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by gavinpc 9y ago
Call your representative. This bill is not law yet. https://callyourrep.co/
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by gavinpc 9y ago
Interesting idea. An earlier iteration of this was on HN a while back. Renders nonsense if cookies are blocked. I can tell you without looking that you aren't using a try/catch to feature test localStorage. So many times but it
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by gavinpc 9y ago
I've been using org-mode for about ten years to document moment-to moment progress on tasks. I'll give a basic summary of the problem, copy in significant commands and results as I run them, and ask the next questions to drive th
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by gavinpc 9y ago
Individuals don't care, but the corporate surveillance state cares a lot. Face recognition, voice recognition, and speech recognition alone are an Orwellian dream come true. Cardinal rule of everything else: follow the money. Cynicism
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by gavinpc 9y ago
Which version of NPM? Because you should be aware that > The behaviour of package-lock.json was changed in npm 5.1.0 by means of pull request #16866. The behaviour that you observe is apparently intended by npm as of version 5.1.0. >
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by gavinpc 9y ago
Haven't used the feature, but can you whitelist cookies on a per-container basis? If so, then I'm in. If container Y is only going to open website X, then just block all other cookies.
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by gavinpc 9y ago
No one has mentioned metadata. Yes, Org Mode is a kitchen sink, for better or worse, but at least I can make annotations, even some structured data. Markdown doesn't even have comments. I won't criticize Markdown (or anything) f
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by gavinpc 9y ago
Going back to untyped JS of course. It's not about having "the best" platform for types—that's just the point. TypeScript's system is incomplete, but it's plenty good enough to dramatically improve the expe
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by gavinpc 9y ago
In twenty-five years as a working programmer, I have fallen in love with a piece of technology four times: Emacs (on my third attempt), Tup (the build system by Mike Shal), React... and now TypeScript. I've been using it full-time for
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by gavinpc 9y ago
In a group improvisation, I understand "going out" as one person, usually a soloist, exploring another direction (a rhythmic idea, a motif, anything) where there's some risk that you won't come back, i.e. you might derai
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by gavinpc 9y ago
They're all right, somehow. A film teacher of mine used to always quote Northrop Frye as saying "The category judgement precedes the value judgement." As in: it's a great thriller, but a terrible romance. Moby Dick is
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by gavinpc 9y ago
Zeno's paradox?
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by gavinpc 9y ago
Amen. And while we're at it, let's throw some of the credit to XPath. Wouldn't you like concise, declarative traversal for your data structures? (Yeah, I'm sure somebody's already built it.) I don't think I
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by gavinpc 9y ago
See this talk [0] about this addition to Clojure called core.spec [1]. I read the paper first, and it isn't until the end of the presentation that I understood how it was related to the feature at all. Basically, core.spec is a kind
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by gavinpc 9y ago
Doesn't render anything at all if cookies are blocked. So many times but it's not getting to me.
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by gavinpc 9y ago
The name I've heard for this is "Eternal September": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
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by gavinpc 9y ago
It is kind of ironic, since the internet was designed as exactly the opposite: a damage-tolerant coast-to-coast communications system, i.e. one without a single point of failure.
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by gavinpc 9y ago
Tricky POV shift. Your expectations have increased. We are not reducible to a gross domestic product.
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by gavinpc 9y ago
What is the inspiration for this? Alan Kay has often talked about everything-is-a-computer (i.e. individual objects are fully-functioning computers), which was an idea he took from his background in microbiology. Thanks for making this, I&
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by gavinpc 9y ago
Walk the talk, people, walk the talk. When Facebook has pwned everything that's left to pwn, are we going to look back and say, oh, we were warned, why didn't we heed the warning of all those writers... who had "like" li
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by gavinpc 9y ago
The site is called "Vice"... at least they're forthright about it?
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by gavinpc 9y ago
Agree completely. And I can't imagine that the self-disclosures at the end of the current term will be worse than this.
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by gavinpc 9y ago
I loathe Facebook, and I appreciate the author putting as much effort into warning about it as he once put into endorsing it. But Facebook has Ne10 users. I suspect this kind of blowing in the wind has the perverse effect of ( edit normal
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by gavinpc 9y ago
Regarding this question about a "witch hunt". What would a legitimate objection to an institutional practice look like? Would it not be a witch hunt against Google if people here complained about Google Docs? Would it not be a
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by gavinpc 9y ago
But wait... can they still identify you that way? I'm not on facebook, so maybe it's moot in my case. But are you saying that blocking third-party cookies is not enough to keep facebook from tracking your other browsing activity
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by gavinpc 9y ago
Thanks for paragraph two, but why the snarky dig at "liberals"? This tribal caricaturing is itself becoming part of the larger problem.
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by gavinpc 9y ago
Thank you, this comment is uplifting and thought-provoking.
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by gavinpc 9y ago
"[branded product] play [song or singer] on [branded service]." The device and the service are fixed parts of the incantation (as heard), but the artist's name is not. This is the logical conclusion of that. I suspect it&#x2
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by gavinpc 9y ago
Thanks, that's the one I was looking for.
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by gavinpc 9y ago
He was initially excited about Clojure, as a Lisp enthusiast, but as I recall he had a clash with the community about the direction of the language. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/clojure/JiK-WLFT65M/spB

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