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randomchars··on Announcing Startup School 2019
You can edit your all your responses after you've submitted the form. (Even your company name.)
randomchars··on What are some good Linux friendly laptops?
Dell provides onsite service for many of its products. It's exactly as it sounds, a technician comes to your house/office, and fixes your laptop. I've even seen them switch out the logic board in one of them in under 15 minutes.
randomchars··on Ask HN: What graphical user interface do you wish had a command line interface?
There's an extension for Chrome that might be helpful to you: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogba...
randomchars··on Introducing the LEDE project – A reboot of the OpenWrt community
How so?
randomchars··on 555 timer teardown: inside the world's most popular IC
Android doesn't support Java applets. The site uses JS.
randomchars··on Facebook Messenger protocol in Pidgin
So that's a no, as it appears there's no documentation in the repository beyond the comments.
randomchars··on Facebook Messenger protocol in Pidgin
Is the protocol documented somewhere?
randomchars··on GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack
What is the PRC's problem with Github?
randomchars··on Mozilla to open first-world front in Firefox OS war
> They were paying devs in 3rd world countries $2000 to push out junk apps

Do you have a link for that? I can't seem to find any reference to it.

randomchars··on Mozilla to open first-world front in Firefox OS war
> I have been "writing apps" in HTML, Javascript and PHP ever since I can remember. > They are just as responsive and useful as any app I have ever used on my Android.

I've yet to see any mobile web app that's as responsive and useful as a native one. They're slow, can't make use of platform features (e.g intents on android, native google login flow) and they always look out of place.

randomchars··on [dead]
Unfortunately this is too slow to be usable even on a very fast internet connection.
randomchars··on I used Firefox OS for 30 days and it made me want to quit phones
If it's sold in stores and featured in advertisements, it is released.
randomchars··on Show HN: Spotify for Independent Music
I really like the design, it's much cleaner than Spotify or Rdio. A few things though:

- I have an error icon next to my name in the sidebar, that says I need to complete my profile. I really don't think not having a bio should warrant a this kind of warning. (Maybe a notification instead?)

- I logged in with Facebook, and my country and profile url weren't auto filled out. That's a little weird.

- No last.fm (or libre.fm) support. For me this is a deal breaker. If it doesn't scrobble, I don't listen to it. I'm sure there are other people out there who feel the same.

What formats are the downloads available in?

randomchars··on Docker interactive tutorial
A worker is usually something that does background processing. For example a user uploads an image and you need to convert it to multiple sizes. You can either do this on your application server within the scope of the request, or set up a task queue.

Here's an oversimplification of the latter: You have an application server, a queue (something like 0MQ, or redis) and one or multiple workers. When the image is posted, you add a job to the queue, asking for the image to be processed. The worker polls the queue asking if there are any jobs, an if there are, it executes those.

> I never package my web app. It just runs and runs and runs. And my customers use it.

So how do you deploy a new version of your app?

randomchars··on The Drone that Killed my Grandson
That's a horrible analogy. In that case there's an imminent danger.
randomchars··on The Drone that Killed my Grandson
Terrorist are people too. But let's not go down that road,

The problem (one of them at least) is that they're not only killing pirates, but people who they think might be pirates.

randomchars··on Why Your Dog Can Get Vaccinated Against Lyme Disease And You Can’t
I'm not sure if that would work. I live in a big city, and ticks are an issue here too, while there is no cattle anywhere to be seen.
randomchars··on The Drone that Killed my Grandson
But you have more than two parties don't you? Not that it matters, more parties don't have significant advantages. It's just that there is a bigger pool of crooks.
randomchars··on The Drone that Killed my Grandson
Not at all.

    he did indicate he would continue President Obama’s controversial drone strike program against alleged terrorist suspects.
http://www.examiner.com/article/romney-ratifies-obama-s-dron...
randomchars··on Why Your Dog Can Get Vaccinated Against Lyme Disease And You Can’t
Not the only ones. There are no deer ticks in Europe, yet we still have Lyme disease.
randomchars··on Android saves wifi passwords in plaintext to the cloud
> The only means by which Google profits is by monetizing data leaking from my device.

You have no idea what you're talking about. It directly profits from sales on the Play Store(apps, movies, TV shows, magazines, music) and advertisement clicks. They also benefit from building better user profiles, so they can better target advertisements.

randomchars··on Why Your Dog Can Get Vaccinated Against Lyme Disease And You Can’t
Deer ticks are not the only kind of ticks.
randomchars··on Ask HN: Can we trust our CPUs?
I can do a complete security audit of my pens in less than a minute. I can't do the same with my computer hardware.
randomchars··on Python: Common Newbie Mistakes, Part 1
You're going to miss the interpreter. I started programming with python too, and now I'm moving onto Java (for Android), and while static typing is nice, I really miss being able to just try things out in a few seconds. Working with a GUI framework is very different than web development and CLI.
randomchars··on Python: Common Newbie Mistakes, Part 1
Python is fine, parent is just a troll. If you're interested in OSX or iOS programming Objective-C would be the obvious choice.
randomchars··on If PRISM is Good Policy, Why Stop with Terrorism?
And then go where?
randomchars··on How to build (and how not to build) a secure “remember me” feature
Not for me. Did you by any chance move the app to your SD card? Apps that use the android Sync provider don't work if they're moved.
randomchars··on Learn Java in Minutes
Well if you want to develop for android, Java is the way to go. Of course you could use Scala or Clojure, but without knowing Java, you probably wouldn't understand many library demos, and documentation.
randomchars··on 1984, Hungarian Edition
As in Hungarian Jews hating Israeli Jews?
randomchars··on 1984, Hungarian Edition
I'm a fellow Hungarian. After reading your posts here, I'm not proud of that.

While you're right about the new tobacco regulations, I disagree with everything else you said. There's widespread antisemitism,holocaust denial and xenophobia in this country.

There's a far right wing party in the Parliament. Next year they might actually form a government. They are racist, advocate killing and deporting gypsies, and radical protectionism, leaving the EU, and homophobia.

Things like this are also broadcasted on national television. I don't watch TV so I only know about one such person [0]. He talkes about how Jews want to take over our country, that there's an international conspiracy against Hungary, that they're using chemtrail to poison us. He even thinks that the hungarians are God's chosen people. All on TV. And people buy this shit. I count find any video of his with English subtitles unfortunately.

@friendly_chap: I would love to see some sources about the political murders you mention. I haven't heard anything about those, and haven't anything while searching either.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferenc_Szaniszló

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