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by foo101 8y ago
I know people keep saying this, but resizing the browser is not really a viable solution with today's messed up web. Sure, I can resize the browser for this blog using full width lines but then I have to resize my browser again for ano
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by foo101 8y ago
Most of the popular online services have screwed up their interface. I think it started with Digg. It was once a loved website. The screwed up the interface and everyone ran to Reddit. Now Reddit has screwed up their interface too. We all u
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by foo101 8y ago
Network with people directly via physical world and web meetings. It requires some time and monetary investment (building relationships and traveling to conferences), but once you have build a network of even 4 or 5 people who value your sk
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by foo101 8y ago
Why are people still using Upwork? How many of these horror stories do we need to come across before people learn to ditch Upwork for good? Here was another horror story that I read sometime back: https://hackernoon.com/why-
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by foo101 8y ago
Proprietary software can and, in many cases, do have their source code accessible, so yes, Common Clause is as good as proprietary software, no more and no less.
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by foo101 8y ago
> We already know that self proclaimed aficionados can’t tell the difference between cheap and expensive wine. We can? That is very interesting. Is there some article or reference material about this where I can read more about it?
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by foo101 8y ago
None of the tools you mention does anything similar to the tool shared in this post. What similarity do you find apart from the obvious and peripheral similarity that they are all rendering latex? The first and third tools require you to si
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by foo101 8y ago
More like start searching with DuckDuckGo, use an alternate email service such as Fastmail, Protonmail, etc., and use Firefox. By the way, what's an alternate email service the HN users recommend?
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by foo101 8y ago
Honest question: What exactly does it mean for a registrar to block a domain? I believed so far that for my browser to successfully connect to a web server running on a domain or for a mail server to deliver email to a domain, there should
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by foo101 8y ago
> It makes sense to me that to get the investment required to fund this, you’d want sole rights to commercialize. It indeed does make sense to commercialize. Nobody said otherwise. But making good sense does not make a software open sour
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by foo101 8y ago
The title is indeed wrong. There is no definition or usage of the word "open source" that is compatible with restriction of commercial usage. Never in the history of free software or open source software from the release of Donald
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by foo101 8y ago
I am not familiar with JavaScript. Could someone share some sample JavaScript code that shows how it allows the browser to modify my system clipboard?
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by foo101 8y ago
How does a site disabling "paste from clipboard" protect my password that I have already copied to clipboard? Note that I would copy the password first and then I would realise that the site is not allowing me to paste it.
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by foo101 8y ago
> you leave the password in the clipboard, and another website copies it (used to be a thing, I think it's patched now) Even if it were not patched, how a site disabling "paste from clipboard" remove my password that I hav
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by foo101 8y ago
It isn't clear to me whether you are saying that Pandoc is necessary or if you are saying that Pandoc is unnecessary and LaTeX alone is sufficient for all purposes. I think your parent comment was saying that LaTeX alone is sufficient.
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by foo101 8y ago
There are a few ways in which the shared objects method you suggest does not match the full power of Lisp debugging. First of all, when a C program crashes, it just crashes. There is no REPL. There is only a core dump. So any live-debugging
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by foo101 8y ago
> If you’re like me and already have Vim burned too deeply into your fingers to ever get it out, I’d recommend Vim with Vlime. Anyone has tried both Slimv and Vlime for Vim? What are the differences? Which one gives an experience closer
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by foo101 8y ago
I think you or someone understands this subject should write a detailed comment in this thread that explains this to software folks like us. I appreciate the help.
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by foo101 8y ago
I want to know the answer too. I always thought the universe is expanding to a larger universe. I never thought that it could be expanding to something else.
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by foo101 8y ago
> The fact a new resource (you) has ... I am not familiar with this lingo. Why exactly is the OP a resource? Is this usage of "resource" common in business speak?
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by foo101 8y ago
If the vendor wrote crash reports which you could review before sending, would you trust that the crash report is actually what is being sent? If you opted out of sending anything, do you really trust that the vendor is not sending anything
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by foo101 8y ago
If the vendor supplied such a system or provided the answer to your question, would you trust it? Why? You always need independent researchers to verify vendor's claims.
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by foo101 8y ago
Your grandma comment is misguided. Your parent comment has a good point. If a system is sending out sensitive data, there is a way to figure it out by setting breakpoints and reverse engineering the payload that is getting encrypted. Once a
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by foo101 8y ago
I believe something like the model followed by Apache Software Foundation works well in favor of continuity of a project. They have an overseeing committee that one can request to add new committers or even transfer ownership of project if
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by foo101 8y ago
I have always wanted something like this without having to move away from Git (to Fossil). A bug tracker like this allows the bug history to be tracked and remain with the source code which is much better than keeping the bugs in a web base
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by foo101 8y ago
> How do you know this? I believe from the comment history of the OP. There is a specific comment where the OP mentions that they are Pakistani.
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by foo101 8y ago
Has any other mainstream programming language like C or Java introduced such reserved keywords in a new release? I guess if C or Java were to do something like this it would cause a lot of hue and cry. I remember when C++ had to introduce a
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by foo101 8y ago
> With the release of Python 3.6, it became clear that Pylama was in need of maintenance updates. Python 3.6 warned that async was about to become a reserved keyword in Python 3.7. I can imagine there must be lot of code bases with async
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by foo101 8y ago
From the popular answers to this thread, I think the next relevant question that arises is: How non-scholars can find opportunities to collaborate with scholars? We need some kind of "Who is open to collaborating?" threads similar
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by foo101 8y ago
What's your Redshift setting for daytime? Do you or anyone else have a third setting for bedtime like f.lux has (say for 1 or 2 hours prior to bedtime)? If yes, how do you simulate this third setting and how do transition smoothly from

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