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rogeryu··on DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year
Thanks. That is a very valuable statement. Something to keep in mind!
rogeryu··on DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year
I totally agree. I tried DDG one or two years ago. It didn't last long. Google simply had better results. It took a lot less effort when using Google to find something useful. Several months ago I tried again. This time it's different. I just try harder. It takes effort.

I still use Google, especially at work and for tech (computer) related stuff. For the rest DDG is my first choice and I'm getting used to it.

rogeryu··on ReactOS, a 17-year quest for an open-source Windows, has a new release candidate
Exactly. I have some apps that don't run on Linux, like Photoshop and at work the printer driver. It seems that ReactOS is much faster than XP running in Virtualbox, and if Photoshop and that printer driver work in ReactOS, then I'm all for it.

I hope this does provide a better user experience than Wine, because I've tried that, and after a while Photoshop breaks down somehow. Elements on the page disappear, file operations don't work and in the end it all stops. I want something that is stable, and I hope this works better than Wine, even if both share much code.

rogeryu··on Think Like a Statistician – Without the Math
I remember statistics exams where the math is not the problem, but the language is. The way the question was written always caused discussion. At those exams, you could wait till the end, then afterwards the answers were given, and there was always this one guy or girl who had clever questions and could interpret the question differently. Then another answer was possible. As these were multiple choice questions, that made a lot of people happy.
rogeryu··on Show HN: Adblock to Bitcoin
Take a look at Blendle.

https://blendle.com/

rogeryu··on Inflammation: Medicine's burning question
You might want to read the book Why Zebras don't get Ulcers by Robert Sapolsky. It's about stress, all aspects of it. So it's not about inflammation, although inflammation means stress and in that regard it is covered - you might find it interesting.

Be prepared for lots of chemical terms, but don't let that hold you off - there's enough interesting stuff to read. It has lots of interesting information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Zebras_Don't_Get_Ulcers

rogeryu··on Ask HN: Good programmable robot kit for teens?
https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning

Register, and use this link to add ebooks to your personal library. I've added several books about Arduino and e.g. Python. You have to login each day, and the book can only be claimed that one day. You don't know what book will be free tomorrow, and yesterday's book is gone.

rogeryu··on Show HN: Ponzi.es – Startup sticker ponzi scheme
I want PONIES!
rogeryu··on Micropayment platform Blendle will launch a US beta in early 2016
As content is visible via your webbrowser as well, copying content is possible that way, even if the app doesn't allow it.

What happened to the articles from the Volkskrant that were removed because the editor copied them from elsewhere? Are they removed from Blendle?

rogeryu··on Will your driverless car kill you so others may live?
There is one flaw in your reasoning: the taxi driver probably wishes to survive himself. Even if the front of the taxi, with the driver in it has passed the tracks, it will probably end badly for him as well.
rogeryu··on Show HN: Adblock to Bitcoin
Well I'm using Privacy Badger. It is not about the used technology. It's about the idea, the concept. If you don't want to see ads, you pay a small amount using bitcoins. I don't see it working unless it's forced upon you.
rogeryu··on We ditched Google Analytics
I'm doing my part. I'm moving to DuckDuckGo for searching more and more. It's a process. Google does have better results. For work I still rely on Google, for private stuff I use https://duckduckgo.com/

And for the sake of ducks, I'm eating less meat as well. No more chicken - too much antibiotics, and as little meat as possible, only when it's worth it, so great taste and good quality.

rogeryu··on Why I Don’t Rely on Time Machine
I had a similar problem. I encrypt the backups. The container partition that holds the encrypted partition had a corruption. TM took forever to backup, and then failed. Deleting the encrypted partition didn't solve the problem. Although this is not related to TM, it had the same effect. I didn't try to restore from this backup, looking back that was a mistake, just to see if that still worked. I had to erase the disk, create a new container partition and a new encrypted partition, and now it works.

I use Crashplan as well, two external disks, one offsite, one of 4TB with three partitions, one for TM, two to sync a backup using Superduper - the paid version that just backs up the difference. I hope this is good enough.

rogeryu··on [dead]
This is not Letsencrypt!!!

https://letsencrypt.org/

rogeryu··on How Mark Zuckerberg’s Altruism Helps Himself
Quote from the article: Mark Zuckerberg did not donate $45 billion to charity. You may have heard that, but that was wrong. Here’s what happened instead: Mr. Zuckerberg created an investment vehicle.

In doing so, Mr. Zuckerberg and Ms. Chan did not set up a charitable foundation, which has nonprofit status. He created a limited liability company, one that has already reaped enormous benefits as public relations coup for himself. His P.R. return-on-investment dwarfs that of his Facebook stock. Mr. Zuckerberg was depicted in breathless, glowing terms for having, in essence, moved money from one pocket to the other.

An L.L.C. can invest in for-profit companies (perhaps these will be characterized as societally responsible companies, but lots of companies claim the mantle of societal responsibility). An L.L.C. can make political donations. It can lobby for changes in the law. He remains completely free to do as he wishes with his money. That’s what America is all about. But as a society, we don’t generally call these types of activities “charity.” (End of quote)

rogeryu··on Trojan found in Filezilla downloaded from SourceForge
That article is from April. Good to know about it, but is this news?
rogeryu··on Kazakhstan to MitM all HTTPS traffic starting Jan 1
I guess VPN is the only way to avoid it. Or sshuttle or something over port 80. But then again, how long will it take before they can detect that and then block it?!

Or you can use non-standard ports, and change them continuously.

rogeryu··on A Good Night’s Sleep Is Tied to Interruptions, Not Just Hours
I get up about two to three times a night. I'm not sure why, as there are multiple explanations. I go to the toilet, drink some water, and go back to bed. That takes about two minutes.

In this research, people were forced to wake up every hour and then stay up for 20 minutes. Then I would feel totally different - I have no doubt. After twenty minutes, probably in bright light, I would be awake and that would disrupt the sleep cycle totally. This might be the case when you have a small kid, but how often does this happen (in the real world) with these frequencies?

With me this is not the case. It feels natural. I don't put the light on - I can find my way without it. It takes two or three minutes, and that's it. Back in bed I fall asleep right away.

This research is presented here as if this would influence my mood? I don't know. I guess I can sleep better, but this is not the explanation that works for me.

rogeryu··on Adobe Animate CC, a New Era for Flash Professional
I truly loved Flash for it's amazing animation possibilities. And I still love it for that.
rogeryu··on Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client
I'm using TB since two years, when Apple Mail failed to load after an OSX upgrade. I wanted to move, preparing for moving to Linux later on. I have several family members using TB on Windows. My mother used Eudora for years, I believe seven years after development stopped. It never had a problem. I could copy it to Windows 7, just copying the folder with the program files in it, and it all worked.

How big is the risk if TB development stops altogether? What security risks are there when you keep using it?

My mother cannot handle changing to something new anymore. So I guess I have to take the risk.

rogeryu··on How Cocaine Changes the Brain
Good to know is that the first time you take cocaine, it works about 1000 times stronger than the natural drugs in your brain, and thus the natural highs you get. These are the normal highs you get when you score a goal in sports, when you get an A for your exam, when the girl or boy you like wants to kiss you etc.

So the first time(s) you use cocaine, you get a high that's incredible. The second time, this effect is about 100 times stronger than usual, so 10 times less strong than the first time.

Then you want to go back to that first unbelievable fantastic time, and take more. You may get at 200, but the more often you take it, the less the effect, and the stronger the craving for it. This is more or less how (this) addiction works.

The numbers I use here may be different, but it shows more or less how it works. Well as far as I understood it from the book Why Zebras don't get Ulcers which is about stress and all its side effects.

http://www.amazon.com/Zebras-Dont-Ulcers-Third-Edition/dp/08...

rogeryu··on Tamagothi (1997)
See this article: Building the Infinite Matrix of Tamagotchis

http://hackaday.com/2015/11/24/building-the-infinite-matrix-...

A limitless network of Tamagachi has been created using some amazing tricks to feed, socialize, and monitor the beast now known as the Tamagachi Singularity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_-e_cJ1-Gs

rogeryu··on The Guardian goes all-in on AWS public cloud after OpenStack 'disaster’
It's a common way to "solve" things. I live in the Netherlands. Ten or fifteen years ago we tried to cut education costs by merging schools into large school clusters. Small schools were too expensive. Now they go back and say that the large schools are too impersonal. In ten or twenty years they will go back to large schools. You can bet on this.

Is it good or bad? It means that things are changing, and they are not going back to the same situation as ten years ago. It is a matter of evolving. There are new insights, new technologies, new people.

rogeryu··on The impact of syntax colouring on program comprehension [pdf]
Sometimes long complex English sentences can be very confusing to me, especially in finding the verb in there. When two or three consecutive words have different grammatical meaning, and can be used in different grammatical meanings, it can become very confusing if English is not your mother tongue. In that case, color coding (or bold / italic / underscore) could help a lot. But for a word processor to do that, it has to understand grammar...
rogeryu··on Firefox: We Don't Need Google's Money Any More
You forget one: privacy! If you use Chrome, do you know what data will be shared with Google?
rogeryu··on Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
When I read your comment, I thought they had inserted happy smileys in their text. It made me curious enough to open the page and see the regular marketing faces for Microsoft. That was a bit of a bummer. It would have made my day to see real smileys on that page! ;-)
rogeryu··on Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
They are probably XP users. You can create a small notification on top of your website, notifying them that they should move to Firefox or Chrome because their browser is not safe anymore...
rogeryu··on Forgiveness in a vengeful age
> Forgiveness is certainly a valid path for some in some cases, but a person doesn't have to forgive to move on. We simply hold on to the light in our lives and forget the broken, narcissistic individuals who hurt us. No forgiveness to the perp needed. You're already forgotten.

Forgiveness in Marshall Rosenberg's view is all about moving on. It means letting go. If you keep on hating the criminal who stole your money or killed your kid, you keep feeding it energy. That energy can be used for other things, and it keeps you from living your own life. It doesn't mean that you should forget that it happened. It doesn't mean that you approve of what the other did. It just means - in his view - that you let go.

Forgetting - as you say - will not work. Well that's what I think. It depends on what has happened of course. If you were called a bad name in school (not systematically mentally beaten down but occasionally called stupid or something), then forgetting is a real option. When your kid is killed, forgetting is not a real option that allows you to move on. Forgiving can be. It will mean a lot of work, especially in saying goodbye to what once was.

rogeryu··on Animated SVG vs. GIF
AFAIK you can include Javascript and CSS inside an SVG image, but it's common practise not to do that. I don't know why, but there's no reason not to do it.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/5381905

http://www.w3schools.com/svg/tryit.asp?filename=trysvg_rect2 (This is inline CSS, but it can have a separate style element as well.)

rogeryu··on Infamous Software Bugs
If I wasn't one myself, I would say that the human is the biggest bug of all.
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