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811.
by gkya 9y ago
First of all, punishment is two-fold: the formal punishment the court orders; and the informal one: how the community receives you after what you've done is known. I'm mostly concerned about the second. Maybe I'm not being
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by gkya 9y ago
The punishment is happening before the punished is deemed guilty.
813.
by gkya 9y ago
> You know what can really ruin someone's life? Being harassed/assaulted and not being able to talk about it for fear that you'll be ostracised by your friends and family. I know that out of experience. Long long experien
814.
by gkya 9y ago
It's not acceptable to punish today's men for what men of past got away with. That's vendetta, blood feud, primitive. What I watch happening is lots of decisions happening based on nothing. That all or most the particular m
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by gkya 9y ago
It's ridiculous how all this is not based on the motivation of allowing us as a species to progress, but on that of ensuring the leading (?) place of the US in international politics and economics. I wonder, will I live long enough to
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by gkya 9y ago
The cases involving intimate/sexual relations (consensual or not) are really difficult to address, and the general approach we have as the (at least nominally) secular and democratic part of the world is just crazy. Probably most alle
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by gkya 9y ago
> and here come the downvotes.... I'm not a mod but I'll still say that this is frowned upon. Wrt the downvote itself, I promptly rewarded you with mine for your representing of stalking as a male only phenomenon. This blanke
818.
by gkya 9y ago
Django. I'm not doing software these days but still following the news etc., and it seems to me that the general knowledge of the tool is still operable since very early releases. I'm not very familiar with Rails itself but when
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by gkya 9y ago
> Wikipedia's monthly news summaries I'd be glad if you could provide me with the link to subscribe these summaries if they're email newsletters. I could not find them in the wiki itself.
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by gkya 9y ago
I dream about an AI service that can curate me a newsletter given some sources (RSS, Twitter feeds, youtube feeds, whatnot) and send it to me regularly on a given interval. It would avoid duplicates and essentially identical stuff [1], wei
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by gkya 9y ago
Solid advice. I'll add to this: - Do not follow newspapers RSS feeds. They bombard you with news that are not relevant at all. Their newsletters are better. I get all my news from daily or weekly newsletters. I would like to get w
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Ask HN: An all round resource on web-dev?
3 points by gkya 9y ago|2 comments
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by gkya 9y ago
And they'd rather not care. A life where we had to make sure every single thing we have and every tiny peg or thing in them is of a certain quality would be hell. Have you read "I, pencil"? I suggest it becomes compulsory
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by gkya 9y ago
> For adults one can perhaps argue that they (being adults) can choose for themselves whether to give or not to give the permissions That's wishful thinking. Most people can't tell the WWW from Facebook. People are so bad at
825.
by gkya 9y ago
On that last bit, it's possible to have org links point to tramp URLs, so in my start.org file (my initial buffer, an entrance to my world :)) I keep some links to remotes I frequent, and with ssh agent running, it's one clock to
826.
by gkya 9y ago
> we took the iPad away from our four-year-old daughter Not referring to the person of the author, but people use tablets and phones as stand-by buttons for their kids. However much active the kid might be, they get parallised watching
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by gkya 9y ago
Anything FOSS in this sphere? I'm slowly going towards building my solution to automatically archive my Firefox bookmarks locally, but a bit too slowly.
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by gkya 9y ago
That's because professional designers are neither professional nor designers. How many of that folk actually have had any sorf of education at all on related topics? Graphic design is as old as civilisation and knowing how to do font
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by gkya 9y ago
My reasons: - Bandwidth: I don't want to download your fonts. I already have the ones I like on my computer and I've configured which ones I want to use (basically DejaVu everywhere). - Crappy type: Your thin type with low-contra
830.
by gkya 9y ago
Letters and punctuation are not icons at all. They are symbols. Icons are images, i.e. likenesses of concrete or abstract objects which they refer to. Letters have no meaning on their own, they represent sounds, which differ based on lan
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by gkya 9y ago
Updated my develper edition FF today, and the first 58 beta came along! I'm impressed it consumes about 300MB of memory only. It's not that much more than when my Emacs has been running for some weeks.
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by gkya 9y ago
Slightly off topic, but a serious annoyance of mine these days: wherever I encountered a news about this translation, the fact that the translator is a woman was about always more in focus than the translation itself. Can't we be done
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by gkya 9y ago
Well I'm sorry if I was wrong about that, but it being there kind of implies that I should use it, at when I don't know better as a newbie.
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by gkya 9y ago
Node.js was sth. I jumped on early. As soon as I saw the video of Ryan's talk, I tried it. I guess the first version I tried was <= v0.5. Then the community went... nuts. But it's quite different than what I view Rails to be
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by gkya 9y ago
> HN's body text is actually pure black (as far as I can tell) and works alright because it's on an orange/grey background, but if you play around with black text on a white background, you should find that a few HEX notch
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by gkya 9y ago
My impression is that grey text sort of looks better on Retina screens. I haven't looked attentively at such screens for more than a quarter of an hour in the past so I wouldn't know. My belief is that most "designers"
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by gkya 9y ago
As if HTML email was not an idiotic thing already, you build a tool to create HTML emails from a text format that was based on the usual formatting of plain text emails (and also is less portable than assembly).
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by gkya 9y ago
I did try some tutorials some years ago, but Rails is kind of library that wants you to know it well, and doesn't lend itself to an explorer type like me. The gap between hello world and production code is wide and I couldn't fin
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by gkya 9y ago
I'm not really trying to make an argument against it anyways. IMO if you haven't jumped in early in the Rails's lifetime, it's really hard to catch up; this is what I'm saying.
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by gkya 9y ago
Rails is crazy. If you know it well maybe it's useful but it's very unapproachable. A new project, empty, involves tens of directories and files and at least two languages (coffeescript). That's been off-putting for me. B

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