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Do you have a screenshot to show what you mean?


Its a good compromise i think. OTherwise to update a field to null it would need a button or right clicking and selected a null option. I would expect the amount of people who actually want to enter a 'null' string is minimal...


This reasoning is probably behind some the OP's cases...



Huh. I thought it was open source.

EDIT: Wikipedia says it used to be open source, but it went to closed source. Still free as in beer, though.


Anyone wondering as to why Paint.NET transitioned to closed source may find this insightful:

https://blog.getpaint.net/2007/12/04/freeware-authors-beware...


Despite what happened to his software, which is clearly unfortunate, it's a shame to see it turn closed source. I would have thought that projects would be hopefully moving toward more free licenses.


What license was it under? If it was something like BSD than it sounds like what people were doing with the program was legal.


MIT, and no. Even the BSD and MIT licenses don't allow you to remove the copyright notice.


I apologize, unfortunately it's too late to delete or modify my comment.

It was put on a list of free/open software that we can't use at work awhile back, apparently for another reason. I should have checked first.


ISnt it more likely that it is just bots, that know your domain cos they have lists of every domain for that tld?


Same question I had. Though it wouldn't be hard to control for, just put a random honeypot domain and see how many visits it gets.


I didn't read the paper, but you'd know it'd bit squatting if the domain a-azon.com is hit with a HTTP Host header of amazon.com.


what browser do you use for vim bindings?


qutebrowser as default for opening links, then I run Chrome(ium) with Vimium and Safari with vimari and blank command prefix. I've previously also used Pentadactyl (think there's one named Vimperator as well) for Firefox. Once you're used to it you'll never want to go back.

Update with links:

https://www.qutebrowser.org/

https://vimium.github.io/

https://github.com/guyht/vimari

https://addons.mozilla.org/sv-SE/firefox/addon/pentadactyl/?...

https://addons.mozilla.org/sv-SE/firefox/addon/vimperator/


Pentadactyl/Vimperator will soon stop working, I believe at FireFox 57. Firefox is removing the ability to run XUL extensions, which will effectively be the end of the awesome VIM plugins for FF :(


I've recently made the switch to VimFX as a result of this and I have to say I couldn't be happier - it may not have some of the more powerful features (that I'm unaware of) but it definitely gets the job done.


I also switched to VimFX from Vimperator, and it blew my mind how much faster Firefox suddenly became! I used to simpathixe with my friend who switched back to Chrome "for it's speed" but without Vimperator, Firefox is waaaaay snappier than Chrome (on my machine). It made browsing a fun tactile experience again!


Is VimFX going to continue to work when Pentadactyl breaks?


Only if it gets turned into a WebExtension: https://github.com/akhodakivskiy/VimFx/issues/860


whats the difference between this and using Chrome's built in responsive tools? (https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/devi...)


I use Firefox, which also has a responsive mode, but unless I'm missing something, the built-in tools don't load multiple copies of the website in different sizes side-by-side.

I have my own version of this tool (trivial javascript + iframes), and I use it frequently for one-glance CSS changes.


Where do you get the data from? real time via twitter's api?


Calling it a trade secret would certainly be a stretch :)

You simply can't do this with Twitter realtime. You'd keep hitting API limits. We use a variety of techniques to collect this data.

Tweeple Search itself is based on the powerful Social Animal content intelligence product : https://socialanimal.io


> How long are my files kept?

> As long as possible

What a stupid answer to that question! (it gives more info - "You can set an expiry time by pressing the "Options"-button that's next to your uploaded file, otherwise your files will float in the clouds for as long as possible." - but it still doesn't really give any answer)


Well, in all honestly they can't really say "forever" or "indefinitely" because that is really an impossibility. How long is "forever" in your estimation? 10 years? 100 years? a thousand?

In all likelihood, the internet itself might evolve into something different in that time. This service might get bought out, or shut down, or the original founders may (fate forbid) get hit by a bus next week.

Setting any sort of indefinite limit is opening themselves up for legal action if it is even one minute less than someone expects. "As long as possible" at least is honest enough to say that as long as there is enough interest to keep the lights on, they will be there.


You already assume that the scale of the retention will be in years.

What makes you think that ? It may be days, where "as long as possible is "we hope to keep the files a few weeks".

Without some sort of project plan you don't know if NoFile.io is aiming at snapchat for file, or S3 for everyday Joe.


Speaking of "getting hit by a bus". What is the bus factor of this site.


> Most if not all e-mail clients block images

Gmail auto preloads (via their servers) all images in emails. You can turn it off though.

(lots of sources on internet about this, http://www.guidingtech.com/13461/gmail-always-display-images... for example)


I stand corrected. Must be a setting I changed at some point then, as I have it set to always ask.

It's a terrible setting, it should just be 'always ask'. Is there a legitimate use I'm missing? The only thing I can think of is for spammers to track if their spam went through, marketers of 'legit' mail to track the same thing, or a backdoor way to implement the atrocious 'read receipt' feature. None of those is at all beneficial to the user receiving the message.


I was delighted when they changed it from "always ask" to "show by default." Like I said, Gmail never puts spam through to me, so it saves me clicks.


You still can't turn it off in Inbox, unfortunately.


>"Leakers shouldn’t use their work computers and should use public wifi, “like a Starbucks or at a hotel or anywhere where the Internet is open for public use.”"

Hotels can normally link a computer on their network to a room number... Suggesting they use a hotel wifi isn't a good idea IMO (unless you are not actually a guest, and its just an open public wifi network).


Many hotels have open WiFi in their lobbies, for convenience.


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