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by gkya 9y ago
Reading the first sentences I thought that'd become that weird semi-philosophical speech on death which you hear from some people in funerals. Internet is too big to digest, and in a blog or comment there is not much things which can
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by gkya 9y ago
Shouldn't downvote this. Carl Sagan is nowhere as famous as the other three, probably except the US.
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by gkya 9y ago
Thanks a lot! I haven't been able to reproduce that in any computers and browsers I have access to. Is that a Retina screen maybe?
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by gkya 9y ago
I'm not going to play this game of yes you are no I'm not, but even if you're right, then that's not actually the topic of the dicussion: both I and the initial commenter was talking about how they lured people in with U
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by gkya 9y ago
No, I'm not. For one, I've never used it. The parent comment was referring to how they provided endpoints for programs connecting through open protocols, and now that they have some sort of critical mass, just dismissing the use
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by gkya 9y ago
I'm always amazed how easy it is to lure people with castrated fancy UI and things like emoji.
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by gkya 9y ago
The premise is cool indeed, but are you really going to solve "this walled garden problem" with a closed-source application?
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by gkya 9y ago
I've been using a fountain pen since when I started uni (nearly 4 years ago), first used a local brand for some months, then found the Pelikan I bought second hand from a pens repairsman, which I still use. I write quite a bit on pape
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by gkya 9y ago
If you're leaving the tip open, i.e. the cap is not on for more than some seconds while you aren't writing, then the ink in the feed may dry. Another possible reason of these problems is low quality ink, nib and/or pen, and
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by gkya 9y ago
I LOVED transparencies. The teacher brought it to the classroom if was not already there, and plugged it in. And there you have the presentation. Sit and wait while a humanities professor is dabbling with the computer corpse installed in
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by gkya 9y ago
Assuming this is not IT-only, I'll share my thoughts as a humanities student (and prospective researcher). For my first year in the uni, after deciding to not pursue programming professionally, I decided to go low-tech: notebooks and a
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by gkya 9y ago
That's a silly blogpost, to be honest. Any language provides what he descirbes under "State" if you run a script through some sort of CGI interface (I'm not very well informed on all the variations like FastCGI or httpd
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by gkya 9y ago
The hype of making everything digital stems from what I like to call the "oh wow cool" culture. When we see something interesting (and a big wall mounted screen that you can touch and interact, or a watch which can show you the w
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by gkya 9y ago
If you want to see progress, it should be easy to add a process filter somewhere (I bet there already is a hook for that, but not that hard to do even if there isn't one) and make it display sth. on a secondary buffer. That's the
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by gkya 9y ago
I've been blogging with org-publish for a while, but I switched to a Ruby script instead [1]. I'd not recommend using org-publish for this, because it's slow, and it's hard to add new posts. It's nice for static p
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by gkya 9y ago
I've learned agenda views quite late, it's one of the killer features of org mode. Until then I mostly used org for notes and latex export. Maybe the manuals should emphasise it a bit more, it might be hard to discover.
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by gkya 9y ago
Add to that using C-q often in Emacs to insert literal characters when using sth. like quail, and then forgetting you're in a text area and not in Emacs and hitting C-q. Fortunately Firefox restores the content of the text area...
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by gkya 9y ago
These aren't the exact same frame at all. They are photoes of the same thing, that's certainly true, but the photoes are quite different. Risman's photo is way more dramatic and moving with all that contrast, bright, define
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by gkya 9y ago
Many artists have become famous after posthumous publications, at times of stuff never published in their lifetimes.
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by gkya 9y ago
I don't have social media profiles. Only HN and Reddit, where the latter is unimportant, and the former, well, nothing needs to be done. Any digital asset worthy of a look are in my computer (and in a separate backup drive). All my p
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by gkya 9y ago
There is DJB's redo[1], which has some implementations. Also, one could probably modify make to use hashes. But personally I think that mtime is a nice compromise, as it's often a correct heuristic, and hashing files is not chea
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by gkya 9y ago
What does building a JS app take? Linting maybe, then concatenating files, minifying them. Then there should be some maintaining tasks, like updating dependencies, testing, deploying. Am I missing anything (serious question, I'm rat
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by gkya 9y ago
> I finally realized, after years of using make and then learning pattern rules, that the three autovars listed here are visual mnemonics. $@ looks like a target, a ring with a bullseye. $< is pointing left, so it's the first pre
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by gkya 9y ago
I meant how misinformation and provocation is used to generate confusion and support. Voices we did not hear until recently should be clear: many niche groups, good or bad, that was unknown to the general public until the advent of the soci
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by gkya 9y ago
I don't think it's the article authors that implement the website.
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by gkya 9y ago
That's because they knew how to surf the huge voices that we did not hear until recently. That's happening all 'round the globe.
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by gkya 9y ago
Define "success" for yourself, instead of defining it based on the stories of extraordinary individuals, or on what others define as successful. Also, understand that success is a temporary, fleeting thing. You'll be success
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by gkya 9y ago
I'd rather have the choice to pick and the choice to switch later: some thousands of calls can be okay during initial development/testing and the first days of the product, then as I use the API more extensively, I switch to a su
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by gkya 9y ago
When relatives ask me to help with the Facebook app, I just can't. And I'm a power-user of about any program/device I use. I doubt more than a fraction of the users of that app know anything else than the basic stuff like
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by gkya 9y ago
> What social media has done is ensure you hear more from groups that previously didn’t get a voice. And that's the important thing. They have a huge voice now, given the loudest and most repetitive people get way more presence,

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