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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
Because they have the money to pay support staff but choose not to. Your example is irrelevant because that's part of a paid career, not free labor farmed with manipulative YouTube videos.
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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
In this instance, people are angry about the fact that Google makes a ton of money from these services but feels no obligation to provide support for them. More generally, welcome to the new normal. The money-spewing circleparty is fizzling
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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
This is a relatively minor issue, but "PGP" and "PGP-Encrypted Message" are probably cleaner subject options. The message is obviously encrypted, so these titles don't leak any information.
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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
> and choose a simple secure IMAP server from the ports.
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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
I hate to be obstinate, but: 1) Most robust "security" of this form is negated if you're running it on a budget VPS. Those things are often extremely and unavoidably insecure for reasons out of your control (out-of-date VM so
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by rc4algorithm 13y ago
To the many of you using Macbooks: be aware the that the caps lock key is deadened/delayed in order to prevent mistaken pressing, and that this is a hardware feature that can't be changed. This may be the case for Mac keyboards an
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by rc4algorithm 13y ago
Here's the simplest reason in a sentence: We want to write functions that don't involve IO (which we call "pure functions"), but we want to be able to use these functions on values that have been tainted by IO. Ex. The f
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by rc4algorithm 13y ago
Another particular nagging problem with Firefox is that "full screen doesn't even hide the tabs or address bar (just the OS X bar, assuming you're using OS X). It would be nice if you can add a way to change Firefox's se
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by rc4algorithm 13y ago
It would be interesting to weight the links by the score of the corresponding comment.
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by rc4algorithm 13y ago
I would assume that most of this is biotech investment, however, which is sort of outside the purview of the HN community.
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by rc4algorithm 13y ago
"I saw from the inside a huge multi-mullion dollar Atari-funded game studio go down in flames because the developers didn't know that you can't use disk drives as a CPU: they built almost all of their MMO item inventory logic into SQL trigg
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by rc4algorithm 13y ago
Check out MariaDB for an open source fork of MySQL. Oracle has handled MySQL extremely poorly since they acquired it from Sun.
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by rc4algorithm 14y ago
Read "The Symposium" by Plato.
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by rc4algorithm 14y ago
I remember there being a really interesting story about a Turkish criminal manufacturing tons of ATM number pad overlays in Kingpin: http://www.amazon.com/Kingpin-Billion-Dollar-Cybercrime-Unde... That whole book is full of bizarre and a
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Ask HN: How to Learn a Musical Instrument Like a Hacker? (specifically piano)
4 points by rc4algorithm 14y ago|8 comments
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by rc4algorithm 14y ago
A lot of people will suggest Django, and it's definitely the most popular Python web framework (and therefore the most useful if you're looking for a job using one). However, Flask is written in a much more open-ended way that gives you a l
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by rc4algorithm 14y ago
I also have to suggest The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham. Graham was a genius and revolutionized the financial world. He wrote the book in the 50's, and it has been republished with anecdotes tying it to the modern day many times.
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by rc4algorithm 14y ago
<i>Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over The Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground</i>: This book won't necessarily teach you all that much, but it is a true story and it's both intensely interesting and not lacking in substance
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by rc4algorithm 14y ago
The only experience I have to offer is at the bottom rung, the smallest possible servers. The one's you use for sandboxes or low-traffic personal sites. I made my decision a week ago, and landed on Rackspace. Their cheapest option is about