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hasanove | 14 years ago | on: Îñţérñåţîöñåļîžåţîöñ

> Always make it ridiculously easy to switch to english, always. In many cases you probably should make english the default even though you have a localized version (this is especially true for web sites, few things are as annoying as having to change language again and again and again

Yeah, like google.com. Whatever I do it just does not seem to be possible to permanently set US version of google.com as default, not local version. Especially frustrating when traveling to other countries and getting it in language you do not understand.

hasanove | 14 years ago | on: Bitcoin is Not Anonymous

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Anonymity says pretty much the same, though in a general terms

"The main problem is that every transaction is publicly logged. Anyone can see the flow of Bitcoins from address to address (see first image). Alone, this information can't identify anyone because the addresses are just random numbers. However, if any of the addresses in a transaction's past or future can be tied to an actual identity, it might be possible to work from that point and figure out who owns all of the other addresses. This identity information might come from network analysis, surveillance, or just Googling the address. The officially-encouraged practice of using a new address for every transaction is designed to make this attack more difficult."

Not that you are saying they claimed otherwise and it is exactly your article that made me look through this page in detail, so thanks for that.

hasanove | 15 years ago | on: HTC 1

Using Nexus One for 6 months, and have total of may be 6 accidental hits to those keys.

hasanove | 16 years ago | on: Upgrading a Rails 2 App to Rails 3

Dive in now. I am using Rails 3 for our new project and it works perfectly fine. There are no real reasons to spend effort on building something on Rails 2.3 now. Especially, given that Rails 3 has significant improvements and is a pleasure to work with.

hasanove | 16 years ago | on: Pedal to the Chrome metal: Our fastest beta to date for Windows, Mac and Linux

While I use Chrome as default, I too miss Firefox autocompletion.

In Firefox, I would just start typing "Hacker News" and HN would popup as a first suggestion after first letter, probably based on usage frequency.

The only way to get the same result in Chrome, is to start typing "news.ycombinator.com", which means you have to remember url, not the name. Chrome, will surely find by "Hacker News" too, but I will need to type in at least 5-6 characters for that.

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