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kzar··on Ask HN: Know a good tool to purge all posts/likes/photos from Facebook?
There's https://github.com/chander/social-network-cleaner which more or less worked for me when I deleted my account. (Over a year ago now.)
kzar··on Programmer's Nightmare – Ruby Prank
Even worse, we actually had a regression at work caused by a zero width space sneaking into some code. Most editors won't even display anything for that character, even the code review tool we used didn't!

In the end I configured Emacs to highlight all unicode characters, trailing whitespace and tabs bright red. I also had it render zero width characters as normal spaces, otherwise they were still invisible. https://github.com/kzar/emacs.d/blob/master/init.el#L181-L19...

kzar··on Popular Google Chrome extensions are constantly tracking you by default
"I don't know for sure..."

Please stop spreading FUD.

Adblock Plus is not mentioned in the blog post, has a privacy policy and is open source. If you're worried about how it handles your data you can have a look at the code for yourself.

https://adblockplus.org/en/privacy https://github.com/adblockplus/adblockpluschrome

kzar··on Adblock Sold to Mystery Company
Sure, it is all pretty confusing to be honest.
kzar··on Adblock Sold to Mystery Company
As mentioned elsewhere in this discussion AdBlock is not Adblock Plus. The second link you posted is for the Adblock Plus source code.

Unfortunately at the moment the AdBlock Git repository is not public, but I have set up this unofficial one that tracks the changes between each zip published on their releases page. https://github.com/kzar/watchadblock

Specifically if you want to see what they've changed so far have a look at the last couple of commits https://github.com/kzar/watchadblock/commit/afff2b47024f3a55... https://github.com/kzar/watchadblock/commit/f1f52f47e276d29e...

kzar··on Using Emacs and Git with Magit 2.1
Or with the new version it's `P o` (Push, other).
kzar··on Using Emacs and Git with Magit 2.1
For anyone who loves Magit as much as me there's a donations page http://magit.vc/donations.html
kzar··on German villagers build own broadband network
What I don't understand is how you figure out where the closest fibre access point is. I'm trying to get my head around how to carry out a project similar to this / B4RN and the first step seems to be to check if there's a fibre access point reasonably close by.
kzar··on Major U.K. Real-Time Train Database Opens Up To More Developers
Oh I didn't use them to book, only to check which train I needed to catch.
kzar··on Major U.K. Real-Time Train Database Opens Up To More Developers
Cool, that looks really useful. The number of times I've had to fumble on thetrainline with patchy reception! Do you know any websites that figure out the cheapest combination of tickets to get you to your destination? (Sometimes buying several tickets for legs of your journey is cheaper than buying one ticket for it.)
kzar··on AngularJS is amazing, and hard as hell
I think drdaeman meant trivial to use / learn. Like Google search, an incredibly complicated system that's trivial to operate. (Also I sometimes read the AngularJS source when I'm stuck reading the documentation, to be fair it's pretty easy to grok, I submitted my first little pull request a couple of hours after getting an idea.)
kzar··on Show HN: Super simple static blog generator, Benjen
(Another solution is to have a directory for each post containing an index html file. I do it that way myself using Jekyll.)
kzar··on Aaron Swartz commits suicide
Nicely put, reading through your list I realise I've used half of it too! What a waste :(
kzar··on KDE Gains “Magic Monitor” Functionality With New KScreen
I did for what it's worth, for exactly this kind of reason. I needed my computer to just work so I could.
kzar··on Richard Stallman Collapses At Barcelona Conference
Apparently he's OK http://www.fsf.org/news/richard-stallman-speech-in-barcelona...
kzar··on Defining Property
Does anyone know of a good book about Ooka Tadasuke? He sounds like an interesting guy to read about.
kzar··on Friends to Gmail
I wrote an app that puts Facebook birthdays (and events) in Google calendar a while back: http://calenderp.appspot.com

(Just re-writing it now actually, few improvements here and this time I'm doing it in Clojure.)

kzar··on Pry: A better Ruby REPL
Do any of these IRB alternatives support multi-line history? I want to define a function, press up and have the whole function definition there instead of the last line of it -- how it works with Clojure's REPL.
kzar··on Learn Clojure
Thanks for making this, it's great.
kzar··on PayPal Suspends WikiLeaks Account
I'd just donated to Wikileaks and PayPal wont let me close my account until next week when it's cleared. I hope they actually see the money :o
kzar··on Emacs 23 is very near
(That sounded sarcastic in hindsight but it wasn't)
kzar··on Emacs 23 is very near
Ooo I can't wait
kzar··on A video site from the Pirate Bay guys using HTML5 and Ogg Theora/Vorbis
Firefox only required the reboot due to an OS limitation by the sounds of it though, I didn't have to reboot my linux box or my macbook.
kzar··on Careers and Marriage
I read this as "Don't do/marry career women" to start with.
kzar··on [dead]
The author is well known for being a troll in some IRC channels as well.
kzar··on Don’t Work for Assholes
Yea I have learned this lesson myself, it's true. I think a lot of the time it costs you more to do the work than to walk away.
kzar··on Are all the MS Zunes dying?
Microsoft's response is great:

Q: What fixes or patches are you putting in place to resolve this situation? This situation should remedy itself over the next 24 hours as the time flips to January 1st.

Q: What's the timeline on a fix? The issue Zune 30GB customers are experiencing today will self resolve as time changes to January 1.

Q: Why did this occur at precisely 12:01 a.m. on December 31, 2008? There is a bug in the internal clock driver causing the 30GB device to improperly handle the last day of a leap year.

Q: What is Zune doing to fix this issue? The issue should resolve itself.

http://gizmodo.com/5121822/official-fix-for-the-zune-30-fail

kzar··on Ask HN: What editor do you use?
Emacs here, just watch some of the screencasts that are floating about if you want to see what it can do.
kzar··on Hacker News Search Extension for Firefox
The pirate bay would be a good choice :D
kzar··on Shoes 2 Makes Its Debut
I think I'm the only one not cool enough to know but what is this?
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