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by egwynn 10y ago
In this case, I prefer FP-style destructured pattern matching (e.g. https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/patterns.html#destructuring ) to OOP-style method overloading (FTA). In the FP style, the compiler can make sure you han
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by egwynn 10y ago
Yes, but isn’t that the problem with Android security updates? OEMs need to (and fail to) deliver closed-source binary blobs to end users. If open source is the real goal, then we* need to be demanding much more openness from OEMs. * Not me
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Is [t]here a place to discuss why the “Nevertheless, She Coded” posts[1] got flag-bombed? They seemed on-topic to me. Were they off-topic? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13821563 EDIT: Oops, it’s since been un-fla
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I appreciate you linking to the project home page, but it’s not a GNU project. Besides its home page being hosted on nongnu.org, its savannah page ( http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/nmh/ ) says > This project
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by egwynn 10y ago
I feel your pain. This is something that I learned on-the-fly as well. I encourage you to read up on the MIME specs to flesh out your understanding of “common things that show up inside emails”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by egwynn 10y ago
For me, that version refreshes indefinitely. I recommend reading the plain-text version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
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Kinda sounds like a terrorist to me.
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[2015] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9235619
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by egwynn 10y ago
And if they say they have one and show it to you, how do you prove that they don’t also have another “real” one that they use for all of their terroristing?
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by egwynn 10y ago
That's possible. But to me it's not totally obvious. He said the US embassy in Oslo checked/authorized his travel credentials. So either he's lying or the US embassy fucked up. Either way, it sounds like situations like
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by egwynn 10y ago
It sounds like you're saying that you think he's capitulating the conceit that arabs are terrorists? I don't really read his words that way, but I guess I can see it. And if so, then yes: definitely distasteful.
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by egwynn 10y ago
FTA: It should be enough when they found that I have a diplomatic passport, [that I’m a] former prime minister. EDIT: The article doesn’t totally, clearly, and unambiguously say, “the subject of this article is an accredited di
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by egwynn 10y ago
I’m not an expert here, but in the article it says he had a diplomatic passport. If that was so, and he’s an accredited diplomat, then the Vienna Convention (ratified in the USA and Norway both) applies here. It says that diplomats are not
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by egwynn 10y ago
Earlier discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13547010
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Put another way: RMS is a hardliner/purist about privacy and intellectual freedom. As far as I’ve read, he considers it unacceptable to compromise his privacy/freedom in basically all contexts. His conclusions are reached soundly,
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by egwynn 10y ago
TBH, I agree with him about all of the things he points out as “wrong” with the typical streaming model. But I don’t think it’s productive to take an “anti-Netflix” position as a response. I think all of our time would be much better spent
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by egwynn 10y ago
I’ve wished that there was some kind of HTTP header I could have my UA send that told the server not to bother sending me the comments section, as I consider them to generally be a waste of resources. I even thought a little about how I’d g
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by egwynn 10y ago
On macOS, you can three-finger-tap (not click, tap) to invoke the right-click “Look Up” menu item. That’s my preferred technique, though it’s obviously OS-dependant.
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Old news from New Republic
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by egwynn 10y ago
Relevant citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_formulation
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by egwynn 10y ago
It's not well documented online, but if you use Dash on Mac, then you can set up an iOS device as a 'Remote', which lets you use your phone/tablet as a second screen for documentation, which you control from your Mac. I
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by egwynn 10y ago
Not news. But while we’re on the subject, can someone explain why Zimbabwe’s Wikipedia page doesn’t list the Yuan as its currency? United States dollar (official for government), South African rand, and many other currenciesa, e.g
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by egwynn 10y ago
Your comment reads like you don’t understand either 1. the intention of the GPL (copyleft), 2. how it’s supposed to work (requiring derivative works to also be GPL), or 3. you don't think it’s legally enforceable (it is). Whether or no
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by egwynn 10y ago
I’ve never thought of this and never noticed it until you pointed it out. And now it’ll probably bother me forever.
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Part of the issue is that vim’s ages-old plugin model uses a really unusual and frustrating architecture. I think the purpose here is to make the baseline package system cleaner, so that more advanced package management systems don’t need t
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by egwynn 10y ago
Is there a primary source for this? Which part of the WHO said what, when, and to whom? Right now, even the supposedly-official stuff isn’t even clearly marked in quotation marks. Maybe the WHO is doing something boneheaded, but right now t
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I stopped reading at “dwont”.
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by egwynn 10y ago
See also: https://medium.com/@boopathi/it-s-the-future-7a4207e028c2
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by egwynn 10y ago
FTA The following is inspired by the article “It’s the future” from Circle CI. You can read the original here (https://circleci.com/blog/its-the-future/).
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by egwynn 10y ago
EST starts on November 6. It’s EDT until then. </pedantry>

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