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by hdra 9y ago
Really? I think its fine. Pretty normal response from a layperson being impressed by a major engineering feat without being interested to dig too deep into the technicals. Maybe a bit of pandering, but I think he is just trying to be polite
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by hdra 9y ago
Cheryl Yeoh's story was the #1 story just a while ago, and it is now nowhere to be seen. I suspect some people are actively downvoting/flagging such stories. I'm even more surprised at the how number of people who are still d
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by hdra 9y ago
I read books far more than I do watching movies or tv shows as well, but I don't include technical books in my count. I read general books for entertainment, and maybe learn one or two mundane things that I don't know before. I re
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by hdra 9y ago
I'm not. I purchased many books from O'Reilly as well, but the number is more like 4-5 books a year. Even with just 4-5 books a year I still usually end up with a book left unread or unfinished every time. Spotify/Netflix mak
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by hdra 9y ago
That sucks. Especially when "Amazon or your favorite retailer" is not even available where you live. How many technical book does one read in a year anyway? The $399/year subscription model doesn't make sense unless your
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by hdra 9y ago
I understand. The measures described in the article about hardening the laptop as a precaution are good, and I would encourage anyone who have concerns about the security of their device to take similar precaution, regardless of whether or
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by hdra 9y ago
Anything that "rocks the boat", or try to "change the status quo", so to speak.
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by hdra 9y ago
Thats the thing.. A lot of westerners seems to think Chinese state apparatus are super ideological communists bent on catching anything that has a slight smell of democracy. If I were to sum up my personal experience with Chinese gov. offic
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by hdra 9y ago
I'm pretty skeptical of the story itself. Despite the many spelling and spacing errors, the "scammer" seems to have a really good command of English. The use of some rather "advance" phrases and word choices, the em
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by hdra 9y ago
Fragmentation isn't even a thing for most people in the market for a smartphone. Anecdotally, most of my friends who uses Android isn't even aware of Google, the search giant. Most of them are only aware of Google as the account p
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by hdra 9y ago
Imagine the twist this put would on the whole Hanlon's razor thing if this were true.
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by hdra 9y ago
That's fast! Thanks PyCon 2017 organizers!
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by hdra 9y ago
The CVC number is just one security measure in a credit card. One of the legitimacy signals, so to speak, and its absence is not an immediate fraud flag. While a bad security practise, a transaction can still go through if the other verific
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by hdra 9y ago
and by the way, by "just vim", I really meant it. That means in most cases, "switching" involves little more than symlinking your vimrc.
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by hdra 9y ago
Not much, which is really its selling point. Its really "just vim". There is the more "open" and "community-focused" development model, and better code organization, if you care about those.
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by hdra 9y ago
Another great interview ruined by idiotic click-bait title. Whoever decided on that title should be ashamed.
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by hdra 9y ago
They are doing a public service for anyone reading their comments. Doesn't take much cognitive function to know you can ignore what they are saying if they use juvenile words like "M$" or "Crapple".
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by hdra 9y ago
My biggest issue with Elixir right now is that in order to take advantage of its main selling points (process model, concurrency, etc), your running applications are essentially stateful. This adds some complexity to the way it is run, espe
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by hdra 10y ago
Couldn't said it better myself.
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by hdra 10y ago
I don't think thats necessarily true, but I also think that Medium has that kind of connotation for me. I think the lack of branding on Medium sites has something to do with it. People ended up lumping everything as "Medium articl
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by hdra 10y ago
I agree. I don't think they should write a custom website to host their articles. I'm perfectly happy reading Ghost or WordPress.com articles as long as the site is well designed to fit the content. While Medium is a very beautifu
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by hdra 10y ago
While I don't feel as strongly about Medium as the parent comment, I'm also less inclined to read an article when it is posted on Medium. No real reason, really, just a personal bias from myself because I'm finding a lot of &
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by hdra 10y ago
I don't believe in the idea that the video game itself is the source of the negative influence rather than the community surrounding it. Video games from the pre-internet era was just as marketed towards the males as the it is right no
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by hdra 10y ago
Actually, AWS have some Always Free tier that doesn't expire after 12 months as well ( https://aws.amazon.com/free/ ), although it doesn't look like it includes a VPS of any kind.
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by hdra 10y ago
Actually, plenty of people complained about the 2015 MacBook. They are just willing to put up with it more since they understand that the machine prioritises portability above all else.
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by hdra 10y ago
Counter-counter-counterpoint, the 5K iMac is pretty much a better specced iMac from all angle. It has all the good stuff without sacrificing anything important. It simply is a "better"machine. The complain isn't with the wide
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by hdra 10y ago
> The software is spyware. Words like "spyware" and "stealing" are correct, I don't care how it paints the maintainer to describe the situation accurately, they created that situation. No, that is not "corre
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by hdra 10y ago
How about try not to assume malice out of people's free software from the very first thing they did that you don't agree with? Its open source. Why not open an issue, contribute a patch to make the process opt-in, start a discussi
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by hdra 10y ago
>Looking at the website one of homebrew's developers (or at least the website developers) is based over here in Europe. He might be a nice target if you want to raise a stink and litigate You're perfectly within your right to f
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by hdra 10y ago
One of the reason, I'm sure. Keep in mind that they are Chinese Singaporeans/Malaysians, not Chinese nationals living in Singapore/Malaysia, so they aren't bringing in their habit from China over, but I'm sure the s

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