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Re:Color or Fruit? The Unlikely Etymology of “Orange”
on Friday July 27, 2018 @04:13PM (#17628946)
The word "sinaasappel" is much more common, which sounds a lot more like the Chinese apple you're referring to than "appelsien". The latter is used in a brand name for fruit juice (used to be exclusively orange juice). Besides that it's practically not used in modern Dutch.
Ask HN: Why do password managers in FF/Chrome fill in hidden fields?
I recently found out that FF and Chrome fill in saved passwords in hidden fields. Although I understand that this will only be done on a 'trusted' domain, I regard this as a vulnerability. Besides that, it breaks web applications that use hide password fields for other uses. How is it possible that I can't find any specific info about this, except for a Wordpress ticket asking for a...
Re:How Anker is beating Apple and Samsung at their own accessory game
on Friday May 26, 2017 @04:15AM (#14422668)
Have you tried amazon.co.uk and amazon.de?
Re:Show HN: MFile.io
on Monday October 31, 2016 @06:06AM (#12835495)
Looks cool! But what problem does it solve that sites like Imgur don't?
Re:Show HN: Dutch app helps you find a Döner place for your after part...
on Thursday September 15, 2016 @08:36AM (#12505548)
Correction: no Android version. Not downloading, will perhaps share.
Re:Show HN: Dutch app helps you find a Döner place for your after part...
on Thursday September 15, 2016 @08:35AM (#12505540)
Dutchie here. Am downloading, will share with friends.
Re:Ask HN: Who else uses adblockers for safety?
on Thursday March 17, 2016 @11:42AM (#11305045)
I've developed some kind of blind spot for ads, so I'll accept them as long as they don't track me. For blocking spying ads and invisible trackers, I'm using Privacy Badger (https://www.eff.org/privacybadger)
Re:VP9 encoding/decoding performance vs. HEVC/H.264
on Monday September 28, 2015 @09:44AM (#10290410)
> In that case encoding speed doesn't matter much
When occasionally encoding: yes. When your daily business is encoding larger batches: not necessarily.
edit: Just to clarify: we've got an encoding farm which will have to be siginficantly expanded if a substantial amount of content will have to be transcoded in H.265.
Re:The Dutch Village Where Everyone Has Dementia
on Monday November 17, 2014 @04:56AM (#8617533)
For the Dutchies, a report which aired on Dutch TV a few weeks ago: http://journalistiek.npo.nl/dossiers/ouderenzorg/290_84312-r...
Re:Interviewing a front-end developer
on Thursday January 30, 2014 @07:54AM (#7150353)
Lots of these comments are the reason I read HN. I love an educated discussion, especially as a response to an article with breathes pretentions like this one.
Re:Started a stupid company. Failed.
on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @04:35AM (#6807284)
Sad story makes me sad. Keep on trying and accept the help of all the people in this thread. Christmas season has officially started.
Re:Ask HN: Give me some list of movies about Entrepreneurship and Tech...
on Monday November 25, 2013 @06:55AM (#6793580)
Startup.com
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256408/
Re:Show HN: www.sopajs.org - simple SOPA banner for your website
on Monday January 09, 2012 @06:06AM (#3442103)
Brilliant.
Edit -- from their FAQ: "But the domain was registered using GoDaddy! --> Ironic, eh? For more information on the irony see here ( http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/29/not-even-a-shift-to-full-s... ).
Source: http://www.sopajs.org/faq