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by jcbrand 12y ago
Python IS dynamically typed. You seem to be confusing the fact that it's strongly typed with statically typed languages. https://wiki.python.org/moin/Why%20is%20Python%20a%20dynamic...
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by jcbrand 12y ago
Their critical error was not taking digital security seriously.
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by jcbrand 12y ago
Sure, that sucks for the people involved, but isn't this how Capitalism is supposed to work? Bad companies fail and go bankrupt, and new better adapted ones rise up and take their place.
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by jcbrand 12y ago
The general sentiment has been "fuck you linux user" for so long now, it's funny to see how things have changed in the last 15 years or so.
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by jcbrand 12y ago
Hope you don't mind if I hijack the thread a bit. I'm curious what your business model is, how does Kill Bill make money? Do you offer paid support and hosting? I'm asking because I'm a big fan and proponent of OSS, but
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by jcbrand 12y ago
Saying the referendum is "too close to call" is not the same as being even-handed (i.e. not having a bias). They were biased because they consistently took a negative stance towards the potential ramifications (not chance of outco
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by jcbrand 12y ago
What do you use instead of email?
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by jcbrand 12y ago
What does "fully accepted" mean? Where I live, there are a lot of immigrants and I hear non-native accents all the time. At JS meetups, in shops, trains, offices, all over the place. I'm in Germany and don't speak native
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Converse.js: A free and open-source XMPP chat client for your website(conversejs.org)
1 points by jcbrand 12y ago|0 comments
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by jcbrand 12y ago
I wrote an open source XMPP-based chat client: https://conversejs.org There is a Django add-on for it as well: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-conversejs In the latest unreleased version (0.8), you only
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by jcbrand 12y ago
Indifference is not worse. Instead of stepping on an ant, it would be like ripping of its limbs slowly, piece by piece. In any case, physical universe and nature is already indifferent to us.
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by jcbrand 12y ago
"it is preferable to torture a single person for 50 years than for a sufficient number of people (to be fair, a lot of people) to get dust specks in their eyes." Only if all living beings are distinct and separate from one another
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by jcbrand 12y ago
There's something very religious about the whole singularity movement. Roko's Basilisk doesn't appear very different to me than Pascal's Wager, with the added twist that the God you have to believe in is actually a malev
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by jcbrand 12y ago
Did you notice that torproject.org is blocked? As well as various torrent sites (including of course pirate bay).
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by jcbrand 12y ago
That idiom doesn't work the way you think it works :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt
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by jcbrand 12y ago
I'm also starting to think that the genie is out of the bottle and the only solution is to "democratize" surveillance.
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by jcbrand 12y ago
If the CCTV cameras weren't connected to the internet and their recordings were periodically deleted, this wouldn't be a problem at all. Even Richard Stallman has said as much. What however is happening more and more, is that reco
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by jcbrand 12y ago
It's not "digital" privacy, it's just privacy. Even if you avoid digitally networked devices(which is almost impossible), your photos still appear on facebook et al, you're still being recorded by CCTV everywhere yo
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by jcbrand 12y ago
One of their reasons for the growth of Javascript: > the JavaScript development philosophy that encourages bundling of dependencies in the same repo as the primary codebase I wonder how much this is still an issue with the rise of npm, b
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by jcbrand 13y ago
Yeah, that makes sense. So the analogue is flawed because Gold/dollar exchange wasn't floating back then but BTC/dollar is floating currently.
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by jcbrand 13y ago
Doesn't all of this also apply to Gold? If you bought gold at $400 and then later again at $1000, then you could apply the same non-fungibility argument against it. And yet, currency used to be redeemable into gold. Was it then not a r
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by jcbrand 13y ago
> But this goes further and lays bare the sheer stupidity inherent in kickstarter or any other crowd-sourcing platform. Only if the projects backed aren't Free and Open-Source.
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by jcbrand 13y ago
> Time is ripe for a P2P real-time people-network http://twister.net.co
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Antifragile Software Ecosystems(opkode.com)
2 points by jcbrand 13y ago|1 comments
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by jcbrand 13y ago
> always felt that this industry principally serves those who are a part of it So kinda like the Army as well? (i.e. Military-Industrial complex)
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ShowHN: Converse.js, Javascript XMPP client now with Off-the-record encryption(opkode.com)
3 points by jcbrand 13y ago|0 comments
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by jcbrand 13y ago
Oh, you mean the article that claims MS should get credit for the chair I'm sitting on? Uh, ok... Making OSS that only works on the MS stack doesn't really count.
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by jcbrand 13y ago
Daniel Domscheit-Berg (the same guy who wrote the hit-piece book on Assange and worked on "The Fifth Estate" movie) destroyed those leaks in an apparent attempt to sabotage Wikileaks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by jcbrand 13y ago
English does like to import words wholesale, and I agree that German conjunctions and the fact you can often create new words by combining two different words (my favourite: "scheinheilig"="apparently+holy"=hypocrite) ma
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by jcbrand 13y ago
There is a Wikipedia article about "Quantum superposition". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_superposition In quantum states, you cannot know the actual state something is in unless you measure it. Befor

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