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by nextw33k 11y ago
That's not entirely true though. IPv6 has been prioritised on various devices and Google taught us over a decade ago that response time makes the web experience feel better to the user. You'd better be on dual stack if you don&#x2
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by nextw33k 11y ago
Studies report the answer is yes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18233843
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by nextw33k 11y ago
> It's just that you can't have your cake and eat it too. You can build up instead of out.
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by nextw33k 11y ago
I know the Pidgin project used to build their windows version on Linux using GCC and setting the make target. You get a constantly up to date compiler (because of the system package management) and you don't need a MS license for your
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by nextw33k 11y ago
Yes they can grab the IPv6 address but IPv6 has a privacy extension to cater for this. It will alter your local IPv6 address periodically. You could configure it to update every hour and effectively they'd be thinking you were a new PC
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by nextw33k 11y ago
"New York must stand up to the hostile takeover being attempted by a Mafia-like Silicon Valley, in conjunction with predator banks,” Freidman said. I understand someone is lashing out at losing their cash cow but I don't think I&#
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by nextw33k 11y ago
It is in the creditors interest to only provide a short term solution. They want to see reforms actually put in place to ensure the money is going to where it is needed. If Greece were given enough to tide them over for 10 years how do you
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by nextw33k 11y ago
I don't know the exact details but I didn't think Iceland was in Europe, the UK wanted to rush them in so that those rules could apply: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accession_of_Iceland_to_the_Eu...
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by nextw33k 11y ago
I would hazard to suggest those outnumber the skilled large organisations by quite a margin.
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by nextw33k 11y ago
Sky are certainly looking at a roll out: http://www.ipv6.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/SKY-IPv6-T... BT are apparently going the opposite direction (and looking to create a lot of hurt) with CG-NAT:
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by nextw33k 11y ago
Sounds like Mr Poettering hasn't read the vendors page and has just gotten stuck on the word vendor: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/437#issuecomment-1... "Open Source projects are of cour
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by nextw33k 11y ago
Did they give you the reply in writing? If not ask for confirmation in the form of a letter. It only takes 5 mins to type out a letter. If they blow you off you know you are getting shafted.
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by nextw33k 11y ago
Have you signed any contract? An employment contract would place ownership with the company. You've mentioned you've been compensated which doesn't sound good. (Hence why people are advising you to stop working) Go sick until
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by nextw33k 11y ago
A pragmatist would say that you are right. However ethics teaches us that you are wrong. Remotely destroying things is not going to help us as a race. Keeping the human in the danger zone helps prevent violence, everybody has something to l
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by nextw33k 11y ago
There is a Google Summer of Code project for D3DRM: https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/g... There is a lot of recent D3D changes in the wine source: http://source.wineh
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by nextw33k 11y ago
After reading that I would imagine he's going to jail for fraud. If you disagree with sections you are to strike them out and initial them, additions or changes are appended to the bottom. This helps everybody know what's happenin
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by nextw33k 11y ago
> I don't think a modern website with CSS3/HTML5 favored will load that perfect in 10 years. I'd be willing to bet it will, modern design principles are about separating the content from the style. Many of the techniques u
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by nextw33k 11y ago
I had to cancel my satellite TV subscription because of the Disney channels. All the main protagonists are self obsessed trouble makers that never get their comeuppance. I would rather run the risk of my kids hearing a youtuber swearing abo
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by nextw33k 11y ago
The correct solution to this problem is to tax the rental income and hand that money to low income households. It would create a balance of correct market prices and allowing low income people to stay. Just letting the price float and pushi
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by nextw33k 11y ago
You need to learn about old age and how it effects the brain. You take an alzheimer's patient out of their home and place them in a hospital or new home and you are effectively transporting them to another planet, it freaks them out. Y
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by nextw33k 11y ago
brew is a package manager, I can install a set of applications and libraries that will be kept up to date with a simple command line. If your coding doesn't take you outside of what Apple provide then you are probably not missing anyth
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by nextw33k 11y ago
Customer acquisition costs is usually the first problem for businesses.
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by nextw33k 11y ago
My problem with PowerShell is that its Yet Another Syntax To Learn (YASTL). If a JavaScript runtime like nodejs had access to the same interfaces as PowerShell or to COM I'd be over the moon. It would be very powerful, you'd effec
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by nextw33k 11y ago
That's kind of old world thinking, it's been bugging me. In traditional programming and processor architectures that statement would be true. But if it were true today then Google wouldn't have built the Dalvik and then ART l
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by nextw33k 11y ago
An anonymous council member points to examples: http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2015/03/19/%23ubuntu-meeting.html#... https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-community-team/2015... To me
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by nextw33k 11y ago
Whenever I hear about HTTP compression I always think of Jeff Atwoods blog post: http://blog.codinghorror.com/youre-reading-the-worlds-most-d... Basically DEFLATE beats GZip because its faster at decompressing. Choosing a c
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by nextw33k 11y ago
I remember reading that link and thinking about how the standards are not working. It also concerns me for the future of the open source graphics stack. If the proprietary drivers are being updated to fix game specific problems, how are the
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by nextw33k 11y ago
As with current insurance, if you mod your car without telling them they will invalidate your insurance. Once you do tell them you've altered the programming on the cars computer they are more than likely to tell you to find someone el
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by nextw33k 11y ago
This is the one I use: http://ipv6-test.com/validate.php

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