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Re:Medium Raises $57M
on Monday September 28, 2015 @06:56PM (#10293732)
The absolutely worst two things which happened to Blogger during the last few years are, IMO:
1. What I percieve to be excessive use of JS. You can't even load a blog post there (well, at least, couldn't last time I visited a dot-blogspot site) without an on-page spinner and a bunch of stuff apparently happening in the background.
2. The tld-redirect crap. Admitedly, I had actually thought a similar mechanism to be benefitial prior to seeing an actual implementation of it but I mean, come on, does this not annoy others? What's the advantage of that anyway? Google is capable of geographical load balancing with IP addresses alone just fine, what's the deal?
Disclaimer: These are my end-user reactions. I have never operated at the scale Blogger does so there may be reasons I am not aware of.
Re:Is curl|bash insecure?
on Friday September 25, 2015 @10:14AM (#10278257)
>trusting random sources
A recent example to add to this, for those who think "nobody who's not a complete beginner would never do that":
https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/3lefc6/chinese_ios_...
Re:Hard, Not Soft, Kill Switches
on Friday September 25, 2015 @10:06AM (#10278199)
>a physical means to turn off a machine’s built in Webcam
I actually had one on my last laptop, namely a piece of black insulation tape which I had placed over the lens.
Re:Writing Good C++14 by Default [pdf]
on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @05:11PM (#10268268)
>I managed to write the whole library without a single #ifdef! Generates Linux .so, OS X .dylib, and Windows DLLs. Amazing!
Could you expand on how you are doing this? You're still using a Makefile or a similar tool with some kind of platform detection for the build itself, right?
Re:Show HN: Hacker News Simulator
on Sunday September 20, 2015 @05:55PM (#10249318)
Pretty good. It struggles a bit with some punctuation, inserting spaces after "." in urls and not having space after "?" in sentences.
Re:PaperBack – How to store data on a single A4/Letter sheet
on Sunday September 20, 2015 @04:56AM (#10246961)
tar and split combined with a QR encoder would solve the problem just fine.
Re:Secure messaging, deleting communications lt 90 days old soon illeg...
on Sunday September 20, 2015 @04:25AM (#10246930)
Re:Programs to Read
on Thursday September 17, 2015 @09:15PM (#10237027)
"Change files" are refered to quite a lot. What does that mean?
Nordic IoT Challenge
Re:PyPy warmup improvements
on Thursday September 10, 2015 @01:34AM (#10196274)
Your link mentions CPython (the reference/official Python interpreter), not Cython (optimizing static compiler and extension of the Python language) so I'm not sure it answers the question raised by parent.
Re:An Explanation of Cricket (2009)
on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @06:28PM (#10188559)
Does anyone know of a good audio recording of this quote?