kancer's comments

kancer | 8 years ago | on: My Struggles with Rust

You may be interested in something like https://github.com/tailhook/quick-error. It lets you easily implement From traits for errors so that you can convert between error types.

kancer | 10 years ago | on: PaperBack – How to store data on a single A4/Letter sheet

Its real name is nautilus

kancer | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: How would you implement a verifiable open-source web application?

Homomorphic encryption is the solution when you want the server to process the data, if it every becomes efficient.

kancer | 11 years ago | on: Peerwiki: all of Wikipedia on BitTorrent

An interesting point here is that Wikipedia actually works in China, only some articles are censored. I tried to bypass this by typing https://www.wikipedia.org into the browser, but it loaded the http version regardless.

kancer | 11 years ago | on: CrunchBang Linux: The end

I've been running Crunchbang for two years. It is the only distro that had working media buttons, multi touch trackpad, close lid -> sleep working out of the box on my T420. Not sure if any of this changed but all the other distros I tried required me to write config files and bash scripts. Sad to see it go.

kancer | 11 years ago | on: Gmail blocked in China

Using VPNs are becoming increasingly difficult too. All the large VPN services are blocked here; OpenVPN doesn't work; the only option left is to use unknown services which are not guaranteed to be genuine.

kancer | 11 years ago | on: IPv6 Adoption Statistics

I'm curious about the peaks and troughs in the graph. It seems the graph reaches a peak every week, does anyone know a reason for this?

kancer | 11 years ago | on: Please remove mitsuhiko/*

I don't know if this happens often but I would like to take a moment and point out that after hearing a strong negative reaponse, It's nice to see that the developer is willing to work through the problems with the community to change his/her project to a better state.