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by chaitanya 10y ago
> What's the difference between Slack and Flock? We get asked that a lot, so much that we made made a video about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDDapdpgCd8 :-) Here's a summary: 1) Flock is faster and slic
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by chaitanya 10y ago
No issues, your criticism is still valid. We are working hard towards fixing these issues.
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by chaitanya 10y ago
Sorry, Flock isn't open source. We will open source some of our libraries in the near future though :-)
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by chaitanya 10y ago
Whoops! We have a very permissive email regex, your address should have passed. Can you tell me where exactly this check failed? (edit: I got it, we will get this fixed quickly)
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by chaitanya 10y ago
I get why you are saying that, and we are working hard to ensure that our CPU/memory usage stays low. We aren't there yet, but hopefully we should soon be at a point where this is no longer a concern. (Not denying that Webkit base
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by chaitanya 10y ago
This was a little unexpected, but glad to see Flock featured on HN's front page! (I am the CTO of Flock, and will be happy to answer any of your queries).
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by chaitanya 10y ago
Nothing actually, we just want to make sure the Firefox build is fully tested before releasing it. We will be launching it soon.
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by chaitanya 10y ago
We don't use Electron, but its the same principle. The desktop app is written using HTML/CSS/Javascript running inside a webview. I get why people hate Electron based apps, and we are working hard to ensure that Flock keeps i
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by chaitanya 10y ago
Since it happened after I left, I am not privy to the exact reasons for the move. However, I guess they were worried about their Lispers moving away (which to some degree had already happened) and them not being able to find new ones.
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by chaitanya 10y ago
Nah, not using CL for work these days :-( I used to work at Cleartrip a long time back, before they moved off Lisp.
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by chaitanya 10y ago
Nice idea! I will add this suggestion.
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by chaitanya 10y ago
Right! A long time back we came up with a really nice way of validating CSV files using restarts. I wrote a bit about it: http://lisper.in/restarts
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by chaitanya 10y ago
> At its closest approaches JunoCam could achieve 15 km/pixel resolution from 4300 km In comparison, the highest resolution photos of Pluto from New Horizons achieved 80 meters per pixel from a closest approach of 12500 km. Its amaz
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by chaitanya 11y ago
Might be better to link to the source directly: https://github.com/paulirish/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/diff-s...
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by chaitanya 11y ago
And don't forget to check out cl-interpol. Besides being a perfect companion to cl-ppcre, its great in itself if you like things like string interpolation.
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by chaitanya 11y ago
They bought ITA Software a few years ago, which largely used Common Lisp.
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by chaitanya 11y ago
> Signal is bound to Google, and Moxie's views on corporate control and calling getting applications from somewhere else than Google "going back to the old broken desktop security model" doesn't exactly inspire confid
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by chaitanya 11y ago
So many people here with really outdated ideas about what causes over population and how to control it. Wish they would read this article by Melinda Gates on some myths around this subject: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Who
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by chaitanya 11y ago
While I don't think readability is a problem if you are judicious with your use of reader macros, the real problem is that they don't play well with editing tools e.g. all those nice Emacs shortcuts like forward-sexp, backward-sex
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by chaitanya 11y ago
That's because better alternatives exist that provide access to the whole Internet free of cost. For example, Mozilla is trying out a couple of variants of free Internet in Africa and Bangladesh: https://blog.lizardwrangler.
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by chaitanya 11y ago
So we are building a messaging product for organizations. I am wondering how this can impact us if an org that uses our product has employees in both EU and US (assuming that national regulators in EU go ahead and bar personal data transfer
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by chaitanya 11y ago
The one feature of Fogbugz that I really like (and the reason I use it) is evidence based scheduling: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/10/26.html It takes away a lot of pain associated with giving est
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by chaitanya 11y ago
Yes that's the only thing I could think of -- loss of privacy. (On the other hand, thanks to SNI, its easier than ever for a snooper to know which website you are visiting even if its completely on HTTPS; so the loss of privacy by swit
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by chaitanya 11y ago
Today, whenever any resource (script/stylesheet) on an HTTPS website loads from HTTP, the browser rightly warns the user about insecure content. But with SRI, it should be possible to send scripts, css, etc. over plain HTTP right? As l
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A response to Facebook’s submission defending Internet.org in India(medianama.com)
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MTNL to enable advertisers to insert pop up ads in user’s browser(medianama.com)
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by chaitanya 11y ago
The only solution I can think of is to write a prepare-commit-msg hook that adds a line like "On branch: <branch-name>" to the commit message. So when reading your commit history, every commit that was made on this branch wo
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by chaitanya 11y ago
So do a clean up before broadcasting your history to others. See https://www.mail-archive.com/dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net... One trick that can really help with this is `git commit --amend`, which allows you to amend th
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by chaitanya 11y ago
I have never understood why people hate merge commits so much. Their advantages are not insignificant: you know when a feature got merged in master, its much easier to revert a feature if you have a merge commit for it, much easier to gener
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by chaitanya 11y ago
AES-GCM allows the caller to supply additional authenticated data (AAD) -- data that is only authenticated but not encrypted. However NaCl's authenticated encryption mode doesn't seem to provide anything like this: http:/&#x

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