Wilya

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by Wilya 14y ago
There are surely very dedicated people working in some casinos. That doesn't have anything to do with them doing interesting stuff. And the fact that they use "what every other user facing tech company uses" is exactly the problem. I like a
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by Wilya 14y ago
There's a noscript fallback. If w3counter does it's job right, people without javascript should be counted. Those who explicitely block w3counter wouldn't, but that's few people, unless it's in an adblock/ghostery/... blacklist.
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by Wilya 14y ago
You can't conclude that from his data. His audience is web developers, so obviously IE will be very low.
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by Wilya 14y ago
Of course, there are. I don't mean to criticize their work. The problem is that most graphical applications come from a linux-focused world, and linux is moving, fast, with dozens of time the manpower that BSD projects have. As for the numb
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by Wilya 14y ago
To clarify, I do use FreeBSD as my everyday (work) OS, and in almost all my servers, and I use a very lightweight window manager (i3). I like it that way, but it's not for everyone. Because most people are used and expect a heavyweight an
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by Wilya 14y ago
To be honest, FreeBSD lacks quite a few things to be a desktop OS for anyone else than hardcore geeks, mainly because it's not at all the main focus of the developers and maintainers. If you want something that just works, you're better o
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by Wilya 14y ago
Not really. iMessage can be used in a transparent way with non-compatible devices (it can just fallback to sms), and it merely loses its advantages. People won't care too much that it's closed, and will still use it. And it won't lock them.
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by Wilya 14y ago
Regarding build systems, ocamlbuild is included with the standard ocaml distribution and gives a high-level interface that is much simpler to use than ocamldep and friends. Especially when combined with findlib.
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by Wilya 14y ago
While some of it is FUD, I'm pretty sure some governments (at least in Europe) are more concerned about privacy and protection of their citizens than Google and Facebook are. My government's goals are much more aligned with mine than Goog
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by Wilya 14y ago
As far as I can tell, there is no tool in FreeBSD base that provides a simple way to check and update all ports using binaries. FreeBSD's pkg_add only handles direct installs of new packages. Upgrade management, things like "update everythi
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by Wilya 14y ago
FreeBSD is (more or less) moving towards pkgng, which has roughly the same goals. I'm not sure what the OpenBSD guys are doing And yes, it's only for distribution. But if it works well, it's the only thing end users should care about. Thoug
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by Wilya 14y ago
I agree, though the extend of that depends on what you put on the machine and it's use. On a typical server, with less that 100 external ports installed, FreeBSD will rarely need to rebuild libs, because most of the stuff links to the base.
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by Wilya 14y ago
On the other hand, the flash player has been regularly crashing on me, whether on Windows, OSX, Linux or FreeBSD since.. well.. always. And there has been zero improvement over the years, except for the fact that browser made themselves res
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by Wilya 14y ago
If you want to improve your craft, you need feedback. Honest feedback, not feedback guided by other goals (like, making friends with/influencing you).
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by Wilya 14y ago
I agree, though I would think the ratio is the opposite. The thing is, having multiple cards might be a sign of wealth, but it's also a consequence of local culture. In some countries, everyone has a gazillion of cards. In some countries, h
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by Wilya 14y ago
Usually, emails come through Linkedin. People mostly see my name in a Meetup group, or on my github page, and I guess they check with Linkedin for the profile. I get a few messages even though I have zero interesting projects or distinctive
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by Wilya 14y ago
That's ignoring the fact that piracy increases the raw number of songs acquired. Whether I pirate 20 albums a month plus buy one, or just buy one, the money received by the music industry as a whole is exactly the same. Which artist precise
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by Wilya 14y ago
Prepaid services vary widely depending on the country you're in. In some places, the credit is valid for a quite short amount of time. In France, the validity of my credit depends on the amount I charge. So I had to make some crazy calculat
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by Wilya 14y ago
Well, except they sell only groceries, which isn't at all Amazon's core business (and isn't what Amazon does, in 99.9% of the world).
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by Wilya 14y ago
I do this for my laptop (mainly because wireless support on linux still sucks) and it isn't perfect. Performance suffers quite a bit, which matters for low power devices. Plus, the windows layer will come bite you in all its sneaky ways, as
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by Wilya 14y ago
We're doing fine, thank you.
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by Wilya 14y ago
People get searched and interrogated at borders all the time. That doesn't, by far, only happen to crypto guys. So, you might as well give them a sensible reason to interrogate you :)
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by Wilya 14y ago
Well, let's look at the good side of it. At least it limits the risks of password reuse.
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by Wilya 14y ago
How is the raw number of apps relevant ? There could be hundred of millions of harmless apps, that doesn't make it okay to block a few of them based on a dubious agenda.
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by Wilya 14y ago
According to Wikipedia[0], the UK is actually more like "You need to pay if you have something you use to watch TV". This is quite better than some other countries. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licence
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by Wilya 14y ago
Color is country, it's written somewhere in the about page. Russia is red, China is yellow-ish, etc.
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by Wilya 14y ago
It's a bit strange to see wordpress.com alone in the top left of the map.
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by Wilya 14y ago
That's a pretty gratuitous assumption that you're making. And I don't see what the "good reason" is. Let's face it, they just dropped a feature that people were using, without clear upgrade path. Few people were using it ? Maybe. That doesn
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by Wilya 14y ago
"being able to make a simple CRUD app" makes them qualified for a bunch of jobs where employers usually look for people who "know how to code". On the short term, really learning to code (whatever that is) doesn't matter.
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by Wilya 14y ago
I don't think the point is to show that the job market is hard in NYC. The point is to try to understand the problem (finding a job) by putting oneself in the other side. Regarding the ethical part, one application is a rounding error for m

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