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by codeshaman 11y ago
I speak Russian and I read and watch Russian media from time to time. I'm sure not all young people are buying into the official propaganda. Unfortunately 80%+ approval rating for Putin shows that most of the people, including young on
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by codeshaman 11y ago
[from TFA]: The offending content was a page titled, "Minimal and Reliable Methods for Growing Psilocybe Mushrooms." It's no suprise that they would ban the whole of Reddit rather then let people grow and eat psychedelic mush
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Yeah, but why live there full time ? I would love to be able go to a place where like-minded people come and live for a while (weeks, months), working on their projects, while surrounded by neighbours they can engage with and discuss inter
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Shhh... Don't show it to my mother ! If she sees this, my whole family is going to be on a regimen of hot peppers until she reads something else :) My mother is the kind who changes the whole family's diet when she reads some suf
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Well, it doesn't, but then deep down, it does :). The point I was trying to make is that GPL and free software in general is the manifestation of a deeper idealistic dream - a society in which collaboration and sharing makes people fre
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Stallman's book on my book shelf is called "Free Software, Free Society" and I believe the spirit of GPL goes beyond just software. It's the idea that sharing and collaboration will bring us more freedom - freedom from o
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by codeshaman 11y ago
A very sad thing. I don't think the early hackers writing GPL code envisioned this turn of events. Most of those Internet companies would not exist if it weren't for the free and open source software that they run on. Instead of &
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by codeshaman 11y ago
I like this. It's good to just browse around and see what stuff is available / new. And it seems there's a huge amount of awesome stuff out there ;) Whoever does this - thank you!
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by codeshaman 11y ago
It might be the most innovative and most productive place but how does it affect the rest of the world ? Let us not forget the other side of the coin. (1) On one side - tech has magically enhanced the world and our lives. Socially, it has f
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Great article, very thoughtful. But my biggest question is where do you find a client ? Is there a website (like a jobs website) for contract work, besides elance and the like ? Yeah, I can google it, but it's usually just a waste of
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by codeshaman 11y ago
How do you explain PRISM and similar revelations about surveilance and spying ? The corporation itself might behave like an angel, but there are agencies which can force it to open or install backdoors. Given that the number of such reques
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by codeshaman 11y ago
I've never understood how people can truly believe that by checking (or unchecking) a checkbox their privacy will be fully protected. Especially since we're talking about a closed-source OS. I mean I cannot possibly verify what ex
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by codeshaman 11y ago
There's a lot of truth in what you write and I definetely see the problem. One solution is to have the take home interview as the final step in the process - after having screened the candidate and discussed general technology/fra
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by codeshaman 11y ago
This seems like a wonderful idea. I hate coding interviews, because I freeze up and I look like a total idiot and cannot do even the simplest things. Same thing at exams in school or university - my mind just went blank and into a noisy se
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Nice write-up. I hope you do understand that the original message was a sarcastic joke. The point was - there's just so many technologies to consider and it's been just 15 years. When I got my first PC, my choice was: MS-DOS 3.3.
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by codeshaman 11y ago
That happens all over tech, not just in web browsers. Just for fun, I've spent a couple of minutes compiling a list of technologies, just for the backend side of things , which many of us know or have heard of, which ilustrates the c
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by codeshaman 11y ago
When a vulnerability like this becomes public, I always wonder - how many people knew about it before it became public, for how long and how much has it been exploited. And I also wonder how many more critical exploits are known and used by
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by codeshaman 11y ago
> If we were running our economy on steam and gold we would have even less problems. Absolutely. I've lost a lot of coins in various hacks so this is experience talking, not theory ;). > propose to blame everyone using it for occ
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by codeshaman 11y ago
To me this is a serious downside of cryptocurrencies - the fact that criminals have this secure channel of stealing from victims. Besides malware, one can be blackmailed with information disclosure (everyone has secrets), one can be physica
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Actually, while being in tank today I thought that it would be a blast to have a VR headset on while in the tank. So did you manage to float with the headset ? How does it feel ?
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Not available here in Spain. Besides, these services usually let you watch a movie months after it has been released, wereas you can usually see the movie on torrents the day they're out, often in HD quality. A service which does the s
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by codeshaman 11y ago
After reading this article, I just went ahead and did a floatation session and here I am back after my first 1 hour float. It was a great experience and 1 hour is definetely not enough to understand it all, but there is a lot of potential t
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Do they still actively issue these takedown requests, even when faced with the fact that it has zero effect on weather the movie is pirateable ? I mean, I can download any movie in a couple of minutes from one of the torrent sites that I
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by codeshaman 11y ago
> Can't wait to have to take into consideration different "year" zone in my code. I guess with Kepler you're safe for the next couple of thousand years, unless we find something much closer. In theory there should be
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Totally agree with you. There are so many possibilities of evolution besides building high tech spaceships and conquering planets and stuff. Imagine how much more wisdom (besides technological advancement) the average humans will posses in
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Or maybe the next step in the evolution of a civilization is the realization that 'colonizing' is much more fun if the colonists are just dropped off without any technology and let to develop into a civilization and discover who
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I was insinuating that airports in those countries might be tragic and dangerous.
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Bribe the inspectors and open up on time - then somehow patch the problem later. Everyone wins. That's what they would do in a lot of places in the world. If a German airport, with a huge budget, has 150.000 defects of which 85k are se
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by codeshaman 11y ago
What Unit test could have cought that ? Is this a Bug at all ? Chrome doesn't do anything wrong, but somehow the fix still has to be done inside Chrome. Interesting how it all starts looking like one giant app, were a small change in o
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Totally agree with the author. Obligatory quote by Bill Hicks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5LEYG5TqaI And a deeper analysis by George Carlin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW2JInyMoPc

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