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by gkya 9y ago
There arent many places that would allow you to contribute in your work time. Stop these guesses about the guy and quit attacking him for those stuff you invented.
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by gkya 9y ago
No. The community around a business is their customers who dont contribute directly to the product itself, but to the general economy, knowledge and hype around it. You pay to buy the product and probably wouldnt work on it in behalf of th
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by gkya 9y ago
About any software stack for about any computer task involves at least some open source code running for you, written by someone on their free time, mostly out of pure altruism. I wonder how many dollars has this person contributed to, say
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by gkya 9y ago
Maybe a GreaseMonkey userscript would do? Tho because all twitter links are t.co ones,it may be a bit tricky.
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by gkya 9y ago
It seems to me that software producers often advertise to managers rather than programmers, and that's why this style caught on.
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by gkya 9y ago
Nowadays sf is an opensource project: https://sourceforge.net/projects/allura/
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Librem 5 – A Security and Privacy Focused Phone(puri.sm)
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by gkya 9y ago
If you want to write a portable makefile, you use a CP variable which is conditionally set depending on what uname says, e.g. cp -r on GNU Linux and whatever it is on Mac OS. But also, copying files around is a bit out of make's scope
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by gkya 9y ago
I am in my mid-twenties and some of these issues I too have them. I mistakenly tap thing I didn't mean to a lot of times, especially when walking or on public transit. Guessing what is a button or not, or when it is one what the icon
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by gkya 9y ago
Is Apple any better on this (real question)?
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by gkya 9y ago
Nowadays there's Vala which is a C# like language compiled to C+GObject.
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by gkya 9y ago
No need to be pedantic as the comment you're responding to is not really referring to something particular to mathematics or natural sciences. And even if it did, whether or not maths is a science is a philosophical issue, not an inva
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by gkya 9y ago
> The size of node_modules directories is basically a meme now. Not a node user since many years, so I can only guess, but isn't the cause of this is bad community practices ( micro-packaging , many different things that do the same
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by gkya 9y ago
As "googling" becomes the most common way most people obtain information, I believe we do need some means to provide for this need w/o private enterprise, and lots of new regulations to defend the users, e.g. in case of Faceb
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by gkya 9y ago
I like how informative these videos are. Some more of these and I'd feel I could make working toyish automobile. I wonder why we dont get this kind of videos for our time's tech. Maybe computers and especially software are too
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by gkya 9y ago
AFAIK Medium's selling point is the network, i.e. the easy access to potential followers. My website is static via org-publish, but nobody knows it and if I wanted to popularise it I'd have to do many things. With these networks
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by gkya 9y ago
What are the alternatives to Medium?
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by gkya 9y ago
Unfortunately lots of information is hostage to bad web design. I would really like to vote with my X button the web pages and apps of my uni, but instead I have to write scrapers to extract RSS feeds from their JS mess or else I can'
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by gkya 9y ago
> and support zooming in in a sane way Or, just don't fiddle with it. One does not have to do anything to support zooming, other than to not obstruct it.
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by gkya 9y ago
That's so uncannily realistic.
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by gkya 9y ago
This is completely subjective.
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by gkya 9y ago
Kudos, will look into it but, I CAN'T BLINKING READ THIS. IT HURTS MY EYES. IDK if it's my astigmatism, but the light grey text on white kills my eyes. Many people say the same thing for this kind of colouring. Please, please,
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by gkya 9y ago
That looks interesting, but I don't think it'll work for me, as I write in multiple languages and my main one (turkish) is agglutinative, so false positives would be many (it's really bad with aspell too, so I don't use
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by gkya 9y ago
Nope, forecast.io became darksky.net, some months ago. Also, WRT your other comment, I live in Istanbul and find it very accurate, whenever I see that it shows some precipitation I take the umbrella with me, and thus I've spent the la
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by gkya 9y ago
I use emacs+org for writing fiction. I usually start pen+paper first, handwrite the first draft, and then rewrite in emacs (I recently started scanning them into pdfs and using that instead of just reading them off the paper, readd helps w
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by gkya 9y ago
Well you can easily disable them (I always do).
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by gkya 9y ago
(Not actually) shower thought: maybe if google showed thumbnails beside results, that'd drive websites to avoid using them popups that appear on page load?
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by gkya 9y ago
https://darksky.net/ née forecast.io. I find the forecasts to be accurate for me. I've actually written an Emacs frontend to their service when it was forecast.io: http://www.gkayaalp.com/emacs.html#fo
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by gkya 9y ago
Talking about downsides of a thing is not FUD nor making stink about it.
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by gkya 9y ago
> Pretty much by definition, a polymath is knowledgeable about a bunch of stuff. Certainly. I was (misunderstandingly I guess) getting at the genius part, as that's not really required. Also, I guess SandersAK was giving the islam

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