Wilya

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by Wilya 13y ago
Tumblr is more of a pics-form twitter. Other types of content don't get much love there. I don't know what social network would qualify as long-form twitter, to be honest.
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by Wilya 13y ago
Google can pinpoint your location very accurately, and they are usually quite agressive in promoting local results (including for tech queries, which is a pretty bad idea), yet they ask people in Poland: "In which US city are you ?&quo
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by Wilya 13y ago
The NSA isn't the almighty spirit of the internet. They can't just clap their hands and magically get access to any server on earth. And even if they can, it certainly doesn't make the evidence obtained that way acceptable in
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by Wilya 13y ago
PhantomJS is pretty big. IIRC, building it takes quite some time. I think they bundle webkit and the necessary parts of Qt, and you'd have to be out of your mind to build that from source if you can avoid it. Using official distribut
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by Wilya 13y ago
The email protocol is built for reliable delivery instead of speed. It's not built for realtime communication. It was built so that mail goes through even if the destination's mail server goes down for a day or two. The fact that
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by Wilya 13y ago
sort() is a bit weird, I have to agree, but the '==' thing is a common problem to a lot of languages, not exactly a js-specific WTF. Off the top of my mind: In Python, '==' on arrays compares elements. In Java, '==&
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by Wilya 13y ago
> But there's also lots of Rails jobs too. Depends where you are. Outside Silicon Valley and a handful of tech hubs in the world, Rails pretty much doesn't exist. Java, on the other hand, is used everywhere.
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by Wilya 13y ago
I find that perfectly readable. I would be more likely to catch an error in that line than in the equivalent in imperative style. It's a matter of habit. It all depends on what you are used to write, whether you are used to functional
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by Wilya 13y ago
That's not the issue, in general. The issue is more that a lot of hosting providers will close your account to cover themselves and avoid having to deal with the potential liability.
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by Wilya 13y ago
I'm in the same case. I never assumed that any US company would side with me against the US government, so I already worked under the assumption that the US government (in a very broad sense) could access my Google/Facebook/A
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by Wilya 13y ago
Likely, the .br is there because the original submitter (here on HN) is from Brazil. Blogspot tends to redirect to the subdomain of the reader's country for some reason.
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by Wilya 13y ago
I flush my cookies on browser restart (though Firefox has a few quirks for that). I use browser extensions: mainly RequestPolicy in whitelist-only mode (I also use NoScript, but more to block websites that are too CPU-intensive than for pri
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by Wilya 13y ago
More than the "force download" aspect, it's mostly useful to specify a filename when linking to a download where the filename can be strange or non-existent, like a data: url, or some remote resource you don't completely control. I'm pleasa
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by Wilya 13y ago
What were the size limits for hosted downloads (they say some limits exist, but no numbers in the FAQ) ? I could understand if they provided too much space for free that they would want to deprecated that in favor of Google drive.
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by Wilya 13y ago
I just realized I called it "tiling WM", but I use tabbed windows more than tiling features. I tend to have one main stack of tabbed windows on each workspace, out from which I "push" a window or two to create splits whenever I want to disp
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by Wilya 13y ago
i3[0] Tiling window manager, very lightweight. It does its job, gets out of the way and doesn't try to push fancy stuff in my face, that's all I ask from a window manager (and more than what most of the others give me). Besides, I have my s
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by Wilya 13y ago
I mostly design small, self-contained visualizations for small businesses. The data I get and the level of "visualization design" I have to do depend a lot on the client. I have worked among others with data on local traffic (congestion and
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by Wilya 13y ago
I was in the same situation. I can do back-end web programming, and some lower level things in C or mobile apps. Right now, though, d3.js gives me 80% of my income. It's something I like, and I noticed a lot of demand, so I sort of happened
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by Wilya 13y ago
No need to split hairs. Go had an easy to run into and not obvious to fix bug on 32bit. That's a bigger problem than most gcc/ICC/whatever bugs, which tend to be happen in obscure corner cases (because the most obvious bugs are long gone)
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by Wilya 13y ago
From http://hedonometer.org/about.html : > “Why does the day of Osama Bin Laden’s death have such a low happiness score?” > Many people presume this day will be one of clear positivity. While we do see positive words such as “cele
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by Wilya 13y ago
To be fair, if you have a linux problem and Google leads you to Ubuntu forums, the solutions you will find there will likely be ugly strings of misunderstood magic too. It's just a general fact that, given enough time and some trial and err
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by Wilya 13y ago
If you're looking for your public ip, it won't always work. Especially if you are behind a nat/proxy. That, plus knowing which interface to inspect among those returned by ifconfig isn't always obvious.
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by Wilya 13y ago
It means that the faces can be described using only six uncorrelated parameters. Or to put it another way, there are only six axis of variations. Each face is a combination of the six eigenfaces, but there is still an infinity of different
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by Wilya 13y ago
Being open to donations in Litecoin isn't a very big risk to take. They could also accept donations in HN karma or WoW gold if the infrastructure enabled them to do so. It's not like it costs them anything. When people start accepting pa
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by Wilya 13y ago
I have been contacted because a recruiter had seen my profile on Linkedin, because I was in the list of subscribers to a Meetup group (not attendant, merely subscriber), because of classes I took in college (about 3 years after the fact), b
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by Wilya 13y ago
Yeah, but how long will it last ?
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by Wilya 13y ago
I'm not sure there is much actionable advice to be taken from this list (and I'm not sure it was the goal anyway), but that was entertaining to read. There's a few obscure references that I got, a ton others that I didn't get, and even more
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by Wilya 13y ago
One thing that I feel Tumblr does better than most social networks is discoverability. My experience is that as long as they are relevant/focused enough, tags can actually work. One can discover good content and interesting people by follow
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by Wilya 14y ago
Any decent modern netbook will give you 5 or 6 hours of battery. The EeePCs claim something like 8 hours of battery life. The Chromebook isn't bad, but if you don't want ChromeOS, it's not fantastically better than the loads of other netboo
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by Wilya 14y ago
A full month to provision new servers seems awfully long. Even if you don't want to go full cloud (which could make sense, I'm not judging that), you can easily get dedicated servers installed and configured in less than a day.

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