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Re:As crime dries up, Japan’s police hunt for things to do on Sunday December 17, 2017 @01:03PM (#15946807)
Not if you browse with javascript disabled by default.
Re:We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @01:49PM (#15916417)
Acting like a jerk then engaging in a self-serving and grovelling apology only when your customers start walking away deserves scorn and rejection.
Re:We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @01:34PM (#15916277)
The fact you didn't engage with the community initially or ask for feedback speaks far more about your arrogance, incompetence and mendacity that the nature of the change itself. If I was using Patreon I would be looking for alternatives anyway...how long until the next "surprise"?
I am not sure I would want to discover an edge case anywhere.
Re:Debugging an evil Go runtime bug on Monday December 04, 2017 @02:49PM (#15846827)
Don't forget about this one, similar but affects BSD and still open:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15658

Re:About the apps that Apple censored in China on Sunday December 03, 2017 @05:51PM (#15840127)
What about the argument that Apple won't be able to take it's cut of apps sold and installed outside of the App store?
Re:My Apology to Naomi Wu and the Make Community on Sunday November 19, 2017 @06:47PM (#15736646)
That Twitter page is NSFW. Although the username should have warned me.
Re:NoScript Not Available for Latest Firefox on Saturday November 18, 2017 @03:10PM (#15730420)
> NoScript's unique whitelist based pre-emptive script blocking approach

Is that unique apart from what Chrome has built in by default? (obviously you still need to opt-in).

Re:The Xerox Alto Struts Its Stuff on Its 40th Birthday on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @06:52PM (#15709144)
> The Xerox Alto, widely recognized as the first modern personal computer

It it wasn't available for personal use, this is a delusional claim. Maybe the first prototype of a personal computer. But that's all it was - a (impressive) technical prototype.

Re:Google Docs are offline on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @04:20PM (#15707923)
Yup came here to find this. Can open Drive, but not individual documents. Which is a real pain as there is something in one I need right now. And I have offline installed but no dice...

(Australia)

Edit: I was using it fine at around 7:20AM (AEST) but it was down when I got to work at 8AM.

Yep, this bit me hard with my NVidia Shield TV. Plug in the portable USB HDD and the remote stopped worked.

Thankfully Kodi streams from SMB shares extremely well.

Re:How to break into 100k+ Euro salary in EU/EEA? on Saturday October 21, 2017 @08:51PM (#15524494)
> Should I must move into management role for this?

Do you want to be a manager? If not, you will be trading a life of misery for a modest pay raise.

Is it illegal to bring a dog into Australia unless you are Johnny Depp?

Answer: Australia has very strict bio-security laws.

> It's an asymmetric system

I thought it was an adversarial system and the judge was the umpire.

> They are convinced the subject is guilty

Is they believed that why wouldn't they "charge guilty" the accused? Or am I misunderstanding what "been charged guilty by an overzealous prosecutor" means?

Re:JavaScript Must Die on Thursday October 19, 2017 @05:37PM (#15511750)
I thought he meant in the browser, where it is actually a real problem.
> or has he been charged guilty by an overzealous prosecutor?

Isn't that the point of a prosecutor?

Re:Why we switched from Python to Go on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @10:08PM (#15496382)
Productivity.
Re:Training crows to pick up cigarette butts for food on Monday October 16, 2017 @07:34PM (#15487516)
I take it this hasn't be proven or demonstrated yet?
Re:DragonflyBSD 5.0 on Monday October 16, 2017 @04:16PM (#15486307)
> Hammer has always looked cool on paper but it's a hard sell to switch away from the battle-tested options like ZFS for a v1.0 codebase

It is strange. Linux users would do anything for ZFS and BSDs are moving away from it.

Does it matter? Do reads affect lifetime of SSDs? It can't be affecting performance, as if the drives were busy then it would be balanced much more evenly.
Re:The trouble with text-only email on Sunday October 15, 2017 @05:22PM (#15479373)
I guess privacy is a middling concern in the face of the all important greylist.
Re:GNU UPC on Sunday October 15, 2017 @05:08PM (#15479315)
Something about "pointers-to-shared" from reading the feature list. What that is who knows.
Re:The Toxic Saga of the Tsukiji Fish Market on Friday October 13, 2017 @08:21AM (#15464945)
For a country that functions so well, it's amazing it can still have such occurrences of dysfunction and corruption. Sounds like this mayor would be a good prime minister.
Ha I didn't think of that.
Re:UPX – Ultimate Packer for Executables on Thursday October 12, 2017 @09:06PM (#15462624)
> you stop the OS from being able to page out your executable (rarely a big loss)

Why is this exactly?

Unless the gap was very recent, it would be weird for that to affect someone in software development. As a research scientist, sure (for better or worse), but if you have spent the past 5 years doing X then you are quite well qualified to do X somewhere else.
Re:Ask HN: What are your secrets to growing your side project? on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @08:35AM (#15449207)
Your site loads nothing with JavaScript disabled.
Re:150 days of living and coding in a van on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @05:05PM (#15445308)
How the heck do you concentrate with all the scenery around you though? I would not be able to sit still.
Re:Computer virus hits US Predator and Reaper drone fleet on Monday October 09, 2017 @10:26PM (#15438838)
Well no-one makes a big fuss about getting the common cold now do they?
> Ignores patterns from your .gitignore, by default.

Do you need to be in the current git directory for this to happen, or all git dirs that happen to be traversed?

And are you using an NFA based regex engine?

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