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by bad_user 6y ago
Scala matters and is awesome. Your comment on the other hand ...
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by bad_user 6y ago
Comments have links that can be bookmarked too, under that timestamp, here's yours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24352253
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by bad_user 6y ago
That's because I already have bookmarks in my browser, marking articles as favorite on HN would give me no value.
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by bad_user 6y ago
> " On the other hand, open-source software has a less strict definition, and a different philosophy. You can also see the source code, amongst other things. " No it doesn't. The Open Source definition is very much equival
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by bad_user 6y ago
> " I could easily argue Windows is easier than either one with WSL. " No you definitely couldn't. The experience is sub-par, having to deal with the Win boundary sucks, it's slower, and many apps don't work. Thi
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by bad_user 6y ago
Yes, I'm OK with that, because it's in the contract. It's what developers sign on when joining Apple's App Store. This isn't about being dangerous or not, but about Apple's App Store being clearly Apple's
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by bad_user 6y ago
People may not know Apple's rules, but they enjoy the benefits regardless, safety being one of the clear perks of using an iOS device. And yes, Apple's devices are much safer than alternatives. Btw, if you want to play the knowled
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by bad_user 6y ago
App stores, and their restrictions, aren't ridiculous. They are a consequence of an Internet filled with viruses, malware, and spam. The only thing I blame Apple for is not allowing installing apps from third-party sources, after you t
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by bad_user 6y ago
TBH, I don't know why other people use Macs, but speaking in my own name, no, I'm not using it for its UI. I use macOS because things usually just work, because it's a Unix, and because the available apps are good. I don&#x27
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by bad_user 6y ago
Speaking of Keybase, I'm looking for an alternative to their encrypted Git repositories. Any suggestions?
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by bad_user 6y ago
Adopting the extension model doesn't mean that the capabilities available to extension developers are the same. You can take a look at Firefox, which has extensions that in Chrome are not currently possible. Or extension features that
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by bad_user 6y ago
IANAL. Not sure about that. IDFA is essentially a tracking cookie. First of all under GDPR, tracking can be for a legitimate interest, and thus it might not require opt-in. For example security, or even first-party analytics, with the purpo
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by bad_user 6y ago
I always wondered if that advertising ID is GDPR compliant, given that the setting is currently opt-out, instead of opt-in. Even if it is low entropy.
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by bad_user 6y ago
Pocket misses important functionality, like the ability to edit the title of the links. This is particularly annoying for PDFs, because it can't extract titles from PDFs. If you bookmark something like [1], Pocket's title will be
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by bad_user 6y ago
Mozilla did not handle this well. I like the new Firefox for Android, but it is obviously beta quality. Extensions don't work, and last time I tried (a month ago or so) custom search engines weren't working either. I use Firefox o
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by bad_user 6y ago
Lacking end-to-end encryption is a valid complain, but note that encrypted bookmarks still exist in Firefox, and Firefox's capabilities are still better than Chrome's. For example Firefox's bookmarks can be tagged, and you ca
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by bad_user 6y ago
Actually, by searching with !g, you’re leaking your info to both DuckDuckGo and Google, instead of just Google. If you want to do Google searches without leaking your data to Google, you could use Startpage.com, but personally I don’t trust
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by bad_user 6y ago
I agree. But I still think it's worth it to ditch Gmail, or at least the free version. People need to own their online identity. The email address should be on your own domain, because Google can change the service and their terms of u
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by bad_user 6y ago
No, Facebook shouldn't have collected the data in the first place, because leaks are inevitable. It's not Facebook's incompetence to blame, no matter how much you try spinning it that way.
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by bad_user 6y ago
Ads can be contextual, served based on the content you view, and Google's own Ad Words does in fact just that, as they serve ads based on your search keywords, and that's their biggest revenue source. People have issues with user
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by bad_user 6y ago
Research is super expensive, and the low hanging fruits have been picked. There's no such thing as a cheap drug, unless that cost is subsidized. Also consider that the lifetime for drugs against viruses or other pathogens can be fairly
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by bad_user 6y ago
On Android you can install apps from third party sources. It's a hassle to instruct users on how to allow third party sources, which is why Epic eventually caved to Google Play's demands, after distributing Fortnite outside of Pla
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by bad_user 6y ago
I agree, except 1984 is searchable and kids know how to search: https://www.google.com/search?q=1984
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by bad_user 6y ago
"01/02" does not translate to Jan 2nd in most of the world, because DMY is much more popular than MDY. Excel is biased for US users.
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by bad_user 6y ago
Flow supports importing type definitions for third party untyped libs. And in fact did a better job at being integrated in current projects. Flow lost because the compiler was in really bad shape, slow and frequently crashing. Also their eq
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by bad_user 6y ago
The value of a search engine it's in the size of its index and the ranking it does. The UI is less important. Those 3-4 ads appearing at the top of search results can be filtered out by browser extensions. Bing isn't just Google,
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by bad_user 6y ago
> Yes, the lockdowns and measures hurt both privacy and economics, but not dealing with it hurts people more, both privileged and non-privileged, there are no winners. For western countries, we agree, economists are pretty much in agre
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by bad_user 6y ago
You can easily mirror your repository on Gitlab or elsewhere and Gitlab even automates that for you. And all developers on a project have a backup on their local computer. It might not track the master/main HEAD from Github, but in the
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by bad_user 6y ago
The moment you start seeing regular people as terrorists, that's when you've lost the plot ;-)
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by bad_user 6y ago
I'm sorry for your immuno-depressed wife. I also have family members over 60 that would be at higher risk if they contacted Covid-19. And I'm an asthmatic and asthmatics are at higher risk. But that's still not a reason to ha

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