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hello_asdf··on You're wrong about LinkedIn, it's not the users, it's you
The trick that I've found works is to use a password that I can remember on sites like Facebook. It's the only site I'm likely to log into on my phone. GMail should be a random password though, but it can be stored on your phone so you don't need to remember it. Everything else that doesn't require mobile access use a random password managed through a program like LastPass. If you're thinking about logging in to sites like your email from a public computer or something, well you shouldn't do that anyway.
hello_asdf··on Smoke: Simple, asynchronous scala HTTP powered by Akka
Honestly, I lost track a while ago of all the new web development tools. I am so glad I'm no longer writing web applications, or I would spend more time learning about the tools than actually using them.
hello_asdf··on Teen Solves Quantum Entanglement Problem for Fun
"With his paper, Ari Dyckovsky has helped show that you can have quantum entanglement with vastly different particles, not just particles that are similar."

This was pretty much the summation of his research at least from what I noticed in the article. Can someone explain this for me, please?

hello_asdf··on Largest-ever password study: We are all idiots
I use layered passwords. For simple things I've used the same password for years with only slight variations on it. For things like my email account or servers, I use randomly generated passwords managed through LastPass. Although my personal favourite password system is XKCD's password algorithm: http://xkcd.com/936/
hello_asdf··on Hands on with Windows 8 Release Preview
I've been messing around with the preview in VirtualBox, and have come across multiple [critical] bugs. Internet Explorer frequently just stopped working when tabs were opened. Sometimes programs just didn't start after the initial screen, and I was moved back to the Start screen. Other impressions were that the system is very responsive. I am loving the metro mail application. The system itself though is not very intuitive. A lot of the gestures required to do simple things like open settings, switch between programs, change the default search engine in Internet Explorer, and even supposedly simple things like disconnect from Messenger. I think the system still has quite a bit of work to be done, however I'm curious to see some non-Microsoft metro applications turn up. However, being on Linux I won't be using the OS natively, I will start using it instead of Windows XP for watching Netflix.
hello_asdf··on Clang 3.1 released today
I like clang for it's by the books C implementation, but unfortunately some of the software I use doesn't work on GCC > 4.4, so I doubt I'd have much success with clang. If I'm writing software though, I'd make sure it compiled correctly on clang though. If it did then I could almost be assured that it would compile fine on GCC. Specifically the software I'm speaking about is pyrit. However, I'm going to try compiling with clang real quick just to see if I'm correct.

Actually, I take that back. Pyrit compiled fine with clang.

hello_asdf··on Confirmed: SpaceX Dragon Ferried ‘Scotty’s’ Remains Into Space
I'm pretty curious who the other people are.
hello_asdf··on Firefox 15 now supports in-content preferences
Thank you for the detailed explanation of it. That's actually kind of fitting for them to do away with major/minor versions. I like the idea that they implement major changes quickly, and I'm currently compiling the latest Firefox.
hello_asdf··on Firefox 15 now supports in-content preferences
No it really doesn't matter. It wasn't so much a complaint, and I didn't intend for it to seem that way. I just didn't understand the reasoning behind it. It's not something that I dislike about the Mozilla team. Just something that is unusual in the development community.
hello_asdf··on Firefox 15 now supports in-content preferences
Perhaps, I hadn't thought that any significant security issues had been found in recent versions. Are there any I should be concerned about? If not, my reasoning is that I don't want to break what is working perfectly fine for me as is.

After looking at https://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firef... there doesn't seem that there are any to be concerned about. However, in case you are right, I'm recompiling a more recent version of Firefox.

hello_asdf··on Linux I/O Scheduler Comparison On The Linux 3.4 Desktop
Where does BFQ fit into this? I've been using it as my I/O scheduler and I've noticed significant lag when I'm transferring large amounts of data between drives. Any thoughts on this? I've been thinking of switching back, but would love some thoughts on it's performance capabilities.
hello_asdf··on Firefox 15 now supports in-content preferences
I really don't care for Firefox's new versioning scheme. I'm still on Firefox 10 on Gentoo, and I don't feel much of a reason to upgrade. I felt that incrementing that number should be reserved for major changes. I didn't intend for this to be taken as a complaint about the Mozilla development team. It's just something I've found unusual in the development community. It's been confusing me, and I never understood their reasoning behind it.
hello_asdf··on Searching the bottom of the web
Wow, sounds like a very interesting search engine. I'll have to take a closer look at it. Thanks for the tips.
hello_asdf··on Watch someone else code and learn
This is pretty awesome, any thoughts on how to implement support for other languages than html5?
hello_asdf··on Searching the bottom of the web
Looks interesting, how does blekko index search results? I prefer how millionshort lets you disable/enable specific sites for search. Although, given how millionshort is designed specifically for removing results, it would be more difficult to do that on blekko.
hello_asdf··on Apple reportedly to release US$799 MacBook Air in 3Q12
I don't know really. I just want a change, plus Linus uses one. I suppose that's reason enough.
hello_asdf··on Apple reportedly to release US$799 MacBook Air in 3Q12
I hadn't thought about that, thanks for the idea.
hello_asdf··on Apple reportedly to release US$799 MacBook Air in 3Q12
I really hope this happens because I've been wanting to switch to a Macbook Air for a while now. Anyone interested in trading a late 2009 (I think, might be 2010) 13" Macbook Pro for a Macbook Air? :)
hello_asdf··on Has anyone checked out their personal FBI record?
Eh, I hadn't thought about that, that sucks.
hello_asdf··on Show HN: My first web app - A Better Queue: Netflix + Rotten Tomatoes mashup
Hey I don't watch a lot of movies, but I love tv shows. Any thoughts on incorporating metacritic as a backup when rotten tomatoes isn't available? That would be amazing. Also preferably use the user score, because critic reviews are pretty bad. Take for example Firefly, there's not even a critic score for it, however there is a very accurate 9.6 user score :)
hello_asdf··on 3x faster linux boot with e4rat
The easiest way I've found to increase boot speed and application load even under heavy system load is to use the pf kernel patchset. With a properly configured kernel using BFS, BFQ, and LZMA compression, my system is amazingly fast. Even when compiling and both cores at my laptop are at 100% my system is fully usable. If you have a Macbook Pro my kernel configs are here: https://github.com/meinhimmel/kernel-configs
hello_asdf··on Duckduckgo: I want to use but things like this put me off
What puts you off? Append !g to search it on Google. The google search is pretty bad though, including a top 10 list in the first page of results. If you're looking for the man page, simple append !man. DuckDuckGo is awesome, and I'm not sure what you're getting at. If you don't like the look, the advertisements, anything really you can change it in the settings. You can also sync this between computers. What's not to love about DDG?

This is how I see your search: http://i.imgur.com/crfmO.png

hello_asdf··on Has anyone checked out their personal FBI record?
Yea, I don't have an FBI file. I had to request one for my visa into New Zealand. I was very relieved to hear that. I had to send my fingerprints as well. It was a rather thorough process.
hello_asdf··on Feds Seized Hip-Hop Site for a Year, Waiting for Proof of Infringement
Ah! that's awesome, I've been thinking about this idea for years. I'm so glad that this is being worked on.
hello_asdf··on Feds Seized Hip-Hop Site for a Year, Waiting for Proof of Infringement
A new model for secure servers would be amazing. I wish that there was something like bittorrent for servers. No centralized server, instead clients grab data from each other. Some form of security to ensure the data is correct. Possible to find other users in this form, but no way to take the server down.

Quoting this from the other comment I made above:

I'm using bytesized hosting here: https://bytesized-hosting.com/

My server is located in Luxembourg.

hello_asdf··on Feds Seized Hip-Hop Site for a Year, Waiting for Proof of Infringement
I'm using bytesized hosting here: https://bytesized-hosting.com/

My server is located in Luxembourg.

hello_asdf··on Feds Seized Hip-Hop Site for a Year, Waiting for Proof of Infringement
It's all about the vps services now. I have a decent one, in a country with almost no threat of being taken down :)
hello_asdf··on John McAfee, antivirus pioneer, arrested by Belize police
Why would he need such a large cache of weapons? Is Belize really that dangerous?
hello_asdf··on Show HN: Million Short Day 2 and 171,686 unique searches later - Version 2
Sure, it's pretty simple. I actually just took the icon from your search thing and added it to mine. The only difference between ours now is that I use the param tag so that it's not just one long url.

https://gist.github.com/2572530

hello_asdf··on Show HN: Million Short Day 2 and 171,686 unique searches later - Version 2
Thanks!
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