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by gkya 8y ago
Anybody with relevant character flaws can behave this way. It's just that popular approaches for diversity are easily exploitable by such people.
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by gkya 8y ago
Simplified yes. Wrong, I dont think so. That whole text is more than 15kb of narrative, and merits a detailed refutal, not a blunt dismissal.
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by gkya 8y ago
Would you mind expanding upon that or providing a link? That would be a very interesting read for me!
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by gkya 8y ago
Thanks, I mostly agree you too. This topic is a hard one to discuss, nearly a taboo. A proof might be that this post was flagkilled, luckily when I mailed the mods about it they did unkill it. When I said faux-techies I mostly thought abo
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by gkya 8y ago
I have wrote a bit about the situation of Turkish education system here, in the form of three big consecutive comments. Here is a link for anybody interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15373653 [Edit: rereading
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by gkya 8y ago
My native tongue (Turkish) is one language without grammatical gender. Learning languages with it, it was immediately clear to me that that was a problematic thing. Luckily no revolutions are needed, as languages tend to become more analy
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by gkya 8y ago
My CPU is "Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3217U CPU @ 1.80GHz" par lscpu(1), and I have 4Gb RAM. I should not have to struggle running end-user desktop software except inherently-heavy tasks like video editing and similar memory-heavy or v
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by gkya 8y ago
Hi, thanks for writing this article, it was a nice read! WRT Macs, well, I use a Unixy laptop since time immemorial, one way or another (stuff I spent >1yr with: Ubuntu, Arch, FreeBSD, Xubuntu, and finally and currently Debian; in that o
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by gkya 8y ago
Some web pages I read make it look like so, and not only, some say directly that it's impractical. But maybe it's my infamiliarity with the ecosystem that makes me think so. If you know of a nice tutorial I'd really appreci
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by gkya 8y ago
I really want to get into mobile development, but I have major obstacles with default platform APIs: I don't have a Mac (and cannot afford one ATM), the Android Studio is unusably heavy for my decent laptop, and writing Android apps w
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by gkya 8y ago
I have not yet read the post, but this trend of striking people off for their mistakes gets on my nerves. The morning I was reading an article on NYT comparing Einstein's remarks from his visits to Asian countries, which are rather ra
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by gkya 8y ago
It's misaligned on my screen. Still, it would not be too hard to hack that in to Org.
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by gkya 8y ago
Sometimes it's just easier. Especially if you have a nice incremental build system or an interpreter to which you can just send expressions and definitions and see the results. Edit: also, you don't need to remember to weed out d
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by gkya 8y ago
This would be fairly easy to build in Emacs for almost any language, but I can't see how this is so useful. Furthermore, if working with Org mode source blocks, it can render structured data as tables upon evaluation. Say you have thi
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by gkya 8y ago
Checking your dependencies in is a good idea. When you check out a version from some time ago, you won't have to worry if those versions are still available in your cache or on remotes. Especially if the package manager is not very d
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by gkya 8y ago
How did you use this data? Well, except for bot detection that is. I can't think of a particularly useful way this data can be utilised.
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by gkya 8y ago
Yes, certainly. But I don't have background programs that connect randomly, and I have observed this enough times that I can say this.
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by gkya 8y ago
I have a network meter on my xfce taskbar, and it shows uploads and downloads whenever I move my cursor on a website I view with a JS enabled browser. It's almost all of them.
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by gkya 8y ago
The document itself is a blunt dismissal it seems, anyways. And yes, I won't write any drivers if I can avoid it.
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by gkya 8y ago
That's exactly the kind of dismissive, arrogant nonsense that I won't bother reading, even if it is the formula to an infinite life: > You think you want a stable kernel interface, but you really do not, and you don't even
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by gkya 8y ago
Isn't it harder to keep rewriting stuff?
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by gkya 8y ago
> I personally believe one should be able to appreciate all communications styles Wut? Some communication styles are just "harassment", including Linus'. One can put up with it, but appreciation? BS. Linus is worse tha
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by gkya 8y ago
As someone completely alien to that side of computing except rudimentary stuff most people know, I never understood the reason why the drivers have to be maintained in the kernel tree. Maybe include the most common stuff, but why not have
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by gkya 8y ago
The content of the link is FUD. He portrays FOSS as if it was like the exploitation schemes the ad supported free stuff, saying: "But in a world where everything is free, we are the product." I did downvote him, although I'd
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by gkya 8y ago
You release fman on Linux, so you use at least some open source libraries. I wonder which ones are those and what is your policy of transferring a share of your earnings from your project to them. Also I suggest anybody using this software
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by gkya 8y ago
There is very little in the world of software that's hard to replicate. And there's almost nothing that does not have any F/OSS alternatives.
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by gkya 8y ago
No, you support the person you donate to. That the "free-riders" are supported too is only a secondary thing. The main aim of FOSS is to share intellectual effort with the world anyways.
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by gkya 8y ago
The recurring online payments/donations economy is just starting out. Give it some time to pick up steam and get a better UI, I believe it will become more popular.
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by gkya 8y ago
Emacs has shr which renders HTML natively.
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by gkya 8y ago
I really dislike the Swift/Scala/Rust/Dart/Kotlin etc. style, heavy and centralised syntax. ObjC is not very beautiful, but it has an elegant way of combining composable primitives (functions and objects). The same kin

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