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Re:Two-factor paper passwords on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @09:36AM (#11620463)
To be fair to the author, he does write the following at the end of the post:

> PS If you are planning to do this... please consider using a password manager first.

which shows that he is aware that this is only a second-choice solution.

Re:Finding the Tennis Suspects on Thursday January 21, 2016 @12:18PM (#10946659)
That's the iPython notebook published by BuzzFeed showing their procedure.

Here's the link for the relevant notebook for this work: https://github.com/rkaplan/deanonymizing-tennis-suspects/blo...

Re:Square stock drops 10%, is now less than IPO price on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @12:53PM (#10939928)
Additional noteworthy drops are Tesla (-5.93%) and Netflix (-7.12%).
From my experience it seems like in many technical roles the work-life balance can be as good as you can afford to make it. There is an obvious trade-off between career development and maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
Re:Lush cosmetics in YouTube address dispute on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @05:48PM (#9768054)
Slightly related, this isn't the first time Lush cosmetics have been involved in some kind of trademark dispute: http://www.cosmeticsdesign-europe.com/Regulation-Safety/Lush...
The Google Doc is on comment only mode.
Re:Drawscript – convert Illustrator shapes into code on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @02:40PM (#9613459)
For those wanting Objective-C, Swift or C#, PaintCode [1] seems to support SVG conversion.

[1] http://www.paintcodeapp.com/

Minor bug: the Home tab stays highlighted regardless of which page you are on: http://data.jobsintech.io/companies.

Good job otherwise!

Re:CloudFlare “Interview Questions” on Monday May 11, 2015 @12:09PM (#9525750)
(Saving current progress in case someone abuses the page again: http://pastie.org/pastes/10182802/text [16:08 Monday, May 11, 2015 UTC].)
Re:CloudFlare “Interview Questions” on Monday May 11, 2015 @10:38AM (#9525058)
Let's collaboratively collect the answers to these (trivia!) questions: http://collabedit.com/rsjy8
Re:Removing EU roaming charges is a big deal (2014) on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @09:32AM (#9452176)
This is the small print for "Feel at Home": http://www.three.co.uk/Privacy_Cookies/Terms_Conditions?cont...

Points of interest:

* Unlimited data in the UK translates to 25GB

* "Three reserves the right to suspend the international roaming when in a selected destination if the customer’s use exceeds any of the above limits for two (2) months within a twelve (12) month period. The service will be reinstated once the customer returns to the UK."

* "This offer is intended to be used by UK residents travelling abroad, and Three reserves the right to suspend the service in the event the UK allowance is used exclusively abroad for three (3) months within a twelve (12) month period."

Re:Online curl command line builder on Thursday April 23, 2015 @01:18PM (#9428256)
It does seem to support custom headers, but as you stated doesn't support user agents, cookies, etc.
Re:One instruction set computer on Thursday April 16, 2015 @05:58PM (#9390976)
You will want a way of decreasing registers, hence the subtract parts of the single instruction sets.
Re:Tupper's Self-Referential Formula on Thursday April 16, 2015 @05:37AM (#9386785)
Numberphile video about this formula: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s5RFgd59ao
I think the user was questioning the link between In-Q-Tel and Facebook (rather than In-Q-Tel and the CIA).
Facebook are deprecating XMPP [1].

  On April 30, 2014, we announced the deprecation of the XMPP Chat API as part of the release of Platform API v2.0. The service and API this document covers will no longer be available after April 30, 2015.

  Once version 1.0 is deprecated on April 30, 2015, chat.facebook.com and the xmpp_login permission will no longer be available.

  We recommend developers who have integrated with the XMPP Chat API deprecate this functionality from their apps before April 30, 2015 to avoid broken experiences.
[1] https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat
The key point here is that the links are scanned by a 3rd party who are not related to Facebook (as far as we know).
Re:Voyage to Nowhere: The Amazon Kindle Story on Monday April 13, 2015 @03:52AM (#9366419)
The leadership principles mentioned in this post: http://www.amazon.com/Values-Careers-Homepage/b?node=2393650...
Prices in other countries:

  US: ~$75k
  Canada: ~C$86k = ~$68k
  UK: ~£55k = ~$80k
  France: ~€70k = ~$74k
  Australia (varies with territory): ~A$115k = ~$88k
Re:How Teens Really Use Apps on Thursday April 02, 2015 @12:42PM (#9311793)
WhatsApp is also owned by Facebook and this will further bump up their market share.
Re:Paternoster on Sunday March 29, 2015 @12:37PM (#9285455)
The video does not comment on the situation which arises when a car stops for a prolonged period, blocking the cars behind it. What would or should happen in this scenario?