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brak1on My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015)

Its a good compromise i think. OTherwise to update a field to null it would need a button or right clicking and selected a null option. I would expect the amount of people who actually want to enter a 'null' string is minimal...

brak1on Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years

https://www.getpaint.net/license.html

brak1on Practical waterholing through DNS typosquatting

ISnt it more likely that it is just bots, that know your domain cos they have lists of every domain for that tld?

brak1on Is the keyboard faster than the mouse?

what browser do you use for vim bindings?

brak1on Sizzy:Sizzy: A tool for developing responsive websites crazy-fast

whats the difference between this and using Chrome's built in responsive tools? (https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/devi...)

brak1on Show HN: Tweeple Search – Find relevant audience and influencers on Twitter

Where do you get the data from? real time via twitter's api?

brak1on Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks

> How long are my files kept?

> As long as possible

What a stupid answer to that question! (it gives more info - "You can set an expiry time by pressing the "Options"-button that's next to your uploaded file, otherwise your files will float in the clouds for as long as possible." - but it still doesn't really give any answer)

brak1on Spammers expose their entire operation through bad backups

> Most if not all e-mail clients block images

Gmail auto preloads (via their servers) all images in emails. You can turn it off though.

(lots of sources on internet about this, http://www.guidingtech.com/13461/gmail-always-display-images... for example)

brak1on How to leak to the press

>"Leakers shouldn’t use their work computers and should use public wifi, “like a Starbucks or at a hotel or anywhere where the Internet is open for public use.”"

Hotels can normally link a computer on their network to a room number... Suggesting they use a hotel wifi isn't a good idea IMO (unless you are not actually a guest, and its just an open public wifi network).

brak1on Wine 2.0 released

I've bought some games (older games from years ago) on gog.com for os x, they were always just running wine

brak1on Chrome 56 will mark HTTP pages with password fields as non-secure

also type='password' don't get their submitted values suggested for the autocomplete thing in broswers.

brak1on Fake profiles – Facebook not even trying

They prob prefer to have fake accounts than to block a real user that wants to sign up (or lost his email account and signs up again, etc etc)

brak1on “My 10 Unix Command Line Mistakes”

(not actually my post, just using the same title)

brak1on Ask HN: Must do's and must know's when switching to Windows?

so is OS X by default:

     $ cd /tmp
     $ mkdir Abc
     $ mkdir abC
     mkdir: abC: File exists

brak1on Neocities: Free, modern Geocities reboot

What is social media liability insurance for? Never heard of it...

brak1on Neocities: Free, modern Geocities reboot

Whats the process (and costs involved) to get your own ASN? is it quite easy?

brak1on Most used words in programming languages

'a', 'the' etc seem to be from comments, not 'actual' code

(click them and you can see examples of how each word is being used)

brak1on Ask HN: Become a PHP expert

Laracasts.com

brak1on NeverSSL

example.com is something that'll do the same job, and its reserved https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example.com

brak1on Nintendo says it doesn’t have plans for any additional Super Mario Run content

Well i just got an iOS notification a few minutes ago saying "Super mario run - new feature - friendly run is available". But I assume (given that the game was only released a few days ago) that it was intended to slowly roll out whatever this 'friendly run' mode is...

brak1on Ask HN: Large scale mapping of JavaScript in the wild?

Not really what you are looking for, but if you wanted to research it yourself, something like https://nerdydata.com/search might be handy for you...

brak1on Bose Hearphones

So are these just like normal hearing aids (with a diff design), designed/marketed by Bose?

brak1on Nielsen estimates ESPN lost 555,000 subscribers during the last month

HoC has loads... like it had an iphone app (game) product placement. I tried to find the name of it, but found this instead:

"'House of Cards' littered with product placements | New York Post" - http://nypost.com/2015/03/02/house-of-cards-littered-with-pr...

brak1on Ask HN: What text editor do you use and why is it your editor of choice?

Vim (or, PHP Storm using VIM plugin - although it isn't as powerful as normal vim), just because it is much faster to use/navigate/edit (and available on any machine).

I prefer vim in a proper gui though (as opposed to in a terminal app), its just a bit easier sometimes to use a mouse...

brak1on Ask HN: Has anyone calculated the cost of building USS Enterprise or Death Star?

http://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/films/the-cost-of-the...

>If you're looking for a better wage then you might have to start embracing evil. Students at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania worked out how much it would cost to build the Death Star and came up with a figure of $8,100,000,000,000,000 ($8.1 quadrillion!?), which is 13,000 times the world's GDP.

brak1on Do not change Linux files using Windows apps and tools

i'm a bit out of the loop - why/how would you be doing this? Windows has a directory now for linux files?

brak1on The Spy Who Added Me on LinkedIn

Not sure why LinkedIn is even mentioned... a quick search on the whole page (ignoring the title/post categories) is just this one sentence...

> By day, Buryakov lived the ordinary life of a Wall Street analyst: reading and writing reports; attending meetings, conferences, and parties; building connections on LinkedIn.

But its an interesting read, even with the weird title...

brak1on Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

looks nice - would be handy if it was in celcius too (and if it showed avg rain %)