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Check out Server Side Includes. They used to be all the rage. You don't need to reinvent anything. Just use what used to exist. (Also, you start doing SSI, and then you want a bit …

Small claims court if it's less than the relevant small claims amount. Otherwise, a strongly worded letter from a cheap lawyer. The legal system is often abused. But it sounds like…

Of these, I've eaten horse, whale, shark and eel. Actually, probably I've also eaten bugs. The shark that I've eaten is perfectly good, and better than many other fish types (taste…

Great to see Toybox getting some attention. While I'm still not convinced that BSD-0 is the best license, it certainly encourages innovation in the space. Wait, you're not Robert L…

Ecigarettes are actually better for you than real ones, and not only that, they basically make it easier to quit using nicotine altogether (according to reports I've seen).

Please note: "Happy Birthday" is well out of copyright in a number of countries that aren't the USA. Including Australia, and any other country that applied the rule that copyright…

I too thought it was satire at first. I was all like "hmm, that's slightly amusing". And then I realised it was serious and I was all like "wtf is the point?", then "and if it's so…

Because it is GPL3, it won't be supported by Google on Android, by Apple probably anywhere, or by Microsoft anywhere. In other words, it's a lovely idea, but due to a poor choice o…

I don't think I've seen an Australian university library that wasn't open to anyone to walk in and browse the shelves. When I was in the UK I found it incredibly odd that most of t…

(This comment originally posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8023247 ) Please have a look at David A. Wheeler’s page on Trusting trust [1], including his 2009 PhD disserta…

Of course, for that initial period, paying extra would be the way to go. The difference between what I suggest, and an ordinary probation period is thus: with an ordinary probation…

If I were ever in charge of hiring for many types of position (whether programming, or writing, or such), I think I would do something similar. The advertisement will say "looking …

Sorry, but I'm not going to hire anyone for a technical position if they don't even have their own domain name. Seriously, talk about turn off. You're willing to spend £1500 on get…

A smart cookie could vote in such a manner as that when the information is entered into the system, it crashes it? Maybe that's what they mean by manipulation... Or, is it availabl…

As per the AGPL, you don't actually have to distribute stuff that is linked to an AGPLed library or other software, if you are only using it internally (and/or via a network). Beca…

If you trust your compiler, then you can read the source code and then trust the compiled executable. If you are worried, then you can build the rest of your tool chain from source…

Without JS, it's all bad :(. But, with JS, and without CSS, I can just right-click¸ view-image. This gives me the base64 in the address bar (Firefox). data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0…

These are all interesting, but defeated by me with one easy keyboard command (for the rest of you, it's View->Page Style->No Style). Without CSS, the main image is displayed just f…

Even if you hate Bitcoin for other reasons, this is one reason to appreciate it. Gitian, the software used by Tor for deterministic builds (of their build of Firefox especially), w…

Please have a look at David A. Wheeler’s page on Trusting trust [1], including his 2009 PhD dissertation [2], where he clearly demonstrates that it is possible to have trusted (not…

Because people go and make sites that don't work with JS. Even though often it's /more/ work to make the site not-work with JS. And then they justify it by saying "well it's only 1…

I don't support MSIE 6, or 7, or 8, or indeed any version of MSIE at all. But, and here's where it's different to not supporting users without JavaScript enabled, sites I make are …

Yes you are supposed to cater to the 2%. Wolfram Alpha says 2% of the US population is 6.39 million people. That's how many potential people from just one country you are treating …

Could you explain why it is standard practice to downvote jokes? I don't get it. If it's funny, then people might want to read it. Over on /. a lot of the best comments are modded …

Bah. I raided an Egyptian tomb, and ever since I've been followed around by smart people. They talk complex philosophy, discuss string theory, rave about Haskel, and talk about som…