kodablah

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by kodablah 8y ago
For software targeting more advanced users and with limited dependencies, I agree. But if your software has large shared runtime requirements, is expected to be used by simple users expecting an icon, has non-trivial installation checks, et
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by kodablah 8y ago
If you don't need extremely high speed, this is really easy to do with a Tor onion service. Granted the client needs to be a Tor browser, but there are benefits to not having to deal with these third party services.
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by kodablah 8y ago
I feel that there is a significant difference between funding and owning/building. I also feel confusing the two harms both the value of grants and the legitimate privacy concerns for public sector tech projects.
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by kodablah 8y ago
> Public transport should be free for everyone, and that is something I'm willing to pay higher taxes for This is location dependent, public transport is not a build-it-and-they-will-use-it expenditure. Where I live, it is not somet
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by kodablah 8y ago
Sure, but does it account for a large percentage change? If their reference data is so limited that adding to it can result in monumental changes, then it is currently inaccurate and a sham. If it isn't a large percentage change then l
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by kodablah 8y ago
In the article, one service reports 61% Balkan and another reports 23%. That one algorithm is mostly accurate within itself is hardly notable. That they're not close with one another means that one of them is way off or the industry is
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by kodablah 8y ago
I think Qt does work well. Gtk isn't terrible either. WxWidgets, Iup, etc are also not bad. They just need either better cross language support (i.e. in C or with C iface) or better maintenance. I've had subpar performance with th
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by kodablah 8y ago
More like uninformed people don't consider them problems, or at least not problems outweighing the benefits. There are several things that make "problems" more or less problematic, one of which being hyper-focus on negatives,
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by kodablah 8y ago
A bliss users enjoy, as we might in areas we're less knowledgeable in. They see a forest, we see trees; doesn't discount their happiness.
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by kodablah 8y ago
> The deluge of anti-fb comments is the public finally having enough of their crap This is the trap I'm talking about. Instead of "public" what you mean are "commenters" and "writers". Assuming that is
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by kodablah 8y ago
Sure, just saying don't let the local sentiment change you. I personally have found the opposite once outside the echo chamber, granted like HN, I am naturally pessimistic/skeptical. I've found common-person use of tech and c
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by kodablah 8y ago
Aren't there plenty of non-native-gui desktop options already? I think what we really need are cross platform gui options using native widgets (and we shouldn't pretend the impedance mismatch is too large because we've seen s
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by kodablah 8y ago
Just be mindful that HN (or any outlet these days) will never teach you the positive value of FB for the common person. FB is indeed evil in this case, but be careful not to blindly make over-generalizations with unnecessary correlations. F
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by kodablah 8y ago
> HNers: "Ugh, can you zoom your content for me and shape your content to my browser?" You got it backwards. More like "Stop fixating on a width and shaping your content in a browser limiting way". They are asking for
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by kodablah 8y ago
> I feel I could accept a result in which there was not some effective pay-ops campaign being run Define "effective". How do you know it was effective? If we invalidated results based on some peoples' assumed effectiveness
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by kodablah 8y ago
People are tired of restrictions, regardless of whether they are the ones targeted. The behavior is not aggressive in any sense and these types of restrictions are worked around predictably. You are making the mistake of confusing the inten
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by kodablah 8y ago
On the side I'm building a communication app myself and I've started over a few times now. I made some mistakes in early development that caused starting over to be the best choice (I'm not a perennial start-over guy, things
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by kodablah 8y ago
> Currently the top tax rate is 37%. Would you favor or oppose a tax proposal that would apply a 70% rate to the 10 millionth dollar and beyond for individuals making $10 million a year or more in reportable income? This simple yes/
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by kodablah 8y ago
I said "probably" because I don't know (I do see plenty of comments suggestion fear mongering about things that wre supposed to have happened by now like recessions, loss of food, loss of medicine, etc). My comment is about f
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by kodablah 8y ago
> It is interesting how any movement in opposition to globalism is caused by Russia I wouldn't say it's in opposition to globalism or always blamed on Russia. I'd rephrase it as, "It is interesting how any movement in
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by kodablah 8y ago
> Folks are falling for well confirmed lies. Sure, probably on both sides. But to assume that everyone on one side of an issue, or even most, are dupes is a very dangerous assumption. Not every election outcome has to be rationalized, bu
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by kodablah 8y ago
> I am not being snarky or condescending - I am just frustrated that voters don't spend a bit of effort to educate themselves before voting. Maybe many do and you're just wrong about whether they educated themselves? Maybe many
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by kodablah 8y ago
> 2. This is controversial, due to the majority of the populace in general not desiring to leave the EU, but not voting as such individually. Also an American, but from the outside I don't see how a majority desire can be so accurat
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by kodablah 8y ago
It's not clear to me nor am I convinced it is clear to those who voted for autonomy. One could argue that EU legislation since the vote only bolsters the arguments for independence. The only thing that's clear from my outsider per
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by kodablah 8y ago
> It just seems reasonable to have another vote. It seems absolutely unreasonable to me. It's hard to measure how certain tactics influenced the vote on either side. The voting process needs to be done with confidence and we should
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by kodablah 8y ago
Action was already taken when large-scale government interference of the internet was cheered on in the past. Since taking the bad with the good of a less-regulated internet wasn't acceptable, we now have to take the bad with the good
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by kodablah 8y ago
> Why can't these use simpler [...] configuration schemes? Because you inevitably need something less simple at some point. It's a hard balance to strike. Want only a config format? Get angry advanced users. Want only a program
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by kodablah 8y ago
Starts with the media narrative, and the media narrative starts with those preferred by or employed in the media. One can watch marketing content containing humans to see trends they attempt to drive or trends they don't. I'll res
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by kodablah 8y ago
I split time. I have things I like to do and things I have to do. I often keep a couple projects going at a time. I make a reasonable milestone and do the drudgery in the morning until I hit it (often midday, sometimes later, sometimes earl
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by kodablah 8y ago
> Millions of people know this [...] That's a pretty big number, would be curious if based on anything more than a guess.

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