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dxm··on I Hope My Father Dies Soon
I lost my grandfather (father really, he raised me) and I felt the same way, I signed his DNR and if nobody was looking, I would have turned off all measures to keep him stable myself. Watching somebody you love pass is entirely heartbreaking, it's satisfying to see them cross the line into the unthinking. If I had the talent of Scott Adams, the words I would have emitted would have been similar.
dxm··on How Apple’s ‘Blacklist’ Manipulates the Press
Gosh. If I could laugh I would have been doubled over. Does the author really think that Apple put this much thought into not letting certain journalists into new coverage. This is pretty much a thought of a conspiracy theorist, Apple surely doesn't think about communist conspiracies from the 1940s, they merely think you're either a bad journalist or one who is consistently unfair. The detail in which the linked article puts forth is ridiculous. It's over-analysis at it's most laughable.
dxm··on Why I'm moving my clients to static blogging engines
There's nothing about why you're moving your clients to static blogging engines, except maybe because you're trying to sell themes to them. I'd downvote this, if my karma was sufficient to render the downvote.
dxm··on Ask Github: Add file size or LOC
GitHub shows the file size and SLOC for each file individually. If you want see the SLOC for an entire project, you could clone it and run something like the following from the root of the project directory:

  find . -name '*.<ext>' | xargs wc -l
dxm··on Id Software founder John Carmack resigns
It definitely doesn't sound like they're happy he's gone, it sounds as if bridges were burned and they're pissed.
dxm··on Cosmic Sans Neue Mono: Programming Font
The comment is the only thing in a monospace font. It's a criticism, and a valid one, of your choice of programming font. Nobody in their rightest of minds programs in Times New Roman. I'm convinced you must be trolling us.
dxm··on “Website Passwords Hacked” headlines can be less scary

  The two most common methods, md5 and sha-1 are
  both susceptible to collisions, or birthday attacks.
  As of writing this, I would recommend using
  SHA-3-256 which has no known attacks.
Don't do that. Hashing algorithms without salt and iteration counts is a bad idea. Thankfully, languages and frameworks are starting to take this responsibility away from the programmer (or at least they're making it easier) – consider using has_secure_password in Rails, password_hash in PHP 5.5, etc. Don't use standard hashing algorithms.
dxm··on Nginx security advisory (CVE-2013-4547)
The advisory recommends the Nginx specific no response header (444) rather than the 403 forbidden header.
dxm··on Show HN: Capture a screen area in OS X and automatically pin it
Spectacle[1] is excellent for this.

[1] http://spectacleapp.com/

dxm··on [dead]
No tests?
dxm··on Github seems to be experiencing security issues
I too have the following, which cannot be attributed to me since I was asleep.

  user.failed_login: Originated from 139.194.122.85 9 hours ago
  user.failed_login: Originated from 201.210.254.161 11 hours ago 
  user.failed_login: Originated from 201.248.24.177 a day ago
  user.failed_login: Originated from 183.89.77.84 a day ago
  user.failed_login: Originated from 201.211.14.251 a day ago
dxm··on Reddit is Growing Slowly, but Surely
Reddit went all out with April fools day in 2013, they pitted users against each other (Periwinkle vs. Orangered) which is likely the spike in submissions compared with other years.
dxm··on How I was unbanned from Hacker News
And you're continuing to post links to the same domain? Brave sir, very brave.
dxm··on Bitcoins reached $300
And 1 nibblecoin == 4 bitcoins.
dxm··on Custom-printed Moleskine notebooks
This is my only criticism, the vernacular and wordplay on the website is sometimes confusing. Having made it through, I'm definitely interested in their product though.
dxm··on Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
Nice. But why have you added the horrible photoshop effect to those images?
dxm··on Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
I have a limited company incorporated in the United Kingdom, and I am working on three projects that I hope will turn into profitable products.

* Main focus: Transactional and marketing SMS application, it's a little boring and lots of companies do it, but none are truly self-service, and none make it super-easy.

* Back burner: Digital asset management, again it's done by many companies already, but there UIs are mostly upload, tag and try to retrieve. I have a background in AI (B.Sc) and I want to make it a little smarter than what's currently out there, with uploads that detect previous revisions of digital assets, etc – finally putting to an end file naming conventions such as x_final.ai, x_final_2.ai, x_final_final.psd (something I have seen used by every company I have worked for.)

* And later: I'm into brewing beer, and I have been working on recipes for a few years – Ambition is to make enough money to survive with the two projects above, and to begin investing in building a microbrewery and brew pub.

dxm··on Hacking the Olympics
And similarly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_%22The_Eagle%22_Edwards
dxm··on Why is the number 1,729 hidden in Futurama episodes?
> According to Hardy, he visited Ramanujan in a nursing home in 1918: "I remember once going to see him when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one and that I hoped it was not an unfavourable omen. 'No,' he replied. 'It is a very interesting number. It is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.'"
dxm··on Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007
That's an abnormally high memory limit for what should be a simple request.
dxm··on The Best Part of Grand Theft Auto V is the Stock-Trading Platform
I don't have a Rockstar Social account and I've managed to use the BAWSAQ market, it opens during some of Franklin's assassination side missions given by Lester. It's not under maintenance throughout the entire game.
dxm··on Show HN: Saved.io
I'm not sure how other browsers handle this, but this will work in Chrome, create a bookmark with the URL: javascript:document.location.replace("http://saved.io/"+document.location.href);
dxm··on Why The New Gmail Sucks
Google is able to test changes thousands of times every second, and since Larry Page became CEO the changes have all been done to create a consistent feel across Google's services, and have all been tested and refined. What are your credentials? Saying "I’m writing this post hoping that it will reach someone that works in Google and they are going to do something about it." is ambitious, the opinion of one person does not reflect the amount of data they have that likely implies that this change is an advantage.
dxm··on The CODE Keyboard
You shouldn't expect anything less of Jeff Atwood. Every thought out of his head is apparent perfection for programmers, he's the only writer I know that makes people feel like idiots if they dare to do something differently to him. Take everything you read on Coding Horror with a salt lake.
dxm··on Github now supports rendering tabular data
I've had another look, GitHub is showing a nice little message: "Hey, did you know this file could be beautiful and searchable if this error is corrected? Missing or stray quote in line 1"
dxm··on Github now supports rendering tabular data
That's not a CSV file, it's tab separated (I think, I haven't actually checked whether those are tabs), you will need to have the right extension for the contained data for it to work.
dxm··on Facebook Leads an Effort to Lower Barriers to Internet Access
Correction: "Facebook lead initiative to bring advertising to everyone."
dxm··on Introducing Silvrback: Hosted, Markdown-Powered Blogging
So a price has been placed on an almost exact copy of Medium without the benefits of Medium (an existing readership, existing capital), it's a copy right down to the typeface and even the green coloured buttons. How does one have complete control over their brand with Silvrback? There's no ability to customise the design beyond what already exists. There's nothing marketable about this product yet.
dxm··on We Need To Talk, Google
About three months ago I wanted to download the original of a video I had uploaded to Youtube since I had lost my local copy and it was sentimental. I was unable to even access the video without first creating a Google+ account, I was unable to download my data and cancel my Youtube account without first creating a Google+ account. I went to Google Takeout and removed everything, and cancelled. (Note: This was a business account that I was paying for, not a free account. I felt as if my data was being held hostage despite me paying for the storage and usage costs.)
dxm··on Paranoid Browsing
Wouldn't disconnect.me be a better option?
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