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ProNoob13

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ProNoob13··on Ask HN: What is your Linux distro of choice?
Debian server with LXDE.
ProNoob13··on Hack: a new programming language for HHVM
You should develop in whatever you love. It's a great thing to know multiple languages, though.
ProNoob13··on Ask HN: do you have any mobile app ideas?
An app that tracks the prices of a certain product across several website, so you can buy it when it's cheap, where it's.
ProNoob13··on Sublime Text 3 Is Not Dead and Not Sold to GitHub
Actually, it's a one-man company. The guy from the sales team is the very same developer that's made every version of Sublime Text so far.
ProNoob13··on [dead]
I actually believed it all the way to the last two paragraphs.
ProNoob13··on Welcome Steven Skiena
Flying to NY to meet him is one thing. Actually telling him is another.
ProNoob13··on HN Pizza Index: Cost of living by city
Groningen, The Netherlands: 5 euros (6 dollar 78).
ProNoob13··on Leanne Wijnsma is documenting her 484m² garden 1:1 using a flatbed scanner
That's for the about-bar, on the bottom. You can click on it. There's Google Maps there to illustrate where the garden is located.
ProNoob13··on Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM
Good point. On the other hand, DRM will come to HTML5 anyway, whatever we try. So, I think it's better to give it a spec, and have one, unified and well-known way for the DRM to operate, instead of 20 different implementations.
ProNoob13··on Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM
Haha, good point. But my idea behind that argument was that it won't hurt anything more than it does already.
ProNoob13··on Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM
First of all, making a bug-ticket for something that doesn't exists yet isn't going to solve anything. Second of all, why do you oppose DRM? It's been around for years. Games, DVDs... Nobody really had troubles with it until the bad (not so user-friendly) implementations came around. But, with W3 standardizing the spec for it, we get a win-win: We can watch all our (streaming) video without Flash (which was previously used for DRM), and content providers can be sure that the content we're watching is payed for.
ProNoob13··on RoyalCMS: flexible website management
I can't use the sign-up-for-beta form due to an unknown error appearing again and again. I have registered an account however, and will see how great it is by tomorrow. Just watch for ProNoob13 in the issue tracker.
ProNoob13··on Why Limit the Format of a Password?
I'm pretty sure it's so they don't have to quote the input before they run it through through their form regex to see if it's not malicious (XSS) user input.