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by gboudrias 8y ago
I'm not expert enough to answer that, but Fossil and its "Built-in Web Interface" seems really interesting. I remember Mercurial seemed interesting back in the day, but as far as I can tell it mostly didn't take off beca
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by gboudrias 8y ago
Fossil seems like one of many potential upgrades, and it's the second time I hear about it today! However I think the main problem is almost always existing users. Git has arguably been falling behind in terms of features for quite a w
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by gboudrias 8y ago
Honestly the only way might be American regulation specifically targeting Facebook. And the next player might be just as insidious. It would be extremely hard to avoid this result without a dramatic shift in public opinion and frankly cultu
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by gboudrias 8y ago
That's actually a reasonable analogy, but I think we only seem "less serious" to those who have their mind set on ignoring the movement from the get go. To me open source just conveys the idea of "free shit". Saying
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by gboudrias 8y ago
There was a way to make your point politely and be taken seriously. This was not the way.
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by gboudrias 8y ago
Also all of China or so I was told about a year ago.
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by gboudrias 8y ago
I used to spoof my user-agent and don't remember much of a difference... As a dev, everyone tells me I should just throw literally every possible version of newer attributes into the CSS anyhow, so on most websites you're bound t
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by gboudrias 8y ago
Twitch plays interviews?
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by gboudrias 8y ago
Ah yes, the elusive development unicorn.
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by gboudrias 8y ago
I'm looking forward to the momentum this will give OpenStreetMap through the sheer annoyance at Google. But I sure wish Google would stop trying to read my mind and just do what I tell it to. Guess the descent is inevitable, since we&#
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by gboudrias 8y ago
1 1 1 1 Ah yes, quite the curated dictionary.
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by gboudrias 8y ago
Your way of viewing things is so foreign to me (and I'm a foreigner so makes sense I guess). I think prisons should be all about rehabilitation. If you crime is selling drugs, and selling drugs is no longer something we train people ou
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by gboudrias 9y ago
Jesus christ how evil can Facebook get? "We'll just sneak in this test to identify everyone before we have to make them opt into it." What's even the point of opting out after that? That's some evil genius machinati
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by gboudrias 9y ago
I strongly disagree. Whether the points are displayed or not, voting is what revolutionized forums. I find voting forums almost universally better than non-voting ones, because voting sorts by relevance by default. I still dread the (lack o
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by gboudrias 9y ago
Québécois here, never heard it either. Maybe it's a regional thing or it was a different word.
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by gboudrias 9y ago
Fascinating article, thanks for the info! > The only clue in the screenshot above is that the interface says “to james.hfisher”, instead of “to me”. I just tested it, and I'm not even getting that clue. It says "to me", an
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by gboudrias 9y ago
Which is exactly why Facebook and Twitter have "blurrified" your content by making it have no verifiable order by default ("top posts" meaning "totally arbitrary order"). This, as you highlight, probably brings
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by gboudrias 9y ago
Indeed this is a well-known phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_transfer_(memory)
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by gboudrias 9y ago
Mostly versions of projects too small to notify you by email (but still important enough to keep up to date). Edit: To elaborate, gitlab and github have RSS feeds of tags, which devs use as releases. New tag = new release = another item in
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by gboudrias 9y ago
Not that strange, every site on which I've looked for it has RSS/atom feeds where relevant, but hide them (eg this, github, etc). Interestingly enough, Firefox has a "feeds" section when looking at page info, which will
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by gboudrias 9y ago
Psych major here, every behaviorist (and psych major) knows this. Ironic that they feel the need to quote Carl Jung for a totally banal effect of learning: Doing nothing is harder than doing something else.
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by gboudrias 9y ago
I'm imagining a Stewart Lee "sell phones to cars" type skit: "Quick, sell data! Sell data to anyone! Get more data to sell! Hurry!" The values of Facebook, of which there are none.
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by gboudrias 9y ago
Who says it hasn't happened already? How would we ever know? For that matter, how would Zuck?
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by gboudrias 9y ago
It's not like most people had education specifically for this. The truth of the matter is most of us are winging it big time. Hence the wild west improvisation.
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by gboudrias 9y ago
Do you think IPv6 will change things for the better?
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by gboudrias 9y ago
I was already against Slack out of principle, but this is pure madness. Their justification boils down to "some people want to".
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by gboudrias 9y ago
As a psychology undergrad, it's hard to be surprised at the lack of rigor when you realized a large part of the faculty does not understand what science is and therefore does not feel the need to believe in it. I'm still astonis
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by gboudrias 9y ago
A short-lived opportunity for sure. This is the very definition of an arms race, amd I can't see "real" winning out over fake. Anything that can be checked can be preempted, so "real" is always one step behind, as f
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by gboudrias 9y ago
Once again, whimsy turns to wisdom when least expected. The very idea is ludicrous, but the hurdles and lessons learned while trying to be funny are real. Good read!
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by gboudrias 9y ago
> If facebook bleeds enough users, maybe they'll become motivated to change By that point, they'll he on their last leg, and we'll be worrying about the next social network.

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