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by katet 7y ago
Just to derail the conversation further, I've had a thought for that too - one I'm working up the courage to build myself :D I'm going to presume a few things to keep this short: free and advertising-supported, donation-based
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by katet 7y ago
I don't want to dismiss what sandstorm is doing. They've been around for a while and they've shown some incredible persistence in pursuit of their vision. I'm also a little out of date since I last checked up on it. IIRC
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by katet 7y ago
I know this isn't quite on topic, but this is not the web I want. I want open services to compete with the entrenched players of free-as-a-service, and I want more interop between these open services. I'm sure HN already gets th
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by katet 7y ago
Here's the thing that always grates a little bit for me about these posts: I don't have a choice. I've worked at a couple of organisation where there are hundreds of thousands of lines of code written in PHP. It's been t
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by katet 8y ago
I have a low-key solution. I check in files named by the hostname. For example `.bashrc.[hostname]`. Then I have a quick conditional in all my .bashrc files that checks for a hostname-specific file. This way, I commit them all, but only the
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by katet 8y ago
I've had multiple copies mailed to me.in South East Asia over the past couple of years, but they sent an email out recently saying they were a bit behind schedule ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by katet 8y ago
It does in fact support "site:xyz.com" queries, and displays a UI reminder that you're limiting results to that domain
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by katet 8y ago
No, this is absolutely not the case in the UK.
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by katet 8y ago
As somebody learning Bahasa Malaysia (or Bahasa Melayu, or whatever it is now), do you have any references on this, particularly the standardisation part of Bahasa Baku? For example, I'd always assumed "lelaki" just meant &qu
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by katet 8y ago
This seems a little off-kilter. If you're that concerned, set a dummy email address in your "~/.gitconfig", or your project-specific ".git/config". I mean, I could just clone the repository if I wanted, an
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by katet 9y ago
Thank you for that - Medium is blocked in Malaysia, for example, which I can bypass by using Google DNS on WiFi, but not on 4G...
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by katet 9y ago
Given that he was "He was alone and had no identification.", I don't find that particularly malicious on their part. If I _was_ stupid enough to get a DNR tattoo without being totally serious (like the 2012 fellow mentioned i
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by katet 9y ago
Hmm, I'm in the middle of this situation right now, and I want to write so much and yet prevent it turning into a blog post (if you want to talk, reply and I'll set up an alternative email - I think neither of us want to write our
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by katet 9y ago
Not to pick on you particularly (this is just where I got to in the comments) but who _would_ you recommend instead for others trying to avoid this? Particularly for the UK, since a lot of the time the HN crowd is US-centric :)