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oliao··on Schrödinger's Firefox OS
Here you can clearly see how the 'we'-culture is misused by the 'top' of Mozilla to shuffle off responsibility: there's nobody to rebel against.
oliao··on Podcasting is getting huge
I like the idea.

I find the advertising inside podcasts also particularly annoying. You can't ignore them by looking away like you would on a screen.

Maybe we need an adblock for podcasts (even if it will be difficult to automize -> some manual stripping of the parts where they are promoting stuff)

oliao··on Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy
Specifically for Medical vocabulary, I heard that MosaLingua recently released an app: http://www.mosalingua.com/applications-apprendre/medical-eng...
oliao··on Prebake: Block EU Cookie Notices with Adblock
I think they hoped this law would encourage sites that people don't expect to have cookies to not set cookies until necessary. Like state sponsored news sites for example. I mean, really: why on earth does a site like that need to set cookies? To remember which videos I have watched?

The real problem here is probably Google Analytics.

oliao··on Lodash: 10 JavaScript Utility Functions That You Should Properly Stop Rewriting
Are browsers intelligent enough to inline the function invocation on each step of a _.times ?
oliao··on What’s the best way to spend $20K to help the common good?
Give it to the Greek Government - just kidding
oliao··on EuroDNS introduces free SSL certificates to customers
Anyone knows if revoking certificates is also free?
oliao··on Using Google to Monitor? Warning: Google Doesn’t Really Care About Free Accounts
A product competing (at least in part) with Google Analytics is criticizing Google Analytics. Please.
oliao··on Anki – Powerful, intelligent flashcards
For learning languages, I used to make my own flashcards and then search audio that contained the word. Then I discovered that there are apps with pre-filled cards that already have the audio such as MosaLingua (http://www.mosalingua.com/en).
oliao··on DNSSEC surpasses 50% of root domains
Does anybody know if it is the browser or the operating system that checks the validity of the dns records? Is it enabled on all clients?
oliao··on How Technology Wrecks the Middle Class
Technology has made outsourcing much easier providing tools such as Skype.
oliao··on Google Trends for "open source"
I think the reason for this downward trend is the rise of ("free") web applications. There is simply less need to install local software.
oliao··on Immutable Infrastructure and Disposable Components
I think the point made here is quite interesting: instead of relying on (puppet, chef,...) to do the "deltas", always generating the whole system from scratch. This has a couple of advantages:

* You make sure everything is automated

* You can always trust the resulting system works; if it were to be built from scratch

oliao··on Ways to Solve the Wi-Fi Authentication Issue for Devices
what about speech recognition?
oliao··on Test-Driven Development Bypasses Your Brain
I also have the same problem the author has sometimes: If I know that there are a lot of tests covering a particular piece of code, I tend to be less diligent making modifications
oliao··on Where is the happiest city in the USA?
Maybe the happiest people don't tweet
oliao··on Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets
Let's take the level of nonsense on the internet to a new level!
oliao··on Be Wrong as Fast as You Can
I totally agree with you there, but wouldn't it be even better if we limit the amount of new stuff we haven't tried yet to a size small enough to keep it in our heads? This way, we can eliminate the need for specs; discussing ideas though speech.
oliao··on New Chrome feature frees Web apps from the browser
Does anyone know how updating software versions work in this system? It would be nice if offline applications would work the same way as the HTML5 app cache.