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by jiiam 10y ago
Clearly the winner is Shakespeare ( https://github.com/leachim6/hello-world/blob/master/s/shakes... ): "The Infamous Hello World Program. Romeo, a young man with a remarkable patience. Juliet, a
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by jiiam 10y ago
A bit disappoint by the narrow point of view. Atlas of Number Theoretical Objects would have been more appropriate. Still nice, though.
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by jiiam 10y ago
Very cool. I believe that this is a very instructive piece of code to introduce in a concrete way what a compiler does to optimize your code, at least to unexperienced people like myself. I'm very amazed by the simplicity of this examp
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by jiiam 10y ago
I know some adults who often say something and then continue "But I can't lie, I'm a paladin".
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by jiiam 10y ago
In Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, I'm a SpWz of Gozag. In D&D, I'm a utility/crowd control generalist Elf Wizard. In real life I never bothered to check. It's not like I'll get any free spell out of it.
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by jiiam 10y ago
Most of these websites have zero load time, compared to their fancy non-brutalist counterparts. I's say, let's have more brutalist websites. I know it's because the fancier counterparts are JS-intensive, but it's still a
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by jiiam 10y ago
This seems like an astonishingly good idea. It maybe lacks features for my home computer, but would be good for throw away servers like those you get from DigitalOcean, where I systematically set up everything over and over again each time.
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by jiiam 10y ago
Oh god, yes! Finally! I'm sick of hundreds of dotfiles forgotten in remote places of my filesystem, organized via a github repo and deployed with a handcrafted (by a friend) Rakefile. The only change I'd make is to deploy by copyi
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by jiiam 10y ago
Extremely helpful post: insightful and inspiring. This author's comment also underlines the modern situation of the self employed: "I'm a single person LLC with practically zero expenses (I paid a whopping $3k for my MacBook
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by jiiam 10y ago
The point that makes universal basic income (UBI) unconvincing IMO is that it relies on a reality that it actually subverts, i.e. money. I'm not saying that we should eliminate money or provide UBI in a different, subsidiary, form. But
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by jiiam 10y ago
"Reduce inequality in income distribution" is the easiest solution that comes to mind with this respect, however I think that is is not the real problem. In truth, we are getting to the time where there will be too many people f
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by jiiam 10y ago
In Europe is far worse. In Italy I believe that 60% is the minimum, with two caveats: - there is a huge problem of tax evasion, in the sense that a big portion of the middle-high income professionals declare only a small fraction of their e
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by jiiam 10y ago
I would not be so hard on the matter, but yes, making private files available by url only seems like a bad security habit. Still, sometimes one wants to avoid Registration Wall to enhance usability (doodle.com is a nice example). This is to
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by jiiam 10y ago
Also notice the different attitudes of affected services: - OneDrive "[...] reiterated that the issues we discovered do not qualify as a security vulnerability" - Google Maps "[...] responded immediately. All newly generated
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by jiiam 10y ago
Ok, this convinced me. At first I was skeptical, but looking at how it works compared to existing methods that need a ton of configuration, I believe it is at least worth a try. More importantly, I believe it appeals to newcomers. We are ge
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by jiiam 10y ago
I like better the universal command line client, i.e. w3m. Pity that some websites are so strict about js.
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by jiiam 10y ago
The whole point of social engineering is that, no matter how good the protocol you use, if there is a point of failure involving a person (like a tech support guy with access to a console), then it will fail. The only solution is to remove
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by jiiam 10y ago
Seems good. Actually what I like most is that it appears to be well documented, so it might be worth a try. I always found cumbersome to use console based debuggers, and wonder if there's any real advantage once the learning curve as b
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by jiiam 11y ago
Interesting, but annoyingly condescending.
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by jiiam 11y ago
I just want to point out to all those who believe that "with minimal effort you can get your point across in English" that it simply isn't true. You think you can do it with just a few years of learning, but talking in Englis
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by jiiam 11y ago
I am very interested, may I ask you to provide a reference to such a clause? Maybe when confronted with a real contract it would be better to ask a lawyer, but having seen an example would be useful nonetheless.
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by jiiam 11y ago
Let's not play dumb. Of course you got an EULA with your software, the point is the legitimacy of the EULA from a legal and jurisprudential point. Same holds for the copyright law. I mean, there is obviously a law stating that you cann