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by gkya 9y ago
- Read a ton. In about six months I'll be applying for a masters degree programme in literary studies, and from this year september I'll have about an academic year to stabilise the topic of my thesis. But as a rather late-comer
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by gkya 9y ago
Why would everything have to cater to the lowest common denominator on the scale from computer-novice to power-user? Those can just use Windows or Mac OS, or maybe Ubuntu. But why would their use cases invalidate mine? Also, IDK how thing
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by gkya 9y ago
Nice idea, kudos! One curiosity though: I read a thread from the ones listed on the homepage and the signature of the Spamnesty emails said Mnesty LLC. If that's constant in every message the service sends out, wouldn't it be qu
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by gkya 9y ago
I wonder if sth. like an electric Vespa would be feasible. You would be able to pack in more battery than an e-bike, but the last mile would be a problem because you can't just pedal the rest of the way.
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by gkya 9y ago
You're part of a minority among a minority. And many institutions require you use some certain application software and file formats.
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by gkya 9y ago
> Information stored on paper in some filing cabinet in some office for all practical purposes simply doesn't exist. It can't be easily searched, retrieved or accessed by someone who's not in the same room and doesn't
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by gkya 9y ago
I'm really surprised that this article is flagged. Yes the title is clickbaity, but the topic itself is interesting and has created some interesting, relevant discussion.
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by gkya 9y ago
Whether he said it or not is irrelevant, the article is about something else (or, something tangentially related).
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by gkya 9y ago
Seeing this from the front page RSS feed I opened the comments page in shock thinking somehow Golang got templates a la C++...
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by gkya 9y ago
Don't be so harsh on yourself. Frankly I too am sometimes one of those idiots. The urge to advice someone, especially if you think you know the domain well, is very hard to resist. While I always was annoyed by advices (THB also whe
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by gkya 9y ago
> * Practice empathy. People usually don't want advice, they most often simply want someone else to understand their experiences. If they are open to advice and you have a tidbit of wisdom, share it kindly and with obvious humility
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Vala Programming Language(wiki.gnome.org)
2 points by gkya 9y ago|0 comments
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by gkya 9y ago
Electron is not "good enough for people" because people don't know about it, or, to put it better, are not supposed to know about it. It's an implementation detail. > sluggishness of the machine So say a machine with
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by gkya 9y ago
Nice times when customisation and personalisation were things that the user did. Reading other comments here, I guess we need some ad block software not only on our browsers, but also on our faces.
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by gkya 9y ago
This is a very common misconception these days, IMHO. "Because people just use best of what's available, I presume that they are actually content with what they have." Today another thread talking about web apps and the hea
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by gkya 9y ago
That's what I used to do with xombrero actually. Xombrero was my browser of love... If I was any good at C programming, I'd port it to WebKit 2 (I actually started the project, thinking of hacking my way to really learning C and
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by gkya 9y ago
> The problem with that approach is it will only appeal to power-users. "Normal" people just don't care. They do care. They just don't know better, and even for us power users content wins over the container. But ev
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by gkya 9y ago
I have this project of moving most of my browsing to EWW (the native web browser in Emacs) and using a full-fledged web browser only when I need to use some web app. But many content-only websites are going with completely dynamically rend
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by gkya 9y ago
You can just resize the browser window. Then the content is flowed nicely. Or the reader views, which allow me to set up a nice formatting and theming best for me. Frankly if the reader view did not exist, I'd read a fraction of wha
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by gkya 9y ago
Uber undermines local taxi businesses offering mild comfort and some wows but also no job/social security and no quality standards (like the London Knowledge for example). It outcompetes taxis by sidestepping regulations. And just l
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The Gene Patent Question [video](youtube.com)
2 points by gkya 9y ago|1 comments
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by gkya 9y ago
Never, but the extent to which it shapes a person's identity is probably more ample then it ever was.
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by gkya 9y ago
Well this does not simply boil down to economics, too. In Turkey for example (where I'm from), we have a very complex gradient of secular and religious cultures, where the economical situation of the individuals or of the families are
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by gkya 9y ago
Identity politics has won over these ideals. Instead of gender becoming less and less relevant, it came to define the person's identity, and in the process begot more and more genders in a quest to categorise everyone. As victimhood
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by gkya 9y ago
Maybe one day people are going to learn to not treat "the other" as a homogenous invariant being. Your comment blindly factors out for example the possibility that the social class the science and tech folk originate from is diff
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by gkya 9y ago
Plato compares different forms of government in the Politician dialogue (oligarchy/aristocracy, tyranny/monarchy, democracy; 302-303), where the democracy is described as the least effective form of government among all when good
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by gkya 9y ago
This is really... well, I don't know. You're not comedians. You make the reliable, trustable browser. That's why people use Firefox. And you're spending that capital very generously. Firefox's privacy default
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by gkya 9y ago
WRT your first point, well, he's an eat-your-own-dogfood philosopher, and he sets an example to what is possible with his own behaviour. And he just does not make trade-offs in his views. What we should collect from them is what&#x27
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by gkya 9y ago
I mean the money they spent to buy Pocket could've been spent on other things.
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by gkya 9y ago
The suggestions annoy the heck out of me. I probably am going to dump Firefox altogether when I will find something similar to tabs sync with qutebrowser or the new nEXT browser (which is a very interesting thing because it's implemen

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