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zwerdlds··on Chrome 59 has cross-platform headless support
FWIW, you can do that now, using phantomjs (which is chrome) http://phantomjs.org/screen-capture.html
zwerdlds··on Ask HN: Cheap but decent quality Android smartphone?
Seconded. I have a Moto G3. Cheap, solid, beater that IDGAF about key scratches. Never had any hardware issues.

Root-ready by the mfg, running Cyanogen from day 1.

zwerdlds··on USPS Informed Delivery – Digital Images of Front of Mailpieces
here you go: https://about.usps.com/forms/ps1500.pdf
zwerdlds··on Ask HN: What's your backup setup?
FreeNAS via rsync to an old leftover ReadyNAS Duo with mirroring.

FreeNAS ui makes this super simple from that end, and, despite being pitifully out of date, the ReadyNAS supports rsync to the extent that I need.

zwerdlds··on FAP80, a retro computer without the retro baggage
It's in the repo. There is no guessing necessary.
zwerdlds··on FAP80, a retro computer without the retro baggage
If you go looking for issues, you'll find them, alright...

From the repo: "FAP stands for FPGA Assisted Processor, inspired by Steve Ciarcia's 1981 book Build Your Own Z80 Computer, in which he called his computer ZAP, short for Z80 Application Processor."

zwerdlds··on Facebook accepts slightly mis-typed passwords
Capital One, at least at some point in the past, was storing in plaintext - they had a "what's the fourth character in your password" check.

At least in this thread, people seem to be giving FB the benefit of the doubt on that particular anti-pattern.

Can anyone rule out plaintext storage?

zwerdlds··on CVS just announced a cheap generic alternative to the EpiPen
Sounded like $109 was for a 2-pack. Is that Belgian price maybe a single?
zwerdlds··on In Election Hacking, Julian Assange’s Years-Old Vision Becomes Reality
Is "Election Cracking" perhaps the way you interpreted the title here?
zwerdlds··on Blazing Fast HTML: Elm vs. React vs. Angular vs. Ember
Mithril's omission is telling, as it it often faster than even Elm by 50% or so.

http://lhorie.github.io/todomvc-perf-comparison/todomvc-benc...

zwerdlds··on FreeNAS: Open Source Storage Operating System
I've got a FreeNAS box which has endured two disk failures no problem. I have scheduled weekly rebuilds which I'm hoping finds bad blocks ahead of a failure-base rebuild.
zwerdlds··on FreeNAS: Open Source Storage Operating System
Not to mention, the jails system in FreeNAS has been in flux in the past. It never quite worked well for me, so offloading the "app" stuff to a workhorse is what I did.
zwerdlds··on Ask HN: Is anyone using json schema?
We are using it at my current place of work with https://github.com/jdorn/json-editor to generate simple administrative UIs for backing configurations for non-technical users.

It's not a fantastic UX but it works and it's fast to develop.

The docs are sparse but for my money the format is relatively intuitive. I'd prefer to be using XML/XSL/XSLT as they are FAR more powerful, but that's just what you get with JSON.

zwerdlds··on Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it
Moreover, why would he even know in the first place?
zwerdlds··on Braid Code Cleanup (part 1)
The true "10xer".
zwerdlds··on Stick a Fork in Ethereum
This is what ties it all together.
zwerdlds··on Emails from a CEO Who Just Has a Few Changes to the Website
Oh god. Oracle? shudders
zwerdlds··on The death of neoliberalism from within
It seems like you have an issue with government-level intervention in general. Is that the case?
zwerdlds··on The death of neoliberalism from within
The IMF is a lender of last resort. Governments aren't forced to utilize them, and evidence shows that currency devaluation is often a better strategy.

Having unfavorable terms, as you've described, makes the bitter pill of devaluation look a little sweeter.

But in response to your question, I'm not sure how it's not free market. Can you describe specifically what doesn't get covered from the "it's not forced lending" argument?

zwerdlds··on The death of neoliberalism from within
I'm not agreeing with the strategy, it just seemed like the OP had a problem with what the IMF does. For the IMF to stop, it would have to dissolve.
zwerdlds··on The death of neoliberalism from within
To be fair, it is the IMF - their inherent mission is to lend, it's even in their name.
zwerdlds··on Peter Thiel, Tech Billionaire, Reveals Secret War with Gawker
Yeah I'm with you on that angle. Dumping money onto lawyers to attack people you don't like costs them legal fees to simply defend themselves.

The post I was responding to was advocating apparently limitless free speech, though. Chilling effects SHOULD apply to certain things, and unapproved pornography of yourself maybe should be one of those?

Limitless speech but limited recourse isn't worth advocating, IMO.

zwerdlds··on Peter Thiel, Tech Billionaire, Reveals Secret War with Gawker
Are you genuinely advocating the limitless disclosure of nude images of people, with no legal recourse to prevent that?

Am I grossly misunderstanding this case?

zwerdlds··on Programmers are not different, they need simple UIs
I only dealt with K2 in '10, so things may have changed, but even in the sales process they had engineers on the line. One of the better 'sales' experiences IMO.

Oh, and if you are genuinely interested in trying K2 before buying, I'll be they'd set up a VM for you to remote into. They did for me in '10.

zwerdlds··on Programmers are not different, they need simple UIs
IMO, K2 really has a good entry in the business rules engine problem with a solid, kinda-accessible UI.

I am confident, having scoped many a project, that often the case is the stakeholder not quite knowing what they want. A good UI then is a good step forward to allowing the stakeholder to iterate on refining their interpretation of their own problem.

zwerdlds··on The Expression Problem and its solutions
Yeah, AFAIK, extension methods just have to work on POCOs, which string and money (or decimal) are.
zwerdlds··on The Expression Problem and its solutions
Not sure if I interpreted the problem correctly, but in C# composing interfaces and using generic extension methods with type predicates:

interface IFooAble { ... }

interface IBarAble : IFooAble { ... }

static class FooProcessor {

    static T ProcessFoo<T>(T fooInst) 

        where T: IFooAble { ... }
}

This gives us something that as long as the object implements IFooAble, we can use this extension for free. I.E: IBarAble can use ProcessFoo just fine. This works really well for writing fluent interfaces as demoed above.

zwerdlds··on More Than 40% of Student Borrowers Aren’t Making Payments
Teaching at Title 1 schools for five years can result in $17500 of forgiveness, with some stipulations I'm forgetting.
zwerdlds··on One of the FBI’s Major Claims in the iPhone Case Is Fraudulent
That's it!
zwerdlds··on One of the FBI’s Major Claims in the iPhone Case Is Fraudulent
Not for the 5S. The iPhone TPM (or "Secure Enclave") is available on the A7 processor and above. The 5S includes an A6.
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