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by kethinov 6y ago
The speed is the main reason I decided to experiment with building a Node.js module last week that allows you to use PHP as a templating engine for Express apps: https://www.npmjs.com/package/php I had guessed that PHP
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by kethinov 6y ago
This would make a good Electron app so it can also be used offline by regular people who don't want to or are unable to fuss with command line web servers.
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by kethinov 6y ago
I laughed when you said Trello because I just got done speaking with a colleague who complained that it locks up on her every time she tries to screen share while using it; the only web app she works with where she has this experience. It&#
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by kethinov 7y ago
I don't think it's true that the existing pay per copy regime is actually forcing anybody to pay who doesn't want to. Everyone knows how to get media for free. The choice not to is already mostly an expression of voluntary do
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by kethinov 7y ago
No, that's wrong. Copyright was not created to guarantee you compensation. It was created to guarantee whatever money your work makes goes to you and nobody else. If your work makes no money because everyone chose to consume it for fre
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by kethinov 7y ago
Those sites already exist. They're often more convenient than getting media from the author. Paying for media is already a voluntary donation. I really don't think legalizing noncommercial infringement will change the status quo m
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by kethinov 7y ago
I'm not anti-copyright. I'm very much in favor of commercial infringement remaining illegal. The argument that piracy doesn't hurt sales is reductive and unhelpful. Of course it hurts sales in the sense that if you could some
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by kethinov 7y ago
I think the biggest misconception here is in fact what I'm proposing doesn't actually change much. Legalizing noncommercial infringement is just affirming the reality we already live with. Millions of people are noncommercially in
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by kethinov 7y ago
I don't want to wait. Nor does anyone else. That's just a recipe for perpetuating widespread, inevitable illicit file sharing. We need to legitimize this activity and bring it into the fold. Also keep in mind that legalizing nonco
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by kethinov 7y ago
Why shouldn't they? What gives someone a moral right to produce a derivative work of something I create and make money doing it? (I think people seem to forget that legalizing noncommercial infringement also legalizes noncommercial der
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by kethinov 7y ago
I don't want to "take their livelihood from them with no replacement." That has already happened. File sharing is widespread and unstoppable. Legalizing it merely legitimizes the reality we're already living with.
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by kethinov 7y ago
I'm glad the system is working for you, but it's not working for a whole lot of other authors. There are a lot of authors who are always complaining about "piracy ruining" their businesses and so forth while consumers me
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by kethinov 7y ago
I've long considered the copyright duration question to be a red herring. If we legalize noncommercial infringement, who cares how long copyright terms are? They could be infinite for all I care and I don't see any harm to society
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by kethinov 7y ago
The fact that this set off an angry debate about where to draw the line with copyright just shows how off the rails that debate has been for decades. Of course the National Emergency Library is a good thing. We created copyright law to stop
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by kethinov 7y ago
Now I'm curious what buying Hacker News would actually cost if someone actually wanted to do it.
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by kethinov 7y ago
A preference for doing a majority of my work in macOS, but some Windows applications that I need to use as well that cannot / will not ever be ported off of Wintel.
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by kethinov 7y ago
I find these rumors continually terrifying. Boot Camp and VMWare Fusion is vital to my workflow. If Apple drops x64, they're dropping me as a customer.
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by kethinov 7y ago
Oh yes we are. My uncle died there this summer, unemployed and homeless. He had been a firefighter while serving a stint in prison but of course when you get out you can't do that kind of work because California doesn't let crimin
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by kethinov 7y ago
Mattermost is currently a better UX with a more stable codebase, but I suspect that the Matrix/Riot federated model will one day overtake Mattermost. Personally I use Mattermost at work and Matrix/Riot for personal chat. If Matrix
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by kethinov 7y ago
> Obviously they're unlikely to ever come back. I recognize this is a common attitude, but it makes no sense to me. Some software you tried today isn't designed in a way you prefer, so you go back to using something else. Okay.
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by kethinov 7y ago
Someone submit a pull request to abolish the Senate, reform the House into a mixed-member proportional parliamentary system, mandate all state legislatures do the same, and replace the Electoral College with a ranked choice popular vote. On
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by kethinov 7y ago
You have to consider the net redistributive effects, not the top line number. A large amount of that spending ends up back as tax revenue because it gets taxed away from people who don't need it. Or to put it more simply, suppose I giv
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by kethinov 7y ago
I made an ad blocker for this: https://github.com/kethinov/no-cli-ads
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by kethinov 7y ago
Matrix is the answer. Unlike all the other trendy competitors (Signal, Telegram, etc) it is both fully open source and—crucially—federated. But just because it's the best technical solution doesn't mean it'll take hold. If th
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by kethinov 7y ago
Signal isn't federated. Use Matrix instead.
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by kethinov 8y ago
CACI International Inc. - Rome, NY CACI's Rome, NY office supports the Air Force Research Laboratory. We develop data visualization software and productivity tools supporting the United States military using a wide range of tech stacks
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by kethinov 8y ago
I went to high school with him. That's how he was with me as well when I randomly said to him one day, "Hey you seem better at this computer programming thing than me. Let's hang out." I too credit Tristan with helping m
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by kethinov 8y ago
We all prefer win-win solutions, but not everything in life is like that. Sometimes in order to get justice for one group of people, an overly privileged group has to be knocked down a peg. Just because Certain People Who Shall Remain Namel
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by kethinov 8y ago
His book on the topic "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World" is also a fantastic read.
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by kethinov 8y ago
If Facebook were broken up into a dozen Diaspora instances, the answer is yes. That's the whole point of using antitrust law in this way. To solve that problem.

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