swartkrans

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by swartkrans 11y ago
> "Both agents declined to comment for this article, but according to two people briefed on the investigation..." What are the odds the "two people" are "both agents"? That's like the lamest off the rec
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by swartkrans 12y ago
> As ever, responses to this news will largely fall into two categorizes: those who believe that the U.S. — and other governments — should do everything within its power to find and apprehend criminals; and those who feel that the govern
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by swartkrans 12y ago
> The aggregate pain and aggregate loss of using cash for transactions in a credit-card dominated world is much larger I have not found this to be the case. > Sign up for Mint I don't intend to increase the available surface area
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by swartkrans 12y ago
I'm not a particular fan of pie charts or donut charts, but the visualization used in this tool is actually helpful at understanding and comparing nested amounts. The reason I don't usually like pie charts or donut charts is becau
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by swartkrans 12y ago
Yeah there are laws, but you have to catch it, and you have to report it and sometimes you don't realize you've been defrauded until months later. Hackers in my experience don't empty your account out, they charge $30 here, $
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by swartkrans 12y ago
> Unless they're going back to mechanical ones. I've been going back to cash instead of using credit cards because I've been exposed twice now via Target and Home Depot. I want to even avoid using ATMs and go into the bank
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by swartkrans 12y ago
NextStep was built with enterprise in mind but became wholly consumer in its next life as OS X and then iOS. The massive consumer success of the iPhone led to employers giving in to employees who wanted iOS devices instead of Blackberry dev
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by swartkrans 12y ago
What's the benefit of using fastmail if you just forward to gmail?
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by swartkrans 12y ago
That's great to hear. Regarding the Android app having just checked it out, my first request, if you're taking them, is multiple account support. I can only log into one fastmail.com account at a time with what is here now. The re
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by swartkrans 12y ago
I have been using fastmail for a month now after switching from gmail. I quite like it, but the two drawbacks are that it's just a little bit more likely to let spam in than gmail, even with aggressive spam options enabled, and with fa
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by swartkrans 12y ago
Well it's patched now, but it didn't affect you unless you were running a "Windows Server" although all recent operating systems were affected. If your Windows machine is behind your home router and you were not forwardi
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by swartkrans 12y ago
ssh into a box that is set up to use tor, install squid, set up firefox to use your squid/tor box as a proxy. Your home is no longer broadcasting that you're using tor. Your box could be outside of the country.
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by swartkrans 12y ago
Of course it's about the money. Where does the engineer working on the open source software get money from to work on the project?
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by swartkrans 12y ago
How do you charge for something that can be freely redistributed? How can I charge you $50 for software that you can then take and give to everyone for free because of the open source license? Where are people going to get that software fro
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by swartkrans 12y ago
>It's a nice concept but I'll start using it as soon as someone creates a FOSS clone. I like FOSS, and am grateful for the work open source engineers put into software, and I have also contributed, but this attitude right here
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AppDirect Acquires Leftronic (YC S10)(forbes.com)
3 points by swartkrans 12y ago|0 comments
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by swartkrans 12y ago
> Time has proven again and again that humans are really bad at memory management Well until AI write garbage collectors I'm not sure I see how your comment doesn't also apply to them. And lots of great software manages memory
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by swartkrans 12y ago
I also encourage people to use evil-leader with evil mode and check out other evil plugins, like the * to select all instances of the word under a cursor. Evil is very good, in some ways even better than vim, for example the live updating s
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by swartkrans 12y ago
I don't know if they're shutting down, they have to feel the heat somewhat from Microsoft's free IE testing service[1] though. modern.ie still has references to browserstack, but I wonder why. [1] https://remote.mo
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by swartkrans 12y ago
Some great pictures of the place before its demolition can be found on this article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2139914/A-rare-insig... What an interesting place it used to be. Basically a 1898 agreem
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by swartkrans 12y ago
> About two weeks ago I was unable to switch to Street View in the android app. It simply wasn't accessible through dropping the pin, as it was in the past. The first thing you should have seen after updating and adding an address i
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by swartkrans 12y ago
> In this case Google Maps has been steadily getting worse, so no worries. Whether the UI changes are worse is a subjective claim, but the data Google has has not gotten worse. I've found all the alternative mapping solutions (Here,
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by swartkrans 12y ago
> they used large non-atomic bombs America was dropping napalm on Japanese cities filled with civilians[1]. Firebombing was a popular tactic in the 1940's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napalm#Military_use
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by swartkrans 12y ago
You're liable for clawbacks. Madoff investors who pulled out early and received more than they should have at the expense of others were all sued by the trust responsible for recompensing victims. Best to just stay out of it.
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List of Bitcoin Heists(bitcointalk.org)
2 points by swartkrans 12y ago|0 comments
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by swartkrans 12y ago
> This is also true for Enemy of the State. Uh, no? None of what happened in the movie is based on a real story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_of_the_State_(film)#Real...
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by swartkrans 12y ago
I've never used uber or lyft, but I used sidecar yesterday for the first time, and given this was my first experience with this kind of service I have to say this is so much better than having to hail a taxi. It sucks that you have to
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by swartkrans 12y ago
I like the post and agree with dcurtis about the abysmal phone. However I like my Fire HDX. It works for what I want to use it for: reading books and watching stuff. It isn't the best tablet, but it is not bad. It's the best for b
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by swartkrans 12y ago
Here's a recent image of the person charged from his instagram: http://instagram.com/p/uyqRk1CXWk/ Prophetic.
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by swartkrans 12y ago
> the biggest one is probably performance, `new Foo` will always outperform `Object.create(FooProto)`. He's right, `new` is more than 10x faster in Chrome and Firefox for me at least: http://jsperf.com/create-new Wh

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