samuellb

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by samuellb 9y ago
In practice, no. The legislation has major loopholes, such as allowing unsolicited business-to-business marketing. And spammers still send junk to individuals with a disclaimer such as "This message is addressed to a business, if this
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by samuellb 9y ago
These kinds of attacks are already happening. It has actually happened in the apartment area where I live: We have a hot water central heating system that distributes heat to the apartments buildings. To improve efficiency, this system was
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by samuellb 10y ago
As long as there are still incoming links to the domain, I think it's hard to make Google reset it's page rank permanently. You could do a HTTP 301 permanent redirect and use Google Webmaster Tools to make Google point to the new
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A guide to understanding trademarks in Free and Open Source Software projects(fossmarks.org)
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by samuellb 10y ago
I know a small company that shut down it's Facebook page while keeping it's website (an old one, from 2005). Probably because it's not selling directly to it's end-customers, so the web site is focused on contact info (f
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by samuellb 10y ago
Technology improvements are good, but all these sensors in devices scare me, especially in network-connected stuff. Let's say someone exploits and modifies the firmware to trigger on the word "confidential" and then upload th
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by samuellb 10y ago
I've noticed that sometimes updates to Firefox cause it to stop working until it's restarted. If you're writing a long message, or filling in some form, or if you have an order confirmation page open, then you might lose that
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by samuellb 10y ago
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12702845
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by samuellb 10y ago
There's also the question of where we should draw the line. It's very different if you post a funny video of a cat, or if you write a joke at the end of a comment. IMHO the latter is OK.
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by samuellb 10y ago
I learned to program myself and did some small-scale freelancing as a web developer while in high school. But after that I went to university because I felt it would be easier to get a job with an academic education, and also because it&#x2
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by samuellb 10y ago
Protocols that require online signing are impossible to cache and hard to scale. Even OCSP is often used with pre-produced offline signed responses for that reason (but they are periodically re-signed of course). So that's probably w
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by samuellb 10y ago
Sealed with tape, with your signature on the tape? And/or some tiny mark on the container that's hard to find.
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by samuellb 10y ago
On the other hand, it's quite convenient to not have to do null checks in debug messages. Compare: log.trace("doStuff(" + obj1 + ", " + obj2 + ")"); to this: log.trace("doStuff(" + (obj1 != null
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by samuellb 10y ago
Previous HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12397246
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by samuellb 10y ago
Or people who use a "mixed tabs and spaces" indentation, e.g. size 8 tabs with 4 characters wide indentation, and spaces for uneven indentations. (Which IMHO is broken because it leads to unreadable code when you don't have t
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by samuellb 10y ago
Yes, security of number porting is too lax. My number was once ported by a telco (accidentally in this case). They did call me and I had to confirm that I would get a new SIM card and which size I needed, but since I was expecting a new SI
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by samuellb 10y ago
Yes, it's quite different in different countries. My web server gets only 3,9% IPv6 traffic (based on counting unique IPs). Quite OK given that none of the major ISPs in my country offer IPv6 (neither on broadband or on mobile). Even f
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by samuellb 10y ago
3. open source software projects (and distributions, e.g. Debian) usually don't want to be dependent on non-open source software. And they are usually very strict with licenses, so "almost open source" won't cut it. So I
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by samuellb 10y ago
I've used a re-compressed version in the past, with reduced xml markup, and with the most rarely visited articles removed. It was around 1GB when I downloaded it, and it used the proprietary MDX/MDict format. You can find download
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by samuellb 10y ago
Or a lid that can be slided over it. As a bonus, it would also protect the camera from being scratched
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by samuellb 10y ago
0.0.x = proof of concept? 0.1.x = first actually usable version (but may be buggy, missing features, etc.)
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by samuellb 10y ago
I'd call a systems programming language "something which can use the low level ABI of the underlying platform". So C and e.g. FreePascal would fit the description (for most hardware platforms). And Java, for instance, would n
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by samuellb 10y ago
That's true. And in the OOP case you usually have exception handling (i.e. try/catch blocks) as well, instead of "goto error" style error handling which is common in C.
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by samuellb 10y ago
The Linux kernel has a code style with 8 spaces and still has the 80 characters maximum. The coding style says "if you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should fix your program.". So not every
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by samuellb 10y ago
I welcome this change, because I've lost a lot of form data with the backspace key. Not specifically in Chrome, because I remember having the same problem with IE 6 at the time when Firefox was still in alpha and was called "Phoen
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by samuellb 10y ago
C is easy to package and distribute. I once built a Python + GTK application for a school project. On Ubuntu that was no problem at all, but on Windows it was a complete mess because I had to bundle Python + GTK for Windows + all their depe
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by samuellb 10y ago
I don't know about Spain in particular, but to me it feels that apartment electricity is massively overpowered (in terms of the effect ). In my country the max effect for apartments is 3x16 A = 11 kW. My consumption is 35-40 kWh/
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by samuellb 10y ago
Many (or perhaps even most?) web hosts will offer to install Wordpress for their customers, usually with some "Install Wordpress" option either at sign up or in the control panel. And I suppose these installations are configured w
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by samuellb 10y ago
[I edited my answer, because now I read that new system is claimed to be end-to-end secure as well] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sync-your-firefox-bookm... In the old system your data was encrypted with a
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by samuellb 10y ago
Better check for characters that aren't letters in ASCII, and assume that everything else is a letter (i.e. including Unicode). Not 100% correct, but simple and future proof. And when it comes to the diaeresis, it's rare enough th

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