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by daleharvey 6y ago
Worth noting that the budget for "Gaelic" is part of education, ie 24m or so is spent on standard schooling which happens to be done in Gaelic
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by daleharvey 6y ago
Its quite curious seeing this headline, Duolingo recently added Gaelic and alongside the Scottish Independence movement it seems at least within my bubble to be having somewhat of a revival, 396k active learners @ https://www.duo
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by daleharvey 6y ago
how many women do you think there are in the world?
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by daleharvey 6y ago
This "debate" has been part of a dedicated (and sadly currently successful) campaign to dictate the Scottish Government policy. This isnt a high school debate club where you pick some topic of dispute for fun, this is people in po
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by daleharvey 6y ago
> but it saddens me our public debate channels give the loudest voice to intolerance and mob mentality driven attacks. ... As we discuss (on Hacker News) the celebrity with 14.5M twitter followers who decided to arbitrarily join an anti
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by daleharvey 6y ago
This is an architecture I use a lot. The reverse proxy is there to implement the replication, having your application understand the replication protocol is a big ask. Instead, your app takes http requests, handles the ones it is supposed t
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by daleharvey 6y ago
It seems like you are finding it hard to understand what makes racism systemic, white restaurant owners are not an oppressed group, nobody is being racist against them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_racism
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by daleharvey 6y ago
The Ben Shapiro video was the one title "destroying liberals" arguing against women being able to access healthcare / have abortions, the Candace Owens one was talking about how George Floyd wasnt a martyr. Ben Shapiro's
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by daleharvey 6y ago
Today I opened facebook to reply to a message from my mum, I got autoplaying videos of Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro "destroying" liberals and trying to discredit George Floyd. I hope we come out of this period with a better under
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by daleharvey 6y ago
The UK did not shut down very hard nor early, New Zealands recently "relaxed" lockdown is basically the same has what the UK has been under
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by daleharvey 7y ago
I can delete data from my hard drive, why are people assuming things stored on a computer is a good place to store things. Nothing stored on a computer should assumed to be forever
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by daleharvey 7y ago
A popular model is for the clients to run the queries locally, the server doesnt need to expose any query endpoints, only the ones necessary for replication.
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by daleharvey 7y ago
I wasnt worried about that since it is a basic proof of concept, adding that would make it ~210 lines of code.
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by daleharvey 7y ago
Your backend can be a reverse proxy that authenticates requests then passes them off to CouchDB (or PouchDB, since that also runs on the server). I have an example up @ https://github.com/daleharvey/noted . The server i
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by daleharvey 7y ago
Thanks, thats useful (also links to a bunch of very useful articles)
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by daleharvey 7y ago
For anyone interested I have made a start on this @ https://yeslabs.scot/ , started a few small projects that have been fun but not much interest or activity so far.
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Ask HN: Examples of successful Open Source political projects
1 points by daleharvey 7y ago|3 comments
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by daleharvey 7y ago
PouchDB author here, your project looks great good job. I certainly agree that switching backends to CouchDB has made it hard for people to adopt Pouch/Couch. I have often considered how I could make Pouch work with arbitrary data sour
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by daleharvey 7y ago
I may be biased as the maintainer of PouchDB but you can do all this today (and for the last 5+ years) with PouchDB. The comment about CouchDB and the "difficulty of getting application-level conflict resolution right" I am not re
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by daleharvey 7y ago
Curious and feel free to ignore, what was your screenname on the yahoo web design chat rooms? I also hung around there a lot around that time using one of those embarrassing screennames made by teens and their favourite songs (renegade_mast
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by daleharvey 7y ago
Speaking as a Brit Read the replies to your original post, there was no new regulation, whatever you read in the news was made up. In the british press there is a constant stream of fabricated stories about EU "regulations" that t
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by daleharvey 7y ago
I have noticed this as well. Hacker News generally considers itself liberal but actually holds very conservative views (see any thread on gender equality). The EU is being positioned as a liberal organisation (whether it truly is or not) so
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by daleharvey 7y ago
Paul Sweeney is one of the last remaining Labour MP's in Scotland, its very unlikely he will survive the next election. the MSP's are majority SNP now as has Glasgow Council recently been replaced by the SNP. I see the drug proble
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by daleharvey 7y ago
That would make all JavaScript that has non JSON object literals (most JS code) slower
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by daleharvey 7y ago
You think it should be googles duty to promote bad publications by means of the algorithm it generated?
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by daleharvey 7y ago
There are some strong accents that could pronounce them similiarly, the islands / getting close to irish could pronounce the "air" in "barn". But in general / central belt those words are pronounced differently
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by daleharvey 7y ago
lol "bairn" A Barn is still a farm building in Scotland
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by daleharvey 7y ago
In the recent version we added the ability to always prevent autoplaying of videos, in the next version we will be adding further UI to let the user disable all (not just muted) videos from autoplaying - https://bugzilla.mozilla.
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by daleharvey 7y ago
> Is the existence of a back door method of updating Firefox preferences something that will be disclosed to users? It will even be documented for them: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Normandy/PreferenceRollou
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by daleharvey 8y ago
In tourist destinations around europe (particularly Italy) there are people who go around with a bunch of roses and will try fairly forcefully to give a free one to your partner then fairly persistantly request a donation from you. Guessing

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