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‘It’s Horrendous’: The Heartache of a Migrant Boy Taken from His Father(nytimes.com)
2 points by gkya 8y ago|0 comments
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by gkya 8y ago
> because in laptop space there was no other viable choice Uhm, how? For casual to complex personal computer use, how is an AMD chip is different from Intel?
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by gkya 8y ago
Can E2E encryption not help? It works with WhatsApp or Signal groups, no?
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by gkya 8y ago
> Especially those examples (of "most people") that coordinate submission from 5,000 people mostly interacting directly with them. This is wrong. He has said himself on video multiple times that his correspondents are the subs
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by gkya 8y ago
These licences, if they have a point, fail big time on making them. There is a copyright law out there, and source code, being copyrighted product, needs to be licenced appropriately if you want to share it. If you want the copyright law
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by gkya 8y ago
Thanks, made note of this!
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by gkya 8y ago
I was referring to the delivery more than the content. Frankly I don't know much about his side of computing, so I cannot agree or disagree anyways. My message in this thread is to the random guy getting into FOSS: don't make an
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by gkya 8y ago
I don't really think this is about pleasing people or not. More about self respect. I for one would have to be way too drunk to pun on a shitshow like this in public, also when there's no apparent reason. But well that problem b
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by gkya 8y ago
> The community that follows the standard blindly lacks the intellectual tools to question the standard. Yeah Linus is the sole person who has some "intellectual tools" in a community of thousands of people.
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by gkya 8y ago
Well the guy is just full of himself, and the community around him continues on to fill him up with himself every day. On other news *BSDs are mature, nice OSes with nicer communities around them (even De Raadt is better than Linus). Unfo
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by gkya 8y ago
You have it reversed. The only thing that makes his behaviour slightly bearable to others is his effectiveness. Otherwise the community would've dumped him right away. Not like there's any reason not to, except for his technica
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Ask HN: Which foundations help developers publish FOSS, like GNU or Apache?
2 points by gkya 8y ago|1 comments
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by gkya 8y ago
I feel it has been better that the more openly "bad" one of the two has acquired Github, because Google has this "don't be evil" face which is the fake one of its two faces, though many still just fall in for it, fo
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by gkya 8y ago
Need not be. The important thing with mutt is that it's standards compliant, it helps follow the conventions of these communities, and as a plus it's easily configurable and scriptable. If there are GUI tools that bear the same
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by gkya 8y ago
On both points, every problem has its own set of best solutions. If your problem is running a big community around a big project where running listserv+debbugs (or the like) is just minutiae, that's the best way to go. If you're
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by gkya 8y ago
You can always use an ftp client or rsync to fetch mailing lists as a bunch of mboxes, and use a program like notmuch or mairix to search them very fast (not sure if notmuch supports mbox though, but I've used mairix in the past and it
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by gkya 8y ago
And that is/was Gmane. But it's dying a slow death due to disinterest. You can access it via the NNTP protocol.
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by gkya 8y ago
> This is a beautifully detailed but self-refuting argument. The self-refutation comes midway through, when the author admits: "To be honest I can’t say that I’ve contributed to non-Github projects either." So because I'm
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by gkya 8y ago
I do want to use this on all my devices, not that I'm criticising the DoH concept per se. Only that it seems to me that the browser is not the correct place for the DNS resolver; thus I wonder why it's not the OS but the browser
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by gkya 8y ago
I wonder if there are statistics on how much of that number is forks (which people use like clones) and how much of it totally abandoned or README only or empty repositories. And also which 3k repos are those is veeery important. Just
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by gkya 8y ago
Is there a particular reason a DNS resolver should be implemented in a web browser? Wouldn't it be better if it was a system-wide configuration?
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by gkya 8y ago
Thanks! I already use hg-git for pushing some open-source projects to GitHub, as it makes it easier for people to contribute patches and issues, and if I was looking for a professional software job, that's what people look at, among o
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by gkya 8y ago
I'm kind of happy with this happening as it seems to me that this can cause the VCS hosting arena to diversify a little bit. The "monopoly" of github always worried me as a huge freaky single point of failure.
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by gkya 8y ago
I don't understand why a solo dev needs to host his private repos somewhere. You can just keep it on your machine, and have it backed up with the rest of your data. And given git is distributed, you should be able to work with teams
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by gkya 8y ago
Off topic and rather personal question: I prefer Mercurial for my own VCS needs because (1) it's written in Python so I can hack on it or write extensions using a proper Python library if needed and (2) I find the UI better. But seein
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by gkya 8y ago
Perl 5 is pulling me like a superstrong magnet. I haven't had time to read the basics and things like choosing the correct sigil + accessor trim me up, but still, it has many niceties. To begin with, you can have a statement "us
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by gkya 8y ago
The first paragraph is plain wrong. JS is the JS of frontend because there are no replacements. Use a language compiled to it, but still you'll have to know and use JS. PHP on the other hand is a caricature of a language that you ca
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by gkya 8y ago
One can put together a set of (Fast)CGI scripts in almost any language, given environment variables and some IPC is supported (IDK what IPC FastCGI uses exactly, bug CGI is envvars). Same goes with exposing a custom socket server. I guess
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by gkya 8y ago
Also, "in JavaScript" can be appended to make clear that this is specific to that programming language.
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by gkya 8y ago
Anybody can use any tool to their liking, obviously. But again, you are objectively wrong with Emacs. Every programmer has certain things they need to automate, certain recurrent tasks and then certain non-programming stuff. I am not a p

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