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by burnbabyburn 10y ago
oh right.
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by burnbabyburn 10y ago
Couldn't you reconstruct the source from the internal dom representation anyway?
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by burnbabyburn 10y ago
yes, in webapps you almost always import from future unicode literals in py2 apps.
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by burnbabyburn 10y ago
serious question: why I see really almost no complains in other languages when they introduce breaking changes? is the migration handled differently or the communities are less vocal?
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by burnbabyburn 10y ago
> what should be the real goal: You are describing what should be the goals in your opinion, not the one of Signal's developers. Having something that works to show (Signal), was a big point to sell to those, closed and already used
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by burnbabyburn 10y ago
I presume phone numbers are only used for registration, I can chat with people that travel and change phone number and have registered the account only on one of them, am I wrong?
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by burnbabyburn 10y ago
I'm happy to use Signal today. In the long run federated protocols and servers demonstrated their resilience regarding third parties and time, see irc for example. Probably Signal is just a reference implementation, the big deal is imp
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Ask HN: What scientific magazine do you read?
3 points by burnbabyburn 10y ago|0 comments
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by burnbabyburn 10y ago
also very interesting is Erik Demaine's work on geometric folding, at least it's fun to watch various structures he prints and plays with.
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by burnbabyburn 10y ago
I still prefer holidays though.
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by burnbabyburn 10y ago
I recall Carl Hewitt talking about everything being an actor, even messages, and implementations differing from this idea, am I wrong?
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by burnbabyburn 10y ago
I've built a similar keyboard, called atomic keyboard, I love it, even if it was pretty pricey.
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Ask HN: What is the cost of sending an email?
12 points by burnbabyburn 10y ago|8 comments
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by burnbabyburn 10y ago
tl;dr send a confirmation email. it's 20 years that people suggest a cool new way to deal with email addresses, I don't even mind listening anymore! :)
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by burnbabyburn 10y ago
oh please, don't compare python docs to php docs, php docs show one function per page, because their api is WRONG, python shows them often per module level, how to compose the api of a module and use them with actual examples, the doc
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by burnbabyburn 10y ago
it's behind paywall, can someone tell just what's this software about?
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by burnbabyburn 10y ago
the idea was great, probably no one ever used Hello because is was substantially broken.
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by burnbabyburn 10y ago
I wonder how this works, given that is illegal to share your internet connection with others in IT.
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by burnbabyburn 10y ago
this is one of the worst rant I've ever read.
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by burnbabyburn 10y ago
will it support the new shortcode syntax in 4.7?
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by burnbabyburn 10y ago
# NOLI SE TANGERE this should be noli me tangere, shouldn't it?