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What would be a better solution, IP address check to allow only known google crawlers perhaps?
Will it be resource heavy for facebook to make the ads unblockable?

I remember when ublock stopped preventing spotify ads. It was when I stopped using the service for about 2 weeks, until the blocking functionality was reinstated.

Re:Disney to Acquire Twenty-First Century Fox on Thursday December 14, 2017 @03:44PM (#15926827)
King's extending the kingdom's library.

This sounds like a great investment for the upcoming streaming platform.

Much of 21CF content is already dubbed or subtitled. But Netflix still has the advantage of being the early pioneer, already accessible in a plethora of countries.

Re:Zeta Global acquires Disqus (YC S07) on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @12:05PM (#15853153)
Discourse could be a nice alternative as it can be self hosted and plays nice with WordPress. [1]

[1] https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-discourse/

Discourse.org might get annoyed with the chosen project name, if your project starts to gain popularity.
Re:Ask HN: Where are you located? on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @01:13PM (#13822213)
Vafeika, Xanthi, Greece.
Re:ReactOS 0.4.4 Released on Saturday February 18, 2017 @05:05AM (#13674270)
There's also myReact, an obscure (+obfuscated) Dutch forum application written in php sirca 2005, if not earlier.
Re:How MooTools was built on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @06:50PM (#13603358)
I remember the days when MooTools was hot^H^H^H^H useful enough to be bundled in Joomla.

Learning JavaScript while fiddling with it was really fun in 2009 when I was about to graduate from high school. Aaron Newton's jqueryvsmootools was an eye opener when I first read it and David Walsh's blog was really helpful in the early days.

I still like to follow some of its contributors (mainly Dimitar Christoff and Chris Pojer).

Re:Visual Studio Code 1.9 on Friday February 03, 2017 @06:47AM (#13559145)
This version introduced a non-trivial bug for me; When I open a file to edit through nautilus, it opens in a new window instead of reusing the existing one.

The new settings (window.openFilesInNewWindow and window.openFoldersInNewWindow) don't help no matter what when I set them to 'off'

EDIT: Fixed it on Ubuntu by removing the '--new-window-if-not-first' argument from the code.desktop related command.

    sudo nano /usr/share/applications/code.desktop
    # set: Exec=/usr/share/code/code %U
I used this same hack for a XenForo add-on [1] and even got labeled as black hat.

[1] https://xenforo.com/community/threads/let-tls-wait-paid-dele...

Re:Browser auto-fill phishing on Thursday January 05, 2017 @07:15PM (#13332753)
This is exactly how signing in to gmail works if the browser has the credentials of the account saved.

Initially only the input field for e-mail is displayed. There's also a, hidden to the user's eyes, _next step_ with the password field that gets populated if the browser auto-fills it.

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2017) on Monday January 02, 2017 @04:41PM (#13304792)
SEEKING WORK - Remote (based in Greece, Europe)

Recent graduate of Information Engineering, ex 'Industrial Informatics' (Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology in Greece).

Latest Project Keywords: Golang, PHP, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, XenForo, Discourse.

My github: https://github.com/datio Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9x0GwTL9P0bREFPN0dGeUZ6RUk...

I've got plenty of experience (5+ years) in forum software and blog migrations. I'm also currently learning Rust.

Will be conscripted in May for 8-month military service and I'm pretty much open for relocating afterwards (in December). My rate is 11-15 Euros/hour and I can work full time until May.