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J_Darnleyon Firefox’s latest Test Pilot: No More 404s

What's the difference? Both make this feature (and more general use of the archive) useless.

J_Darnleyon Ask HN: Why are sites now breaking login forms into stages (name then password)?

> the complexity of [...] two fields

If that is true the world is doomed. Giant Meteor 2016

J_Darnleyon Firefox’s latest Test Pilot: No More 404s

Does this mean it only took Firefox some 10 years to integrate (part of) the Resurrect Pages extension?

J_Darnleyon Firefox’s latest Test Pilot: No More 404s

You don't have to request anything. Just alter robots.txt and you can make the Wayback Machine memory hole your entire website.

J_Darnleyon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2016)

Location: Belgium, Europe; Manchester, UK

Remote: No. Yes please, not required though.

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C, FFmpeg, Lua, Win32, x86 assembly

Resume/Résumé/CV: http://j_darnley.neocities.org/resume.pdf

Email: james.darnley@gmail.com

PGP key ID: 0x99412908 fingerprint: 5612 F4E9 53A6 ADA1 0E9B 285A CC26 DD10 9941 2908

OpenHub profile: https://www.openhub.net/accounts/J_Darnley

GitLab profile: https://gitlab.com/u/J_Darnley

I speak English and Dutch. I have no problem adjusting my day to suit your time zone. Desperate enough to accept almost any offer.

J_Darnleyon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2016)

SEEKING WORK: Belgium, Europe; Manchester, UK

Remote: No. Yes please, not required though.

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C, FFmpeg, Lua, Win32, x86 assembly

Resume/Résumé/CV: http://j_darnley.neocities.org/resume.pdf

Email: james.darnley@gmail.com

PGP key ID: 0x99412908 fingerprint: 5612 F4E9 53A6 ADA1 0E9B 285A CC26 DD10 9941 2908

OpenHub profile: https://www.openhub.net/accounts/J_Darnley

GitLab profile: https://gitlab.com/u/J_Darnley

I speak English and Dutch. I have no problem adjusting my day to suit your time zone. Desperate enough to accept almost any offer.

J_Darnleyon Olympic executives cash in on a ‘Movement’ that keeps athletes poor

Oh many reasons. It is the most colossal waste of money. It is a horrible IP abuser. Almost everything surrounding it is massively corrupt. Some sports don't deserve to be in because they are not about (or less about) individual athletic performance.

Even if you like the competition those seem like strong reasons not to watch.

I personally think that if you are going to allow finely engineered shoes, poles, javelins, boats, balls, bicycles, then you should allow finely engineered bodies.

J_Darnleyon Ask HN: Out of ideas, what to do?

Screw having an idea. Go play video games.

J_Darnleyon Ask HN: Startups that allow cats?

No. This place hates humour, hates fun, and hates anything that distracts from the serious discussion that happens. I'm sorry you had to find out the hard way.

J_Darnleyon Olympic executives cash in on a ‘Movement’ that keeps athletes poor

> There are lots of professionals in other Olympic sports.

So then there is absolutely no point in watching. Well, not until they start the doping league. (Should we debate whether the current one is?)

J_Darnleyon Olympic executives cash in on a ‘Movement’ that keeps athletes poor

Paying for travel to the games, maybe.

Amateurs, except for the tennis players, the football players, and the bicycle riders. All of which are the big name stars who get paid to compete in other dedicated tournaments. I'm sure there are others too but those are the most promoted sports.

I don't think the ones above get paid for the Olympics though.

J_Darnleyon Germany offers up to €30k for 6 months of working on OSS

> With a grant of up to €30,000, software developers [...] can write code and develop open source prototypes over a period of six months.

> You have 6 months to implement your idea from the first concept to a prototype.

Oh, it wants to fund new stuff and not fund a Firefox, Gimp, Linux kernel, whatever dev to work for 6 months.

J_Darnleyon Ask HN: Spending my free time in video games. It's eating me. Suggestions?

What is wrong with you? You are living the dream. That sounds like the perfect life. I wish I had that when I was 22. Heck I wish I had that now.

J_Darnleyon I was violated, digitally

What, with a finger?

J_Darnleyon Ask HN: What happens to people who graduate and can't find an entry job?

They realise that they have bought into the "not enough programmers" lie and give up.

J_Darnleyon Ask HN: What's your voting philosophy here on HN?

If its grey and moderately funny, I upvote it. Screw you fun-hating people.

J_Darnleyon Protect our Git repos: stop foxtrot merges now

A better solution: rebase or cherry-pick so that every commit has one parent and history is linear. That way every commit shows what was actually changed.

J_Darnleyon ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Donations Lead to Significant Gene Discovery

Heart disease could be cured by spending less money. Less money on food that is. Diabetes too (type 2 at least).

J_Darnleyon Hacker News Should be open sourced

Thanks for the clarification.

J_Darnleyon Hacker News Should be open sourced

I thought it was. Isn't it called Arc?

J_Darnleyon Facebook removes ABC Four Corners footage of child detainee abuse

"Facebook is a private company. They can choose to remove anything they like. You have no right to use their service." Blah, blah, blah.

J_Darnleyon As Democrats Gather, a Russian Subplot Raises Intrigue

Oh no. Someone meddling in US politics for a change.

J_Darnleyon Facebook admits it blocked WikiLeaks links, but won't say why

Which would be a nice excuse for Facebook so I am surprised that they haven't used it.

J_Darnleyon Wikileaks Put Women in Turkey in Danger, for No Reason

So they deliberately only put details about women on the internet? Or was it not deliberate and the data set just happens to be only women? Or are men included and we don't care about them?

J_Darnleyon Motion Picture Patents Company (aka Edison Trust, 1908-1918)

The reason Hollywood moved to Hollywood: to steal someone else's IP.

J_Darnleyon Why Are We All on Medium?

It is the new Live Journal, Blogger, Wordpress, or whatever.

To me it doesn't look like the FLOSS people are on it but rather a bunch of marketing types. Usually the new startup of the month has its company blog on it. Fashionable javascript library of the week too. Or is that just because most links I see published here are for this kind of use?

J_Darnleyon Britain just got its first concrete sign that Brexit will destroy the economy

A "concrete sign" in the form a a virtual graph showing some obscure figure (PMI or purchasing managers index) produced by some obscure group (Markit) has dropped.

J_Darnleyon Journalists confused an opinion piece for an alcohol-cancer study

Block all ads and (try to) burn the whole fetid industry to the ground.

J_Darnleyon Rape victim jailed to ensure she’d testify against her attacker

Is it? Aren't all measures necessary to stop the "1 in 5" epidemic?

J_Darnleyon [dead]

Noted. Better kill self.