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namplaa··on Facebook’s Piracy Problem
Afaik FB actually tells Page owners that they prefer native content.
namplaa··on Should I Work for Free?
In the 90s in my first business I did support at home for people who thought they could get unpaid support from their friends, neighbours and neighbourhood kids. We were expensive and never lacked clients who had gotten unpaid support which had only made things worse.
namplaa··on Microsoft quietly pushes 18 new trusted root certificates
I doubt the halting problem will be solved.
namplaa··on Two-Factor Authentication with SSH
I've found the biggest issue with most of the Google Authenticator implementation is that they store the seeds in plain text.
namplaa··on It's all fun and games until someone [XOFF]
In tmux ^b-] defaults to xoff too
namplaa··on Mathematicians Are Hoarding a Type of Japanese Chalk
I've found that it also works for permanent marker.
namplaa··on Ask HN: Do you avoid reading articles on sites with paywalls?
For the paywalls on many articles that I'm interested in I just Google search them. Many allow you to read the full article if you referrer is google.com
namplaa··on The role of a Senior Developer
Obviously an intermediate developer, he doesn't need to be perfect to get the point across.
namplaa··on Intel Kernel Guard Technology
I can hardly wait to see the presentation on how the circumvent it.
namplaa··on Securing Email Communications from Facebook
It works, and should still be used with caution.
namplaa··on Ask HN: Are there forgotten servers out there?
I have a forgotten server happily chugging away somewhere, it still send me mail sometimes. it might be lonely.
namplaa··on Ambulances will trigger green signal
As far as I know in the Netherlands you get aside or stop when you see the strobe and hear the siren, to let an emergency vehicle pass, it is also allowed to run a red light.
namplaa··on Five new undisclosed Xen vulnerabilities
At the 31c3 somebody had shown or told the audience about an issue in the Xen hypervisor that allowed someone to break into the host from the guest.
namplaa··on Another Theory to Explain 10X Programmers
I've found some companies who recruit from the trenches are led from the front, meaning the management promotes people who are skilled to management positions.

Others promote the weak developers.

namplaa··on Another Theory to Explain 10X Programmers
Don't people with dyslexia have other inane skills, such as better spatial perception?
namplaa··on Berg is shutting down
I would be in favor of opening the code., especially if it was opened as FOSS
namplaa··on Useful Unix commands for exploring data
You might want to use sort -u
namplaa··on Useful Unix commands for exploring data
Personally I find silversearcher (ag) faster, and reinventing standard commandline tools with a collection of other tools is often slower.

One liner shell commands often turn complicated quickly.

namplaa··on Geohash: text representation allows you to sort locations by proximity
When the prefix (or infix) doesn't match for something that is close it looks like the prefixes are simply inverted. So 10000 and 01111 are obviously close. I haven't verified.
namplaa··on Gamma error in picture scaling (2007)
A photographer I know wrote a PhotoShop script that tried to correct for this when he resized images.