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nuttendorfer··on Global market share of Google Public DNS and OpenDNS
I'm quite aware of that. Freeing myself of Google was the main point.
nuttendorfer··on Global market share of Google Public DNS and OpenDNS
I used to use Googles DNS but when I started to move away from Google products for privacy reasons (I still use some, can't help it) this one was one of the easier decisions.
nuttendorfer··on Conway's Game of Life, using floating point values instead of integers
Surely you mean "pure CSS3 implementation".
nuttendorfer··on Anvil - a Mac app for Pow
What does the on/off slider do? Another handy tool for managing Pow is the ruby gem "powder". It's command line only however.
nuttendorfer··on Why you’d be stupid to bet against HTML5
My problem with HTML5 is that you have to use JavaScript on the client. Until browser vendors implement other languages I'll stick with native.
nuttendorfer··on This is Not ok
If she would have just used the "new" men's room nobody would have cared and she wouldn't have had to write this blog post.

People do this all the time if one room is full.

nuttendorfer··on To Encourage Biking, Cities Lose the Helmets
To most of the world "American" means you are from the United States of America. If somebody wants to say Canadian, they do.
nuttendorfer··on Slate: Tiling window management for OS X
Nice to see such thorough documentation like in this project!
nuttendorfer··on 20 Hours of Tent.is
I had the same problem yesterday on my WP7. If I clicked on login the tab would crash.
nuttendorfer··on SeenBefore: A search engine for what you have seen before
Who am I handing my data over to? I can't find this anywhere on the site.
nuttendorfer··on Making Instant C# Viable - Vizualization
Here's the link to the Bret Victor presentation where he talks about this concept: http://vimeo.com/36579366
nuttendorfer··on Show HN: Lookmark, read what your friends are reading (for Chrome)
I'm surprised they let you delete your account, a rarity these days. Turned out none of my friends are interested in this so I deleted it.
nuttendorfer··on Introducing the Humble Indie Bundle 6
I feel like the last Humble Bundle might have set the bar too high for the following bundles.
nuttendorfer··on Will Go be the new go-to programming language?
I think developers will stay on traditional desktop systems, most likely a Linux since Apple and Microsoft target consumers(consuming videos, browsing the web or using only specific applications like Excel).

Developers need tools too so we shouldn't just abandon non-web technologies.

nuttendorfer··on Will Go be the new go-to programming language?
I'm waiting for a mature GUI library to start something serious in Go.
nuttendorfer··on Chrome Killed UserScripts.org
Google also killed user scripts that are self-updating like 4chan x. Before you would just click OK on a popup informing you that there was a new version and you were done.

Now you have to drag the downloaded file into a tab with chrome://extensions open.

I don't know why Google hasn't left a switch in to deactivate this "security measure".

Edit: security measure is between quotes because I don't think anybody on HN would fall for something like that easily.

nuttendorfer··on Go At Conformal
>For example, I really would like to have some sort of standard widget library in order to develop GUI applications

So, what's the best candidate for GUI applications? I think we also need an IDE or at least a form builder akin to Visual Studio and WinForms, it's so easy to work on GUI applications and write prototypes it's ridiculous how other projects aren't copying this.

nuttendorfer··on Show HN: Chrome Extension to automatically block the annoying Quora login prompt
I don't look at ads or register them, why should I let them destroy the page layout?

I was on a public computer recently and was shocked to see almost half the screen of a newspaper site was full with ads.

I would very much like a pay-to-remove-ads business model on free sites.

nuttendorfer··on "brew install pass" -- the simple unix password manager now released for mac
Have you seen encFS?

Filenames readable in cleartext is a security issue. This means whoever has access to your files knows you have accounts on certain websites they are looking for.

nuttendorfer··on "brew install pass" -- the simple unix password manager now released for mac
Thanks, I won't use it then.
nuttendorfer··on "brew install pass" -- the simple unix password manager now released for mac
>With pass, each password lives inside of a gpg encrypted file whose filename is the title of the website or resource that requires the password.

Is the filename cleartext or encrypted?

nuttendorfer··on Who inherits your iTunes library when you die?
This is already available in the form of music trackers and not only similar quality but often better.
nuttendorfer··on Add-on developer abandons Firefox
>As I do not wish to encourage anyone to use Mozilla's products at this time, I will not be hosting or providing these extensions to anyone.

He really does not want to promote Mozilla products. I think that really shows how much he despises Mozilla (currently).

nuttendorfer··on A Fee-Based Twitter Is No More Ideologically Pure Than An Ad-Supported Twitter
I dislike ads so much I would stop using your service if it wasn't possible to block them. I would much rather pay for all the ad-supported (well, not by me) service I use.

Everybody should be looking for ad-free ways to support their services.

If you are not paying for something the provider has incentive to sell your data, not so much if you paid for it. Example: I'm currently on a free Dropbox account simply because I don't need much storage. I would love to pay for the option to have my files encrypted. This would mean that Dropbox can't save space, thus it's alright I should pay for that.

nuttendorfer··on Essential C
This looks like the perfect material to learn C if you already know how to program (or at least in C-like languages like Java and C#).
nuttendorfer··on Vim as you IDE
Please don't use shorteners, use the actual URL. Edit: He has changed them.
nuttendorfer··on Are “Let’s Play …Videos” bad for the gaming industry?
The author is missing something: Some people might just not _want_ to play themselves. Could be a question or just interest in actually playing the game, as some people (myself included) want to play a certain game but just can't bring themselves up to it.

Those don't represent lost sales, these people wouldn't have bought the game anyway.

nuttendorfer··on Is WPA2 security broken due to Defcon MS-CHAPv2 cracking?
I'd say it's warranted in this situation.
nuttendorfer··on Ask HN: Building a large webapp today - what language for the backend, and why?
You are going to rewrite it anyway if it's successful so you might start with something easy and quick like Django or Rails.
nuttendorfer··on We Need a Social Web OS
No, we don't need any more social. We need less.
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