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by kick 7y ago
They had a line in the post that explained that: The extension is free at the moment. We plan on releasing for other browsers in the upcoming weeks. We plan on monetizing either through a premium tier with productivity tools built for powe
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by kick 7y ago
I wouldn't personally use a proprietary extension with access to every tab, but: Extensions written for Chrome can be hand-ported to Firefox in the span of ten minutes, even if you don't have unminified source code. There used to
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by kick 7y ago
I've been thinking on this for a few minutes, and I'm realizing I have no idea on what criteria YCombinator funds anymore. This seems like something the Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud might have funded. The extension look
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by kick 7y ago
EULAs are legally-binding in the United States, and the Federal government is very happy to murder people under CFAA violations.
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by kick 7y ago
Happily! Have you tried out J's labs? That's what I usually recommend, just because of how varied, deep & consistent they are. If you have, and they didn't work for you, I'd ask if you've read J for C Programme
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by kick 7y ago
Until Javascript became fully-capable, Java and Flash applets ruled the WWW.
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by kick 7y ago
Ha! I was waiting for someone to mention Joy! You can find a bunch of stuff on Joy hanging around if you know where to look: http://nsl.com/ http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10000360 https://vecto
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by kick 7y ago
Stallman was really seeing with clarity back then. It's kind of crazy that he doesn't get credit for the things he did unambiguously get right.
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by kick 7y ago
I use APL daily; I still think Kragen's notation is worth a look. It's important to examine alternative approaches!
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by kick 7y ago
Electronic mail accounts are not federated, which was my claim.
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The IX Multilevel-Secure Unix System (1992)(cs.dartmouth.edu)
36 points by kick 7y ago|7 comments
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by kick 7y ago
APL was also handwriting-optimized; KEI came up with it in the first place because he needed something for quickly expressing thought on a chalkboard.
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by kick 7y ago
Holding company = they're still subject to U.S. law.
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by kick 7y ago
Ah, I see! That makes sense.
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A Paper Algorithm Notation (2014)(canonical.org)
61 points by kick 7y ago|30 comments
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by kick 7y ago
Sometimes I wonder about the type of people who willingly choose to work at Oracle. Unsurprisingly, this is Oracle's best. I wonder what Oracle's doing to get this sort of loyalty; not many employees are willing to turn their pers
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by kick 7y ago
What would be the point in downvoting in the first place, then? I assumed it was a joke.
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by kick 7y ago
> your ex’s house In this case, wouldn't you want to upvote it? More people going on it means they have to suffer from more noise.
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by kick 7y ago
Today, it has announced a prototype for a world first: a fully automated, yet presenter-led sports news summary system. The title is wrong! Sogou has the world-first here. Reuter's thing is specifically the "first" presente
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by kick 7y ago
https://forum.privacytools.io/t/wire-swiss-gmbh-is-now-owned... Wire Swiss GmbH is owned by a U.S. company. > Can you link to these issues you mention? https://crysp.uwaterloo.ca/opinion/wire&#x
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by kick 7y ago
WebTorrent has been able to be disabled for a while. It's useful in some cases, but if you want to run your own host without it, it's trivial.
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by kick 7y ago
ActivityPub is a protocol that does very little with a whole lot of words in the spec. Accounts are not federated, there's no reasonable way of automating your switch to another server assuming yours dies, so forth, so on. Mastodon has
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Eedie and Eddie on the Wire (1985)(langston.com)
5 points by kick 7y ago|1 comments
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by kick 7y ago
His diet was correlated with pancreatic cancer, and he doubled down on it after he had got it; foregoing treatment to use a more extreme version of it, until it was too late to be treated effectively.
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by kick 7y ago
Jobs's diet came from a 1971 book written by a very convincing yet irresponsible man who got kicked out of teaching at Harvard (this isn't actually a joke; Steve's comments on the book Be Here Now suggest exactly this, a
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by kick 7y ago
I read the last comment there! "on the develop branches" is way different from "on stable branches." The edits make it more clear, though, good job! I definitely like what you're trying to do, though! I hope it go
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by kick 7y ago
His statements about PGP are right, though. It's using terrible, outdated cryptography. The odds of finding one who's actually got a setup that isn't full of holes for it is slim, even among programmers. It's barely be
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by kick 7y ago
It is on-topic; the copy is relevant to the post. Further, the product is not technically interesting. It's a CDN with an Apple logo on it.
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by kick 7y ago
No? I don't think the comment implied that; I separated the two between an "and" for a reason. I was just stating that that was when things seemed to start going down for them.
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by kick 7y ago
Crystal is really nice! Cloning Ruby syntax but making it prettier is probably one of the smartest language design decisions that have happened in a long time. It's definitely gotten further on my radar in the past year or so, though I

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