rwar's comments

On: Ask HN: Good Python codebases to read?

[rwar]

youtube-dl: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl

On: Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube

[rwar]

Have you taken a look at http://www.discogs.com/developers/ ?

[suoloordi → rwar]

also last.fm: http://www.last.fm/api and musicbrainz: http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Development/XML_Web_Service/Versi...

On: WikiCancel - A Subscription, Contract, and Account Cancellation Guide

[rwar]

It would be good to add sources in this wiki!

On: Is Apple Losing Its Way?

[rwar]

We're their product. Advertising is the customer.

On: Nvidia PR Responds To Torvalds' Harsh Words

[rwar]

http://pastebin.com/3fyLWT3W

On: Mozilla Firefox: Rolling Out HTTPS Google search

[rwar]

You can do this with chrome by adding a search engine (and making it default):

https://www.google.com/search?%7Bgoogle:RLZ%7D%7Bgoogle:acce...

On: Show HN: HourlyPuppy

[rwar]

In addition to e-mailing for Submit Puppy, have you considered adding a Drag-and-Drop or a Browse/Upload? (You could even add a captcha!)

[jfi → rwar]

yeah, the submission via email is not ideal, but for the mvp I wanted a basic submission feature so mailto fit the bill. I'll look to make it submit via browser this weekend! Appreciate the feedback

On: “Greater Choice”

[rwar]

My understanding is that the wireless router broadcasts a packet and that packet contains the SSID and MAC address.

On: Mozilla Executive: We're Not Interested In Enterprise Level Users

[rwar]

It'd be nice for Firefox to adopt a LTS version. That way security updates can be guaranteed and IT guys can work on making sure LTS versions work.

On: Google Wants to Kill the URL: Chrome 13 Lets Users Hide the Address Bar

[rwar]

I think there is a bigger concern of phishing attacks... Without an address bar its harder to confirm that you are actually visiting X.com

[jimbobimbo → rwar]

Exactly my sentiment over at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2564086:

I wonder how this might impact the overall security? Right now URL bar provides useful information about the domain where you are at. Hiding the URL box could bring back the most brain-dead attacks like hosting a phishing site on a regular HTTP (no cert = no warnings from the browser) and hidden URL cloacks the fact that the URL in fact is "bankofameri.ca".

[extension → jimbobimbo]

Certainly they will still have some way of indicating the domain, at least with SSL. It might actually make users more aware of the domain since it won't be sandwhiched between URL gibberish.

[jonknee → rwar]

I bet Chrome/Google is better at identifying phishing pages than users are.

[rwar → jonknee]

Perhaps, but it doesn't mean users are incapable at identifying phishing pages. With an address bar both the user AND Chrome can help identify phishing attacks.