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by eksemplar 8y ago
I don’t think the insect apocalypse is getting its attention stolen by climate change. I just don’t think enough people care. I mean, look at France. They are having violent riots because the gas prices were increased to fight climate chang
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by eksemplar 8y ago
Maybe if you're comparing piracy to stealing of personal goods, but if you steel a few gallons of milk from your local supermarket then you're not depriving them of selling that particular brand of milk either. Digital products ar
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by eksemplar 8y ago
So do you and the content creator. I mean, we've all laughed at the "you wouldn't steal a car" commercials, and the truth is, if you could download and 3D print a car, risk free, you probably would steal it. The underly
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by eksemplar 8y ago
Github is a platform that allows anyone to share my things openly. It also lets them contribute or perhaps even take ownership of the work if we agree it's better off in their hands. I'm perfectly fine with that.
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by eksemplar 8y ago
I'm not advocating for anyone to shut down information, I just wouldn't be sad to see a world without companies like Reddit. I think freedom of information will actually do better without them, though.
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by eksemplar 8y ago
When I call them morally bankrupt, its because of the social manipulation, meddling with democracy and selling of user data, not so much the fact that they allow people to share images of Yoda. But I guess I could have made that a little bi
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by eksemplar 8y ago
If I'm a photographer and you see my images and like them, then you can't download them and then upload them as your own on reddit, and reddit certainly can't make money from the clicks generated by my photos that you uploade
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by eksemplar 8y ago
It's perfectly fine to share links, the EU directive specifically states so. What you can't do, is take content, and host it as your own without getting authorization to do so by the content creator. You can probably imagine why t
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by eksemplar 8y ago
The west won’t go free. Heatwaves have been killing thousands for the past decades in Europe, and extreme weather is really fucking with America. Being near the cost isn’t necessarily worse than being inland as the sea can help regulate the
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by eksemplar 8y ago
It’s really silly to ruin your life with a criminal record like this, but at least the guy did something useful with his fandom. A lot of kids on YouTube are just watching, wasting away.
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by eksemplar 8y ago
Good idea, but they are not tech companies, so they likely lack the ability to do so. I guess they could upscale in tech, but how would they pay for it when they can barely earn enough money to fulfill their primary function? I don’t think
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by eksemplar 8y ago
Is that really practical though? I mean, it makes sense financially and in terms of how we usually do transition, but we’re frankly running out of time, and maybe we need to be radical rather than practical. I’m old, I’ve seen how we’ve ign
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by eksemplar 8y ago
I think it’s easiest to explain like this. You don’t get a lot of opportunities to earn a PhD, most people never get the chance. By comparison almost everyone in CS get a lot of truly great job opportunities in their lives. That’s a PhD, we
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by eksemplar 8y ago
It’s almost always better to achieve for yourself instead of others. A PhD. is infinitely more valuable than a couple of years working for any company, especially if your subject is interesting enough to on-spot hire you before you finish.
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by eksemplar 8y ago
I think you misunderstood me. It’s not the abstraction that’s important. It’s the problem solving that comes with knowing how the understanding. How can you really be tasked with solving problems if your first response is to look for a node
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by eksemplar 8y ago
C/assembly are great starters because they teach you how computers actually work. Even a simple function in JS taking one variable abstracts a good deal of that away from you because it handles things like memory allocation for you. A
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by eksemplar 8y ago
Do they have internet? Because if they do, then cloud9 IDE is an excellent way to teach, any language too. One of the best examples of this is CS50x from Harvard, which uses it (and other cloud services) to give students an IDE, automatic h
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by eksemplar 8y ago
The article talks about it, but it seems too fantastical to me. I mean, what’s the business model really? Facebook earns around $2.5 a year per user, is enough people really going to bother selling their data for almost nothing?
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by eksemplar 8y ago
I’m not sure it would be true, but government sure spends a lot of money on Microsoft licenses.
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by eksemplar 8y ago
How is JavaScript accessible? Because of websites like the linked article, which covers the basics, that lets you build things? Because Udemy, codeacademy and all the others will teach you how to google program using it? Maybe you’re right,
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by eksemplar 8y ago
I work in the public sector. We operate more than 500 systems at the muniplacity where I work. Some are major, some are not. Some have support completely handled by the providers, some do not. Some are build in house, some are bought by loc
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by eksemplar 8y ago
It worried me a little that you compared yourself to Udemy. Because Udemy is at best a decent look into a little bit of a certain technology, and at worst an amateurish stride through a topic. Maybe it’ll allow you to google program, but it
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by eksemplar 8y ago
I disagree. Some days you’ll be beat, sure, and you won’t be able to be creative on those days. But that’s fine, if you accept it. Other days you’ll get a lot of creativity done in your spare hours, and if your hobby is computer science, th
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by eksemplar 8y ago
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/11/hacke...
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by eksemplar 8y ago
No, I meant to say that open source libraries are especially dangerous. I get why you may object, but open source libraries have failed us a lot and by contract the .net framework library hasn't. There are a lot of great open source li
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by eksemplar 8y ago
Could they have build the iPhone XS with a jack? Because if they couldn’t, I’d argue that everyone who owns one benefits from it not having a jack. The real annoyance for me isn’t the lack of the jack, it’s that they haven’t also replaced t
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by eksemplar 8y ago
I agree that lines of code is a terrible measurement of productivity. I don’t agree that short is always better. Sometimes it’s better to write the code so that it’s easier to understand than to use smart tricks to make it short, because th
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by eksemplar 8y ago
It’s a bit of a cheap statement though. If keeping the headphone jack would have prevented Apple from making the iPhone X, then the argument wouldn’t hold any value. I would have hated if the XS was thicker, or if it still had bezels.
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by eksemplar 8y ago
Why don’t you just plug your old headphones into the adapter and continue to use them?
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by eksemplar 8y ago
Weird, I noticed no difference between using the headphone jack headphones or the usb-c headphones I guess I can’t charge my phone and use headphones at the same time, but I really couldn’t before either considering the length of the chargi

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