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1,707 karma · joined August 11, 2009

on silent-ban since forever... or back to slowban only. who knows? i keep commenting in the wind.
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gcb··on Vim Creep
It talks about nostalgia. there's nothing else besides that.

either you share this or not. If you saw anything else, you are probably misreading or reading too much there.

gcb··on DC "Uber Amendment" would force sedans to charge 5x more than taxis
More people moving.

Car is not the goal. There are other means to move people way more efficient.

gcb··on Ouya: A New Kind of Video Game Console
Everything sounds fine, except being Android based.

Worst platform ever.

Also good luck getting most of the hardware like game developers do with java.

gcb··on Ouya: A New Kind of Video Game Console
I load all my wii games from a usb ssd and it's 10x faster than any cd.

And i think it's usb1

gcb··on Keyless BMW cars prove to be very easy to steal
Flag this.every car since the 80s has an odb port. Having access to it allow you to unlock/disarm alarm/start car.

The headline is obvious link bait suggesting the radio protocol is easily hackable remotely. Which is not the case

gcb··on How Huffington Post's Clever Traffic-Generation Machine Works
Nothing new about brown press.

A little demodé even.

And i bet $5 nobody here ever landed on it's pages.

gcb··on How Huffington Post's Clever Traffic-Generation Machine Works
Let's see how many more Facebook reposts the hufpo title gets.

(yeah, i consider that the dumbest metric ever. Only even looked at by bloggers and creative ad agencies who are clueless about market research)

gcb··on PHP: The Right Way
Output is not what goes to the user/page, in this context it is what your code sends anywhere, such as to mysql_execute or something
gcb··on A file that's both an acceptable HTML page and a JPEG (view source on it)
trick summary:

enter in you jpeg comment field: "<html>...your page...</html><!--"

then the "image" will look like:

   @^PJFIF^@^A^A^A^A,^A,^@^@000^Cr<html>...your page...</html><!-- rest of garbage
to the browser this is just the same as:

   \n
   \n
   \n
   <html>...your page...</html>
gcb··on Shuttleworth: Why Windows 8 made us ditch GPL Linux loader
uh... everything* that ever shows up at ubuntu passed by my machine running debian sid. how is that leading adoption?

* excluding unity

gcb··on Shuttleworth: Why Windows 8 made us ditch GPL Linux loader
the sucker part is about the big picture. SSL for all it's problems still is the closest to provide http securely. This safeboot thing helps with nothing. at all.

now back to the sucker part. thanks to ubuntu, everyone now instead of complaining or not buying hardware because free drivers aren't provided, will just and gladly use binary ones. and then complain that linux is unstable. i know it's a fine line to walk since otherwise they will just complain linux is not compatible with anything... but i think the later is fixable.

gcb··on Shuttleworth: Why Windows 8 made us ditch GPL Linux loader
All this only serve to make ms strong again on consumer market. It's the good old bait and switch. And Ubuntu suckers are going right into

"ohh i have money. I can buy into the game and finally have more installs than Debian"

Let's see how that plays out later, since we all know this boot shenanigans do nothing it advertised (virus, security) and only serve to harden the installation of non windows os

gcb··on Shuttleworth: Why Windows 8 made us ditch GPL Linux loader
I used Ubuntu and promoted it like crazy. Until i realized it's pernicious to open software. Too many compromises. binary drivers everywhere. Now this. The Ubuntu moved gnome3 crap that led to the least community driven direction a project ever took.

Heck and i always seen gpl extremists as crazy and release all my code under mit... And even so i refuse to use Ubuntu anymore.

gcb··on Why Showing Your Face at Work Matters
Gotta love how the comments here have datapoints than the whole study the article mentions
gcb··on On Extensions, Userscripts, and Archivers
It's not like a site that forgets it's contents in 2min or less needs more than that.
gcb··on On Extensions, Userscripts, and Archivers
The key take away is: if you don't look at YOUR server logs, but relay on 3rd party solutions, you are missing the picture. By large.

That Google analytics "guess" was abysmal. Client side logging is fine to complement server side.

gcb··on LeanMarket (YC S12) brings real-time bidding display ads to the masses
No. None of they aren. some consume a global variable with a link but that's minor and has irrelevant reasons for the security concerns here.

For richmedia, the publisher (website owner) just accepts to serve a Javascript snipped, which most of the time request more Javascript from places the publisher has no control whatsoever. And it has to be inlined on the page because that script uses document.write like crazy.

because of that, the script has total control of the page.

That's why there's no rich media in most free email providers. Yahoo is the only one but they render the ad in an crossdomain iframe and force the ad to behave via a richmedia api

gcb··on The Google Nexus Q Is Baffling
Yeah. I may be thinking of the 1wire connection...

Anyway, not myself not other modder were able to use it effectively with any other device unless gutted.

gcb··on 15 Years of Booking Travel Online: What’s Next?
Yeah, I'd ignore all the industry "insight" here and consume that as a user opinion on travel sites.
gcb··on The Google Nexus Q Is Baffling
The original nexus one dock used a proprietary protocol over Bluetooth.

My bet is that Google will pull a betamax on the Google TV ecosystem

gcb··on The Google Nexus Q Is Baffling
I will never understand you people that use that.

Just spend a extra .70 and have the cable screwed to a damn male plug.

Nothing worse than screwing the wires every time

gcb··on The Google Nexus Q Is Baffling
The Q is the very same useless concept of the original nexus one desktop dock. The original dock at least came with 3mm plug and a cable to convert to 2 rcas.
gcb··on LeanMarket (YC S12) brings real-time bidding display ads to the masses
So you don't have to go thru "enterprise sales people" to get onboarded, does that means the company can't afford ad review?

If they allow rich media for every one with 2cents, i can't think of a better platform to distribute malware.

gcb··on The Invisible Bank: How Kenya Has Beaten the World in Mobile Money
He is still right on on being completely locked in one network with dumb phones.
gcb··on The Invisible Bank: How Kenya Has Beaten the World in Mobile Money
Read itentirely and it's as vague.

Does not explain that it only works because the tellco is a public company (otherwise your money with them would be invested in risk) and the usabilities issues that allow a.lot of theft via social engineering.

gcb··on The Invisible Bank: How Kenya Has Beaten the World in Mobile Money
In the us you'd have to pay $30/mo for unlimited payment via mobile phones in a 2yr contact.

And it would only work for the first $1000, then it will cost extra per dollar.

And it doesn't matter it works over means already provided/charged by the telcos, they will go out of their way to make it billable.

gcb··on As crops rot, millions go hungry in India
The demand was already there. say 30% of the people that actually buys your product every month produces grain alcohol.

now, you give your exceeding production for free. That person that got it for free makes grain alcohol, sells it cheaper than your paying customer. next month your paying customer will either also want it free, or at a much lower price to remain competitive, lowering your next month profit.

The whole problem is people trying to make more money with the grain by creating false scarcity. if they sold way cheaper when they had more production, the original paying customer would have bought twice the grain and made twice the grain alcohol to begin with. and none of that would have been a problem.

gcb··on As crops rot, millions go hungry in India
Which is the very same as lowering real prices (value) in the long run while raising monetary value. Pretty much more inflation
gcb··on As crops rot, millions go hungry in India
I have 10 things every month. I sell them for a living.

One month i only sold 5, but you asked for the other five. If i give you, there will be more things in circulation and now i will be offered less money for my things. Maybe only next month, but i still lose.

gcb··on Catch-22: Tech Blogging As a Woman
dilettantism is way easier than work. And recently may be as effective. Heck i usually get hundreds of upvotes just by pretending i have some knowledge.

This one will skyrocket because i may be a woman. And maybe Indian.

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