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github.com 14y ago

Push Chrome page views straight to Statsd

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and.nothingtohide.is 14y ago

Communications Providers Social Commitment for Privacy

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kaerast.info 14y ago

Show HN: A nicer way of browsing your watched Github repos

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www.musicjuggle.com 14y ago

Show HN: Music Juggle - enables swapping old mp3 players to get new music

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www.linkedin.com 15y ago

Mentoring Is Not The Only Fruit

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pastebin.com 15y ago

Show HN: JS to style Reddit as Hacker News

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baconipsum.com 15y ago

Bacon Ipsum - A meatier Lorem Ipsum generator

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www.thinq.co.uk 15y ago

Tesco launches in-store navigation trial

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labs.apnic.net 15y ago

Tracking users' IPv6 capability using Google Analytics

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www.cloudspokes.com 15y ago

CloudSpokes: Participate in challenges, earn a little cash on the side too.

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fayechat.kaerast.info 15y ago

Show HN: Webchat with API in just ~60 lines of NodeJS

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blog.primaryt.co.uk 15y ago

Introducing PrimaryWall – Simply fast sticky notes

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drupaldiff.kaerast.info 15y ago

Drupal Upgrade Patch Generator

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relishapp.com 15y ago

Relish - Browsable Cucumber Features

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www.techspot.com 15y ago

Intel's Sandy Bridge processors have a remote kill switch

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code.google.com 15y ago

Mod_pagespeed is an Apache module that automatically optimizes web pages

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kaerast.tumblr.com 15y ago

Comparing MongoDB and CouchDB Replication

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econsultancy.com 15y ago

Google caught hard-coding results?

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testfirst.org 15y ago

Learn Ruby by teaching yourself to make these Rspec tests pass

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The problems you had when trying to switch to git are the exact same problems I have as a git fangirl when trying to use svn. To a large extent the choice of version control system comes down to what you feel happiest with, but there are certain workflows which suit one or the other slightly better.

If you're making heavy use of svn externals then you'll find git submodules pretty horrible. But if your aim is to manage files between multiple users then git's distributed nature may make your life much easier if you give it some more time.

When leaving my grandparents' house for a long journey home, everybody was always instructed to give three rings when they get home safely. To this day I always let a phone ring three times before answering, partly in case it's an "I'm OK" message and partly because waiting for somebody to answer gives the caller time to think what they actually want to say.

My grandparents didn't have caller ID and so had no idea who was telling them they'd got home safely, but they could guess based on timings pretty well.

You realise you can offer an exit node for only certain ports? It's not perfect for what you want but its a start.

Break Google 15 years ago

No, that's designed to break - within that range is a large amount of credit cards numbers, and Google blocks that. The OP however is a genuine bug.

Don't worry about it, if a user doesn't know what Tweets or direct messages are then the service isn't for them. You'll struggle to get people to start using Twitter just to register domains when there's plenty of good registrars already, most people will have their favourite they use regularly.

I see this more as a service for power Twitter users so they can easily register new domains after having a drunken idea.

I believe this incident probably is the reason for the drop in price, along with the incident at Bitomat just before. It's just people reacting to vulnerabilities in the market though, so far there has been no evidence to suggest any of these bitcoins have been sold. If they were to be sold off in bulk then it would cause a much larger crash.

On some badly configured Nginx servers the filename extension isn't parsed correctly. A php.jpg file will be executed as php because a badly written regex will match the .php.

Even if you don't have such vulnerabilities you probably don't want people to be able to upload images to your server. They could easily send you over quota on shared hosting and use your bandwidth for serving their own images (including child porn).

One hopes he is smart enough to have a solid legal argument for what he has done. If he loses the legal battle then it's going to set a bad precedent for all these academic document stores to continue keeping hold of this information. On the other hand, if he were to win then it may make it harder for groups like JSTOR to continue restricting access to their data.

Find the Github account with the most forks and followers. That's probably the official repository and will link to the official website. They may not use Github of course, but there are other similar methods.

Other good signs are them being linked to from cdnjs, cached-commons or microjs. If I'm looking to solve a javascript itch I'll first browse these sites to see if there is a popular tool.

Also, if you're looking for jQuery then it's because you've read about it online somewhere. Simply go back and follow the links.

"I really wish someone else had created this."

You mean like any number of startup social networks each year that fail because they can't get the traction which Google is more likely to? It's sad, but that's the way it is - there are innovative and good social networking sites out there, but without the backing that a Google product has they keep failing.

The site is awful, no explanation at all on the frontpage - it just asks you to provide them with something you love without any incentive. Then there's the slider thing on the top left of the search results which adds nothing at all.

"Explore your mom in 3D" was pretty amusing though.

You don't need any specific software to be able to use two-factor authentication, it works nicely for me in any Linux distro I've tried and also Windows Mobile 6.1 (yes I know)

The software might make it easier than receiving an sms which needs typing in, but all your mobile applications can still use the system - you just generate a new pasword for each application (as you would for a Google Talk client on your desktop).

My laptop has encrypted hard disks so is set to remember Google passwords for 30 days. I can login from other devices using my pasword and an sms validation code which expires as soon as I log out.

The styling isn't perfect, feel free to modify, but it's good enough to show the two side by side and see how people react. I guess it'd be interesting to do it the other way round too.

This has the same problem as Facebook Likes - you can create a +1 for a url other than the one you are currently on. And spot the javascript callback which encourages a '+1 this page to reach the video' setup.

I've run that on all manner of devices and infrastructures and it has never told me I will have any problems on World IPv6 Day. That's not because it is inacurate, it's because the vast majority of setups will continue to work perfectly on June 8th.