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eik3_deon Testing a way for you to make purchases on Twitter

If you don't like the direction twitter is heading, try quitter.se, ello.co, app.net

eik3_deon Designing a Personal Knowledgebase

The deck sharing web app could need some serious polish (if not rewrite as a modern web app). Something like fork/pull requests and diff would be awesome. That would encourage people to contribute back and fix bugs in the decks.

I don't know about licensing/copyright of the decks.

eik3_deon Designing a Personal Knowledgebase

images are important, that's how I learn countries (point on map) and birds

eik3_deon Designing a Personal Knowledgebase

I don't learn a new lang atm but I've heard it works great for that.

There are shared decks [1] and you can create your own very easily. Whenever I stumble over a new fact throughout the day, I (try to) add it to my deck. To test the system, I learned all european countries with capitals and all US states in 4 hours total (spread over weeks, just 1-2 minutes spent every other day). It's really easy and fun.

I use both the desktop and the mobile apps, they keep in sync.

[1] https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/

eik3_deon Designing a Personal Knowledgebase

While you're at it, please add a spaced repetition learning feature à la Anki. Our brains are the best PKB, we just need the right tools to efficiently upload data to it (anki)

eik3_deon OMG Markdown

Guys, just rename "Standard Markdown" to Marky, leave Gruber sit on his Markdown name and move on.

MacFarlane, GitHub, meteor, reddit and Atwood/stackexchange can let the world know that "markdown" is now legacy and the future lies in Marky

eik3_deon Where does Ruby go from here?

> But we have technology needs that aren’t going to always be well served by Ruby

What are some examples?

I'll start with heavy number crunching (Go/C) and browser-based apps (JS)

eik3_deon Dyson 360 Eye

That's what I thought. My Roomba is < 8,5 cm and I raised my wardrobe in the hall so that it just fits beneath, it charges there.

But since I'm convinced dyson vacuum user, I'd get it even if it's 15 cm.

It's quite narrow though, so I'm curious how it peforms between chair legs under the dining table - that's where the roomba is bad at.

eik3_deon Urgent security warning that may affect all internet users

why shouldnt the average user write down his/her master database password and store it in the kitchen drawer?

eik3_deon Chaos Computer Club Supports Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden

From the ccc website[1]:

> Donations

> We gladly accept any donation, even considerable sums.

Bank account of the CCC e. V.:

Chaos Computer Club e. V.

IBAN DE41 2001 0020 0599 0902 01

BIC PBNKDEFF

[1] http://www.ccc.de/en/membership

eik3_deon ProtonMail email loss incident post mortem

"recover" doesn't neccessarily have to mean that they had the mails in plain text

eik3_deon Packing things in your brain in a way that keeps them from leaking out

for spaced repetition learning, I can recommend ankisrs.net

eik3_deon Gwan – a fast 150kb web server supporting 14 scripting languages

"GWAN isn't designed to be a robust webserver, it's designed to perform exceptionally well in contrived and outlandish benchmarks [...]"

from http://tomoconnor.eu/blogish/gwan-snakeoil-beware/

eik3_deon Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus?

see http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_Plus#Controversy_over...

I'd never use Adblock Plus, that's more than shady

eik3_deon Total darkness at night key to success of breast cancer therapy

100% blinds?

eik3_deon Malaysia B772 has crashed near Donetsk

I'm sure passenger planes will circuit that region from this day on, so chances of a similar event should be extremely low.

eik3_deon Better bash in 15 minutes

sure, if you do coloring/bold/underline/inverse in the script, reset would be appropriate. but I wouldn't do it by default, because it's quite slow ('time reset' takes 1s here)

eik3_deon Better bash in 15 minutes

to clean the command prompt line after CTRL-C:

    trap "{ echo; exit 1; }" INT

eik3_deon Experiment: Eliminating Toast Sweat

I have never had problems with toast sweat: Just stand the two slices upright on the plate so that they look like a T from above. It's very easy and stable and after a minute the steam is out so that they won't sweat anymore.

I never measured it, but I had the feeling that the A form (looking from the side) slightly interferes with the rising steam.

How do you do it?

eik3_deon How we got read access on Google’s production servers

scnr

    XML - It seemed like a good idea at the time

eik3_deon Knuth: Open Letter to Condoleezza Rice (2002)

AFAIK dropbox uses ec2 and s3, so dropping dropbox is a double win

eik3_deon EU court rejects requirement to keep data of telecom users

EU Court of Justice press release:

english http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2014...

german http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2014...

Full verdict text:

english https://netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/c_293_c_594-1.pdf

german https://netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/C_0293_2012-DE-ARR.pdf

(Edit: direct link instead of scribd, thx eis. Added full verdict text.)

eik3_deon The Telephone Tower in Stockholm circa 1890s

Nowadays.. not so much better in some places: http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/05/cable-blues-tangled-...

eik3_deon RegExr 2.0

same here :(

eik3_deon Ask HN Mods: Can you make submission URLs human-readable?

If you add converting non-url-safe characters to dashes I would call that bookmarklet a >90% sufficient solution that doesn't need any server-side changes.

Users who need a readable URL just use the bookmarklet.

eik3_deon Can I delete my Skype account?

I agree that posts shouldn't be deleted. But should the user be able to anonymize his posts when he deletes his account? Such that the username 'JohnDoe' is replaced with 'DeletedUser20140405.42'. IMO that doesn't destroy the readability of the conversation.

eik3_deon Can I delete my Skype account?

> vBulletin is MySQL and tries to reduce database load through denormalisation of the data. The posts table has the username repeated every time a post was made

Just in case an unexperienced developer reads that. Don't do it. If you expect high read loads, better invest your time in learning/thinking about caching, fragment caching, russian doll caching and invalidating these caches. Memcached or Redis come to my mind.

eik3_deon Can I delete my Skype account?

It's a great service, I just added Lobsters. Adding a service takes 2 minutes, using the online editor from github that automatically creates a pull request etc.

Edit: and already merged & deployed less than an hour later. Contributing is fun :)

eik3_deon Tesla Model S Ethernet Network Explored

but only if their binary is linked against a gpl library..?

eik3_deon Tesla Model S Ethernet Network Explored

If they don't modify gpl code but just configure existing software and add their own packages, do they still have to pub everything?