Hacker News: tajen

New comment by tajen in "OpenSSL 3.0.7 fixes X.509 email address buffer overflows"

tajen — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 15:56:36 +0000

The most surprising to me is that NodeJS says they are affected https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/openssl-november-20...

New comment by tajen in "12 Factor CLI Apps"

tajen — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 06:56:05 +0000

What is difficult with ffmpeg is the sub-language in each argument, which depends on the filter you’re using. I can learn to lookup the manual, but if I have to go to the internet to learn the syntax of the filter, I’m better off googling my usecas.

New comment by tajen in "How companies use fake sites, backdated articles to censor Google results (2017)"

tajen — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 06:36:04 +0000

We use colons for the same reason as in English, but there is a space before colons in French (Microsoft Word inserts it automatically for you in French), and no uppercase after the colon.

New comment by tajen in "Marriage Costs in China Are Out of Control"

tajen — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 00:20:39 +0000

There are studies that the larger the bed (at home) and the fancier the reception, the shorter the marriage. But more friends means longer marriage. Basically a barbecue with heaps of mates predicts the longest marriages.

Of course the stats above are the land of correlations-not-causations; larger bed may mean financially more stable therefore more independant and less dependent on the partner’s income, or similar. Still fun ;)

New comment by tajen in "How companies use fake sites, backdated articles to censor Google results (2017)"

tajen — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 00:07:30 +0000

In French, no space before a comma or a period (unless want to explicitly communicate your disdain for computery things or you’re above 60) but we do put a space before : ? !

Example: « Pas de palais : pas de palais ! »

(^Quote from the Asterix movie that will be way more useful to you for making French friends in a bar than saying « I can’t speak French » in French)

New comment by tajen in "Atlassian's new terms forbid benchmarking"

tajen — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 14:15:45 +0000

Atlassian has always forbidden to talk about the performance of their products in their ToS and in their previous EULA. We all know why, but we don’t talk about it.

One of my customers even raised the issue with them, saying it would cause harm to the company if it came to be known, but they dodgeball’ed it with legal.

New comment by tajen in "Ask HN: What things have richly rewarded the time invested in mastering them?"

tajen — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 17:20:11 +0000

I work with beaten husbands and most often, the beating starts because of their inability to produce income for the wife. Most divorces start after a layoff too.

If you believe you have value beyond your ability to produce, it’s nice, many people transform beliefs into truth by excluding all opposite evidence. Meanwhile, keeping the wife is way more correlated with produce than other factors like weight or unmeasurable things (aka: love and attention).

New comment by tajen in "This blog has moved"

tajen — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 20:13:22 +0000

or Gmail. From there, control on any online account you have.

Gmail used to be the argument to log in to their services. Now, if you use Gmail, it’s probably better to dodge the other services, by fear of losing Gmail.

New comment by tajen in "The future of Java and OpenJDK updates without Oracle support"

tajen — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 10:50:53 +0000

But not acting could be worse, it could ruin the whole sector of Java, Scala and the JVM, be it discredit or economic irrelevance.

New comment by tajen in "Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access To Your Shadow Contact Information"

tajen — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 07:17:03 +0000

I didn’t give facebook my phone, my email has timed out (and facebook knows it, it deactivated my email) and I forgot my password, more or less intentionally. So the only thing tying me to Facebook is my browser cookie. I have to say, I’m surprised I’ve been able to keep this account open for years in this state, it’s almost as if they really wanted me to stay. But it’s possible to keep a facebook account alive with no accurate contact information.

New comment by tajen in "In killing Inbox, Google takes another swipe at its most passionate users"

tajen — Sun, 16 Sep 2018 00:17:11 +0000

Gmail itself was in beta, until recently. Everything was in beta.

New comment by tajen in "E Ink Waveforms are a closely guarded secret"

tajen — Sun, 16 Sep 2018 00:10:42 +0000

and the historic basis of patents is “Strong protection for 20 years, but you gotta share your invention”.

New comment by tajen in "Macron Push to Drop CIA Code Quickens as Trump Calls EU Foe"

tajen — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 12:14:47 +0000

Problem in Europe is that there’s always a chase against rich people, too. One could not build Apple in France, they would get mugged – at best you get laws against the concentration of money.

Meanwhile you get benefits if your startup is in one of the approved sectors and employing doctorates. You don’t get money if you are just reusing proven tech like Apple does; You have to do research. That means we fund research a lot, while we tax implementation. I guess it’s mostly great for competing countries.

And thus, the economy is mostly guided in Europe, as opposed to innovative.

New comment by tajen in "XSV: A fast CSV command-line toolkit written in Rust"

tajen — Sat, 08 Sep 2018 22:35:25 +0000

XML-separated values? Fortunately no: command line program for indexing, slicing, analyzing, splitting and joining CSV files.

New comment by tajen in "I know why rejection emails suck – I write them"

tajen — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 20:24:35 +0000

I once sent 49 rejection letters (for an internship!): « Here are statistics about the 50 applications I’ve received. » Received big thanks from at least 50% of them.

New comment by tajen in "Facebook’s New Message to WhatsApp: Make Money"

tajen — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 18:26:36 +0000

What about groupchat?

New comment by tajen in "Why restaurants became so loud"

tajen — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 10:30:18 +0000

In Sydney I would always avoid the main CBD street (George St). It’s so noisy with cars, it doesn’t only prevent people from talking, but also thinking... It’s a classical case of 3-lane street with busses going 60kmh, with glass buildings on both sides, so as a pedestrian you’re stuck in a resonnance enclosure.

New comment by tajen in "Ask HN: What were/are you doing at age 25? What would you change?"

tajen — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 21:17:50 +0000

That is statistically the most usual ending of your story in 2018, if that comforts you. Be strong.

Be aware that there are thousands of people who empathize with your situation, whether or not you succeeded to find life after separation from the mother, we actually gather together to discuss problems and potential solutions, because — most importantly — we (and I assure you there are many women among us) admire what divorced fathers do for society and we think you are very important to the betterment of this world.

New comment by tajen in "For One Last Night, Make It a Blockbuster Night"

tajen — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 01:24:56 +0000

No license required? nor fee? I mean, if you can rent any physical media it’s a big loss of revenue for a studio, I’ve always assumed the studios got a share of rentals.

New comment by tajen in "Digital Exile: How I Got Banned for Life from AirBnB"

tajen — Sat, 14 Jul 2018 07:19:19 +0000

blablacar.com limits the complaints to 120 characters. And once, they gave the complaint to the driver before they rated me, so the driver rated mr 0/5.