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by eek04_ 6y ago
If you want to avoid the term expansion, just put double quotes around the words you want to hard require. As for including "useless" results - that's never a goal, the goal is always to rank the results in the best possible
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by eek04_ 6y ago
As somebody that has quite a few shelf-meters (shelf-yards) of cookbooks: If I'm looking for a specific recipe, it's still faster to go through the online recipes than getting out the cookbooks and going through the index and find
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by eek04_ 6y ago
Yes. As I've said elsewhere - very few people want to pay their way out of ads - in this case, buy YouTube Premium. Newest public data I can find says there are 20 million YouTube Premium subscribers. There's 2 billion monthly a
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by eek04_ 6y ago
From the article: > Lotus 1-2-3 was ported to a bunch of systems, including OpenVMS, Xenix, and even System/390. In 1991, Lotus released a version for SunOS4 on SPARC. Word (according to Wikipedia): > ... were later written for s
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by eek04_ 6y ago
Often, explaining/teaching has only short term value in terms of the product. The code will outlive the team; I try to factor the knowledge into the code, making the code easy to deal with. I also spend a lot of time explaining and
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by eek04_ 6y ago
Using public numbers (references below): The average YouTube user (>18yo) spends 41 minutes per day on YouTube. Let's guess that an average view duration is 10 minutes (~80% of an average video of 11.7 minutes). That gives us 4 vid
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by eek04_ 6y ago
I really want to love types. But type errors so so get in the way of getting to something testable - it's all "satisfy the compiler" which either requires writing out close to my whole program or writing a lot of temporary l
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by eek04_ 6y ago
I disagree. Apple's incentives is to make everybody that has an iPhone pay for apps instead of using advertising supported apps, essentially making things more expensive for the customers. You can think of it as a common. Blocking tr
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by eek04_ 6y ago
It's not clear that the aggregate work is allowed to be distributed under the GPL. My legal hypothesis (from having worked with BSD licensed code and noticed how much hassle having many licenses is) is that the extra requirement of re
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by eek04_ 6y ago
Everything we do impinges on someone else's freedom. Being legally allowed to walk in the street? Impinges on someone else's freedom to block me from walking in the street. It is always a tradeoff. In the case of the particul
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by eek04_ 6y ago
Not possibly working on Windows is, for some of us, a feature. I have no wish to support that ecosystem due to the past ethical violations that founded it, and making it impossible to do so would avoid having to deal with it.
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by eek04_ 6y ago
> It gives freedom to people, how is that bad? That's just a slogan. The devil is in the details. To use an extreme example: Murder laws removes my freedom to kill random people; how is that good?
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by eek04_ 6y ago
It helps ~everybody by making everything adapt. People that just earn wages too.
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by eek04_ 6y ago
Tagged interchange formats like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_File_Format were IMO much better to work with than XML from a programming point of view. If I want something free-form text based, I've bee
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by eek04_ 6y ago
That's really fun. Any chance of data for Ireland? As you probably know, "all good things lead to requests for more features".
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by eek04_ 6y ago
I don't believe it will be a benefit. Current monetary policy is to keep inflation positive and low, while addressing economic shocks that make money velocity low by increasing the supply. A low positive inflation effectively makes al
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by eek04_ 6y ago
Yes. Police is regulated and has a lot of conventions (laws) and resources that enforce those conventions. Ultimately, it goes back to a fairly well-resourced court of law, which is willing to take a fairly high cost to make a decision, a