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by gkya 8y ago
Perl 5 is a great language and does not deserve any of the hate it gets. Unfortunately the dev community is always on the look for bandwagons to jump into. It's a well thought out language with a comprehensive list of features nicely
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by gkya 8y ago
Thanks a lot! I use Emacs and have some scraping projects (mainly converting some websites' announcements into RSS feeds), but have never thought of this either.
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by gkya 8y ago
Wut? We write bugs all day every day, we should just quit coding entirely if we follow that sort of logic. Mistakes happen, they get fixed, those in good faith among us help them get fixed.
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by gkya 8y ago
I would become an EU citizen if I could the day GDPR went official. It is the second best thing to happen after the invention of WWW itself in this industry. Hopefully more is to come and more countries adopt similar measures, and browser
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by gkya 8y ago
Taking an argument to its extreme is bound to make it seem ridiculous. Certain websites require certain levels of security. Not every govt building has troops with war grade guns waiting them.
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by gkya 8y ago
And what impedes their ameliorement so as to dismiss them in their entirety?
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by gkya 8y ago
I'm going to exploit this comment which is at the top of the thread and stands above another comment that argues against government regulation in software industry to tell you guys this: hopefully this industry will be regulated from t
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by gkya 8y ago
They will remove the data in a future release. I.e. if you don't read the entire release notes for all the software you use, there's a chance that your data will be removed inadvertently, if you happen to use the feature. Firefox
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by gkya 8y ago
Well I actually agree you, I've exaggerated. Compliments are less useful than criticism here, but indeed not totally useless. I guess I overreacted to the comment that starts with a false blanket statement and overgeneralises.
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by gkya 8y ago
Thanks!
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by gkya 8y ago
Have you considered Pale Moon? Do you thing it's usable/dependable?
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by gkya 8y ago
That's really bad. Deleting user data is one of the most loud ways to declare that "we're bad at software development!" I guess I should consider trying Ungoogled Chromium or maybe Pale Moon. I worry the former will b
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by gkya 8y ago
Complaining, criticising, two different things. The latter is what's being done, and that is quite useful. Loding and complimenting is nice, but useless. I have a love/hate relationship w/ Firefox, but it's the best t
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Google Tracks Location Data Even When Users Turn Service Off, AP Report Finds(bloomberg.com)
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by gkya 8y ago
What we have is basically worse than flash. At least nothing serious except video was strictly dependent on Flash.
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by gkya 8y ago
Isn't that tool what we call a "user"?
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by gkya 8y ago
I just suggested something. You could have disagreed, but you chose to flame me and insult me instead.
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by gkya 8y ago
This would be better if linked directly to the source : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/We...
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by gkya 8y ago
The actual question here is that whether we want, as the global community, them to get where these people and the like want to go. Otherwise it should not be surprising that the more agressive an entreprise is the more it can penetrate var
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by gkya 8y ago
What are the disadvantages of uploading to multiple hosts? Thus you can say benefit from YouTube's funding and discovery and use say Patreon for stable funding, and PeerTube (or Vimeo, &c) for alternative storage. Add to that a w
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by gkya 8y ago
I'm in Turkey which is UTC+3, and I usually submit (well I don't usually submit, but) around noon or evening, which happen to be the moments when I usually check my feeds and my mail for newsletters. Strategical submitting seems
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by gkya 8y ago
How? When I post something and it happens to be recently posted, it automatically becomes an upvote. I'm generally fine with it, except when it has 1-5 votes and will never see the front page. HN has so many secret behaviour that it
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by gkya 8y ago
We should be able to ponder on the same ideas in different ways. That's how literature and culture flourished. We think that copyright and patents helped that because we confound the actual natural progress of technology and society
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by gkya 8y ago
I don't use swiper, but Emacs + Elfeed is indeed a great experience; especially so if you tag all your RSS feeds when adding them. Also, if you have EMMS, you can play podcasts right away pressing P in the * elfeed-show * buffer.
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by gkya 8y ago
Oh, you're not meant to browse the HN for "boosting your creativity" and "relieving stress from a long spree of coding"? I mean that was what I used to say when I was caught red-handed :)
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by gkya 8y ago
Almost never. I'm an easy prey for procrastination, so I'm actively trying to limit my time on HN and Reddit especially. The new submissions section is thus something I actively avoid. But I do also think it is important to chec
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by gkya 8y ago
The world has changed. Today what determines the success of a mobile platform is availability if applications. If Ubuntu's thing could run WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram apps (especially the first b/c it has to be an app), i
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by gkya 8y ago
If Mozilla is honest to its premise it can not do such a thing.
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by gkya 8y ago
TIL that Slackware is about five months older than me. I was a distro geek in my teens, and Slackware, together with Gentoo, is on of the two distros that I never got working. Is there any concrete advantages to using it today?
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by gkya 8y ago
I used FreeBSD on a laptop for a year. The only problem was suspend/resume which I never got going. When I mention this people say they have gotten it working, so probably it's me failing at it. But if I knew I could get it wor

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