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towelguy··on Ubuntu smartphone offers alternative to apps
It is Qt's QML https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnityNextSpec
towelguy··on 42 as a Service
As chained url encoded parameters? http://example.com/exec?http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fsum%3Fhtt...
towelguy··on Meta-programming JavaScript Using Proxies
It's akin to python's magic methods (eg. __len__), only implemented in a separate object. Looks cleaner.
towelguy··on What should I do about YouTube?
She could make a song telling her fans to upload their videos to vimeo instead of youtube.
towelguy··on What makes Nim practical?
I wonder if it can generate bindings for Python like Vala does[0]? That would make it even more interesting for Python developers.

[0] https://github.com/antono/vala-object

towelguy··on What makes Nim practical?
> Nim libraries are statically compiled into our binary as well.

Does that mean one can not use GPL libraries in non-GPL programs? With other languages you can get around that by linking dinamically.

towelguy··on Run a script when police raid your house
It would be more practical to go live where cops aren't raiding houses all the time.

I wonder why DPR wasn't living in some tropical riviera instead of the US.

towelguy··on Anonymous programmers can be identified by analyzing coding style
Can they tell us if Satoshi Nakamoto is actually only one person?
towelguy··on A trucker trying to hack the haulage industry [video]
Instead of going through all the hassle of doing barcodes and getting a barcode scanner, he could make a mobile application with buttons for each predefined message to send over email/twitter. Probably something like this already exists.
towelguy··on I Owe It All to Community College
How much would peace cost?
towelguy··on The problem with Angular
What would be better is the ability to selectively enable javascript scripts. I want the javascript for your webpage to run normally, but I don't want the javascript for that ad that moves around the screen or the one for that tracker bug to run at all. This was much easier when ads where mostly in flash.
towelguy··on What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps
Scoop looks really awesome. Will definitively keep an eye on it.
towelguy··on What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps
That's the #1 reason ALL the computers in my house aren't Ubuntu but Debian.
towelguy··on Announcing Rust 1.0 Alpha
It is summer right now in half of the world.
towelguy··on How to Become a Hacker (2001)
And of course, there's an emacs command to do that.
towelguy··on Keeping the Pirates at Bay – Copy and Crack Protection (2001)
It would be interesting to see the difference in sales in the 3rd month between US and Europe, since the European version took one more month to crack.
towelguy··on Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
You could use aria2, which is a command line program so no need to deal with a daemon. Also, you could make it download just parts of a torrent (the start of the torrent for example) instead of the whole thing and take the screenshots from there.
towelguy··on Filezilla at SourceForge is malware
If you used `apt-get install filezilla` then no. Does anyone know if sourceforge include malware for their Linux binaries?
towelguy··on Hacking Hacker News
> Last month, I posted two links a day apart. The content of the articles was exactly the same. Granted, the titles and links were a bit different, but it’s nonetheless fascinating to see the 8X difference between the two.

People don't like to read the same news twice?

towelguy··on Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs
I went back to Firefox in the last couple of months and I wholeheartedly agree. I used to use HTTPSwitchboard in Chromium (which divided into uMatrix and uBlock) and I miss it in Firefox.
towelguy··on You cannot have more than 10 years of experience in Rails
What can a person with 10 years of experience in a framework know that someone with 2 doesn't?
towelguy··on Sorry Google, No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA Doesn’t Stop Bots
Google's NoCaptcha required me once to select the cakes in a grid of 9 images. Only once, never again. I wonder if they were testing it or they have a rate between using text and images.
towelguy··on Sorry Google, No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA Doesn’t Stop Bots
> * The next time you visit the page, or any page which requires you to pass reCAPTCHA, the information from these cookies is used to identify whether you have passed the test before.

This is wrong. Try posting a few times in 4chan, even if it recognizes you as a human, after posting a bit more it will ask for the captcha anyway.

towelguy··on [dead]
This is the actual article, that other one just has a quote and a link to this: http://thenextweb.com/apple/2013/04/18/bono-on-apple-you-can...
towelguy··on Thepiratebay site is up, but without search engine
It is simply using a video from http://openbay.isohunt.to/, doesn't really mean it's the same people.
towelguy··on Attack Is Suspected as North Korean Internet Collapses
How would they decide who wins?
towelguy··on Thepiratebay site is up, but without search engine
I can see it, it shows a counter started at 2014-11-09 and an image aes.png with this: JyO7wNzc8xht47QKWohfDVj6Sc2qH+X5tBCT+uetocIJcjQnp/2f1ViEBR+ty0Cz
towelguy··on What is Meteor.js?
It is unfortunate people think piping into a shell is cool. But don't let that keep you away from the actual framework, which is actually pretty cool by itself without gimmicks like that.
towelguy··on What is Meteor.js?
Recently someone posted a fast alternative to Atmosphere to the user mailing list: http://fastosphere.meteor.com/ I think it uses Atmosphere's DDP connection so it should be up to date.
towelguy··on Sony Hackers Seen Having Snooped for Months
> hackers

Sometimes I wonder if I should keep wasting breath trying to get people to call crackers for what they actually are.

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