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adenner··on HolyJit: A New Hope
I have had issues before getting Channel 9 to be whitelisted because it was a "video site"
adenner··on Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor
and IRC
adenner··on A CEO Who Pays Employees to De-Locate from the Bay
Des Moines is the same way.
adenner··on A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system
Sometimes the credit card terminal will ask especially at gas pumps for my zip code as an anti fraud measure, and will reject the transaction of you enter the wrong number. If a cashier is asking I always use 90210.
adenner··on Ask HN: Should I apply for jobs that I don't fit 100%
Yes. What is the worst that can happen? If you don't apply you won't get the job either.
adenner··on Freenom World – A fast and anonymous Public DNS resolver
per their faq they support DNSSEC but it does not say anything about DNSCrypt. Their argument for use is that they are not tracking your every move like the folks at google. http://www.freenom.world/en/faq.html
adenner··on Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Stealing Your Mobile Traffic”
It actually is now Sprint, T-Mobile, and US Cellular.
adenner··on Appending to a file from multiple processes
Couldn't you use a named pipe to send data from each process to a single writer process?
adenner··on Do Evil with ESP8266: Slow Down the WiFi
Not really, they are using the 2.4GHZ ISM band. It may be legal (INAL) as long as you are not interfering with any licensed use of the band and are not violating FCC Part 15 Rules. (http://www.afar.net/tutorials/fcc-rules)

Still not cool though...

adenner··on System Bus Radio
it was already done ~86 days ago, so it won't be back for a bit longer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10684447

adenner··on Mandrill’s Betrayal
As a replacement consider mailgun (http://www.mailgun.com). I have used their free tier before when I had to send mail for a side project.
adenner··on C preprocessor tips and tricks
Just because you can doesn't mean that you should
adenner··on Break Up the Insulin Racket
At least in some states you can buy a form of insulin over the counter. It is an older formulation and apparently it is not the easiest thing to DYI figure out the correct dose. NPR had a report on it a while back. http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/12/14/45904732...
adenner··on Bosses Harness Big Data to Predict Which Workers Might Get Sick
This version of the article wasn't paywalled for me: http://www.nasdaq.com/article/bosses-harness-big-data-to-pre...

It is great to think that my employer is paying for this but just got rid of our gym membership reimbursement.

adenner··on Show HN: Myra – AI based personal assistant you can text
Ditto for Iowa!
adenner··on An interactive video of the Chelyabinsk asteroid event
I was unable to watch from an iOS device without installing the Interlude player… thanks, but no thanks!
adenner··on How Microsoft Uses C++ to Deliver Office Applications Across Multiple Platforms
For the parts that are still missing I have found the Boost library to help round it out in a cross platform sort of way. (http://www.boost.org/)
adenner··on Amazon just told me to log into someone else's account – and delete it
having the email address my last name @ gmail.com I have gotten a lot of this sort of thing. The best one was 3 years worth of income tax returns from some accountant in New Zealand.
adenner··on Ask HN: Sunday brunch question: Do you dream in code?
Very rarely, however I do know a developer who dreamed a full day's work where he solved a big problem and was then really confused when all of his hard work didn't exist the next morning.
adenner··on Pay your rent with a Credit or Debit card. No landlord signup required
Dwolla might be a good alternative payment system for the app to support also, with a $0.25 processing fee for the transfer part of the fee. Online billpay mailing a check for no fee still wins though.
adenner··on Ask HN: Do you program in multiple languages in a day?
I sometimes go between C#, C++, Java and php / Javascript. Much like being multilingual in the language you speak it just takes a little practice. It does hurt trying to remember the special features of each.
adenner··on Show HN: Phoenix – an ultra-fast SQL layer on top of Hbase
Phoenix is a jdbc connector to Hbase that originated from salesforce.com and is currently an apache incubator project.
adenner··on Crate.io – Big Data SQL in real time
It looks like it is behind where Apache Phoenix (https://phoenix.incubator.apache.org/) overtop of Hbase in a hadoop cluster is at. They at least have joins somewhat working.
adenner··on Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler
it's not quite the same thing, however TFS does now talk Git... http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mvpawardprogram/archive/2013/11/13/g...
adenner··on The Netherlands paves the way for carrier-free SIM cards
But in those cases the sim is still tied to some provider who is managing the agreements for roaming.
adenner··on Ham Sandwich Nation: Due Process When Everything Is a Crime
One possible fix would be for Prosecutors to have a karma rating and each time someone is found not guilty of any charge it brings them down a notch. At a certain point then they would have their law license suspended for a time.
adenner··on Turkey Moves To Block Twitter At The IP Level
Next up deep packet inspection of all connections?
adenner··on The Free Marketing Gravy Train Is Over on Facebook
What will come next? A google Adsense like system where content posters bid on views and only the top payers per viewers are seen?
adenner··on Who Should Pay for Netflix?
Especially for capped connections we already are paying for it. Say we get 250 gb a month. We should be allowed to use that as we see fit. If that means millions of cat pictures why should that be treated any different then streaming video. The big problem is that in most areas there is little to no competition so we are all stuck.
adenner··on How to imessage without an apple device?
Not without violating your Eula
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