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avboron 10 hours later, Google Patches Chrome to Plug Pwnium 2 Security Hole

Thanks for the explanation!

avboron 10 hours later, Google Patches Chrome to Plug Pwnium 2 Security Hole

Honestly, I don't know why. Is it for stability reasons?

How big of an impact did each change you made have on the load? Say, would have just upgrading to Redis 1.9 reduce the load time by a few seconds?

avboron Free Google-Sponsored Boingo WiFi for 4k Locations (But Not For iOS Users)

They are only excluding iOS? Macs are still allowed? What's the problem?

avboron HP clones iMAC. HP in Trouble?

I would agree if it was the entire package, because those accessories don't help.

However, if it was solely the computer and monitor, I think a difference would be seen. HP has been doing the black bezel for quite a while. You can see it with the way they design their laptops, the HP Touchpad, and even some of their monitors already.

Doing an image search for 'iMac' shows a black bezel, with about 2-3 additional inches of aluminum below the monitor. Doing an image search for 'hp all in one pc' results in seeing HPs monitor, but with an additional 1 inch that appears to be holding a speaker. The Spectre is already present in the search. It honestly looks like it belongs there. The main difference is the touchpad (which just screams Apple. Does anyone else produce those other than HP and Apple?), the fact that the speaker isn't below the bezel, and the switch to aluminum for the stand/keyboard.

avboron HP clones iMAC. HP in Trouble?

Honestly, the monitor is different enough for me. The keyboard could use a little distinguishing, but I can still say which is which.

The touchpad, however, is an entire other story.

avboron Windows Executable Walkthrough Graphic

This is obviously off topic, but do you happen to work on a MOBA?

avboron Android 4.1 Jelly Bean is now available

They are maximizing shareholder value though. Each OEM is competing with the other OEMs producing for Android, and creating a new Android update for the older phones doesn't increase sells if another OEM releases a phone that has better specs in addition to having the newest OS.

Whenever any of my friends go shopping for a new Android phone, they immediately try to find the one with the highest specs. OEMs aren't going to waste time releasing an update for a phone that won't make them money anymore, they're going to spend time instead on making better hardware that will make money.

avboron Wil Wheaton: Yo Hollywood, Let Me Download Ubuntu

Maybe for the client, but another place you can see extensive use of P2P is in gaming. Quite a few game clients have the Peer to Peer downloading built in.

avboron Qlinqo - HTML5 Plinko Game

Well this was awkward. I don't know how it happened.

http://i.minus.com/iyCNAFZpPgfY7.png

Did you make the game? I love that the instructions are embedded in the game. Strange color scheme and effects though. I did like the sounds.

avboron Game of Thrones looks terrible streaming over hotel wifi (HBO Go?)

What are the reasons for not using offline caching? Was their intent to prevent piracy, or was this just an instance of a poorly coded application?

avboron Fun Programming: Videos for learning creative programming

Is it just me, or are all the videos listed as "temporarily unavailable" when I try to watch them?

I even tried downloading the torrent, but I see no seeders either. This could be a good resource, but I honestly can't evaluate the effectiveness of it as of now.

avboron Why Instagram is so fast at uploading photos

On slide 89 it mentions that they delete the data if the user cancels it.

avboron Read Valve’s Employee Company Handbook. It’s Amazing

Previous discussion located here.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3871463

avboron Chrome 19 doesn't respect basic auth details embedded in the URL

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/834489

I remember reading about Microsoft stopping supporting that option actually. The reasoning being that it could be used for sending users to malicious sites.

"malicious users can use this URL syntax together with other methods to create a link to a deceptive (spoofed) Web site that displays the URL to a legitimate Web site in the Status bar, Address bar, and Title bar of all versions of Internet Explorer."

I'm wondering if this was the reasoning for doing so in Chrome.