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fox91··on Announcing Google Capture the Flag 2017
Check out ctftime.org or wargames on wechall.net
fox91··on Json-wikipedia
Why would I need the dump in JSON? XML is for sure uglier but at least there are efficient SAX parsers.
fox91··on Ask HN: What is the stupidest startup idea you ever had/heard?
It exists! http://trashwiki.org/en/Main_Page
fox91··on Poll: Which is your primary text editor?
PyCharm
fox91··on [ask HN] What's your favorite RSS reader and why?
really? again?
fox91··on A 1400€ metronome, gently offered by Dell
ok, this story is going on now, I can't write the future (for now).

I'm keeping the first post updated but I added a shorter one for describing this last episode.

fox91··on Dell support service can’t tell between a 720p and a 1080p display
UPDATE 2013-04-08: I got a phone call from a recorded voice that said that my laptop have been shipped and I would get it in 24h.

UPDATE 2013-04-09: I got another phone call from the Dell support center that confirmed the shipment but they said that may laptop have not been fixed. They are shipping it as it was a month ago! They are sending me a new laptop in about 2 weeks and in the meanwhile I can keep my old one. I asked if they were sending me some sort of gift or a refund for all the trouble but they said that, as they’re a support center, they can’t and if I want I can send a letter to their lawyers. Another terrible story from Dell support service.

fox91··on Dell support service can’t tell between a 720p and a 1080p display
Yes, the comparable macbook is much more expensive :( (and not so tiny though)
fox91··on Dell support service can’t tell between a 720p and a 1080p display
It's more expensive and with lower res, unfortunately
fox91··on Dell support service can’t tell between a 720p and a 1080p display
But ehy, every Dell pc has a service tag which identifies every pc (with that tag they even know the name of the owner) so they are supposed to know every part of the pc
fox91··on Dell support service can’t tell between a 720p and a 1080p display
Thank you very much for your support :D
fox91··on Kerbal Space Program - space flight simulator game
I did it too, that's probably the reason why it's in frontpage LOL
fox91··on How to use Photoshop in a VM on Ubuntu
It's not "How to use Photoshop in Ubuntu", it's "How to use Photoshop in a VM"
fox91··on Hacker news in your terminal
Seriously, another one?
fox91··on What did Apple edited "anonymously" on Wikipedia?
for apple.com here's some interesting pages

http://wikiwatchdog.com/?#!search/en/apple.com/89847/1151979...

http://wikiwatchdog.com/?#!search/en/apple.com/8976498/22295...

http://wikiwatchdog.com/?#!search/en/apple.com/89847/4256841...

http://wikiwatchdog.com/?#!search/en/apple.com/89847/2815399...

fox91··on What did Apple edited "anonymously" on Wikipedia?
It was just a matter of showing the potential of a tool like that, it's possible to uncover some malicious or self-serving edits like: Sky is removing critics from his page http://wikiwatchdog.com/#!search/en/sky.com/216355/446125412

or Dell that is removing critics http://wikiwatchdog.com/#!search/en/dell.com/102490/32008505...

or a Dell employee that vandalizes the Dell page http://wikiwatchdog.com/#!search/en/dell.com/102490/88573397

fox91··on Vandalism on "Dell" page on Wikipedia by Dell employees
Yeah but at least use a proxy! LOL
fox91··on Is my developer's home-brew password security right or wrong, and why?
I did it, it's excellent as an introduction. It gives you some base points but no more
fox91··on Online collaborative LaTeX editor
It's awesome. I love it!

One feature that would make it much much awesome would be an integration with Github. In our university we're trying to convince professors to release the latex source of the lecture notes on Github in order to receive issues or pull requests from students for typos or improvements. As most teachers don't know git it would be great if they could open files on writelatex from github and commit changes. I know that's quite hard to do but imho it could really improve the project.

p.s.: Is it open source? Will it ever be?

fox91··on Show HN: SQL to Mongo Query Translator
I find it pointless. If you want to write SQL queries just use a relational database, if you want to use Mongo learn to use it.
fox91··on Github Ruby Styleguide
I really can't stand longer lines, I think that this is a best practice for every code. I usually work with the monitor splitted in two parts with maybe 2 different files in each half, long lines would make that really difficult to read.

Moreover if you need lines longer than 80 chars you're probably doing it the wrong way: long lines are difficult to understand

fox91··on Github Ruby Styleguide
I think it's good to name these variables, obviously you need to use short names, otherwise you'll get very long regexps. but in any case it will increase readability imho.
fox91··on Programming Languages vs. Fat Fingers
It doesn't mean that if you write C you get less bugs. IMHO that's a not meaningful experitment that makes no sense in practice
fox91··on Programming Languages vs. Fat Fingers
I don't see any value or meaning in this "experiment". What should it demonstrate?
fox91··on Show HN: Using D3.js to visually explore your GitHub connections
The idea is great! But why all the people I connected to are at the same distance? I'd expect to see closer to my node users with a strong relationship with me
fox91··on Editorial: "How piracy changed my life"
I think that the answer is open source, now there are a lot of alternatives and you don't need piracy for learning stuff, now probably piracy makes you dumber
fox91··on Code sucks
Luckily there are people that write good code, is difficult to find them but they exsist.

If you want to speak about the average (or below average) coder I agree, they write crappy code and you have to deal with it, someday

fox91··on Post mortem of a failed HackerNews launch
Please, fix your CSS for mobile use. It's impossible to read because, if I zoom, the sidebar gets bigger too
fox91··on Alertify.js
I love it but I actually don't understand why you decided to put two completely separated features in a single library: the alert/confirm/prompt dialogs and the log/success/error messages.

I think that if you'd split this two things into two different libraries it would be better (e.g.: if i want only dialogs i'd prefer to include just them)

fox91··on X-editable: In-place editing with Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery UI or pure jQuery
I really love Hallo.js http://hallojs.org/ It's based on contenteditable and it's very lightweight
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