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by kovac 4y ago
Or you can just use Firefox.
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by kovac 4y ago
Yes, I agree with you. It's more of a matter of principles because otherwise there's no point to using a paid, private email service at all since most of the market share is with Gmail and outlook free emails and most people don&#
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by kovac 4y ago
Not sure how it was when your first signed up, but right now these extra stuff comes with the paid subscription. You can't buy just the email service and you can't use even the basic features like emailing an external domain on a
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by kovac 4y ago
I recently switched to Runbox and so far so good. Before switching I tried out the following 1. Fastmail: tried and stopped using because of Australian law that is relatively more hostile to privacy and is more expensive that Runbox when ad
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by kovac 4y ago
Nice analogy there comparing it to a linked list.
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by kovac 4y ago
I think what he is saying is that if they get the user to agree through TOS then they always have permission via the first subclause you omitted.
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by kovac 4y ago
That and to keep the open source community pacified. If Firefox wasn't around it's very likely that the community will develop something much better which may be completely out of control for corporations.
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by kovac 4y ago
Einstein's work in photoelectric effect and quantum mechanics paved the way to modern electronics, transistors, sensors, semiconductor tech. The revolution he brought about could eventually give us quantum computers, his general relati
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Ask HN: Book recommendations for Natural Language Understanding
5 points by kovac 4y ago|1 comments
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by kovac 4y ago
Code looks pristine. Very nice!
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by kovac 4y ago
If you had to pick one, I'd say the single most important high level math topic that'd be useful for computer science is Graph theory. There are so many applications of graphs in computer science. The thing about math is that rega
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by kovac 5y ago
My two pennies worth: 1. Test your code. I'm a senior engineer and the only way I know how to make sure my code works is by testing it. I use unit tests for this. If you don't like unit tests, find some way that works for you. 2.
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by kovac 5y ago
Or click on the link to the source and see for yourself.
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by kovac 5y ago
It isn't elitism. It's competence. A system designed by competent users for competent users are going to be different from one made for general masses. There's nothing elitist about that.
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by kovac 5y ago
There's no reason for a terminal emulator to connect to the internet or collect telemetry opt-in or not. None whatsoever.
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by kovac 5y ago
This is not what I gathered from the documentary "Four Horsemen". Seems like actual banks are printing money out of thin air?
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by kovac 5y ago
For laypeople self-hosting is out of the question for now. I'd say the more immediate problem is that even for competent engineers this is a difficult task with all the artificial restrictions put in place in the name of security, anti
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Ask HN: Book recommendations for data structures and algorithms
2 points by kovac 5y ago|1 comments
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by kovac 5y ago
It depends on which department you take math course in. Any course offered in a math department, even statistics and probability will be treated formally there because that's what mathematics is. What you probably need is to take math
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by kovac 5y ago
I might look into active, high profile opensource projects to learn a thing or two from there. I think for this to work, planning needs to be very precise: as a team you know what you are going to do, devs need to be very good at what they
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by kovac 5y ago
Even if it's paid, you should back them up really.
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by kovac 5y ago
If it helps,there's an extension called ublacklist that you can blacklist results. I use this to permanently blacklist those sites with garbage.
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by kovac 5y ago
Mike Tyson, Evander Holy field, I'd imagine there'd be a lot of boxers.
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by kovac 5y ago
Not sure if it's me, but I feel like Stack Overflow has also started going mad with cookie acceptance requests lately with the default option is set to accept all cookies. It's fucking annoying.
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by kovac 5y ago
But not all languages emit the same machine code. And I think performance is more sensitive to memory access than machine instructions, so I don't think this point is true.
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by kovac 5y ago
This is what I used to think about JIT as well. That JIT would have more information than a static compiler to optimise the code better. However, it seems to me that most of the performance depends on how well we can exploit the cache lines
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by kovac 5y ago
Considering that package mgmt is a well solved problem, rewriting these tools for that in return for slow, bloated alternative sounds like a huge tradeoff to me. Fun and learning on the other hand, sure.
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by kovac 5y ago
Web browsers are one of the most poorly designed applications in existence. It's not surprising that such complex applications trying to do everything possible have vulnerabilities. But in no way that should serve as a benchmark for C
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by kovac 5y ago
For those wondering/asserting if the author is an expert in neuroscience, she is actually a psychologist by training. I'm personally very skeptical about anything psychologists say. I would not take any of this by face value witho
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by kovac 5y ago
Logicians study this I think in computability theory. It's a hard problem. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computably_enumerable .

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