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by flocial 8y ago
If Github does die out will be a slow and painful one. Skype was more of a radical change to the core technology. Of course anything is possible. I'm guessing many companies paying for Github's enterprise products are more concern
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by flocial 8y ago
If this goes through Microsoft basically gets access to all the private proprietary code of so many companies. I would have never expected Github founders to even entertain the notion. I guess times change.
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by flocial 10y ago
The article simply doesn't meet the standards of HN and only spreads popular misconceptions.
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by flocial 10y ago
The author does list shopify in one if the alternatives whatever that means. WordPress is not just a blog but a platform.
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by flocial 10y ago
Thank you, I actually do something like this. If I get stuck writing I'll write out all the scatter brained thoughts into a catch all file. Otherwise, I try to create separate physical spaces for various tasks and try to practice mindf
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by flocial 10y ago
Social media optimisation could very well be the cancer that kills democracy. Still I find it hard to imagine the likes of Trump or Farage to be these evil masterminds orchestrating media manipulation and shifting popular sentiment with adv
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by flocial 10y ago
Elevating educational standards of society as a whole, especially the poor, has nothing to do with whether all disenfranchised groups have the native intelligence to become academics or well paid knowledge workers. The number of active NBA
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by flocial 10y ago
If you look at current incarceration statistics I'd say it's still happening.
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by flocial 10y ago
It makes me sad to see this on hn. I would appreciate a technical write up on the implementation of this app but as snackai said, based on the screenshots it doesn't seem impressive technologically.
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by flocial 10y ago
As long as past statements and sharing can come back to haunt you, especially with the current government trends, I think the freedom to delete your online postings is almost a basic human right regardless of the tos you reluctantly clicked
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by flocial 10y ago
Twitter was ahead of its time and tried build a messaging protocol on a doomed stack (ror). Then they nuked the third party apps they didn't already buy and the list goes on. I sometimes wonder how history would be different if they de
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by flocial 10y ago
I wish siri would let me type queries. Having "information at your fingertips" really kills productivity for me. I need long stretches away from twitch reactions to "what's the capital of Uganda?" type of intrusive
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by flocial 10y ago
I'm not really trying to be abrasive or argumentative but your logic doesn't make sense to me and your comments are dismissive and you resort to ad hominem attacks which don't add any value. Which kind of proves your point if
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by flocial 10y ago
Your explanation is very different from the interpretation I made from what you wrote. Yes I agree that clickbait only adds noise but your comment seemed dismissive of engineers writing unless they were exceptional engineers.
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by flocial 10y ago
You do realize the irony of your statement. Or do comments on HN not count as writing and therefore not a waste of time? I would like to know how writing could be bad for you. Please elaborate.
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by flocial 10y ago
I also find that the second I hit publish, l tend to find errors and implicit assumptions, etc. Something about going public adds extra polish.
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by flocial 10y ago
I actually miss the days when engineers blogged more rather than accumulating karma on Stackoverflow. When Stackoverflow emerged it was a great source of knowledge but these days you have to sift through the comments to check if the solutio
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by flocial 10y ago
I don't think it meets the strict definition of docxing if the person in question is using their real name on social profiles along with face pictures and publicizing their results. Although I do sympathize with someone getting publicl
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by flocial 10y ago
All sports governing bodies do exeactly that. How else do you uphold the spirit of fairness?
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by flocial 10y ago
I agree but perhaps it's because the majority of apologists do not truly appreciate the challenges of running such races that they place a higher value on an amateur runner's privacy than the results of an arbitrary running event
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by flocial 10y ago
The domain name is quite straight forward. I honestly don't understand the discussion revolving around the morality of investigating falsified competition times in a recorded sports event with prizes for placement.
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by flocial 10y ago
Yes but the comment's assertion is valid. Because the screenshots clearly reveal her name and social media handles even if the article refers to her as "the runner".
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by flocial 10y ago
Actually, with regard to the other comments, this could very well be the reason the parent runs out of disk space due to OSX's swap files/sleep image (I think it's fixed in the more recent versions).
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by flocial 10y ago
Just wanted to say you guys were awesome and inspiring. It opened my eyes to a whole new side of programming.
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by flocial 10y ago
I had a similar experience. But at the same time, it was exciting to think that some of those people screaming for free technical assistance were getting their first taste of programming via running bots.
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by flocial 10y ago
The reverse engineering thread on Discord was one of the most exciting spontaneous collaborative coding sessions I've read. There were several talented coders using the IDA disassembler to reverse engineer the encryption scheme tacked
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by flocial 10y ago
I see your point and yes I know that Erlang has decades of production use and shines in lots of infrastructure applications, game servers, etc. I was mainly referring to the buzz generated quite a few years ago when the first Pragmatic Prog
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by flocial 10y ago
> I think it adds to the complexity of language. How so? What makes Erlang more functional? And how is Erlang simpler for you? A big part of the renaissance in programming languages come from developers leveraging rock solid VMs such as
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by flocial 10y ago
Too bad the author doesn't show specific examples. I can sympathize with the sentiment. The problem with scaling languages like python and ruby in my experience is the number of moving parts and jump in deep knowledge required to scale
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by flocial 10y ago
You won't find anything better than hexdocs and stacked overflow at this moment (not in my experience at least). You don't get the dynamic method calls of find_all or the find(:hash key) magic but once you master Ecto.Query and al

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