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It seems to work for me when I move the cursor off the page, though that misses the point.

I'm surprised the university would allow him to do that, since he's effectively charging an additional tuition fee.

To be clearer, my point was that HN not using HTTPS doesn't seem like a reason not to require sites to use HTTPS, let alone introducing any security regulations at all.

I haven't looked at the code or even used it that much, but it seems like it only uses content scripts to insert the password into the field, and everything else is dealt with by the popup/background page, which websites don't have access to.

I'm somewhat confused as to how this would work. Surely the university is responsible for awarding the degree and academic staff choose a supporting textbook to help students? So I assume universities wanting to use a textbook don't have to adopt the system.

So?

Speaking generally, surely having a link to the site is attribution?

I guess it could be useful if you wanted to switch from HAXE to Coffeescript.

Not entirely on-topic but SuperGenPass and probably similar bookmarklets has a security problem:

http://akibjorklund.com/2009/supergenpass-is-not-that-secure

The Reddit and HN threads have two scrollbars for me in Chrome (stable channel on Windows 7).

http://i.imgur.com/Awe1L.png

Would you be any more likely to click a toolbar button? If you mean finding threads automatically, wouldn't that have privacy implications as it would have to send every url you visit back to them?

Hacker Panel doesn't work very well for me. It nearly always just brings up the submit page, even if the link has already been posted to HN.

By employers.

  they are in the top few percent of intelligence

Citation needed

  a web browser

Why would I want a web browser inside a web browser?

  a calendar client

There are plenty of online calendars. I'm not familiar with calendar clients, but what's the advantage of setting up a calendar protocol server rather than using an online calendar or installing similar software?

  an IMAP client

Webmail?

How would this data be used?

[1] Training?

The avatar image is triggering a mixed content error. It also seems strange to display a 556x720 image at 25x25.

> It meant bootstrapping myself into a highly specialized field, then competing for an entry-level position against better-qualified computer science graduates.

So if everyone took the same steps, no one would be better off?

How many people will install it that haven't installed Adblock Plus?

So everyone clicks "no" (or gets confused and asks a technical relative), Firefox always sends the DNT header, so no sites respect it.

Surely putting the Cambridge logo on your CV to represent an ESOL qualification awarded by the university is a bit misleading?

> I saw some nice shoes today at the mall and want to know if they’re available back home (because i’ve learned from experience that region-blocking also applies to shoes).

Region blocking applies to shoes?

Assuming they aren't annoyed by it and close it without reading so they can do what they wanted to do with the app.

Why physicists?

I recall hearing that it's to try to make piracy be seen as less socially acceptable.

It's possible that it hasn't been updated yet, but extensions can now change the user agent sent to the server.

http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/webRequest.html

What stops someone creating a lot of fake accounts to vouch for them?

Also, how would people show this to prospective employers? Would they post the URL on their resume?

There's also http://codepad.org/, but it doesn't support as many languages.

To my knowledge, it's both sent over SSL and signed with its own key.

SSL pinning just prevents a rogue trusted CA from MITMing you. SSL certificates specify a domain, no matter what the DNS says.