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by alexvoda 3y ago
Really love that you used Kunth's "Literate programming" to document the code. You don't see it often but I find it really nice when seeing it.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
And yet I agree with both. SQL is at the same time easy to get started, incredibly powerful and yet also a complete disaster. Just like JavaScript but with standards you have to pay to read and implementers take their sweet time to implemen
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by alexvoda 3y ago
Authors can only change the license if they are the sole authors or if they impose a CLA requiring others to grant re-licensing to the original authors. A copyleft project with no CLA, levels the playing field so that everyone has the same
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by alexvoda 3y ago
What makes one mocked product succede while another fails? Google Glass and its users were mocked and it was a complete failure. The iPad was mocked and ended up as an underperforming division, yet still the market leader because everyone e
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by alexvoda 3y ago
Vive la révolution française!
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by alexvoda 3y ago
You hit the nail head on. The field of IT is a pop culture and consequently just as prone to fads and periodic fashions.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
There was a time when a search engine would return no results if it didn't find anything instead of returning increasingly irrelevant results. It was a conscious decision by corporations to implement the dropping of constraints and sea
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by alexvoda 3y ago
I think the author and you are using different meanings for "reasoning". We do know that many people even in professional fields confuse correlation with causation. And even when that doesn't happen, when only doing measurmen
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by alexvoda 3y ago
Same, another recommendation for the podcast.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
I believe it is impossible to disentangle non-politics (tech included) from politics because that in itself is a political stance.
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Git-SIM – Visually simulate Git operations(initialcommit.com)
4 points by alexvoda 3y ago|1 comments
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by alexvoda 3y ago
While searching for a way co convert git logs to mermaid gitGraph I found this awesome tool.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
I can see where you might be coming from but I would argue Meadows is still correct and higher resolution. Do provide a concrete example so I can unpack it.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
And yet I have parents that semi tech illiterate and had grandparents that were tech illiterate that managed to not install shit on their devices. At the same time, malware still manages to sneak into the Apple app store. The walled garden
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by alexvoda 3y ago
Also, as a different approach, to some degree Ferdium can act as a central place for various messaging platforms even if the integration that Pidgin (and Adium) and libPurple provided is not possible this way. Station is similar and a bit b
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by alexvoda 3y ago
Not so, because of collective fitness. Being part of a large but parasitized (ill) group is more fit in the evolutionary sense than being healthy but alone.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
Thank you for the answer. I do realize HN trends are unreliable. As a few others who replied, it felt peculiarly acute in this thread, but my impression was not based merely on this thread, but on several such 'huh' moments in the
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by alexvoda 3y ago
Those are my feelings as well.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
Because he moderates this place and therefore is orders of magnitudes more knowledgeable about trends on HN. Next in line are people scraping and researching HN.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
@dang Is it just my impression that HN is drifting rigtwards on this topic? I remember HN being more in favour of proactive action against anthropic climate change. This thread feels dominated by attitudes reflecting inaction.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
Maybe we should not be mixing the meaning of "evidence" in a scientific context with the meaning in a legal context. Clearly science does not care about human laws, verdicts, juries, etc.. Different contexts, different meanings. J
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by alexvoda 3y ago
Not at all absurd. Maybe not through crypto but otherwise perfectly achievable. No reason to achieve this within a file. If you really want to, some fancy solution involving blockchains and smart contracts is probably possible but there is
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by alexvoda 3y ago
Then place the train on a giant dynamometer while spoofing the GPS.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
You need to eventually make this ecology circular.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
Wake me up when you can open the glove compartment without drilling down a menu on a touchscreen because that is certainly not what I call good UI.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
It's still a dick move. Just because being a dick is legal does not mean it is free of consequences.
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PL/.NET – .NET as a loadable procedural language in PostgreSQL(github.com)
1 points by alexvoda 3y ago|0 comments
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by alexvoda 3y ago
I would argue that the discoveries would have happened anyway sooner or later even without unethical assholes. And for every example of a step of progress accelerated by them there is an example of a step of progress held back by them. We d
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by alexvoda 3y ago
Also some ports get blocked. You have to drill a hole in your desk to use those ports. Very inconvenient.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
Today it absolutely is harder to pay than to pirate. It was easy when everything noteworthy was on Netflix. You payed for Netflix and got easy access directly on your TV to most trending content. This was more convenient than piracy. Now th

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