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Thanks, very interesting!
Why do I need to sign up? The "You are just a few clicks away from..." shows me that you don't have my best interests in mind. Please let me pick three books, provide a recommendation and then offer me to create an account.

Now I'm going to close my browser, get some sleep and completely forget about your supposedly awesome book recommendations.

Re:Intel Anti-Theft, A Big No-No on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @08:45AM (#6051452)
Preinstalled McAfee crapware, what did you expect? I understand manufacturers get some money for putting that shit on the computer before they sell it, but it really diminishes the value of their product.
Agreed, and it's not coding, it's not creative. This will be the most boring event ever.
Re:DuckDuckGo: illusion of privacy? on Sunday July 14, 2013 @04:24AM (#6040338)
Thus article states that the NSA will get the information anyway. Even if this is true it may be a good thing to choose a search engine that makes a point of at least not tracking you itself. Sadly Google has much better search results...
Re:VoodooJS – Mix 2D and 3D content on the same page on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @05:15AM (#6011777)
The tree looks cool. If this catches on I might finally buy a 3d monitor just to browse the web ;)
Re:Find Cities with Similar Climates on Saturday July 06, 2013 @09:32PM (#6000697)
If you can't find any cities how are you going to evaluate the rest of the features? I'm not going to play "guess the city".
It's best practice to immediately lock someone out from all accounts if they are leaving on bad terms. You don't want them to be sending nasty emails to customers or to delete company data. It almost never happens but sometimes someone snaps and creates a big mess.

You should come and maybe bring something nice for the people you enjoyed working with. Make sure you have a talk with the project managers boss and tell him why you are leaving. Furthermore you should act professional so don't involve your colleagues. It's nasty but it's between you, him and his boss. Your colleagues will figure it out anyway.

Best of luck finding a new job!

Re:Find Cities with Similar Climates on Saturday July 06, 2013 @01:17PM (#5999376)
Results found for: amsterdam

* No results found.

Great product!

Re:Russian Proton Rocket crashes Seconds after Launch on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @01:33PM (#5979409)
Wow. The rocket exploded about 3 km from the guy filming it (from the speed of sound). It could have landed on his head...
Re:Poll: What is your primary programming language? on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @05:56AM (#5945086)
(Smart)GWT makes this possible with Java. I like my languages for big projects strict and unforgiving ;)
Re:Poll: What is your primary programming language? on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @05:31AM (#5944994)
Wow, lots of python. I use it quite a bit too but mainly for scripting. What are you guys using it for?
If your data isn't safe when someone has access to it "forever" then you haven't encrypted it good enough. I'd still prefer them not to keep it though.
Re:The sleeping bag that charges your phone while you sleep on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @07:17AM (#5867505)
Exactly, this makes the sleeping bag less comfortable. It doesn't actually pump the heat though, it flows from hot to cold on it's own. It's actually like a turbine that turns the flow into electricity.
Re:Twitter vs female protagonists in video games on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @05:42AM (#5860690)
Yep, stupid people exist. There are a lot of them actually. What was your point again?
... all Cases, except Treason ...
Yep, feels like early stage dementia to me. Quite a sad story.
Instead of boring A/B testing, let's discuss these "live chat widgets". Does anyone here actually use these? I consider them annoying popups and rather send an email if I have any questions.
Re:Google bans porn on Google Glass on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @05:10AM (#5818389)
How do you ban something on an open platform? Ah...
Re:A minimalist approach to washing the dishes on Monday June 03, 2013 @06:28AM (#5812407)
My sink is dirty, but my work is clean.
Re:Ifs and &&s and Plan 9's Source Code on Friday May 24, 2013 @07:41PM (#5765810)
Great, now add an "else".
Couldn't you just use sqlite with blobs? Or, you know, use files?
Re:What if Enterprise IT built a race car? on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @07:18PM (#5747740)
That looks like normal software development to me. Enterprise IT just involves more people, money and time.
Re:Show HN: run-after on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @04:17AM (#5742438)
So it's a limited (buggy?) version of "at"? What's the use case for this? A demonstration of "english-time"?
Re:What Europeans think of each other on Thursday May 16, 2013 @12:56PM (#5719620)
What a worthless article. Better read the original research here: http://www.pewglobal.org/2013/05/13/the-new-sick-man-of-euro...

On page 6 they detail the sample sizes (around 600 people from each country).

Re:Turing Drawings on Wednesday May 15, 2013 @03:04PM (#5714033)
The ascension of the lines: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#10,3,0,1,2,7,2,3,3,2,...

Wavy lines slowly move upwards, some disappear over time.

Re:Changing Your SSH Port Does Lower Your Risk on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @10:56AM (#5705249)
Sure it does. It does make your life more annoying as you have to specify the port every time (and you have to remember it). Some software/firewalls/proxy servers may have trouble with the nonstandard port. If all that is not a problem then go ahead.

Another very nice trick to hide a service is port knocking.

Looks good, but an online version to try it out would be nice. I'm not going to write a poem on my phone (and I've got an android phone).

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