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by 801699 9y ago
"... Google's AMP team even invited me to have lunch with them." Reminds me of this: http://blackhat.com/media/bh-usa-97/blackhat-eetimes.html As far as I can tell, in order to be "forced"
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by 801699 9y ago
"But if being able to program means being able to write large programs..." What does it mean when someone is only able (or only wants) to write small programs? For example, small programs that can work together to form a "sys
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by 801699 9y ago
in case not want to install tcl https://github.com/drudru/pty4 http://empty.sourceforge.net
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by 801699 9y ago
"... they're trending..." they date back to the 80's. to predict the future, some look to the past for ideas. others monitor the present e.g. github commits for popular projects - reject anything that has no recent activ
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by 801699 9y ago
do not want to have it remotely configurable. nor want anyone to be able to "reset configuration" remotely. some configuration is fixed, static. to change it one needs to change the image. this is intentional. hobbyist user wa
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by 801699 9y ago
so it is the scripting language used by ansible, chef, puppet that imposes the required "discipline"? methinks each of these must in fact call the shell to get things done or least system(3). if they are calling execve then i woul
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by 801699 9y ago
but he had assets there and his business required access to a us-based store. one story said he met his wife in the us. if she was a us citizen that could be an addtional reason he might want to be able to travel to the us. in other words,
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by 801699 9y ago
afaik, he was not sued in canada.
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by 801699 9y ago
"I don't understand with what right..." trademark. he picked the wrong name for his business.
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by 801699 9y ago
companies that make the bios were* the other sources of "ultimate trust". why not let them... *then came uefi. hoop-jumping never a problem with the i.t. market. more complexity is fine so long as managed by someone else. only t
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by 801699 9y ago
company that sells ads says it will develop an ad blocker. why not stop selling ads as well? what is the goal?
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by 801699 9y ago
I download static maps. I prefer maps as images or images in a PDF. But I understand your comment. Indeed it is the textual data that is at issue with respect to gratuitous javascript use. A large amount of data maybe even the majority i
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by 801699 9y ago
https://github.com/anse1/firmforth has not been mentioned on hn afaik.
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by 801699 9y ago
i have seen hn commenters praise apple for "taking a stand on privacy". but how can anyone believe that when they collect so much personal data about the people who purchase their hardware? the old apple did not do this. 1. co
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by 801699 9y ago
the more reliant you become on popular corporate/"non-profit" controlled browsers the more disappointed you will be when the drm comes. but i will bet they will ease you into it to minimize the complaints. long ago someone
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by 801699 9y ago
rdiff is free, open source and gives control to the user. dropbox is large, binary-only, obfuscated code, built on FOSS (uses same library as rdiff), makes some people very wealthy and gives third party control over user's files. i hav
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by 801699 9y ago
Here is something to use as a replacement for "grep -q". In the past I found grep -q was not portable. There are times when I do not have grep. But I always have sed. cat grepq test $# -ge 1|| exec echo usage: $0 PATTE
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by 801699 9y ago
Assuming some users know how to control a computer (some claim they do e.g. those working in IT), why would they tolerate this annoyance? It must not be that bad or else they would work around it, using their professed skills in controlling
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by 801699 9y ago
http://startupclass.co/courses/how-to-start-a-startup/lectur...
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by 801699 9y ago
This reasoning i.e. "supporting" people who are not using Javascript make little sense. It is the Javascript and website complexity, the embellishment of data with needless garbage, that necessitates "support" i.e. work
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by 801699 9y ago
There is a famed quote that goes something like this: "An engineer is someone who can do with ten schillings what any fool could do with a pound." By this definition one could argue Javascript developers are not engineers. If the
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by 801699 9y ago
Trivial to strip HTML tags and produce useful text. Send all the extraneous garbage you want to the user. She can remove it and keep only what she wants. Meanwhile from the user's perspective you are wasting bandwidth. Who is paying
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by 801699 9y ago
Is this really how developers think? And what if the user does not download the .js file? And what if the user downloads the .js file but does not run it in an interpreter? What if the browser authors refuse to process what is enclosed in s