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by cooper12 11y ago
4coder for those curious: http://www.4coder.net/info/
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by cooper12 11y ago
You make good points; we shouldn't automatically assume open source is more secure. It's definitely a more nuanced topic than whether or not the source code of something is available. Thanks for the reply.
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by cooper12 11y ago
No, that's reasonable. Thank you for clarifying, especially the distinction regarding GitLab being self-hostable and open-source. Apologies if my comment came off as accusatory, I really did find it funny—as in peculiar—because I have
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by cooper12 11y ago
That's a funny double standard you have right there with how you don't feel the need to audit GitHub before using it.
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by cooper12 11y ago
> Here’s how SwiftKey works: That video was not the explanation I was hoping for, but a voiceover ad...
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by cooper12 11y ago
Oh they're well within their rights to do that. However my complaint had to do with the fact that one of their higher ranked volunteers was trying to point to an issue with the system after being dismissed and instead of trying to work
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by cooper12 11y ago
Regarding Google's Mappers, I find it absolutely absurd that the guy interviewed would spend 10 hours daily and even signing an NDA just to help, as the article says, "one of the world’s richest companies" for free. And then
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by cooper12 11y ago
You might have hardware acceleration in the Input/Codecs menu disabled.
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by cooper12 11y ago
Latency for one thing, as the article mentions
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by cooper12 11y ago
Hmm, I agree that zero configuration would be ideal, but everyone has different needs. Design can especially be opinionated, with a person deciding "this is how this should be done." Of course picking a purple color doesn't h
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by cooper12 11y ago
The point of a framework is that you're supposed to build on top of it. Expectedly, color would be one of the first things anyone would change. Though the spacing issue itself might be difficult to address. Looking at the SASS files, _
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by cooper12 11y ago
This reminded me of this story I read on HN which also talks about how Japan refined American culture: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7580032 . Very interesting subject, especially with regards to how we equate foreign
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by cooper12 11y ago
I think it is applicable in how it brings up how these redesigns focus on aesthetics at the expense of information. Wikiwand puts aside what it doesn't think is important, but if they had talked to anyone who actually uses Wikipedia th
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by cooper12 11y ago
If you see something problematic, why don't you click the edit button and address it? Or if you don't have the necessary know-how, why don't you click the talk tab and bring up the issue there? Wikipedia belongs to all of us,
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by cooper12 11y ago
My friend swears by Wikiwand, but I hate how it changes all links to its own domain. (It really should have been a browser extension instead of its own website that's merely a stylesheet) It also overoptimizes for the reader: minimizin
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by cooper12 11y ago
Your video reminded me of this selective attention test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo . This Wikipedia article also seems to be related to the phenomenon and talks about the video too: https://en.wi
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by cooper12 11y ago
The parent probably meant "related to" Aaron rather than literally about Aaron, especially since they use Noah's name afterwards. Though you make a point that bears repeating that this is article is about Noah himself, especi
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by cooper12 11y ago
Wow, what a touching, yet sobering story. It sounds almost as if people used him as a stand-in for Aaron. The tragic part of it is that the only way he could really get away from it is to either disassociate himself from Aaron and the peopl
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by cooper12 11y ago
Did you actually watch the documentary? (It's available for free) They talk with people who were very close with him, including his father, his ex-girlfriend, and Lawrence Lessig. It also includes excerpted footage of him speaking at v
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by cooper12 11y ago
He downloaded a large amount of articles from JSTOR. This involved setting up a laptop in a storage room in MIT, where he was not a student. MIT had to investigate it because the laptop was making a large amount of requests to JSTOR's
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by cooper12 11y ago
Looks like they established a GitHub repo, with additional formats available: https://github.com/joshleitzel/rawthought
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by cooper12 11y ago
I hate to say it but this is the fault of the Unix philosophy, which favors power users over the novice. It dictates that applications should do exactly what you tell them to. For example, using the `install` subcommand of a package manag
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by cooper12 11y ago
Wow, you weren't kidding. All I get under w3m is: > 30 under 30 2016 > true where I'm hoping "true" isn't the result of some test by a lazy dev. Spoofing my user agent to firefox actually gives me a completely
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by cooper12 11y ago
Scraping is mostly useful if you're trying to get at some structured data or something. (Though you might be thinking of "readability" modes which work by assigning scores to what it thinks is content) For sites like these I
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by cooper12 11y ago
Yeah this made me really disappointed as well. We've probably already lost so many works because the original distributors have long gone out of business and we're not legally allowed to preserve them. Not to mention that most of
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by cooper12 11y ago
I saw that the post had 400 comments so thought it would be something huge. Turns out its Yet Another Personal Assistant hidden behind a UI. There really isn't that much to discuss about it which hasn't already been done to death
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by cooper12 11y ago
It's a shame that distributors haven't made it easier to purchase the film in your area but you have to realize that behind-the-scenes rights deals have many involved parties each taking their own risks and these restrictions are
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by cooper12 11y ago
I apologize, you're right that repeating stereotypes can be more harmful than useful. I don't blame the author completely for that, it was really just their personal perspective on the film as compared to their baseline experience
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by cooper12 11y ago
Fair point, and as we can see he has learned a lot from the experience which he might not have in New York City.
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by cooper12 11y ago
Here's what an unofficial essay on Wikipedia says and I think it sums it up sensibly: > The copied material should not comprise a substantial portion of the work being quoted, and a longer quotation should not be used where a shorte

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