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Re:Deploying at GitHub on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @06:19PM (#4451704)
Github itself is a Github project, therefore using anything other than the API would be some code duplication. Merging, Pull-Requests, Branches, Issues: all this is already covered when using the normal API.

I'm sure it could be "more efficient" when having code explicitely for this purpose, but then again you have to maintain to different code bases which do the same.

Re:Linux Commands for Developers on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @07:27AM (#4448001)
Wrap it in $() to execute. And even if you pipe it into a file, no chmod is required. "sh file" works as it should
Re:Solving Different Problems on Sunday August 05, 2012 @05:32AM (#4341032)
Besides that it's a shame that the option to just get the stream running in VLC is such a hassle (with VLC I get much lower CPU usage + the ability to freely move and resize the video and place it somewhere on my second screen, even fullscreen)
Re:Captchas Are Becoming Ridiculous on Sunday July 29, 2012 @02:42PM (#4309303)
Atleast the archlinux.org forum has the geekiest "Captcha"-system I came across so far:

    What is the output of "date -u +%W$(uname)|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'"?
(This is not to prevent bots, but to prevent human spammers)
Re:Jailed for using a nonstandard browser (2005) on Monday July 23, 2012 @05:33PM (#4283163)
Oh sorry. Came across this story today and didn't check the post for a correct date.
Re:XBMC For Android on Saturday July 14, 2012 @12:44PM (#4244644)
Yeah, "leaked" is quite a statement here. The full source code is on github. Should be clear that someone will post a debug build of that, right?
Re:Cool hack to take a photo of yourself on every commit on Saturday June 23, 2012 @08:52PM (#4152255)
Just change the current working directory in the script before running the task. No need to move them then.
Atleast I can login to "old" greplin when using https://www.cueup.com/auth#login_
Re:Ask HN: How do you learn to develop exploits? on Saturday June 16, 2012 @01:58PM (#4121156)
I'm currently reading it. It gives a rather basic C introduction (I skipped it) but then it goes into explaining how to inject shell codes, using buffer overflows and getting deep into the assembly of programs. It's definitely great for a start.
The site is not responding, so I can't read the article and there's nothing in the google cache for now.
Too bad the site seems down. Anyone here with a copy of the article?
Re:NoSQL – Back to the Future or Yet Another DB Feature? on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @05:58PM (#4045123)
I learned today that for data analysis they still stick with SQL (and some fancy MapReduce stuff underneath)
Re:NoSQL – Back to the Future or Yet Another DB Feature? on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @03:24PM (#4044389)
What is "unreal" about current NoSQL Databases?
Re:Hacker Typer on Sunday May 20, 2012 @06:32AM (#3998450)
Your code breaks for me when the "hacker-typed" text reaches an UTF-8 symbol (← for example)
Re:Spotify launches iPad app on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @01:25PM (#3920166)
Does it work for free users yet? Last time I tried it didn't. I would like to test their service before I pay them.
Awesome work. Just do me one favour: Add "return false" to the function bound to "space", otherwise the page scrolls when I hit it to pause.
Re:Zerg Rush Google Easter Egg on Friday April 27, 2012 @03:54AM (#3898061)
Not too much time but fun spending their time on things like that.
Re:Ask HN: Did you switch from Dropbox to Google Drive? on Thursday April 26, 2012 @03:50PM (#3895789)
Nope, no switch. Dropbox free user with 12Gb of space.
Re:Domain Names Aren't Irrelevant, But They May Just Become So on Wednesday April 25, 2012 @04:28PM (#3890898)
Wow, they have a huge, annoying flash video on the bottom left. Good that I use FlashBlock.
Re:Show HN: Tasskr. Re-written for the 5th time. on Saturday April 21, 2012 @10:25AM (#3871826)
+1 for undo option. I find undo always better than confirming deletion.
That's not only the case for media files but for everything you try to download via the included download manager. And that sucks pretty much.
Wow, BasicAuth is quite unusable these days. Disallowing BasicAuth in typed-in urls is just one side. The other thing is that I can't use BasicAuth to download files on Android[1] (and that bug is 4 years old)

[1]: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1353

Re:Github is making me feel stupid(er) on Monday April 09, 2012 @01:35PM (#3818109)
It's not. It's just a simple Ruby server script. Works just fine on *nix machines.

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