aroman

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by aroman 13y ago
I agree with every single point you mentioned. You are not alone. I'm very glad to know that other loyal Evernote Premium users are also experiencing these pain points. The forums seem to be mostly inhabited by diehard evernote preache
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by aroman 13y ago
Hah, I just got that this morning in Safari. It only happens for me after I disable the extension, on tabs which I had open with the extension enabled. Apparently disabling the extension doesn't clean itself up properly on safari, and
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by aroman 13y ago
What did you migrate to? How does it compare and how do you like it?
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by aroman 13y ago
I consider myself an informal evernote evangelist, but honestly, I kind of agree here. The new Safari web clipper is all sorts of buggy (and sometimes messes with websites and navigation). And yes, the OS X client is quite slow and bulky. A
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by aroman 13y ago
Are you suggesting that we abolish defensive armies because nuclear weapons exist?
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by aroman 13y ago
I assume he/she was being facetious or sarcastic.
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by aroman 13y ago
That's reductio ad absurdum if I've ever heard it. That's like saying "all the army has done is ensure that someday an enemy will attack with weapons so devastating that the entire country will be destroyed in one foul s
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by aroman 13y ago
> This is a false equivalency. There are numerous, perfectly good reasons why you should store hashed passwords in a database. That is precisely his point. The TSA is in place not only to stop terrorist attacks (this is the false equ
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by aroman 13y ago
Everyone else, apparently: http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2013/12/27/moocs-inflated-expectati...
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by aroman 13y ago
Here's an animation of a hinged dissection: http://sylvester.math.nthu.edu.tw/d3/thesis-2003/yang/dissec... It was linked to at the bottom of the Wikipedia page.
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by aroman 13y ago
>Google never has and probably never will do support. FTFY
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by aroman 13y ago
The same way Apple trademarked a the name of a fruit. https://www.apple.com/legal/intellectual-property/trademark/...
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by aroman 13y ago
That's a really good point. Every few months I try to adapt to using DDG as my primary search, but I always find myself throwing a !g into my searches, which kind of defeats the purpose. I'm curious, for what kind of searches do y
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by aroman 13y ago
Frankly I think it's an inherently monopolistic industry. In the current state of affairs (i.e. web browser interfaces and mobile phone integration), it's quite inconvenient for people to switch up their search engine regularly, o
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by aroman 13y ago
There are a lot of things which I would consider "common knowledge", but this is not one of them. Unless of course you mean common knowledge among computer scientists and cryptographers , in which case "common" is rathe
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by aroman 13y ago
In fact that's what I've been using for my recent projects (e.g. things made at hackathons) — not sure which message (if any) I'd stick in the footer of a proper new website.
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by aroman 13y ago
> - A little bit of candid swearing in the comments? Fine by me, but is this officially associated with canonical? Assuming you mean Canonical Ltd., the company behind Ubuntu, this has absolutely nothing with them — this is hosted on c
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by aroman 13y ago
EDIT: I didn't see your edit which gave Apple's Rosetta and X11 as examples. Those are good counter-examples to my point. But then again, those strategies were not done by X11 itself, rather by compatibility layers as you suggeste
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by aroman 13y ago
This is a great positive example of the (often negatively presented) double-edged sword that is extreme backwards compatibility. X11 is an incredibly backwards compatible system, but this comes at the cost of positively absurd code comple
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by aroman 13y ago
It's not about news, it's about a discussion. 4chan isn't a news bulletin. It's a discussion board.
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by aroman 13y ago
Thanks for all those links — I wasn't aware of those studies (especially not about the deliberate effort to force the singular "they" out of use) and I think they have definitely influenced my conscious personal writing style
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by aroman 13y ago
Thanks for your comment and for the information. I definitely agree with your point that the singular "they" is, at this point in time, as correct or more correct than the neuter "he". I also totally agree with your poin
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by aroman 13y ago
Thanks for your reply. > Yeah for sure the english language couldn't possibly itself be influenced by sexism. That's just how it works. We should just accept it. That was not my point, nor do I believe I implied that. I acknowl
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by aroman 13y ago
Ah I see, very cool. You mentioned something about Gtk and Cairo — do you ever interact with the VM graphically, or do you only use it as (what amounts to, I suppose) a networked Linux sandbox running inside OS X. Also, how do you push code
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by aroman 13y ago
I'm sorry, but the entire notion that using masculine pronouns somehow implies sexism is complete bullshit. That's how the English language works. "He" is used as both neuter and masculine. There is no "it" pro
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by aroman 13y ago
How do you use Vagrant, exactly? Are these Ubuntu instances VirtualBox instances, or are you interacting over SSH, or what?
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by aroman 13y ago
Ah, thank you for sharing that. It was a coincidence then. I guess I just assumed that the seeming recent influx of Markov-chain based humorous one-line generators were all connected, but I suppose the WWIS one was a separate occurrence. Un
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by aroman 13y ago
And I assume all of this has been inspired by the "What Would I Say?"[1] app which has gone viral in since it emerged from HackPrinceton a few weeks ago? Your website is extremely amusing and well done btw, kudos :) [1] http:&#x2
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by aroman 13y ago
There are other uses of the word "Free" outside of the GNUniverse. If he wants to call this "free software", he's just as entitled to do so as RMS was when he redefined the term.

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