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by bionoid 8y ago
If you are delivering software or hardware products that include weather forecast, do not rely on anyone else's API directly. Build a wrapper service and direct your clients there. As a particularly disasterous example, the Yahoo Weat
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by bionoid 8y ago
> but I’m certain that they will be able to find another position in a company where their jQuery skills will be very valuable. However, I don’t expect that they’ll learn anything new in that place, and in 3 years or so, if they will be
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by bionoid 8y ago
First off because they are generating that revenue by exploiting my community. Secondly because them rolling out broken updates generates work for me as a moderator; we'll need to update everything to work for a completely new system.
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by bionoid 8y ago
Just as a small protest to the hostility, and to spread awareness.
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by bionoid 8y ago
It seems to me like they are deliberately sacrificing the old userbase for a younger, "more naive" audience. I moderate a medium-sized subreddit, and I am seriously considering just closing the thing down, because I'm not goi
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by bionoid 8y ago
> Sill nothing beats creating your own website, and taking the recurring payments directly with Stripe. Sorry to go off-topic here, but I'd love to hear suggestions from the HN crown on this. What are the best ways to handle video c
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by bionoid 8y ago
> Its name is systemd and Devuan does not permit lovers of init freedom to use it. I don't understand your tone here. The Devuan project is ~150 packages on top of Debian that aim specifically to remove the systemd dependencies. &
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by bionoid 8y ago
The actual GitLab instance appears to be at [1], I couldn't find this in the link or the gnome.org announcement. Good news, though! I am hopeful it can help lower the barrier to entry. [1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME
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by bionoid 8y ago
> that is a very abnormal experience. I don't have links handy, but there were official blog posts and such about how they endeavored to fix the problem. Of course I'm not saying it was universal, nor trying to take away from t
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by bionoid 8y ago
> Python beat Perl for two reasons [...] The reason I personally left Perl was the extremely hostile community. When someone asked a simple question, not only would they get an overhaul and namecalling, but so would anyone that tried t
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by bionoid 8y ago
Not trying to be pedantic or anything, but it's also extremely insecure, extremely unreliable and extremely hard to implement correctly when compared to a normal procedure call. It just seemed weird to me to leave that out.
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by bionoid 8y ago
All I'm saying is I don't think the result will be a real improvement to privacy or data safety. I think it'll be some adjustments on paper, then business as usual.
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by bionoid 8y ago
> They can't, and they'll learn it the hard way. I doubt it. The fines will be completely irrelevant, and they won't even need to notify more than 1% of their lawyers and lobbyists to ensure they can keep it up for the nex
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by bionoid 8y ago
I found it interesting to just glance at the code, having never touched Go (but familiar with SDL). Some day I will find the time hack around in one of these new languages, whether it be Go or Rust or Red or Perl6 .. :) I have some trouble
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by bionoid 9y ago
Thanks for the clarification -- is there an official writeup about the incident somewhere? (should have asked that initially, sorry)
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by bionoid 9y ago
> created and run by a third party not affiliated with the company. Are you saying you never hired the third party, they went about and did this of their own accord without talking to you first?
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by bionoid 9y ago
> In other words you can track both people who click through an ad directly, or who see your ad and then visit your site a bit later (this is known as a "view-through conversion"). It's magic. It's not magic, just evi
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by bionoid 9y ago
> (you can generally trust PayPal) I agree, but I also have a counterexample: "Oh, you bought SOFTWARE?? All those pretty marketing pages about our amazing safety and protection system do not apply to virtual products. We agree this
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by bionoid 9y ago
I will take this opportunity to promote the YouTube channels of Brady Haran[0], Numberphile specifically. It has all sorts of interesting videos, including Graham's number [1] (one of the videos featuring Ron Graham) and TREE(3) [2]. H
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by bionoid 9y ago
> I believe there’s a lot of truth to it, from my experience it totally matches a mini psychotic event. Jan Irvin at GnosticMedia has an interesting article about this "Entheogens: What’s in a Name? The Untold History of Psychedelic
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by bionoid 9y ago
> I'm sure I'm sitting on the wrong side of countless user studies that say to the contrary This is completely off topic, but I was a UX study participant last year, it was an interesting experience. They told me to do as I u
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by bionoid 9y ago
> Or they could be, you know, acting. Yes, precisely like Tom Cruise is just an actor. Let's forget about the scientology thing.
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by bionoid 9y ago
I don't have a link that explains the situation well, which is why I am [slowly] working on a documentary project to bring it to the public. > calling porn a "cult" seems like a stretch That is the general perception, but
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by bionoid 9y ago
> One person's abuse can be another person's pornography. That is accurate for virtually all pornography. If you research how the "industry" works, you will quickly discover that it's built on advanced psychology
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by bionoid 9y ago
This looks interesting, but I don't think I can commit to mac-only software for this personally. I stumbled on TeXstudio [0] about a year ago, it has been very nice, though I still have a ways to go as I had not used any TeX before...
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by bionoid 9y ago
I recently discovered that Ghostery was purchased by Cliqz [0], which is a company partially owned by Mozilla. They offer a free privacy-oriented browser "Cliqz" which is described on Wikipedia as: "Cliqz plans to eventually
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by bionoid 9y ago
I don't call those "accurate" personally, but YMMV
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by bionoid 9y ago
> Though to be fair the W10 experience is still a significant improvement over the XP and W7 days (I haven't had an update repeatedly fail yet). I am on the other side of that fence, managing about 100 machines across all versions W
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by bionoid 9y ago
3) Include an accurate description of each update, so you can determine if it is worth installing or not.
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by bionoid 9y ago
Leary, you mean? He admitted that straight up himself, and you can just look at the 1979 MKULTRA reunion video if you have any doubt that he was involved with the CIA [0]. That it's not covered on wikipedia is hardly surprising. Regard

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