kodablah

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by kodablah 8y ago
> I think this kind of conversation is naturally fatiguing, and creates a particularly negative means of ushering new users into the platform - almost as hostages, rather than excited participants. Definitely true. Asking users to respec
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by kodablah 8y ago
Despite best efforts, there's just no way around the general notion that affecting the tide affects all boats. You take the bad with the good of an internet with fewer restrictions, or you add both bad and good for everyone with restri
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by kodablah 8y ago
>> Not in the fundamental "this is how you should indent" bit but in the "this is how you should unpack dynamic json content" sense > Typically Go is faulted for being too opinionated, and it’s projects too pred
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by kodablah 8y ago
Disagree on whether it's a good thing, but regardless we citizens work at, own, and buy from corporations too.
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by kodablah 8y ago
Also: That all the cars are expensive and do X to limit MPG are because of lazy manufacturers, nothing in the law says they have to do it that way.
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by kodablah 8y ago
Why does it matter what it is intended to do?
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by kodablah 8y ago
> I tend to put GDPR and this Copyright bill in different camps [...] GDPR is very far from perfect, but I think it's still directionally good Depends on the context. I tend to see how one begets the other. GDPR is good by intent, b
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by kodablah 8y ago
As an adjacent dead comment points out, you'd use Emscripten to "convert nginx to WASM" (i.e. "compile"). Wasmer is a runtime. But there are actually use cases to what you're talking about. Essentially instead
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by kodablah 8y ago
> Why are governments bringing in authoritarian measures all the time? Because we collectively ask them to. You can't ask them to do a bunch of things you might not consider authoritarian (though others might) and then be surprised
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by kodablah 8y ago
Depends on what you mean by hoops (ala clang), but there is Graal which can run LLVM bitcode [0] but I am unsure if it can compile it. I have personally compiled C code to WASM and then to the JVM via [1]. C/C++ are complex (and/o
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by kodablah 8y ago
> but much more maintainable. > we actually accomplished just before wasmjit > Wasmer is the first native WebAssembly runtime [...] Whoa there. I like both projects and respect competition as much as the next guy, but maintainabili
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by kodablah 8y ago
> but most require non-superficial similarities to Java (garbage collected, etc.) It should be noted that doing this requires non-superficial similarities to *nix/POSIX (signals, files, threads, etc). It's not like you could ru
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by kodablah 8y ago
> After the horrible very bad choices we made on last election here, thanks to WhatsApp For those of us unfamiliar, can you share info on what WhatsApp did? Also curious how results are attributed to it. In the US many found big-web tech
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by kodablah 8y ago
Sure, if you add filters and dig you get substance. The initial contention was about the large amount of substanceless anti-FB content in the media in general, not specific types of content. That you have to dig is the issue, not what you g
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by kodablah 8y ago
All the anti-FB opinion articles on and off big-media domains. There are a large amount. You can just browse https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=facebook if you'd like. Many lack substance.
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by kodablah 8y ago
> Why do certificates expire? I always assumed one reason is so revocation lists don't become huge. Also, digital properties such as domains change hands.
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by kodablah 8y ago
> Is Hackernews being brigaded with anti-Facebook content or is it finaly Facebooks time to die? IMO, neither. The media in general does have a large amount of anti-FB fervor that is substanceless (this article isn't one though the
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by kodablah 8y ago
> You may not like the process but it is completely legal I don't. Just like I don't like some things FB does that are legal. > Not sure what you mean about a formal censure I just meant denouncing the action as part of a wr
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by kodablah 8y ago
>> Sadly, the less-principled [...] care more about who it's targeted towards than the actions. > about Facebook :-(
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by kodablah 8y ago
So they took one business's confidential documents from another person travelling in their country who had them as part of discovery for another lawsuit (that a CA judge asked to remain hidden)? And then they publish them for everyone?
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by kodablah 8y ago
Maybe I don't understand all of the issues, but I'm gonna be as straightforward as I can: if you are a messaging platform doing explicit business in Australia under these rules, we have to assume you have or are willing to backdoo
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by kodablah 8y ago
> But I can't blame anyone but myself, because I don't use Edge The problem is not with you or other users, the problem is with using adoption as a metric to determine success/failure of a browser. Sure FF needs adoption f
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by kodablah 8y ago
> I worry "grand conspiracy" views distract from the problem of public opinion often being in favor of the bad ideas. The cynic in me is not concerned because I feel public opinion can be swayed and/or the issue is not the
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by kodablah 8y ago
From a selfish American-centric perspective, sometimes it feels like different west-aligned countries/regions use these attempts as test beds to gauge acceptableness in other countries/regions.
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by kodablah 8y ago
> Another cool side effect of this approach and that it is by design very natural to add support for extra web renderers. As you start moving to other platforms and see WebKitGTK as a limiting factor, I would strongly suggest looking at
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by kodablah 8y ago
I have been putting some real thought into this as an idea for client-side scraping and re-presentation [0]. I have come to the conclusion we just need a community maintained set of code that turns popular websites into APIs that people can
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by kodablah 8y ago
> You don't have a client library or anything like that, but a system-wide database driver instead. That's a choice ala ODBC. A simple TDS client library works just fine. In fact, it's not a complex protocol for basic uses
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by kodablah 8y ago
Why would Citus folks like a word with someone wanting something that "just works" "out of the box"? It is reasonable to want/expect this feature to be part of the core DB distribution and handled, documented, maint
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by kodablah 8y ago
> well actually when you host an SPA and you DO use lazy loading This is not always true. Many times frameworks are so heavily leveraged and the site-specific code so minimal on small SPAs that it is reasonable to have a single packed-an
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by kodablah 8y ago
I understand the general note about caches not lasting forever, no longer referenced files, etc. This response skipped over the most important question "And if I make a change daily (or more frequently w/ CD), have 365 of those ve

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