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lerxst

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lerxst··on John McCain has died
John McCain was a true American hero, dedicating his life to the United States. I did not always agree with him, but he will truly be missed, especially during the current political climate. May he rest in peace.
lerxst··on Live London Air Traffic in BigQuery
The headings are a little misaligned on the readme.

For the first row of data in the readme, A023AF would be the 24-bit ICAO hexadecimal identifier for the aircraft, which using FAA's Registry would point to US tail number N108NY, operating under callsign EJM685. In that example, 7660 is the squawk code that the aircraft's transponder is emitting.

lerxst··on Have Software Developers Given Up?
A lot of the decisions made behind software products depend on management's decision as to what is 'good enough' and when to release a first version to iterate upon.

Every day, I encounter parts of the codebase that could be refactored or sections of a page that probably do not make sense to half of the user base, but in the eyes of management, this is not a problem as customers will learn. If I were to spend all day polishing aspects of the site, that would not be as preferable as working on a major feature release.

lerxst··on SimpliSafe Alarm System Replay Attack
This is exactly why I put a different security alarm system sign in my yard than the one that's actually installed. Unfortunately, there are probably many homeowners who put SimpliSafe stickers in their windows letting anyone passing by know their home is vulnerable to this attack.
lerxst··on Criticue Widget: Find out what visitors hate about your website
It's good that they have the 'Give feedback' button at the bottom of the page in a rather unobtrusive manner. Often times, I go to a website for a large company and before I can even do anything on the site, they ask for feedback in an obtrusive popup.
lerxst··on Show HN: Cancel your Comcast in 5 minutes
Their website seems to have some trouble loading right now. Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JQPoiC4...
lerxst··on Carbon: The Next Generation of Weebly
I listened to a talk from David Rusenko a few months ago, and they have worked on creating a product that is easy to use from the start. It's amazing to see how far they have progressed as a company and how easy to use their products are. Creating a website is not an easy thing to do for many people, and I appreciate the attention to detail the Weebly team puts into their products to make them as intuitive as possible.
lerxst··on Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Devices
I bought several cheaper Apple products, including an Apple TV, on Amazon because of my Prime membership. While the user experience is not the best for these products (especially the higher end laptops; how often is NEWEST VERSION updated?), it provides a way for Amazon customers to quickly purchase Apple products with a stored CC and take advantage of their Prime two day shipping. I am not going to boycott Amazon because of this, but it does make me question Amazon's leadership and decision-making. Now I think of them as the one stop shop for everything except for Apple products. Adding exceptions for products like this is a slippery slope.
lerxst··on “This story is being previewed exclusively on Apple News until Tuesday”
I imagine their bounce rate will be very high if they continue doing this. Other news sites have done similar things such as make you participate in a survey before reading the article. In order for me to open this article before September 22, I would have to copy that link, paste it into an email to myself, open Mail on my phone, and open the link from my own email.
lerxst··on Run a Wi-Fi Network? HBO and Showtime Want to You to Police Your Users
Nowhere in the court order does it state that wireless access point operators must monitor their users. Concerns about the legality of effectively shutting down a website aside, the order deals primarily with service providers that enable the services mentioned, not those who would be attempting to access the content. While the phrase "providers of computer and network resources through which video transits" could be interpreted as access point operators, it seems unlikely that any court would interpret it that way.
lerxst··on Why all the fuzz about MS Paint – Just use Paint Dot NET
It's all the way at the top: http://www.getpaint.net/download.html
lerxst··on Show HN: HTML5 clone of OS X AirDrop – Easy P2P file transfers in a browser
This is really cool!

Initially, I tried using this between a computer on my 2.4 GHz band and a computer on my 5 GHz band, and I guess the JavaScript wasn't able to determine the local IP addresses. However, after switching to the same frequency it worked.