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by edraferi 12y ago
Free-riding would be an issue, but not necessarily a fatal one. As long as the national benefit equals the national expenditure, it'll work.
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by edraferi 12y ago
Big donors, yes. But firms with this motivation are already involved. I think the problem is how to engage the long tail of small / medium firms that rely on OSS but aren't sufficiently engaged to try to shape them. Actually, you
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by edraferi 12y ago
I really like patreon. It lets me support things I care about in a flexible, accountable way.
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by edraferi 12y ago
That's basically what the author is pushing. Snowdrift.coop[1] is a platform for making small payments to open source projects, with the additional twist of a matching donation mechanism. It's like Patreon with a twist. They plan
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by edraferi 12y ago
It's too bad that the other thread[1] is blowing up with so many people missing the second half of the essay. Keith - you might want to edit the opening paragraph of your first post[2] to include your point that you recommend NPM over
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by edraferi 12y ago
The author addresses this issue directly in his follow up post [1]. He describes two ways to get watch functionality when using NPM as a build tool. First, "most tools facilitate this option themselves - and usually are much more in t
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by edraferi 12y ago
The author's argument is actually "NPM is a better build tool than Grunt or Gulp." He followed up with an extensive tutorial on how to do complex builds with NPM [1]. The tutorial concludes with an example where NPM is used t
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by edraferi 12y ago
Yup. The bang feature makes DDG amazing. I use it as my default because it's a great way to quickly do tailored searches. It's very easy to say, search Hacker News (!hn), python documentation (!py3), R sites (!rseek) or just pull
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by edraferi 12y ago
...working with Mozilla to make AMO more secure for everyone by default seems like a pretty straightforward and desirable option for EFF. it's unclear why that hasn't happened here. The bug report [1] was closed as WONTFIX. Esse
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by edraferi 12y ago
Swipe typing on a touch screen [1] is analogous to T9 [2] text entry on a traditional keypad. In fact, they were invented by the same group [3]. On numeric keypads, each button corresponds to ~3 letters. Basic text entry involves pushing e
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by edraferi 12y ago
Steve Gibson did a pretty detailed analysis of Telegram on Security Now #444, recorded 25 Feb 2014. He concluded that Telegram's security was inadequate and recommended Threema as an alternative. http://twit.tv/show&#x2
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by edraferi 12y ago
The Economic Graph will include - a profile for every one of the 3 billion members of the global workforce - a profile for every company in the world, who you know at those companies up to three degrees, the products and services those com
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LinkedIn's Economic Graph Challenge(economicgraphchallenge.linkedin.com)
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by edraferi 12y ago
HR doesn't even have a useful offensive role in most companies. In theory they should identify staffing requirements, find great people, create competitive benefits packages to attract them, and run snappy business processes to get the
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by edraferi 12y ago
The story is compelling because Amazon's treatment of Kivin is a relevant warning to HN readers, who sympathize with technical employees who are victimized by their employers. In this respect, it's similar to posts about the massi
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by edraferi 12y ago
I agree. Net Neutrality is a great opportunity for some bi-partisan problem solving. It'd be much better for the country if they could find common ground on this issue.
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by edraferi 12y ago
JWZ wrote a great article about choosing between flat files and a database for Netscape Mail: http://www.jwz.org/doc/mailsum.html In Netscape 4.0, the new team went both C++ and Database happy, threw away the tightly-
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by edraferi 12y ago
Thank you for writing this thoughtful reply. It does a good job of explaining how the American conversation around race/culture works.
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by edraferi 12y ago
The common soda can, a marvel of mass production, is 94% soda and 6% can by mass. Compare that to the external tank for the Space Shuttle at 96% propellant and thus, 4% structure. The external tank, big enough inside to hold a barn dance,
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by edraferi 12y ago
Yup, I want to live in a universe where Android is built on Python3.
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by edraferi 12y ago
I agree that this is Twitter's best feature. It's very easy to find and reach out to almost any person or organization. It's easier than looking up a phone number, because you don't need to search through piles of "
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by edraferi 12y ago
Stockman’s sleight of hand was fairly easy to discern. In 1981, electronic spreadsheets were just coming into their own, and the kind of sophisticated modeling Stockman did was still done chiefly on mainframe computers. The output he was w
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by edraferi 12y ago
Skip the complex sensors - I'd be happy just to have a low friction interface for recording lifts.
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by edraferi 12y ago
Jetfit is the only app I've found that tracks weightlifting well.
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by edraferi 12y ago
That table is global market share. The source article for the 2013 data[1] shows Apple in third place for 2013Q4 market share within the United States: Firm (4Q13 US Market Share) HP (26.5%) Dell (22.8%) Apple (13.7%) [1] http://
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by edraferi 12y ago
I really appreciate this practice. It makes it much easier to get up to speed on something new.
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by edraferi 12y ago
I very much think broadband internet should be treated as a basic utility. however, I feel that "natural right" takes it too far. it's a very high bar to reach
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by edraferi 12y ago
Absolutely. Isn't this what the FCC's Title II / common carrier provisions are for? my understanding is that's what happened to make long distance affordable: the maintainers of the copper had to allow other forms to con
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by edraferi 12y ago
exactly. Plus even if I'm on my phone I prefer the speed and reliability of my own Wi-Fi.
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by edraferi 12y ago
Map My Ride has some great cycle mapping tools. They have several base maps available, I'm not sure exactly where the data comes from.

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