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flipp3r··on Hacking Head Tags for Speed and Profit
>If you're specifying X-UA-Compatible and the value is just "IE=edge", that's unnecessary. Remove it.

No.

flipp3r··on LogMeIn acquires Lastpass
You have some extra characters at the end of your link

https://investor.logmeininc.com/about-us/investors/news/pres...

flipp3r··on Gene patents probably dead worldwide following Australian court decision
You should read the comment section of the second link. The badly done research was done by someone whose business is selling snake oil with c60 in it.
flipp3r··on A new approach to web performance
I think this tweet from the AML project lead sums up pretty well how much they thought about standards

https://twitter.com/cramforce/status/651769139204259840

flipp3r··on CodeFights thinks competitive programming could be popular
I'd say the same thing, if I were the owner of a company that does stuff with competetive programming.

No way this will be as popular as any normal game you can watch on Twitch.

flipp3r··on I'm Begging for Work
Well, that sucks for you, and you're stupid for putting emotional baggage online. Its not you boss' fault that you felt entitled for double pay, that you didn't communicate properly, or that you have 4 kids, these are things you just have to deal with now and learn from. Yes your boss was a dick, deal with it.

If you want a job fast use linkedin and recruiters to your advantage. There's loads of recruiting companies that are waiting for people like you. Getting a job with some IT skills is very easy, don't expect a well-paying job as a junior ruby tester though and make it clear to recruiters what you need.

flipp3r··on How we cracked millions of Ashley Madison passwords
tl;dr they had a bad implementation and used md5 previously
flipp3r··on All evidence points to OOP being bullshit (2013)
But aren't beans just maps with additional constraints on the data..?
flipp3r··on Show HN: My First Product for Founders and Startup Teams
What I mean is that the value or whatever of what vasylslobodian is selling is completely nullified as soon as someone uploads a copy to the internet, for free. Maybe I don't understand the business model, but to me it's the same as selling music, you might as well give it away for free and offer custom services around it.
flipp3r··on Show HN: My First Product for Founders and Startup Teams
So basically you're selling $25 copies of a powerpoint file?
flipp3r··on Think women in tech is just a pipeline problem?
Didn't read the whole article but this stood out to me;

"Confirm that men and women with the same qualifications are earning the same amount and that they are receiving promotions and raises at similar rates (and if not, explore why)."

Yeah, no. I have never worked for a company which pays employees based on skill, it's all in salary negotiations. If you work for a company where salaries aren't public, then this is the case for you. Also, although anecdotal, in my experience men are willing to risk more when they know they're worth more than what they're being paid.

flipp3r··on The Infinite File Download
Chrome indicates the download didn't fail, it even completed. This file isn't infinite at all, what a scam!

( I accidentally left it to download. The resulting file is 1.991.671.687 bytes. )

flipp3r··on Ask HN: Where do you go for sound career advice?
[developer] Personally, my job right now is fairly solid with "full stack" mainly Java & JavaScript expertise. Getting experience in a lot of different stuff, and specialising in a couple also allows me to tailor my CV if I ever need a new job. Which has worked out really, really well for me in getting jobs.

I'd say dont focus too much on one technology or framework and make sure to spend time with the best colleagues you have, on projects. You can learn a LOT like this in no time at all.

This website is also a really good source for stuff you need to learn, if something is being posted on here for over a year and noone complains about it too much it's probably good. ( ie new-ish stuff like Docker, React, etc. )

Also you mention recruiters; I don't trust recruiters at all and have had enough bad experiences with them blatantly lying to me. They're just looking to do their job and make a lot of money, I wouldn't expect honest advice from them.

flipp3r··on US removes Cuba from list of state sponsors of terror
But if someone tries to overthrow the US government it is, right?
flipp3r··on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Character-Level Language Models
I browse it myself, it has a really simple API and the content is refreshed quite fast on active boards.
flipp3r··on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Character-Level Language Models
I also did a project that used a similar technique which scrapes text from 4chan, mapping N words to the next possible word.

https://github.com/skphilipp/humanity

flipp3r··on GitHub's down?
If you're using Java most of the build tools use the Maven repositories, for which you can set up a local mirror too. The company i work for runs a Sonatype Nexus so we're not really affected by others' downtime unless we need stuff that we hadn't ever used before.
flipp3r··on Secret Shuts Down
Even better, Google is deprecating the OpenId login to push Google+; the new OAuth login _requires_ you to have a Google+ account. So if you use your Gmail for say StackExchange, get ready for your Google+ page!
flipp3r··on Show HN: A tool that transforms your whole list with just one example
The last example with JSON replace is really nice, I do this regularly with regular expression find-replace with groups, on larger datasets. I guess i can forget about regular expressions now. Nice work!
flipp3r··on The Expression Problem and Tables
"we gain the power to query: implementations calling a deprecated function, implementations marked TODO, unimplemented cases, animals which eat, functions written by me, with no tests"

I think what you're looking for is a good IDE and Scala or Java

flipp3r··on Pin-pointing China's attack against GitHub
They already did this a couple days ago when someone asked them about it http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/xwfw_665399/s2510_665401/251...

"On your second question, it is quite odd that every time a website in the US or any other country is under attack, there will be speculation that Chinese hackers are behind it."

flipp3r··on Understanding Convolution in Deep Learning
I've been working on a project for matching template images myself for a couple months. I'm using a self made Java library to match static images with pixels on a user's screen. Mainly my project is about finding stuff that looks like static images, on a user's screen, fast ( i.e. <10ms ).

The post here is a really good resource, are there any Java libraries ( excluding OpenCV bindings ) that there exist for this kind of template matching?

flipp3r··on Worldwide DNS Performance
Why would you pay more for faster DNS? Most browsers come with DNS prefretching built in, I doubt it really matters for a website.
flipp3r··on Pencil code
Is this made with Blockly ( https://developers.google.com/blockly/ ) or a copy of it? There's already many sites using blockly to learn to code, the example linked looks much like a copy of Google's Maze example https://blockly-games.appspot.com/maze?lang=en
flipp3r··on Show HN: TryCatch – Get offers only with your desired salary
"firebase.js:18 FIREBASE WARNING: Specified Firebase has reached its Peak Connections limit. If you are the Firebase owner, consider upgrading. (https://remoteinterview2.firebaseio.com)"

Also, will there be a European version of this? My salary in Dollars has gotten quite low ( eur vs dollar ).

flipp3r··on The Law of Shitty Clickthroughs
I remember when I realized I'd become immune to banner ads.

I had to sign up for a college related thing on a website once and I just could not see that sign up button. They made it a flashing advertisement sized block right above another article, with big letters "SIGN UP HERE". A friend sent me the link and I literally spent 5 minutes trying to find it in navigation bars and other links in the article. My friend had to send me a screenshot of his screen with a big red arrow pointing to the sign up block before I noticed it. I now use Adblock but for the times that it doesn't work, my mental Adblock seems to always help me out as well ( Especially for those sneaky ads mixed in between real articles ).

flipp3r··on Dropbox accesses all the files in your PC?
I'm not a Dropbox user, but why doesn't anyone with Dropbox just install a local proxy and try to read out the requests made to the Dropbox servers. The speculations on spying, etc. in this thread are completely worthles, just look at what they're sending to the servers.
flipp3r··on Show HN: Opinionated Dress Color Simulation
I'm sure people will come up with really fascinating ideas on why some people see the white gold and others as blue black..

Even my desktop and laptop screens have their own opinion. I think the image is mainly a good test for calibrating your screen. http://imgur.com/Agxo20K

flipp3r··on Show HN: RPC with plain Java interfaces over MQTT
Note that this uses Eclipse Paho for Java, which contains some issues, the Github issues on the project reflect this.

I've been thinking on creating a version of this library which uses AMQP, as Eclipse Paho for Java does not seem to do yet what it promises.

Any comments, suggestions?

flipp3r··on Coffeescript 1.9.0 contains a backwards incompatible change
Even if it would use semver, you should not auto-install or update packeges in your production environment without having it tested first. Semver is just a promise other people are making, and in production you shouldn't rely on that IMO.
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