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by erikbye 8y ago
> Super! So we should Open Source Hiri tomorrow. And I would love to. But there is a serious problem with this argument. If we do Open Source Hiri, there is nothing to stop someone from forking it and selling it for less /offering i
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by erikbye 8y ago
That's nice for those who use a lot of tabs, yes. But what I really appreciate is reader view (F9). What I long for is Chrome's page translation.
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by erikbye 8y ago
1000 is a very low number for PBKDF2 iterations. OWASP recommends 10 000, and also recommends using Argon2 instead. Apple does 10 million.
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by erikbye 8y ago
Something being adopted doesn’t equal it being of benefit or a good thing. Vocal minorities have ruined many a thing this way, the vocal minority rarely possess the level of knowledge and insight as say, in this case, the language designers
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by erikbye 8y ago
Most of my games are on Steam, but for Xbox One X I prefer a physical copy due to size and price. 100GB download for one game is a bit much on my current connection. Red Dead Redemption 2 on Xbox Store, $85 (cheapest edition). Physical copy
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by erikbye 8y ago
Correct. I realized that opening line set the wrong tone and was unnecessary.
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by erikbye 8y ago
Does that matter? It's built-in now, and that's why I commented. To raise awareness. If built-in features have you covered there is no point going third-party.
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by erikbye 8y ago
Both macOS and Windows 10 has on/off now, scheduling, less/more warm adjustment. Windows 10 even has sunset to sunrise based on location. EDIT: HN is becoming more like Reddit every day, I see. Ridiculous. Down-voted for pointing
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by erikbye 8y ago
Windows 10 has this built-in, so does macOS.
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by erikbye 8y ago
I've always found it trivial to know what to whitelist. Pi-hole admin -> Query log -> Show all -> Search filter <domain> Whitelist whatever necessary.
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by erikbye 8y ago
Good riddance.
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by erikbye 8y ago
http://emacsrocks.com/ http://emacs.sexy/
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by erikbye 8y ago
To first-time Emacs users: Do M-x (alt-x) and type help-with-tutorial, hit your enter key (RET in Emacs jargon).
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by erikbye 8y ago
I use Emacs and this is completely anecdotal, but I agree, it feels like vim is the hip editor. I think it started to become hip when Rails gained traction. A lot of screencasts using vim. I guess this was when TM had fallen out of favor or
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by erikbye 8y ago
Of course. Even a few game devs use Emacs on Windows. Jonathan Blow and Casey Muratori (he recently switched to something else I think, not sure if he's back to Emacs) being two prominent ones. I use Emacs whether I'm on Linux, Fr
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by erikbye 8y ago
You can run it on whatever hardware you like.
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by erikbye 8y ago
If you block Windows telemetry domains and run Windows, naturally those domains will be at the top... I have a lot of blocklists, but I think one of the default ones includes Windows telemetry. watson.telemetry.microsoft.com 15110 v10.vort
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by erikbye 8y ago
Safari's Reader Mode.
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by erikbye 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_curve > The familiar expression "a steep learning curve" is intended to mean that the activity is difficult to learn, although a learning curve with a steep start act
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by erikbye 8y ago
He'd get a lot of flack unless he gisted his snippet first. But, of course, we have gist.el.
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by erikbye 8y ago
I've been working this way in my shell for a couple of decades.
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by erikbye 8y ago
While evolving the brand, could you also add a dark/night mode to your browser? Dictionary lookup would be good, too. There are no extensions satisfying my requirements. Besides, I try to minimize the use of potentially insecure and pr
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by erikbye 8y ago
The book is a decent read. Like you said, it linearly presents the companies and people involved, mostly ARPA and BBN. Not a technical book, so don't expect anything in-depth on protocols, more like analogies laypeople can understand.
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by erikbye 8y ago
Python and Ruby are not known for "extremely weak typing". Ruby: duck, dynamic, strong. Python: dynamic, strong. JavaScript: dynamic, duck, weak. Elixir: dynamic, strong. https://wiki.python.org/moin/Why%20is%
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by erikbye 8y ago
Could you fix proper emitting of tab escape codes so completion in REPLs, etc., work properly?
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by erikbye 8y ago
With Core they are even used for new projects running on Linux.
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by erikbye 8y ago
C-r is a feature of the PSReadLine module for PowerShell.
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by erikbye 8y ago
Early MSFT employees were compensated heavily with stock options. I think it's also pretty safe to say that few devs from that period are still coders, they've moved on to other roles or retired. From Show Stopper!: Technical pref
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by erikbye 8y ago
Mintty + tmux. It's how I survive Windows. Also: https://github.com/mintty/wsltty
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by erikbye 8y ago
Have you heard of C#? ASP.NET? A few of those devs use Windows...

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