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There are plenty of problems that go away by themselves because there was no problem to begin with. The micro-managing managers that suddenly get a bright insight that needs to happen now, only to completely forget about it a day later. The impatient people who can't wait 5 minutes before the annual reports are generated and sent out to their inboxes. There are plenty of solutions out there just looking for a problem that doesn't need to solved.

> TBH I'm a bit disappointed this on high up on HN.

I have no idea who you are, what you've done or if I've ever read anything you've written. Yet the idea of... retreating from the public side of the internet, or perhaps the internet all together, seems mighty appealing to me. Perhaps others agree, and this is the reason it is high up on HN?

Doesn't sound like he or she considers it "fun". Different tastes I guess. To me, all the "problems" mentioned are the whole reason I'd love to undertake something like this.

This is why all my vacations are "zero technology". I bring absolutely no electronics except for an old non-smartphone in case of emergencies. This way I don't have to feel guilty, because I can't be "productive" anyway.

I would put it as downright hostile and exceptionally cynical actually. Critical would be fine in itself.

I once accidentally (by a third party) had an article of mine reach the front page of HN, and I was actually afraid of reading the comments. They were actually quite positive, which surprised me. That in itself seems like kind of a sad thing.

> Let's just ignore the fact that you do not actually need to be guilty of copyright infringement

I'm not ignoring that. A simple counter-claim will get your contents reinstated. You don't actually have to be guilty of copyright infringement to get sued in court. The DMCA does not change this.

> most people do not have the resources to sue a large corporation

What does this have to do with the DMCA? The DMCA is about content carriers, not end users. There is no way data carriers would allow themselves to be liable for the copyright infringements of their users. Thus, without the DMCA, they would simply comply with any legal threat regardless of its merits. The DMCA puts the power back in the hands of the people by allowing the user to file a counter-claim and getting their contents reinstated without any risk to the content carrier.

You could get sued for copyright infringement before the DMCA, and now you still can. Nothing has changed in that regard.

Ignoring the obviously sensationalized and wildly inaccurate headline, this is another great example of how well the DMCA actually works (not being sarcastic here). The information carrier is exempted from legal action, the party that filed the false DMCA notice has made themselves liable to be sued, and the actual copyright owner can get their contents reinstated with almost no trouble. To me, the DMCA is a textbook example of how to write a decent law.

We're just arguing semantics here.

From what I've always understood, the philosophy isn't "everything is a file" (the unified namespace variant), but "everything is a file descriptor" (the API kind).

> I mean I wonder what kind of info he has given (if any) to these countries.

I assume those countries already had their hands on that information (and more). If it was easy for Snowden to get his hands on it, it would have been just as easy for them.

This information falling in foreign hands isn't much of a problem I would guess. The real fear is more information leaking to the biggest enemy: the public. I would not be surprised if part of the dealing of granting him asylum was that he stop leaking to the public.

When it comes to sexual bias, hacker news readers/commenters generally discard the "evidence" bit. And of course, nobody mentions the author's obvious anti-male and age bias ("but when I viewed it through the skewed view of middle-aged men who thought I was a woman").

Strange. I see only one blocked, and I've got everything blocked and auto-update turned on. I think your ghostery may be malfuctioning, because a cursory glance at the resources doesn't reveal much out of the ordinary.

I find it funny that the author chose to publish this on medium. Had he not, would I have ended up reading it? Which is better, reaching a large audience with mild incitement which is tolerated by the censors, or being able to be as provocative as you wish, but remaining unread?

If anybody is still wondering why BBC Worldwide would block its contents from viewers in the UK, it seems reactions like these are what they're trying to prevent.

It answered a question I've been asking myself, so I upvoted it.

It seems to be compatible with Dash's DocSets, so you could use those on it.

FYI, Apparently there is a clone for Linux called ZealDocs (http://zealdocs.org/).

For me, DevDocs is nicer at the moment:

- It's faster

- I don't have to select a programming language before I can start searching

- It handles keyboard input a lot better. As soon as the page loads, I can start typing, move down with the arrow keys and activate a selection with the enter key.

I don't know about the US, but there's a project here in the Netherlands where ISPs can voluntary submit that information to a central databank where law enforcement can access it. There's some due process that has to be done before law enforcement may access it, but it's been shown that the process is faulty or not adhered too.

What's the price for your mental health?

I deal with pretty complex queries daily, and I completely forgot what HAVING did exactly. I guess it's because I long ago realized that if I had to use HAVING in a query, I'm doing something wrong. That's almost always a Reporting/BusIntel tool's job, not mine.

evil maid attack wouldn't have worked in this situation, since she broke in and stole the laptop. I also doubt she has the know-how to perform an evil maid attack. Enabling a BIOS boot password would make it more difficult to stealthily perform an evil maid attack. Finally, "no security is perfect" is not an excuse for having no security.

Not all exploits are zero-day exploits. As I understand it, a zero-day exploit is one that is used in the wild before it is disclosed. Plenty (most) vulnerabilities are only disclosed once a fix has been implemented.

Interesting. When I do some searches on the Dutch version of Indeed.com, I get very different results: Perl (421 hits), PHP (2397 hits), Python (493 hits), Java (3173 hits). The top of the Perl listings seem to be for system administrators, and are not a required skill. Contrasting that to PHP, where the top are all specifically asking for PHP.

I personally haven't spotted Perl in the wild as a serious programming language for a long time. Again, it seems Perl is mostly popular with system administrators without much programming experience. But that might very well be just my little corner of the world, which happens to be a hosting company.

Chrome automatically recognizes searches on sites, so that you can just type "ama[TAB]" in de URL bar, and it will give you a site-specific search straight in the URL bar (provided that "ama" auto-completes to "amazon.com" for you, naturally). This works for basically every site you've ever visited that has search functionality. It's pretty decent.

> because it's impossible to improve a programming language

Well, since "improve" is a relative and a matter of taste, it is impossible to improve a language, isn't it? Make it run faster, and it will either take up more memory or be slower to develop with. Make it faster to develop with, and it will run slower or have some other tradeoff.

Hence, "use the right tool for the job". And when your focus shifts from "quickly building a product" or "quickly adding new features" to "rock-solid stable and fast", then you need to switch tools. Simple as that.

You do realize that the curl API says this:

> The default value for this option is 2.

In other words, there is absolutely no issue here. It does the right thing out of the box.

> Whats the difference between this and blogging socially on wordpress.com or blogger or tumblr?

My answer would be: focus. It's nice that you visited YetAnotherCon 2012, and created ten blog posts about it, but honestly, I don't really care.

Storylane focuses on telling stories. http://folklore.org, which does something similar, although even more focussed, is a fantastic read. My hope is that similar intriguing insights into people's lives pop up on Storylane.

This article is bunk. I'd advise the author to stay far away from fortune tellers and palm readers.

You can easily show those jerks by driving at high speed and braking like an idiot right before you hit a speed trap.

The reason the Netherlands employs so many mobile speed traps is because people quickly learn where the fixed speed traps are and simply ignore the speed limits in between, or try to "make up for time lost by having to brake for a speed trap" (yes, I've heard and seen plenty of people do this).

This is why radar detectors are illegal in the Netherlands.