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> Many ISP's including my own in the U.S. don't allow running servers from home, especially SMTP.

Land of the free! Start your own ISP! ;-)

You start over! Everything is gone, so what else can you do?! No joking, this is a serious issue.

So take two people, take two hairs of each, pick two random hairs of those two, and compare them. I guess this could work out quite well. Do this for 1000 pairs of two different people, and 10 will fail, so that is 1%.

This is how I understand it now. It's not that he says that he compares one hair to those 1000, and then still was sure to be able to keep them apart. That was how I first read it.

For a good comparison, he should have used a line-up. Take one hair from 100 persons with similar hair color and use that as test sample. If he was still able to tell which was from the same person, he would have a case.

I bet you can buy ads to promote your events. FB will know the location of the beacons, and can serve your ads to people walking there.

The app uploads your contacts, and probably monitors many other things that you don't want. Firefox won't let Facebook do this. And I prefer Firefox as Chrome will do similar things for Google - not the contacts, but keeping history of websites you visit etc.

I use BT only at home for streaming music to the stereo, and I guess I'm not the only one.

One more reason not to install the app and use the smartphone browser for Facebook, and not Chrome if on Android, but Firefox of course. But then again, I rarely have Bluetooth on, only at home for streaming music.

Well dropbox is excellent and secure in combination with Encfs.

Sync it in an encfs encrypted folder, and it should be fine!

I see 8.0.1 and get to download that.

It could happen, if this had worldwide scientific consensus (Japan, China, Australia, US, Europe and Russia), and if agreed on in the UN. And if you dump this all at once in the same place, you're stupid. It could be dumped over the course of years in different places, while monitoring radiation levels in water and fish.

Yep, that's exactly my strategy!

However, this works opposite by not hiding in the mass. The thief hides in the mass, as bikes themselves don't flee the scene when a thief is in sight. So the trick is to find a good place for my bike. As I have a fragile racing bike (old and cheap but technically in good condition), those massive outdoors parking systems are not good places. People pull and push to get their bikes out, and a racing bike wouldn't survive that for long. So I find places where my bike is safe.

It's always fun to see that I park my bike in an empty spot, and after an hour or so the space if filled with other bikes.

You can lock your bike however you want, but any experienced thief can remove those locks within minutes. No reasonable priced combination of locks keeps a thief from taking your bike.

Luckily there are so many bikes in Utrecht and Amsterdam and especially around Central Station (10-20k), that chances that they take your bike are really low. Then if you use a good lock, one that takes an extra minute to break, and if you put your bike in a good location, you're relatively safe.

Reminds me of Minestorm on the Vectrex!

Never comment on something you don't read properly!

I use the DNS flusher addon in Firefox, and with the Status-4-evar toolbar addon, I can see the IP address of the sites I visit. My provider (not in Finland) offers IPv6 support, and I see IPv6 addresses quite often, especially for Google, Facebook and other big sites.

This addon makes IPv6 real for me. I know my provider uses IPv6, but actually seeing this address makes a difference to me. Most people don't know and don't care, and they shouldn't as normal user, but for me it's different.

Until this gets so popular that Google or Flickr start to analyse photos, and come to the conclusion to either delete those photos and videos, or to convert them and destroying the data for you. Then, years later, you need your backup and ....

I moved away in 1999 to the Mac, and because of the incredible expensive Macs nowadays, I'm probably going to make another move, to Ubuntu.

Still, Steve Jobs was not an easy guy either. I don't know if he would mock an employee for having an Android phone? Not unlikely given how anti-Android he was.

Keep the app free, and if ad-free, keep it like that. Try to make it bigger. This is your investment in the future. If you have an app with +1 or +10 million installs, that's a beautiful item on your resumé. If you really want to use that app for money, create new functionality via in-app payments, or give all old users a life-time free version that can be transferred to other devices. Better use it to attract attention from investors and let them give money to you for a second app.

I use GPG/PGP to sign my mails, using PGP/Mime, not inline PGP, which creates an ugly mail header that will confuse many readers. My mail has a signature.asc file, and sometimes I get a question about this. Then I explain. The most surprising about this is that most people don't ask anything. Maybe they figure it out, but I doubt that. I do this to introduce the concept to other people.

So you want an investor who is also employee. If you can't find a good CTO who doesn't need a salary, try to find an investor who wants to pay his salary.

I search Amazon and Ebay for reserved Javascript keyboards, but haven't found any. I'm now going to search for Javascript objects and hope to find them there!

Please don't forget to use multiple properly named symlinks here and there.

You could find out what motivates you. Look at the SIMA method, or find something similar. And realize this method may not work 100%, but it should give you good directions.

http://www.amazon.com/Power-Uniqueness-The-Arthur-Miller/dp/...

Based on the idea that every person is endowed from birth with a unique pattern of competencies and motivations, or giftedness, this book describes your Motivated Abilities Pattern (MAP), which indicates your personal giftedness and encourages you to pursue your unique calling and live a purposeful life that is highly productive and richly satisfying. Formerly titled Why You Can't Be Anything You Want to Be.

How about driving a car that needs to be relocated for someone or some company from west to east, for free? It will take some time, but it looks like you have that.

When I started studying at university there was this guy who was in his last year, had only half a year to go, and then decided to quit. I didn't understand it at all. Six years later I did. I quit. I regret it.

I regret not getting the proper support. And I regret rejecting the support I got. I thought I will manage, and I still do, but... All those stories about Gates and Jobs and whoever dropped out and became a famous bazillionaire - most of us who drop out don't. My salary is OK, but certainly not great. If I look at what people earn after finishing university, that's a significant gap with what I get - even now.

If you don't pass your exams this year, try again next year. Maybe after ten or twenty years you'll look back and think that you would have managed without that diploma, but if it happens to be that you look back in regret - it won't be easy to take up your study and finish the exam. You won't have the time and energy. Why? Your job! It takes up most of your time and energy, and hopefully there will be a family - wife and kids, and they take up most of the rest.

If you were certain that you would be successful without diploma, you would already have a running business.

I've done a Spanish course in my early 30s. I went to Spain, did a two week course there, four hours a day, very basic. The afternoon was free, although we had to prepare homework, which could be quite a lot if you wanted to commit to it.

Before going there I learnt some basic stuff: conjugations of being, having, doing, most prepositions, basic counting (1-100), some emotions and words like walking, seeing, right/left etc. The first morning they had a basic test and I could skip the first course because of my preparation. The first week was quite boring, just like being in high school, with stupid stories etc.

The second week on wednesday night we had a Sangria-tour around town. After several beers and sangrias I started speaking Spanish. Up til then my Spanish was mostly impaired by fear of failure, afraid to make mistakes. My teacher was there and I spoke to her for a half hour, of course with lots of help, searching for the right words, making many mistakes, but suddenly the fear was gone.

Russia: do the vodka tour! ;-) Laugh a lot and don't care about what they think. Listen to their English and compare that to your Russian.

I stayed in an appartment with other foreign students. Among eachother we didn't speak Spanish. You could stay with a Spanish family, and they don't speak English in general, so then you have to find a way. That will help a lot.

After these two weeks I've done two courses in my home town, and left it at that. Now when I'm in Spain I can speak Spanish after several days. I can manage in hotels and shops, have very basic conversations. My French has improved incredibly since then as well.

Disclaimer: in High School we had English, German, French, and even Latin and classic Greek, so I had a good basic knowledge and knew how to learn a language. It takes a lot of effort. After finishing high school my languages were bad and clumsy. After going on holidays I suddenly got to enjoy it. Doing a study where all books were English it all started to change.

Long story short: it takes a lot of effort. Do it all - traditional and pragmatic. Going to Russia is probably most effective.

If I need to translate using Google Translate, copy & paste will do. I don't need to do this directly in Gmail.

Can't wait to run C64 games at 50x the original speed! But very cool this! ;-)

I think you are doing a decent job. However when you want to do the same for a big(ger) company, or a bank or multinational like Shell or IBM, the expectations go up. Then your setup will not be enough. I work like you, try to learn, every day. I'm not a professional sysadmin and I don't think I would get a job when I applied for one, but by lack of the real thing, I'm doing the sysadmin job.