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by cxr 1y ago
There's a perverse irony to responding like this (besides the fact that no one, whether implicitly or explicitly, said anything like, "That's not true"), since the comment you replied to merely mentioned "Google wan
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> Based on the analysis in the post The analysis in the post is dogshit and misrepresents the review board's actual conclusions. > But the problem, if anything, was that too much dense information was conveyed at all That's
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That link is the chapter "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint" from Tufte's book Beautiful Evidence, and it does mention Boeing's slides in the Columbia incident, but the main work that the author of this blog post cribbed
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Everyone should note that the slides in this blog post are fabricated, and the author of this post misrepresents Tufte and the conclusions of the review board—subtly pointing people in a direction that's the exact opposite of the real
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What's an algorithm?
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by cxr 1y ago
Yes, I was wrong. (HN obscures the end of the URL; I assumed it was Ronomon's ZIP library. The 2 in my comment also applies to that library.)
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A mistake in my own wording crept in here; this should have said: > one who thinks that distributing an LGPL library without your own app's corresponding source code is forbidden is someone who flat out doesn't understand the
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woodruffw writes in the corresponding HN thread: > security scanners are a simple example, but Linux distros, Homebrew, etc. all also process Python package distributions in ways that mostly just assume a ZIP container, without addition
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1. Describing this as a "linter for zip files" is kind of weird—this library is a full-on ZIP implementation that is meant to be used for the kinds of things people use any sort of ZIP library for. 2. It's one of the librarie
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> Outside of podcasting, everything that supports RSS supports Atom, and Atom is just better Is there something (besides (lack of) client support) that makes RSS better suited for podcasting?
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"GNU maximalist" is an odd choice of wording, since it would seem to imply people who are the most well-informed about the project's licenses, but anyone who thinks that distributing an LGPL library without your own app'
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What are algorithms?
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Only tangentially related to the main subject, but the post ends with: > Extensions to the predefined set of link types may be registered on the microformats page for existing rel values. Please don't. WHATWG's tendency to sel
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If we removed everyone named Jim Dabell from the world, the other 99% wouldn't even notice. They're absolutely tiny. Perhaps we should try doing that.
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> If the web used it like crazy we would not be having this conversation. It's been a standard part of the Web platform for years. The only question should be, "Is _anyone_ using it?", not whether it's being "us
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Sea of Nodes is not original to this speaker. This talk is rather meant to function as an explanation of the original work on "Sea of Nodes" (see < https://github.com/SeaOfNodes >) to the community that the s
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by cxr 1y ago
What a strange (and strangely adversarial) comment. Almost none of your criticisms connects with anything that the other person wrote.
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In the US, it wouldn't be, but this is the UK, which doesn't have the same views about what is and isn't copyrightable that the US has. (Despite vague sentiments to the contrary, the US is a lot better at saying, "No, y
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Even ignoring your hyperbolic (i.e. wrong) use of "has to", the options are not "use tooling that produces crummy bundles, or else don't go to Paris"; the Paris that we're talking about definitely has more than
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This makes as much sense as choosing not to fault the person carrying a dagger who buried it into your shoulder—because you just fault their dagger.
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Only somewhat related and unfortunately misses the point. CSS Zen Garden was powered by style sheets as they were designed to be used. Want to offer a different look? Write an alternative style sheet. This site doesn't do that. It
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No extension is necessary. There's nothing that says a website has to have exactly 1 or 0 RSS feeds and that they most be for global syndication. Anyone in control of their site can dump a plain ol' RSS (or Atom, or JSON) feed a
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maps.app.goo.gl and maps.google.com are exactly the same number of characters. Those links smack of the same mindset behind "Refactor to rewrite procedure A in terms of procedure B. 7 lines deleted; 17 lines added."
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It's Conway's law again. Orgs could mint and maintain uptime for short/memorable permalinks hosted on their own domains, but the Web has been captured by a professional class with predilections and goals all their own and wh
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< https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts >
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In his comments on the use of symbols P and V in semaphores, Dijkstra gave the reason for choosing P as it having come from "probeer te verlagen", which he infamously explained that when translated into English means "try and
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> Free codecs only came along at all because Google decided to subsidize development but that became possible only 15 years or so after MPEG was born The release of VP3 as open source predates Google's later acquisition of On2 (2010
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The FSF holds the copyright to the text of the GPL, and they allow anyone to freely redistribute verbatim copies, but they don't permit just anyone to create derivatives.
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Are the mobile platforms using Snap and Flatpak?
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What?

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