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wx77··on Google+ and Diaspora look very similar… 
Another victim of wordpress without caching.
wx77··on Linux Mint: The new Ubuntu?
This was my main dealbreaker as well and it was so annoying, especially considering how bad the google results look with the custom search.
wx77··on Is there a substitute for this Google Reader functionality
Pinboard has the ability to give rss (and json) feeds of a users bookmarks (you can even use the tag share and get bookmarks specifically with that tag) see in: http://pinboard.in/howto/

Other than that there might be easier ways and pinboard does cost an initial sign up fee.

wx77··on Python: copying a list the right way
I actually have to agree if you are coming to something like

    a = b[:]
in code you are going to understand what it means or you are probably going to be missing a large portion of other things that are going on in the python code.

With that said I must also state that I think

    a = list(b)
is much prettier and is easier to understand to me.
wx77··on Ask PG: Are there IP blocks?
Appears so: https://github.com/jpf/hacker-news-wp7/blob/master/README

If HN could give back json instead of html I'm guessing a lot of the crawling could be mitigated to client side. Kind of like appending .json to everything on reddit

wx77··on Ask HN: Buying a cheap laptop without an OS?
Actually it is likely the distributors make money on Windows with all the crapware and trial software they put on their computers.
wx77··on The right to dual-boot: Linux groups plead case prior to Windows 8 launch
There wouldn't really be a refund for Windows cost as most OEMs are making money off of windows by deals with software companies like norton and nero to install their trial software by default to new computers.
wx77··on Netflix loses 800,000 subscribers (stock drops 28%)
I have a bad internet connection (1.5 Mbit) and found that without using the whole connection I wasn't able to stream netflix and was still burdened with artifacts and terrible quality. Now to put this in perspective at a little over half my connection speed (~.8Mbit maybe it is less) amazon streaming works perfectly with decent enough quality and no stops to buffer or recheck my internet speeds.

So maybe I'm in the minority or maybe I'm not but I dropped netflix streaming and probably won't be going back unless cable or fiber internet comes to my area.

wx77··on Reality of budget VPS services
Well as someone who has used quite a few VPS servers over the years from a plethora of providers I must say at this point in time Linode is probably the best bang for your buck with all the utilities and uptime it provides. The only thing about Linode is you must not order from the fremont datacenter and you have to subscribe to the status updates to realize what's going on.

The only thing that a more expensive provider will give you that linode does not is server management which can be useful but I don't really mind sysadmin at this point in time so I can't really review that.

wx77··on The + operator has been replaced.
That is strange. Perhaps when searching "oauth" "authorization" it is increasing the distance allowed between the words available for search.

At least "oauth authorization" seems to behave more normal.

wx77··on The + operator has been replaced.
It seems - hasn't been removed https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=...
wx77··on CNN, NYTimes, Mashable all vulnerable to XSS
Thomas wasn't really discussing about this in regards to the external CDN going down he was discussing it in regards to the CDN being a large point of attack with little benefit to your speed increase.

Look at it this way: if google's jquery is attacked and becomes compromised you and everyone else who uses it has become compromised because you were relying on third party security.

Next if you use jquery from google's cdn for the reason of they can do file security better than you you are already fucked because if someone is targeting your specific jquery hosted on your server chances are you are compromised in other ways.

If you want to use it for the precaching you can but I don't think precaching the 100kb jquery is really going to give you that much benefit in the long run, especially if your website is an application or something along those lines.

wx77··on Diff Dropbox previous versions easily from Google Chrome
Just for good measure: If you don't want to install an extension to inspect another extension all chrome extensions are just zip files so if you download the extension you can just unzip and see the contents.
wx77··on South Korea NIS admits to "packet tapping" Gmail
Discussion: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/kj25j/south_korea_ad...

Specific comment: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/kj25j/south_korea_ad...

To corin_ : perhaps he wanted a link to see the discussion rather than a source.

wx77··on Old startup designs
For the sake of ease of use:

http://pastebin.com/sW1PMknX

Which contains:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2058172/CJ/dashboard.jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2058172/CJ/jobs-search.jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2058172/CJ/jobs.jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2058172/CJ/people-search-results.jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2058172/CJ/profile.jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2058172/CJ/settings.jpg

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