wreegab

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by wreegab 12y ago
> Blocking ads is such a dick move. This should be made illegal. A law to enforce one very specific business model is a terrible idea. If only I could tip $2 the author for that video I watched and liked (like say, 10,000 other viewers)
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by wreegab 12y ago
> Visit this site with "Acceptable Ads" enabled and disabled and you will see the difference Nowwhere did I say pages with the x-adblock-key were not respecting the "Acceptable ads" setting. I said that there are more
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by wreegab 12y ago
I pretty much all agree with all of Wladimir Palant's post. But I also have one problem regarding Adblock Plus' "acceptable ads" openness. When I read about their "acceptable ads" approach, I am led to believe
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by wreegab 12y ago
> Oculus has used and exploited ZeniMax's technology and intellectual property without authorization, compensation or credit to ZeniMax When I read this, my thoughts went to all the smart people who created something awesome whi
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by wreegab 12y ago
You forgot: 6. Because this doesn't leave the interlocutor time (as in hours, days) to ponder and reflect carefully. Email is my favorite way of communicating because it's how I can think carefully.
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by wreegab 12y ago
I get "This page was deleted" from here.
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by wreegab 12y ago
Another lesson for developers OP didn't list is: make the description of your app in the store part of the development tree, so that it can be reviewed by anybody if ever the app is removed from the store.
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by wreegab 12y ago
> I believe channeling energy to make Ms. Rice leave Dropbox solves nothing To me, your reasoning reads as "accountability solves nothing". Boycotting Dropbox because of Ms. Rice empowers people to bring symbolic accountability
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by wreegab 12y ago
That people will leverage this to at least bring some sort of accountability, I completely applaud.
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by wreegab 12y ago
It sounds just like typical PR filling, which is supposed to explain why they brought her on board. Will people really buy into this non-explanation?
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by wreegab 12y ago
Of interest I suppose in the context of your comment. Bob Altemeyer's - The Authoritarians: https://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/
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by wreegab 12y ago
I questioned that a population can be categorized in only two sets. It's unfortunate that a lot of people buy into this, and end up trying to be as faithful to one of the label as they can, just like a fan will dedicate himself/he
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by wreegab 12y ago
I don't get it either. I am an old programmer full of habits too I suppose, but I had no problem to adopt mandatory curly braces after reading the rationale for mandatory curly braces in Golang years ago. I would think the Apple bug wa
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by wreegab 12y ago
I just noticed that if I switch to " https://" , Flash-based videos are now served. Back to " http://" , same video served HTML5. So this is it, "https" is the culprit (for whatever reason)
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by wreegab 12y ago
I got the pre-roll ad, yes, which was also served as HTML5. I tried clicking more videos from the front page, so far all HTML5.
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by wreegab 12y ago
Re. author's "I noticed that Youtube would not provide the HTML5 player to Firefox even if requested"... Tried to repro, Linux Mint 16, Firefox 28: 1) Go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UloBiVGtAP4 2) Flash
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by wreegab 12y ago
Well, I had to test this. Using Firefox 28. Went to Youtube front page. Click top video available. Got served Flash-based video. Went to http://www.youtube.com/html5 to request HTML5 to be served. Went back to front page, c
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by wreegab 12y ago
Yes, he lost me completely there. I was expecting he would at least provide his data (the diff'ed portion) so more knowledgeable people could pitch in. Instead I got no data and a sweeping conclusion.
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by wreegab 12y ago
> Odds of a meteor are absurdly really low Odds that I win the lottery this week are absurdly low. Odds that someone will win the lottery this week are quite high.
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by wreegab 13y ago
> in service to their country So common for wrongdoers to resort to such rationalization to justify their wrongdoings. To help in snapping out of the cultic mindset, replace "country" with "organization". For instance
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by wreegab 13y ago
> I'd certainly immediately punch them hard in the face Looks to me you are prone to violence.
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by wreegab 13y ago
Add to this privacy concerns. I un-block such 3rd-party CDNs if and only if it breaks specific web sites which I want really want to un-break.
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by wreegab 13y ago
> "please stop emailing me. I do not use the tool" ... the only apology for rudeness our support team has ever seen ... "Please stop emailing me" is "rudeness"? Seriously, is this for real?
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by wreegab 13y ago
> Read foreign country as US here too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHhVhud8_kE
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by wreegab 13y ago
I just can't understand how the people who work in there do not see it.
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by wreegab 13y ago
Looks to me like you are conflating the idea because I rather not see someone using the fruit of work to earn an income I must be "anti-commerce" and need to be lectured about it.
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by wreegab 13y ago
I thought the problem with Black-Scholes is that it didn't factor in the use of Black-Scholes by participants.
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by wreegab 13y ago
As a software developer, I want people to use my stuff. Once over the hurdle of writing something that people might find useful, I have to choose a license. When it's a library, I usually choose something without much restrictions, lik
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by wreegab 13y ago
For Saucy, the fix is in: .../ubuntu/+source/gnutls26/2.12.23-1ubuntu4.2 Yours is: .../ubuntu/+source/gnutls26/2.12.23-1ubuntu4 See: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnut
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by wreegab 13y ago
Exactly how I feel. I've come to see the U.S. as one of those unsavoury places which is best to avoid. I rather pay extra on my flight tickets than get better deals with transit flights in the U.S. It's sad really. Bill Clinton on

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