RNCTX

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by RNCTX 6y ago
The FreeBSD or Debian port maintainer maintained it for you. The seedy underbelly of all of this stuff is that most of the libraries and dependencies and pet projects that somehow became ubiquitous never worked outside of the lone developer
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by RNCTX 6y ago
Ironically, the author defines the primary aspect of his life's work as the desire to: > transform JavaScript into a secure language, which is part of my plan to transform the web into a safe platform for mashups, advertising, and c
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by RNCTX 6y ago
It would require some pretty high end text-to-speech tooling, or a lot of manual labor. In the single city case he had volunteers check the text-to-speech outputs and manually fill in addresses that were missed. His accuracy rate was quite
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by RNCTX 6y ago
Because the nature of greed is to demand the most payment for the smallest amount of work, and capitalist economies encourage greed?
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by RNCTX 6y ago
The point I’m getting at is taxes should be for raising revenue, period. The minute you step into trying to influence behavior via tax code, as the US has done, you are doing something wholly different from raising revenue. > Jesus Chri
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by RNCTX 6y ago
Taxes are not punishment. Taxes exist because a certain amount of wealth is required to maintain a state. I understand that the financial/business world has been trying to convince people otherwise since the mid 1970s, but they are st
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by RNCTX 6y ago
A technology industry which will happily enforce best practices upon itself as individuals should also enforce best practices upon companies within the industry as well. That would mean not using the products of companies like Elasticsearch
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by RNCTX 6y ago
Currency value is relative, and since the invention of the internet more countries are financially dependent upon each other than they were before. Debt in Spain, debt in the USA, debt in Greece, debt in former Soviet countries, debt in Jap
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by RNCTX 6y ago
The problem is multi-faceted and money explains most of it. The fact that wealth is associated with racial prejudice is tangential. 1) In the USA there is very little concern for local elections compared to say, the presidency. Most people
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by RNCTX 6y ago
A friend of mine in Little Rock connected the dots on how police were ignoring burglary reports en masse to rig the stats in favor of businesses and realtors with a vested interest in lower perception of crime than there really was. The rad
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by RNCTX 6y ago
Hopefully they get it right this time when someone reinvents UML. By right I mean, the first time someone comes along and says “it’s not a visual language anymore” the response is “wrong, and you’re fired.”
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by RNCTX 6y ago
A bit sensational on the headline (as they do), the criticism in this case is pretty tame, imo. I think it's a testament to the success and longevity of the Linux kernel that people truly striving for objectivity and separation from mo
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by RNCTX 6y ago
> Okay, but this is not about whether publishers should exist... Publish er denotes a person, who presumably has power over another person in this context. The assumption present in the definition of the term is that a content creator,
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by RNCTX 6y ago
A more valid hypothetical would be the expectation that developers working for Google and Microsoft would be expected to work for free, creating entire codebases for no money, with the only contribution from the publisher (Google and Micros
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by RNCTX 6y ago
> I'd like to put the question to those HN members who work in tech: How would you feel if someone took your output without permission, whether it's designs or code or something else unique and hard to make? How would you feel
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by RNCTX 6y ago
Slippery slope lesson in that. When Caesar 1 crossed a river with his army it was a big deal.
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by RNCTX 6y ago
I'll bet if you could wake up a politician from the ancient world and tell him that the "information age" allows an army to solicit money on its own and use that money to act contrary to the ruling class, such a politician wo
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by RNCTX 6y ago
IF you wanna be more mad than this, go look up how much the university you attended spends on subscriptions to these corporate publishers. Fact is, the internet has made the business model of a middle man being required to deliver content o
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by RNCTX 6y ago
I think their biggest oversight was not having all of the core programming functions that we take for granted (loops in particular). They have core nodes for if/else and breaks, but you have to go find a third party implementation for
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by RNCTX 6y ago
I co-founded a disaster relief non-profit in 2017, so in that context, web scraping of sites/services without APIs is an obvious one. Imagine the day after a hurricane has passed, needing to go find information before everyone else (ev
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by RNCTX 6y ago
It certainly does. I've been at a company that had an improper permission result in a CSR getting elevated access and deleting the whole customer database, including every single credit card number, by mistake (admittedly this was bac
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by RNCTX 6y ago
No, I get it, more of a comment on the unnecessary complexity of a lot of sites that have a minimal amount of dynamic content or user interaction, and yet implement very complex workflows for the content editors.
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by RNCTX 6y ago
It baffles me that more people have not found and found uses for Node Red. It's one of the coolest utilities that I've stumbled across in the past 5 years. In a sane world there would be no more Zapiers and IFTTT because of it, a
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by RNCTX 6y ago
I highly doubt that they are really pushing for such a thing, because doing so is relatively simple: take it away from corporations. No one in congress I know of is looking to do that. The Tennessee Valley Authority has some of the best&#x
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by RNCTX 6y ago
See that's the thing, it's not your post. It's all public. Twitter does not have private posts like Facebook does, nor does this change purport to make such a thing. Its design is specifically to allow people to amplify the
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All things considered, I would defend her right to do so today, I think.
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I particularly like the bit about how a provider is found in violation of "good faith" if they act in violation of their own terms of service, OR, if they restrict access to material after insufficient notice, unreasoned explanati
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by RNCTX 6y ago
The counter-argument is that it's easier than ever for an individual to find critical analyses of that information. If you were suspect of the information on TV in 1983 there was no one to tell you any different, unless you put effort
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by RNCTX 6y ago
Not every database application is a public facing web application. Think about, for instance, a company's internal customer database (including billing, etc), accessed with internal tools. CSR/Support people need to be able to se
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by RNCTX 6y ago
I think that's debatable. A UI without a persistent root/admin connection lingering in the wild cannot leak such a root/admin connection, can it? How many retail corporations have had breaches resulting in huge credit card du

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