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RoryH | 5 years ago | on: The History of Development of Norton Commander (2010)

Came here to basically say this :-)

As a web dev, I find the FF dev tools a good bit less performant, but I still try to use it always without reverting to Chrome.. The one feature I have not found in FF dev tools is Search, this is very handy for find random JavaScript on a JS heavy site.

Edit: This post prompted me to Google for it: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Debugger/How_...

Move along, nothing to see.. :-\

RoryH | 6 years ago | on: America is turning against facial-recognition software

Nouvelle idea: maybe we should just lock people up who violate people's safety instead of taking away everyone privacy ;-)

RoryH | 7 years ago | on: Malicious remote code execution backdoor discovered bootstrap-sass Ruby gem

Anyone maintaining a library with a large audience of consumers should be mandated to use 2FA/MFA, I can only assume from the information here that they only had a set of credentials for authing :-(

RoryH | 7 years ago | on: How Does React Tell a Class from a Function?

Indeed, also checkout the React.PureComponent for another example of an in-between Class and Function optimisation.

RoryH | 7 years ago | on: One of the world’s most visited websites that nobody is aware of (2017)

How much time did this guy save people by providing the content quickly and easily to users? I say fair game to Vladimir for his innovation.

RoryH | 8 years ago | on: Tesla’s response to getting maps updates over LTE or service center WiFi

Can here to suggest this ;-)

RoryH | 8 years ago | on: UK plans age verification for porn websites from 2018

VPN stocks are surely going up on this news.

RoryH | 8 years ago | on: I decided to disable AMP on my site

This is the most Microsoft-esque thing Google has done IIRC!

RoryH | 9 years ago | on: Microsoft Stream

It's Enterprise Youtube :-/

RoryH | 9 years ago | on: The Fixing-JSON Conversation

I think now is a good time to re-quote the man himself... Douglas Crockford..

https://plus.google.com/+DouglasCrockfordEsq/posts/RK8qyGVaG...

  I removed comments from JSON because I saw people were using them to hold parsing directives, a practice which would have destroyed interoperability.  I know that the lack of comments makes some people sad, but it shouldn't. 

  Suppose you are using JSON to keep configuration files, which you would like to annotate. Go ahead and insert all the comments you like. Then pipe it through JSMin before handing it to your JSON parser.

RoryH | 10 years ago | on: AWS S3 Outage

"Elevated Error rates" probably does not qualify as breach of their SLA

RoryH | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: My SSH server knows who you are

Eh, I only forward my github ssh key to the host github.com so you don't know who I am ;-)

RoryH | 10 years ago | on: Device Metrics

That data in API format would be nicer ;-)

RoryH | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Company got acquired, new contract seems oppressive

If you're good enough at your job and the company values you then don't sign... What are they going to do. Surely your existing contract should still stand.

RoryH | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why USB drives are still using the FAT32 format?

I traditionally use exFat to go between Windows and OSX seamlessly, however I recently had to reformat to FAT32 to use it in a Sony DVD player

RoryH | 11 years ago | on: WEB DEVELOPER (DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES)

Same shit different country (Ireland)... this is very much an international problem, and the reason why software is a good career choice IMO.

RoryH | 11 years ago | on: The USSR used a nuclear charge to stop a gas well fire in 1966

Reminded me of this cool invention.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E16g1_ibpBM

RoryH | 11 years ago | on: Real Life MMO FPS

How long before some law enforcement officer shoots somebody thinking they are holding a real gun?

RoryH | 11 years ago | on: Australia bans reporting of multi-nation corruption case

Might the lack of reporting also be Rupert Murdoch related?