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by gkya 9y ago
Is search still the core of their business? Or does most of their income come from things like advertising, AppEngine, google apps for business and android-related stuff? I too feel that google search has been decaying, and saw many peopl
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A minor problem with Rust is aesthetics. The syntax might look cryptic at times, and error messages the compiler outputs are not everybody's cup of tea, I'd guess. These are certainly not all that important when you're cons
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I haven't used Go all that much, but arent the interfaces meant to be used as generics, i.e. in your function you need some data X, and you'll do something with that X. The way you need to achieve this is that expect an X that sa
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Wow. That's outright malicious behaviour from Intel there.
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How can that even happen? My laptop has a vulnerable i3 chip, but I'm not giving it or the chip to anybody, I need the computer. And I guess no data centers would "temporarily close" in order to change CPUs (though maybe th
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On building your favourite web browser from source(cadadr.dreamwidth.org)
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I was lucky enough to spend three years of my elementary education in a private school with an observatory, but I was intrigued in the very first years of my education. It was awe-inspiring to see an illustrated but serious account of how
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That article you have linked is a crystalised instance of human stupidity and a demonstration of how far down it can go WRT the level of intelligence. An idiot that thinks he can connect stupidity and intelligence to genetics without demon
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Reading philosophy has been an enligthining experience for me. I was no criminal, but a depressive teenager. As I read my first philosophy books---dialogues of Plato initially, then Schopenhauer, Freud, Lao Tzi, etc.---I learnt, not much
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> what details should it have included so as not to be vague? - How is the correctness of such "law", expecially in context of UX desgin, is observed? - What are practical implications of these "laws", again in the co
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I'm not really interested in these details, and "make bigger buttons" was just an example of what an implication might have been (as indicated by "e.g."). What I tried to criticise was the vagueness of the linked p
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> If you want to change things, just do it. If only that was as easy as saying it. People have responsibilites and stomachs that don't like (naturally) staying empty. Sometimes you just can't do it.
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I don't really know Fitts' work, but I do understand that what that sentence means is obviously "smaller things are harder to click or tap". But that is very obvious and thus meaningless without indicating what that imp
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It's not that I don't understand this. It's that a web page on "the laws of UX" counts on the readers' interpretative capabilites to get such point across, and excludes any concrete example to make their point
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It's all about the experience, the exploration, the perdition of purpose as a tool of the establishment that conditions the individual to always be learning, for only then it can fruit him in his greedy machine of post-modern industry.
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Gkya's law of usefulness of a web page: The usefulness of a web page is a function of the multiplication of the number of laws it cites w/o any context whatsoever and the ratio of the lines of text such page contains in a screenf
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"National dish" is one of the silliest things nationalism has to offer. Food does not have nationality.
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This may be dependent on a country's tradition, but voting is not speech, it is one's most direct participation in democracy. Who doesn't vote ignores the system and thus (in my humble and personal opinion) is not a part of
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There is the "çi börek" from Eskisehir in Turkey, a fried pastry with minced meat inside, where they use actual onion juice (juicing the onion like you would juice an apple, basically) to season (and also partially cook) the meat.
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Quoting myself: >> I'd definitely use all the most popular subscription services available I have about five of them bookmarked. There definitely exists more. You need to rely on someone at some point, but redundancy and decoupl
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I'm not familiar with Web Assembly, but the recent trend is that as the downloads become faster, web performance in a vanilla browser becomes slower, because websites just send more stuff to you. Pages grow toward infinity. Also, if,
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Political battles are hard to do, and take time, sometimes very very long times they take.
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This is why one should not entrust their livelihood to any company. I'm a fan of the Patreon model. If I was starting a video publishing enterprise (say something like Primitive Technology or Computerphile or a music band channel) I&
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by gkya 9y ago
Some months ago when Alan Kay did an AmA, I asked a question to him and got answered. A CS star from thousands of kilometers apart. I can "bump into" many domain experts hereabouts. People like Walter Brigt are regularly postin
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If you have a following in Patreon or any other similar platform, it shouldn't be that hard to jump ship and start uploading somehwere else. Any serious internet publisher should have at least one alternate channel for followers. I&#
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I'm no security expert, but this article, and the FastCo article about NASA programmers suggest, at least to me, that computer security is a problem that emerges from incompetence in using tools and designing programs. We're yet
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> You don't normally design with someone actively trying to destroy your building in mind. You do, actually. When designing a building, one considers many "attacks" it can be subject to, depending on the geography and dem
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IIRC you can use the browser to view them, i.e. a keystroke opens it in the browser. In Gnus I hit "K H" for that. Emacs also has SHR, a renderer for HTML, but it doesn't do all that good with complex documents.
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Do yourself (and to other e-mail users in the hacker community) some good and use something like Mutt or Gnus. Sth. like Thunderbird is not worth the hassle if you can edit a configuration file and read a man page (most folk here, I'd
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First of all, I have not said in any way that Esperanto is a romance language. I'm aware about the sources of the language's vocabulary. For the rest, I really appreciate the "insider" view you give. A couple points, t

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