sharjeel

Out of curiosity, which firewall do you use?

- tmux

- bashmarks

- zsh-autosuggestions

- yasnippet/emacs

- awk

- explainshell.com

- ansible scripts for setting up new dotfiles and my commonly used tools on a new machine/VM

Where are the auto playing video ads at full blast?

Wow. Close call. I was about to get the same lens from the same seller about a month ago but at the very last moment I thought I can wait for a few weeks to see some more reviews of the seller come in.

I was thinking about getting defective product shipped etc but never thought I could have faced such a sophisticated scam.

For me, keeping in view how other people look at the situation is the most important thing in effective communication. I've found PG's advice the best in this regard:

""" If you want to learn what people want, read Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. [8] When a friend recommended this book, I couldn't believe he was serious. But he insisted it was good, so I read it, and he was right. It deals with the most difficult problem in human experience: how to see things from other people's point of view, instead of thinking only of yourself.

[8] Buy an old copy from the 1940s or 50s instead of the current edition, which has been rewritten to suit present fashions. The original edition contained a few unPC ideas, but it's always better to read an original book, bearing in mind that it's a book from a past era, than to read a new version sanitized for your protection. """

http://paulgraham.com/bronze.html """

MS Paint: I've yet to find a photo tool that'll load instantly and let me crop or resize with the most minimal clicks.

Since this is a client side issue, can this be used to exploit those automated scanners who try to break into your SSH machine?

Someone recently noticed it on UFone (Pakistan) too: https://www.i.com.pk/ufone-3g-is-injecting-popup-ads-into-yo...

Another idea: Outlaw terrorism

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The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later. """

Any mirrors?

ReactOS suddenly makes a lot of sense to me now!

Also worth mentioning the positive impact on work productivity: no coffee breaks, no food distraction, no occasional visits to restroom: just solid focus to my work. The only thing I need to take care about is not opening HN periodically.

And here I am reading this article in 2015, with top of the page broken saying "Please install the latest Adobe Flash Player Plugin to watch this content."

I am running my home server on ChromeBox (Linux Mint running Samba attached to a Bravia TV). I don't think I can get something better.

Thanks to the HN comments which assured that it is important. Otherwise after reading the first sentence and processing it with standard sensational filtering regex of my brain, I wouldn't have proceeded forward.

"In a [stunning|amazing] discovery that overturns [years|decades|centuries] of [textbook teaching|beliefs|research] [researchers|scientists] at the <XYZ Lab> have discovered that the <PQR premise> holds false."

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And here is a famous one from Ghalib:

   Rekhta k tum he nahi ustaad Ghalib
   Kehte hain Aglay Zamanay mein koi Mir[1] bhi tha

Rough translation:

   You aren't alone the master of Rekhta, Ghalib
   It is said that there was also someone called Mir[1] in the previous era

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_Taqi_Mir

The PCs didn't sit in your pocket all data with sensing GPS location, mic, camera, footsteps, discovery of bluetooth and wifi devices around you; neither were they single point of communication with the rest of the world.

> Sindhi, for example, is a naskh based language. Punjabi, which my parents spoke, on the other hand, prefers nastaliq, and regionally the two places are adjacet.

Saying that Sindhi is Naskh based language while Punjabi is Nastaleeq based language is like saying English is Arial based language while French is Times New Roman based.

This article was making rounds in my social feed about a year ago. Disturbed by the extremely weak and some absolutely flawed arguments, I wrote a note: https://www.facebook.com/sharjeelqureshi/posts/1015180699836...

I've been looking forward to having WinMerge on Linux for so long. I haven't found a good alternative on Linux which can do quick side-by-side comparison just by pasting from clipboard.

Could you please add a category "All but NSA"

Perhaps employers should be smart enough to write their bots too?

Take a look at Horde:

http://nms.csail.mit.edu/projects/horde/ http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/papers/horde-mobisys-2005.pdf

Ironically, Youtube is banned in Pakistan

Looks like this thread is still alive: http://serverfault.com/questions/293217/our-security-auditor...

This has potential of becoming alternate to Hacker News with NSA and funding related stories filtered out.

All the support related links indexed by Google seem to be broken. e.g. searching for "debian" in the search box and clicking any link leads to a 404 page.

Gmail is the application which has made me realize a big weakness of web applications. The web was supposed to make "application upgrades" painless and instant. After GMail's recent changes, I would really love to "download old version of Gmail"; however its web, I can't do that!

Could anyone comment about this issue in mobile devices? On Desktop one can get suspicious when the LED of the Webcam blinks but on Mobile Phones, the camera is a completely silent watcher. And it is shocking to imagine how we carry around our mobile devices everywhere compared to desktops and laptops.