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by Zhyl 8y ago
The title seems to suggest an announcement but the article is essentially speculation. Sure, it's likely that Facebook will exploit the mega-chatosphere for its data in the same way it currently does with each service individually (and
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by Zhyl 8y ago
It was Windows 8 at the time, but yes. [0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18996377
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by Zhyl 8y ago
There also wasn't an election in 2014. His party won 1 seat in 2015 and got 12.6% of the total vote. 12.6% is really high to be getting only 1 seat, but it definitely isn't 20%.
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by Zhyl 8y ago
I see it less of a computing platform and more like the spinning table from the beginning of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. The goal isn't to compute faster or better than others, it's for parties with competing interests t
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by Zhyl 8y ago
Yeah, it has equivalents for each. Sed: perl -pe 's/foo/bar/' file1 Grep: perl -pe '/foo/' file1 uniq: perl -ne 'print unless $seen{$_}++' file1 But then you can combine conditions: per
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by Zhyl 8y ago
It's worth getting a few insights into what it does well. As with any language it _can_ do anything, but a few key features that made it stand out for me: * Perl is set up for really terse one-liners. You can basically emulate or surpa
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by Zhyl 8y ago
Many of my issues will be specific to the environment. The thing that made me use the first perl one-liners is because I was used to using 'rename' in the command line and I was able to emulate this with perl more easily (using a
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by Zhyl 8y ago
Weirdly, perl. I found myself on a client site in a locked down environment with only the Windows version of GIT installed. Powershell disabled, no other programs allowed. I had to produce reports on the log files for this machine, but had
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by Zhyl 8y ago
By the same token, good tools do not solve politics, low morale or low transparency. I saw Justin Rosenstein and Dustin Moskovitz's talk when Asana was announced (2010? 2011?) and was converted. The idea of ditching email, bringing dow
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by Zhyl 8y ago
I could probably write one of those with just 'if' statements. if "facebook" in $Title: print ( "I deleted my facebook years ago and it was the best thing I ever did") if "uber" in $Title: print(&
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by Zhyl 8y ago
I can't believe it's not butterFS
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by Zhyl 8y ago
There was an interesting thread on Reddit [1] the other day which did a breakdown of the state of gaming in terms of native games and games that can be run easily via Steam Play (aka 'Proton', Valve's in-built WINE+DXVK layer
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by Zhyl 8y ago
Have you tried the new Steam Play (Proton)? In short, steam will now automatically wrap all windows games up with Wine and DXVK. Many many games are now working out of the box without any faff.
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by Zhyl 8y ago
> can we just get over this idea of rational economies, by the way This is key and undermines a lot of rational arguments. People buying ads aren't reading HN and then making a buying decision based on the general vibe they get ther
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by Zhyl 8y ago
This is useful. Up to now I'd seen the spreadsheet being collated on /r/linux_gaming but even at a few days old that was starting to get to be a sprawling mess. This site has a winehq style medal system and captures drivers e
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by Zhyl 8y ago
Just to clarify, I'm definitely not trying to suggest that this is the only reason you should be respectful. This is more a message about people within tech, who are numerous, that get frustrated with working with other people due to a
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by Zhyl 8y ago
Yes. Tech people the world over need to remember the person. I don't even mean in a slightly soppy 'everyone is a real person with real feelings' way. I mean that in a practical sense you really hit productivity if you'r
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by Zhyl 8y ago
That is a complaint I have with the first movie, but my main beefs are with movies 2 and 3 making almost no sense whilst having bigger and more expensive set pieces. The first movie's main crime is that it promised so much but never
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by Zhyl 8y ago
Buying slave labour from the Nazis, massive stake in the company that made Zyklon B, invented heroin, knowingly gave people AIDS with an anti-haemophiliac drug when it was banned in US markets. Quite the rap sheet.
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by Zhyl 8y ago
I feel the same way about the Matrix. Even the first film sacrifices a lot in order to be more cinematic. I like both aesthetics, admittedly.
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by Zhyl 8y ago
Is there an app/service that does the following?: * Has a feed a la RSS readers * Allows items on that feed (from all the sources) to be earmarked * At the end of reviewing the unread items of the feed, summarise a 'checkout'
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by Zhyl 8y ago
I stopped around the time that 'Smart Contracts' were entering the mainstream as a buzzword (Late 2016? Early 2017?). The moment that was, in retrospect, pivotal was being summoned to a meeting with some of our sales guys and an i
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by Zhyl 8y ago
"Now write it out 100 times. Or I'll cut your balls off."
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by Zhyl 9y ago
'The Circle' doesn't do a bad job of filling that niche.
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by Zhyl 9y ago
Here are some things that would be useful for me, but that I don't currently know how to access easily. * A feed for all updates to a news story for a given news source * A feed for all updates and developments for a news story across
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by Zhyl 9y ago
Yep, in 2013 Google Reader was axed. Feedly alone went up 500k users in 48 hours, 3 million within a few weeks and 12 million by the end of the year. Given that this definitely represents active consumers and probably only represents a prop
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by Zhyl 9y ago
I got annoyed at my father once for making a sarcastic comment about 'algorithms' in the sense you're describing here. So I sat him down at the table and cut 10 bits of string of different length. I then walked him through bu
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by Zhyl 9y ago
Here's a question I genuinely don't know the answer to: is there a standard format or file format for requirements and motivational modelling? I feel like now would be the PERFECT time for a collaborative Archimate 3.0 motivation
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by Zhyl 9y ago
This is a good update for Linux Gaming fans. There was definitely uncertainty when the Steam Machines page was delisted, some even thinking this was game over for gaming on Linux. Those who were there at the beginning of the Valve Linux Off
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by Zhyl 9y ago
Podcasting feels like an alternate reality where none of the massive players took over and everything stayed federated.

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