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by gkya 8y ago
> But the Turks, they were Central Asian tribes (closer to the Mongols than to Arabs or Europeans) who ended up conquering the Eastern Roman Empire (over centuries) and eventually ended up at the gates of Vienna. This is Turkey's of
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by gkya 8y ago
I still wonder why solving a solved problem took so long to solve for the Go community, given they already solved it anyways? That is, in more proper words, first of all, language specific package management is mostly a solved problem. The
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by gkya 8y ago
> Pinterest's news-clipping service Instapaper is one of the most high-profile examples. EU users have been banned from accessing its platform since last Friday. Pinterest has emailed users to say that this is a temporary measure a
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Ask HN: Flutter or Android API better for getting into mobile development?
4 points by gkya 8y ago|3 comments
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by gkya 8y ago
I'd say otherwise. It's not like it's really important here, but in a book, that would be a very bright sign of amateurishness to me. Just like with sans serif dotless `i', `n' and `m' the only difference is
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by gkya 8y ago
Maybe nit-picky, but this is one place (the title here I'm talking about) a properly choosen dash would've saved me a couple seconds or so. When I was reading this, I thought first to myself, what is a crap-loot box, only to unde
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by gkya 8y ago
Wow, interesting. FWIW, English is my L2 indeed, but I picked that "sth" up from the Internet, and thought that it was some sort of internet slang abbreviation. Thanks for the TIL!
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by gkya 8y ago
RMS isn't the god of all free software. A GNOME desktop is composed of hundreds of bits of software, and it encompasses many unrelated individuals, at least three big orgs (GNOME, GNU, FreeDesktop/SytemD people), and carries a ba
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by gkya 8y ago
Here is the repo: https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac Skimming the readme, I see that it's almost entirely mac specific and mostly UX. I can't say they are completely useless but nothing really vital, e
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by gkya 8y ago
I suggest to anyone serious w/ Emacs to follow the master branch. I have been compiling once a week since almost a year and did not experience any breakage. My routine is fetch, see the output from "git diff HEAD..FETCH_HEAD --
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Proposed EU Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications(eur-lex.europa.eu)
1 points by gkya 8y ago|0 comments
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by gkya 8y ago
The two are completely irrelevant. DLP is about document format lock in. I.e. what happens to your .docx when Word dies out. Sci-Hub is sth. completely different.
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by gkya 8y ago
I'd suggest everyone to check out bmake. It has a very nice standard library of makefiles with which often your makefile can be a couple lines long, one of which just includes the relevant library.
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by gkya 8y ago
This culture has been riding a wave of innovation, a wave driven by big chip companies (e.g. Intel, NVidia, Arm), big SaaS companies (e.g. Amazon, Microsoft, Google), big content / ads companies (e.g. Facebook, Google), big hardware co
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by gkya 8y ago
I don't think the commenter meant healthcare as in hospitals and medicine being available; AFAIK the US has nothing like what most other countries has where it is facilitated for most or all citizens to access health care at minimum or
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by gkya 8y ago
Yes, but Firefox's Sync is open source [1], so you should be able to set up a private instance. IDK how easy or hard it is though. [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/CloudServices/Sync
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by gkya 8y ago
> The important consequence of this is that it puts EU startups on more equal footing than in the past. I can easily say that if I had to choose between a US service and an EU one, from now on the answer is almost always the EU one.
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by gkya 8y ago
Nearly, what I think is that, those unhappy with GDPR are either malevolent actors or incompetent people. And I think the bar to entry to the industry should be elevated (while bar to entry to learning ones way to that bar and to hacking s
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by gkya 8y ago
> I’ll be the first person to say that I was not the most experienced and or talented programmer in the world, but do we want to prevent such people from starting companies? Yes. You should be fine as long as you're not collecting
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by gkya 8y ago
Keeping a backup from a year ago when three backups from yesterday are available, is.
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by gkya 8y ago
The business culture defined in this post is really freaky, to say the least. You can't point me to one other industry where you can start selling shit w/o "knowing what you're doing". Or if you can't sell yo
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by gkya 8y ago
Firefox (and Chrom{e,ium} AFAIK) can sync up your cookies, among other things.
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by gkya 8y ago
I don't think a gzipped header with some hundreds of bytes of JSON (or BSON) for preferences is that much bigger than one with a session id string in a cookie.
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by gkya 8y ago
Yeah, good luck enforcing that natural rights w/o any entity to protect you from those who are stronger than you and keen on violating your "rights" for their own good. If I have a gun and you don't, and nobody can enfo
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by gkya 8y ago
Nope. It was a nice step that showed everyone how even the most unexpected website tracks you with some cookies.
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by gkya 8y ago
And that's why you want to have regulations. In the case you suggest, you could ask e.g. EFF if you suspected that they are abusing the contract, to sue FB in behalf of the users. Or even kick-start a big court case yourself.
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by gkya 8y ago
First of all, ethical ads are possible, and more so on a website already very targeted like a recipes website. I can easily guess what sorts of ads would be useful. Furthermore, I agree the sibling commenter in that these sorts of websites
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by gkya 8y ago
> As an American, reading the term rights associated with increased government control is nonsensical. This is nonsensical. You can not have rights w/o government anyways. You may have privileges or power to force others to comply
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by gkya 8y ago
AFAIU, the pedestrian who was killed has indeed part of the blame, and we probably would not feel as guilty saying that if it was a normal car that killed her. But for the topic of this general discussion, that is irrelevant; the emphasis
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by gkya 8y ago
> It frustrates me that this level of negligence could set self driving tech, something that will save countless lives, back. This was the Chernobyl moment for self driving tech. It's safer than alternatives, but now this is all peo

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