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shimonamit

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About shimonamit

A C++ Windows Client Application Developer and Linux Web Developer. Email is gmail.com with shimon.amit as my user.

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    [flagged]

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    Comment #37788245

    For security.

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    Comment #32938638

    Or https://github.com/typesense/typesense

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    Comment #32479747

    Note the difference between "lots of writes" and "lots of concurrent writes". "Lots of writes" in succession without heavy concurrency support is just fine for desktop/mobile apps.…

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    Comment #32082660

    I use SafeDNS which filters adult content (plus many more categories), without forcing YouTube Restricted Mode. But, you can opt into YouTube Restricted Mode if you choose.

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    Comment #29734904

    They did, at least in Israel. The Jerusalem-Beit Shemesh route was restored and it is a beautiful commute.

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    Comment #28582855

    With age comes responsibility, so with time and coaching we remove restrictions. But it takes time, and I'm not willing to sacrifice my child's education in the meantime for YouTub…

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    Comment #28582710

    Practical tip for parents here struggling with the problem of 'distractions during school hours': use a DNS filtering service. I use the Family package from SafeDNS and I'm general…

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    Comment #24252075

    I was examining Zoom's bin directory looking for a cross-platform GUI library they might be using, and found a library called DirectUI, also duilib. DirectUI was originally develop…

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    Comment #23519257

    Printing in Windows is an unsolved problem. It never was. To print in Windows I have a checklist: 1. Print 2. Restart printer 3. Cancel print job, try to print again. 4. Restart pr…

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    Comment #12241124

    I haven't tried it recently (as in the past month), but I like to fire up the browser, press Ctrl+L, type an address and press Enter in a few seconds. That seems to take forever on…

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    Comment #12128638

    The U.S. stores nukes in Turkey as part of the NATO deterrence strategy. During the coup the Turkish authorities were quick to siege the military base supposedly hosting the nukes.…

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    Comment #10770633

    An interesting tweet by Sam Saffron: "@dhh this is just a bit too much https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/rails.gemspec#L28 … now every Rails install requires redis, eventm…

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    Comment #9520405

    HTML5 is an excellent alternative to ActiveX, particularly in the area of mime type handling, but it does not facilitate native desktop interaction. There is still a basic need for…

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    Comment #9311056

    Not necessarily. Looks like it is an immediate mode, HTML-like syntax but without the DOM.

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    Comment #8787335

    Javascript's arrays cannot be used as maps or associative arrays. Arrays require numeric, consecutive keys. Otherwise it's an Object. -- Clarification edit: Creating a new key on a…

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    Comment #7231174

    Not Mobile Chrome.

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    Comment #7231161

    So far Mobile Opera is the only browser to support: * Readable text size after double-tap-to-zoom * Text reflow I still can't find a browser that remembers my zoom level per site.

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    Comment #6760694

    Paul Irish also discusses this in his blog post from Feb. 2012: http://www.paulirish.com/2012/box-sizing-border-box-ftw/

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    Comment #6760121

    The author writes in the link: > Note that the goal here was to make the source code as small as possible, not clarity; so even the original code before minification is a horrible …

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    Comment #6243260

    The longest key in the world won't protect you from a FISA warrent.