I'm not telling you how to live your life. Please, feel free to take ridiculous risks. Give up all your worldly possessions and move to the SF bay area. Start boring web 2.0 apps. Do a startup or whatever. Go to burning man. I'll be over here enjoying my nice, stable life.
He's right-- if you're about to die, there are no limitations. You can, for example, cook meth with one of your former students.
The problem is when you're not about to die. Then embarrassment and failure are real issues. You do have something to lose-- your life! Your friends, your house, your possessions, your family, so many things to lose.
If you're going to lose it all anyway, taking risks is not a big deal. If you're 20 something and have your whole life ahead of you, taking risks is a really big deal.
> I'm suprised that party which seeks to seriously impair (if not completely blow) the software industry gets so much applause here.
Yeah, you may want to explain exactly how. To me it seems like the pirate party's values are right in line with your average software developer's values.
Just because you don't agree with a political party's agenda does not mean news about that party isn't HN material.
Subjective. I use Firefox because it's a more stable, modern, and featureful browser than Chromium in my opinion. That doesn't make one of us more "on the edge" than the other.
You're basically saying that since one community prefers strawberry ice cream to chocolate, they're more modern somehow.
> My advice to anybody here who's currently building one of the four dozen photo tweeting services/Facebook cookie cleaners/thing-that-fixes-the-css-on-hackernews's that get submitted here every day: Stop.
Hi. I rather enjoy making little css-mess-withers and other things that may not be quite as profitable as this. We all have things we enjoy doing, and I'm going to keep doing the things i enjoy doing.
So thanks for the unsolicited advice, but I think I'll survive without it.
| SSL will not be helpful here, since no sensitive information is ever sent to this server. All encryption is done BEFORE it leaves your computer!
This made me cry.
And that's not even mentioning that I'm typing a possibly sensitive message into your app and just hoping that you're going to encrypt it with the right key and not read it yourself.
They both install and run, but they use beforeRequest and edit the page content. This works in theory, but in practice there is no guarantee that the script will be loaded into the page before the tracker assets are. The ghostery/disconnect addons succeed in blocking trackers sometimes, but not all. Ghostery handles it a bit better than Disconnect does, as it will actually tell you which trackers it was able to block and which it wasn't.
The experimental webRequest API will solve that by providing a synchronous way for scripts to deny/allow connections before any requests are made, but webRequest won't be made available to non-experimental addons for a few months at the minimum.
Just a note: Neither Ghostery or Disconnect work in Chrome, since Chrome doesn't have any kind of ability to block requests from being made. The experimental webRequest API should help with that, but it hasn't been released yet.