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by woutervdb 5mo ago
I agree that there's a strong need for ad blockers nowadays. I also use uBlock Origin on all my browsers. But I'm not sure if a world that is completely devoid of advertising would... work. Advertising (in some form) is a necessar
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by woutervdb 6mo ago
Keyword is "like": a service like Proton. No idea if and what data they have offered to their government. I was merely trying to offer an explanation to the parent commenter, who was wondering how people can critique pricacy-foc
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by woutervdb 6mo ago
I think the key difference is the amount of data the service can offer when it is asked to do so by some legal entity. Signal famously claims to barely have any useful data to turn over when ordered to do so [1]. If some provider states the
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by woutervdb 8mo ago
I like the idea, but the UI gives me a headache, especially when the "found words" are still loading. I think it might have to do with the contrast? If relevant, I'm loading the website on a 27" IPS display under normal
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by woutervdb 4y ago
Could you not tackle this problem by not allowing this mingling of 'next' and 'current' variables? You would only allow a next variable to be a computation of current variables. Not sure to what extent this would limit t
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by woutervdb 8y ago
Google: a lot, most of their services has one. However, I believe they use an OAuth (-ish) service rather than session IDs to manage authentication, so cookies aren't really an issue. YouTube: no major subdomains as far as I know. Face
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by woutervdb 11y ago
Thanks! Interesting concept.
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by woutervdb 11y ago
Thanks a lot. To be honest, I've already went through the "change" described in the article, but the article helped me see the better picture. I now have a reasonable social life and a happy relationship with my girlfriend. T
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by woutervdb 11y ago
>Romantically, this Thanks for an inspring and helpful read! This actually helps me (a 17 year old) out a lot.
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by woutervdb 12y ago
> wow[such][deep][3][much][power][!] And there goes my interest for this submission. Don't use overused memes in a submission. Liking the idea though.
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by woutervdb 12y ago
Reminds me a bit of Scratch[1], a tool that came pretty popular when the Raspbery Pi came out. Very simple programming interfaces that work with simple graphics, but can do a lot of things. [1]: http://scratch.mit.edu/
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by woutervdb 12y ago
Great explenation. To add to your story: imagine being the car manufacturer, doing this all for free (as in beer) and still having people more or less wishing you dead for building a city car not suitable for offroad use. It simply doesn&#x
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by woutervdb 12y ago
I know about Shellshock and I know what it means. However, I think it's wrong to blame bash for the fact that almost everything seems to be vulnerable. Those developers were wrong by using untrusted user input in places where it didn&#
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by woutervdb 12y ago
What you're missing here, is that bash wasn't the software with an error. It's like you use ice cubes for building a house, observing your house is melting and then blaming the developers of ice cubes for making such horible
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by woutervdb 12y ago
Awesome. If you lower the tempo a bit, you can create pretty neat patterns.
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by woutervdb 12y ago
Liking the idea, too bad it's simply an awful experience with all the HN traffic. I hit "Sign up with Facebook", then "Edit what CodeFights can see", and the counter had already begun. After authenticating I got an
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by woutervdb 12y ago
Great site, awesome project, good stuff. However, I found some kind of a "bug": http://i.imgur.com/elpJSS8.png At this point, you can't see what "kind" of F the first F is. They clearly are differen
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by woutervdb 12y ago
Too bad the site doesn't work on my phone at all . Xperia T using Dolphin Browser. Gives me all kinds of floating boxes and a useless progress spinner.
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by woutervdb 13y ago
Finally, a guide i understand! Thanks!
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by woutervdb 13y ago
Doesn't seem to work here. I'm in The Netherlands, if it helps. Clicking "watch now!" shows "Buffering video..." for a short while, but after that, it doesn't do anything. [edit] After a while it started p
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by woutervdb 13y ago
Actually, you don't need to edit your server -at least with Lighttpd-. PHP automagically (or is this expected behaviour?) gets the string appended to /index.php for you! Check out the example at http://private.woutervdb
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by woutervdb 13y ago
...wow. That's pretty creepy. I'm Dutch myself and I knew that the AIVD tapped a lot, but mining data from forums?!
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by woutervdb 13y ago
Please read the whole article. >The other feature in private beta is codenamed “Monaco.” It’s a cloud-based code editor that enables lightweight editing for Windows Azure websites.
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by woutervdb 13y ago
Am I the only one to notice this[1]? Looks pretty okay aside from that. [1] http://uploads.woutervdb.com/files/5283a1c42f8bc.png
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by woutervdb 13y ago
>You have 10mbps connection! At your home! How much do you pay for it? I hope you understand it's mbit. If so, I've got 50mbps over here and I pay €50 (that's about $67 USD) per month, which includes 50 TV channels and int
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by woutervdb 13y ago
English is not my native language and I'm kinda busy, so it's pretty hard for me to explain myself, sorry. I'm saying that languages like these (if I understand correctly), when compiled, result in a program generated by said
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by woutervdb 13y ago
Another day, another new programming language that compiles to [popular language]. I'm sorry, I may be looking at this from the wrong perspective, but in my opinion, they're starting to lose their value. Sure, accessing a hard lan
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by woutervdb 13y ago
A domain for a project of mine uses GMail for e-mail (I don't trust my server with hosting a 99.99% up mail server: it's too cheap to be able to), while my personal website uses Microsoft Window Live Domains. My WLD is then used i
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by woutervdb 13y ago
Projects are never done. You'll always be improving, releasing new versions, fixing security issues, making your application/product fit in with the rest et cetera. A good moment to show HN is, I guess, the moment where your poten
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by woutervdb 13y ago
The last two are too "plastic" for me. The first two seem nice, I'd guess I prefer the first, because the second doesn't seem to fit in with the other ios7 icons. Sorry to not agree with the rest and thus create a gap lo

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