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by hisham_hm 9y ago
Disappointed because it is not actually about text editor colors.
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by hisham_hm 9y ago
It is cross-distro, but it will be featured as a first-class citizen in the next release of GoboLinux :)
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by hisham_hm 9y ago
Yes, the second one. Being fired is a discrete event. It happens, you move on with life, next job. Now try to live your whole professional life going through the second scenario, then come back in 20 years and tell me if that was a tragedy
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by hisham_hm 9y ago
WikiLeaks itself was verified, and Assange has complained publicly about not being verified himself.
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by hisham_hm 9y ago
Indeed. It's a short thinly-disguised blogvertisement for an employee-surveillance company.
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by hisham_hm 9y ago
> Possibly, yes. What is your "yes" referring to? That was not a yes-no answer. > An argument can be made that the atomic bombs dropped on Japan caused less overall loss of life than an invasion or prolonged conflict (even i
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by hisham_hm 10y ago
Thank you for saving me the effort. I cringe upon seeing people throwing the word "standard" like that.
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by hisham_hm 10y ago
A Lisp running on top of Lua on top of WASM? :)
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by hisham_hm 10y ago
Congratulations to the Guile team for the release! They're great people, and the Lua community is happy for having shared a devroom at FOSDEM with them for two years in a row.
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by hisham_hm 10y ago
Because not all jobs are remote, so local jobs make up for a considerable amount of the job pool. For this reason, it's easier to get another job at your current location, so that's the competition the employer is faced with. If y
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by hisham_hm 10y ago
Then you clearly don't look much at the world around you, or you would see the obvious link between this past from generations ago and the way current society is shaped. If this particular shape of society that resulted from the many y
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by hisham_hm 10y ago
Hyperinflation needs to go really off the charts for people to switch to other currency. Source: lived under a hyperinflation of 1900%/year and people did not switch currencies.
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by hisham_hm 10y ago
Yes in theory. But in practice the language includes "async" support so you can guard these few operations that may take long. Like in a functional language you assume everything is pure unless marked to have side-effects, here yo
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by hisham_hm 10y ago
Kudos for the work! The intro video is really nice (pro tip: it is perfectly watchable at 1.25x (or even 1.5x) speed — thanks, YouTube speed settings!)
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by hisham_hm 10y ago
Just look for French and Italian movies, for starters.
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by hisham_hm 10y ago
Is it me or the zoomed-out images for both sides in the Main Cause section of Battery B are the same? They clearly shouldn't be when they expand to such different images, and the difference is precisely what the infographic is trying t
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by hisham_hm 10y ago
It's hot off the press! http://gobolinux.org/news/111.html
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by hisham_hm 10y ago
Tab-completion is case-insensitive, so the names look good and are not a pain to type (and most importantly, they don't conflict with Unix names: Gobo predates /sys, so going with non-Unixy names proved to be a wise choice).
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by hisham_hm 10y ago
This is a great comparison, written I believe by one of the Nix devs. As far as Gobo is concerned, the outdated parts is that the /System/Links/{Executables,Libraries,...} has been replaced by /System/Index/{bi
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by hisham_hm 10y ago
Hi, GoboLinux dev here. While the projects do have somewhat different goals, I think the comparison is valid, since both of them modify the filesystem structure. Both projects were started around the same time (2002). I _think_ we might hav
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Show HN: GoboLinux 016 featuring Runner, a filesystem virtualization tool(gobolinux.org)
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by hisham_hm 10y ago
I'm guessing what was meant by culture was "cultural life", as in "things to do outside" (think the Arts & Culture section of the newspaper).
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by hisham_hm 10y ago
Apple was never lacking in quality. Even in the 90s, what they did, they did well. Even at its lowest point, it was still respected as a desktop publishing platform.
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by hisham_hm 10y ago
"Politics" and "policy" even translate today to the same word in Portuguese and Spanish (and probably others). * "public policy" = "políticas públicas" * "company policy" = "polít
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by hisham_hm 10y ago
Which is the model I use in the console text editor I wrote for my own use: http://hisham.hm/dit/ (Incidentally, I am _also_ a Dvorak user! How many of us Dvorak-users-with-homegrown-editors are there?)
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by hisham_hm 10y ago
> And also foster homes were essentially prisons, some in really poor conditions This is still true of most orphanages in countries like Brazil. It still beats dying of hunger and cold under a bridge any day, which is unfortunately still
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by hisham_hm 10y ago
That statement is supported by people I talked to who've been there. It's not like Cuba is North Korea; it's not that hard to see what life there is really like. Also, I do consider their levels of education to be a grandiose
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by hisham_hm 10y ago
But life inprisonment is okay, right? Asking for a friend (Chelsea Manning). Or is it just a matter of calling dissenters "traitors" and then it's fine? I'm sure Castro ticked that checkbox before the executions.
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by hisham_hm 10y ago
Why was this downvoted? It is historically accurate. The US-sponsored, anti-communist Latin American dictatorships killed and tortured a huge amount of people. Honest question: is this taught in World History classes in American schools?
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by hisham_hm 10y ago
In every colonial system, the resources were owned by the foreign power, but the management of these resources were made by a privileged class of locals which constituted a local elite. This elite lives a very comfortable life, gives a &quo

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