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by jol 13y ago
I think this cannot be trully measured without top-secret data from other nations as well, not likely to be shared with the US. E.g. what if the US war with China was averted just by timely preparation? No-one knows for sure except some Chi
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by jol 13y ago
Agree about freshman, just wanted to add, that this freshman has managed to do other not so nice things recently, thus increasing cumulative damage to the reputation well beyond sum of each part. I assume that at some point powerusers will
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by jol 13y ago
ok, but what took so long for fedora? (in other comment I read about ubuntu waiting just almost 5 years) why?
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by jol 13y ago
Ok, so I'll state the obvious - it took almost 6 years from release of python 3.0.0 (2008-12-03)[1] till fedora adopting it. And I thought that cheap PHP hosts takes long time to upgrade PHP version. Can someone with knowledge of pytho
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by jol 13y ago
why? compilers for other languages has compile time switches for various checks and/or optimizations, there it is assumed normal. Javascript's "use strict" is just a hack for lack such option. This has some benefits, i.e
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by jol 13y ago
well to me - if I am CC'ed in conversation it means as FYI or "I'd like to hear your opinion", "I hope you don't mind" or similar, i.e. I am on CC just to stay informed, not to actively be on conversation,
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by jol 13y ago
I trained a bit speed reading when I was in higschool from some book that was translated from Russian (sorry, no idea what was the book) the main idea there was to: 1) not saying words with inner voice 2) not reading letter by letter (seein
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by jol 13y ago
I have nokia x1-01 for family & friends only number and as a phone that I use when I want to be reachable but not to worry about loosing the smartphone, with 20-40 min talk time a day it lasts for more than a week on single charge, thus
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by jol 13y ago
Since when UI ( =User Interface) is only visual? To me it seems as UI got too narrow understanding of just visual in the wild (i.e. general population) and then people who really understand what they are doing decided to rebrand themselves
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by jol 13y ago
I'm just starting with some hobby project (as usual nothing special to show yet) and picked up typescript as it supports me when I am forgetful (as the project time is scattered in small bits) or just plain lazy. I see this as big win
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by jol 13y ago
Compose is even worse... What I especially hate about it is that I expext no clutter around when composing new message, they just screwed up this for me totally. (Ok, I bet they can make it worse)
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by jol 13y ago
some of previous cases was just making fuss out of nothing, however this is a real problem here. As HN is usually better at criticising, I don't think there is much to add...
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by jol 13y ago
now I have a test for the "too abstract" problem. Also - bonus points to the author for pointing out at the end that general practice != abolute truth
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by jol 13y ago
I am not very good at unix command line, but maybe it could be done like this: curl http://get.docker.io > /tmp/docker-install && sh /tmp/docker-install && rm /tmp/docker-install
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by jol 13y ago
I don't, but for install script one can look at least from where the stuff will come. if the download link was using ssl...
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by jol 13y ago
To me it seems that the HTML5 is a bit feature-creep.The term "HTML5" in layman's eyes is expanded by some new tech every 4-8 months, isn't it?
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by jol 13y ago
I can see usig this to get perfectly replicable, easy to upgrade/rollback and movable works environment - for both local and remote use. I.e., use locally on powerfull machine or rdp to closest powerful machine you can access from slow
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by jol 13y ago
The funny thing is that the article is published on a blog where only JS is Google Analytics (50% of the download)... Yes, we need JS everywhere!