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by kilburn 9y ago
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16226830
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by kilburn 9y ago
> As for compiler errors not helping you understand the problem, I have yet to encounter a compiler that does that. Not very mainstream, but take a loot at elm's compiler errors [1]. They worked hard in this direction, and the resul
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by kilburn 9y ago
I guess you only use a cellphone then. Whatsapp desktop/web is terribly slow and requires your cellphone to be on at all times. Also, you cannot have whatsapp desktop/web active on more than one computer at any time. Also, I do ha
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by kilburn 9y ago
As I grow older, I've found out that I value tools, processes and organization/conventions more than the code itself. These days it is very strange for me to look at some piece of code and think "that's amazing". Pa
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by kilburn 9y ago
It is really terrible. We currently solve it by charging them the missing amount via credit card when this happens.
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by kilburn 9y ago
Transfers can be charged, and often are even within the same country. In Spain it is common to have "up to n monthly transfers for free, then you get charged x%". Also, I've received wrong payments on a German account from Fr
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by kilburn 9y ago
As you found out, the CSS multi-column module is not very well specified, and browser support is severly lacking in both features and performance. Unfortunately... no, there's no better css only alternative. Grids are not supposed to a
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by kilburn 9y ago
In websites using this technique, consent is not assumed until you keep browsing the website. Hence, the notice cannot be in past tense like yours :P
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by kilburn 9y ago
Pretty off-topic, but the reason why it isn't done is tracking, not ease of use. Ad-networks want the ads pulled from their servers so they can track views. If web-owners serve the ads themselves, then the ad-network must trust whateve
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by kilburn 9y ago
For those who -like me- don't know much about what this means, here goes a summary: There are basically two ways to program graphics on linux: OpenGL and Vulkan. OpenGL is older and more high-level, while Vulkan is newer and lower leve
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by kilburn 9y ago
> Automatic detection of curse words and nudity does work, as far as I know. I don't know about nudity, but I can assure you that automatic detection of curse words doesn't work. Enable automatic subtitles and watch a few vid
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by kilburn 9y ago
I am a bit surprised that most comments here focus on whether the guy's genuine or not. What surprised me, in a bad way, is that to challenge a patent you have to have 6k USD to throw away plus the expertise and time (which the article
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by kilburn 9y ago
That is game-dependent, so we can't be sure it would result in pro-level when playing chess. In fact, it is very possible that it wouldn't because chess has a much smaller branching factor than go (and many more practically forced
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by kilburn 9y ago
It definitely is. I learned to play Othello and Backgammon by randomly trying things vs the computer as a child. It is also relatively easy to learn card games' rules, even Poker (albeit some very edge-case rules could take a long time
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by kilburn 9y ago
Symmetry is not the only map characteristic that gives advantages to one race over another. Terran is really good at sieging, Zerg is good at expanding early, Protoss is very bad at defending open bases, etc.. The pro-played maps are carefu
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by kilburn 9y ago
As a non-native english speaker trained in academia, I'm pretty sure that sometimes my comments must come out like that. I'm not doing it on purpose, it's just that I don't know better! I suspect there are many others i
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by kilburn 9y ago
I just tried it. No CalDAV, just plain IMAP... and only if you don't use the "iCloud upgraded notes", meaning that you cannot format the text.
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by kilburn 9y ago
This is very impressive, and left me longing for more! I'm not sure this is the direction you want to take, but I'll throw the idea in anyway. The format seems perfect to allow for user-made extensions: - Content creation requires
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by kilburn 9y ago
The Rubaix datacenter is down too. So are the status pages. This is a major disruption! https://twitter.com/olesovhcom http://currentlydown.com/ovh.net Edit: now they said: > The optical network in Europ
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by kilburn 9y ago
I'm not upvoting because of the snarkiness, but I found myself in the exact same situation yesterday. Today it magically works fine again. If there is any netflixer around here: please, please push for better testing to prevent that fr
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by kilburn 9y ago
I agree with you, but most people don't (specially those sending the mails) In that situation, it seems more productive to advocate for multi-part emails with a sensible plain text part than to sentence "mails should be plain text
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by kilburn 9y ago
Take that chart with a grain of salt. Notice the text above it: > In some cases the autonomous community may have exclusive responsibility for the administration of a policy area but may only have executive (i.e.,carries out) powers as f
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by kilburn 9y ago
All 12 of the members in the Spanish "top court" (Constitutional Tribunal) are appointed by the king himself. 8 of them are proposed by the legislative branch (parliament and senate), 2 by the executive, and 2 by the judicial. Whe
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by kilburn 9y ago
> In the last 60 years, you have been offered a lot of gifs and privileges (that by the way, I don't enjoy), and is never enough. Name three "gifts/privileges" that Catalonia has been given/granted and you don&#x
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by kilburn 9y ago
The United Nations have sanctioned the self-determination right [1]. Quoting wikipedia: > It [the self-determination right] states that a people, based on respect for the principle of equal rights and fair equality of opportunity, have t
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by kilburn 9y ago
Yes they are. The pro-independence movement didn't really take off until the Spanish Constitutional Court thwarted 17 articles and redacted 27 more from the latest "Catalan constitution" (Estatut). A "constitution"
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by kilburn 9y ago
The text was right, but I made a mistake writing key there when it should have been passkey . It is fixed now, thank you for noticing!
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by kilburn 9y ago
For most people that would suffice, but there are exceptions: people who moved recently, people who is not accounted for, etc.. This way, if you are not in the database you know that there's a problem and can ask the authorities to get
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by kilburn 9y ago
An Easter Egg for another Easter Egg... it seemed just right to me (and I didn't want to interrupt the article's flow with that, admittedly)
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by kilburn 9y ago
I actually thought it was spelled that way :S Corrected, thank you!

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