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by firstbabylonian 3y ago
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy meets Sorry to Bother You.
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Until You Continue to Behave (2019)(uyctb.com)
3 points by firstbabylonian 3y ago|1 comments
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by firstbabylonian 3y ago
Somehow I feel that changed recently (post-COVID?). I remember having lots of random conversations with my seatmates on planes, and I’m not the type to talk to strangers myself. It used to be normal to always ask something along the lines o
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Te Reo Māori and Software(asblog.nz)
2 points by firstbabylonian 3y ago|0 comments
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Te Reo Māori and Software(asblog.nz)
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by firstbabylonian 3y ago
This solution effectively comes down to "get regulators to police big tech more, in this particular way". How much luck have we had with meaningful regulation in the tech industry recently? Doesn't feel like much, if any. Eve
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Utilitarianism (2018) [video](youtube.com)
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by firstbabylonian 3y ago
Thanks. Yeah, telling apart websites from web apps is a pain. It may be clear to a web engineer which URLs might work and which URLs almost certainly won't, but to a normal user that's far from obvious. A blocklist sounds like a g
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by firstbabylonian 3y ago
It is free, it is not open source. Why?
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Show HN: A No-JavaScript iOS Browser(praxis.a6s.nz)
6 points by firstbabylonian 3y ago|6 comments
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by firstbabylonian 3y ago
It sounds like flogging may be a feature, not a bug, of this system.
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by firstbabylonian 3y ago
A doctor from a local dispensary (recreational cannabis isn't legal where I live, but medicinal is comically easy to obtain) once told me: “What do you do? Ah, a software engineer. I guarantee you most people in your industry are on it
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by firstbabylonian 3y ago
In Russian, you do hear people say «что будет, то будет» — literally ”what will be will be”. The formal rules of the language discourage tautology though. It's considered ineloquent, so it's not very common.
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by firstbabylonian 3y ago
https://restofworld.org is a good place to start.
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Show HN: Praxis, an iOS browser that blocks all JavaScript and cookies(apps.apple.com)
5 points by firstbabylonian 3y ago|1 comments
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by firstbabylonian 3y ago
> telemetry can't tell you the value of any work you haven't done yet But it can allow you to extrapolate from the value of things already done and usage patterns around them?
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by firstbabylonian 4y ago
AI is not human children.
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by firstbabylonian 4y ago
How do we go about passing this kind of historic knowledge between generations of engineers? In my observation, most newcomers to the industry are trained either academically or through self-guided practical learning, i.e. by hacking and re
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by firstbabylonian 4y ago
> I've found that Eastern European developers generally believe they are the best (even when they aren't) I've been this Eastern European developer and seen others. A 100% accurate assessment. I'd go as far as to say
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by firstbabylonian 4y ago
Regular people don’t realise or care, they just want to be where their friends are.
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by firstbabylonian 4y ago
What if a native application (mobile or desktop) wants to consume the API?
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by firstbabylonian 4y ago
Fair enough. Would you consider officially endorsing any such projects (e.g. with links on your website), for mutual benefit?
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by firstbabylonian 4y ago
Do you have any plans to support (and accept contributions to) non-English books? It’ll be amazing to see original Russian classic texts redone with the same level of care.
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by firstbabylonian 5y ago
A lot of iOS build automation tooling is dependent on Ruby. fastlane is the de-facto standard in this space, which is a Ruby gem and CLI application. As a result, every iOS developer almost inevitably has to learn at least some basic Ruby t
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by firstbabylonian 6y ago
Someone I know runs their entire life on Trello. It's their digital brain, organised into a fleet of boards. Some of them serve as archives of various documentation and snippets of valuable info. Others are for tracking active projects
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Shipping the Org Chart (2016)(medium.com)
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by firstbabylonian 6y ago
Apps are not food.
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by firstbabylonian 6y ago
> Ticketmaster doesn't take a 30% cut on consession sales at the event Ticketmaster doesn't provide as complex of a service as Apple does with the App Store.
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by firstbabylonian 6y ago
yeah, right, so what do you call such a type? I believe that is the actual question.
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by firstbabylonian 6y ago
a zip bomb?! that's sabotage

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