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by leppr 9y ago
"How to derail a thread 101"
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by leppr 9y ago
You don't need braces around single-statement if/else/for blocks either, but you put them anyway because you're a good boy. Same could be argued for single-argument arrow functions. My point being, this is a debatable
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by leppr 9y ago
Boredom I presume ? The same kind of feeling one gets when listening to mainstream radio or reading Youtube comments, for instance.
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by leppr 9y ago
Also <ctrl-p> instead of <up> for extra touchtype points.
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by leppr 9y ago
Off-topic rambling confounding art with the art industry. This is a website giving access to paintings. Only insecure or needy craftsmen need the approval of some elite to feel like they're artists. Same with people seeing no value in
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by leppr 9y ago
I'm sure (I hope) in a couple decades people will pity us the same way we pity Middle Age feudal systems' peasants, and laugh at us for being so easily brainwashed into thinking our states are actual democracies.
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by leppr 9y ago
Not saying the contrary, just disagreeing with the "old iPads haven't been deprecated" opinion. iOS 9 was released in 2015, so 4 years after the iPad 2 release. I'd expect a $600 device to last a bit longer than that,
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by leppr 9y ago
I don't agree with this at all. Since the iOS 9 update my iPad 2 is a miserable piece of trash: everything is sluggish beyond saving, and the rendering has been butchered on those low dpi devices (the old iOS designs looked crisper). E
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by leppr 9y ago
Yes, I meant open source as in Open-Source, not "gratis".
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by leppr 9y ago
So this is an open source endpoint to the Google APIs? Wow, I sure feel safe knowing that my data is going to Google and only Google.
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by leppr 9y ago
I think a large part of Hacker News' culture is finding facts more interesting than opinions. We call this MYOO (Make Your Own Opinion), a branch of the DIY movement.
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by leppr 9y ago
>I have no idea why no one bothered to make a nice gui for this feature Getting off-topic, but this remark can be applied to most aspects of Linux OS's tbh. We developers are too comfortable with the shell on Linux, whereas with i
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by leppr 10y ago
> Electron is the new flash. All the contrary. Electron requires a minimal amount of Electron-specific code and its API is open-source, not proprietary. Once a new and better webapp-on-the-desktop framework is built, it's going to
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by leppr 10y ago
Train them to find truffle and you got a business.
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by leppr 10y ago
It's the same with graphical arts. People will talk more about the tools used, the message or the concept, than the raw shapes and composition which in most cases are the core of the work and what the artist spends the major part of hi
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by leppr 10y ago
So by that logic you are affirming that you know more about America than any non-American does. I'm pretty sure that's not a stance you meant to have. Knowledge isn't innate.
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by leppr 10y ago
Coming from a heavy KDE user (on 3 different laptops, a Dell Latitude, a Thinkpad X220 and an MSI): the number of little bugs and glitches in that DE is wayy too high for it to be adopted by the leading desktop distribution. It makes much m
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by leppr 10y ago
Nothing new in this article, but since we're there, here's how I minimize this problem: * On the desktop, clicking on Firefox's readability button has become almost second-nature to me when I end up on news sites (speaking of
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by leppr 10y ago
You mean a FLAC player :^)
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by leppr 10y ago
I experienced something similar with a government-certified "secure locker" web app my company is using to transfer paychecks and other documents to employees. After a few complaints to HR about changing provider (who must've
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by leppr 10y ago
Don't underestimate how hard it is to fight against an adversary with money. "Green" parties and organizations are infiltrated by double-game lobbyists and influencers from all fronts trying to save their own industry's
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by leppr 10y ago
I fail to see how Oman and especially the capital Muscat is dangerous. This is the one country where I've felt safest, and its safety is the reason for it being a very popular destination for wild camping.
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by leppr 10y ago
Well, the comment I was responding to is about technology eroding the "self". We agree that sharing and expressing one's ideas make them stronger, allow them to blossom and mature, yes? Maybe you have this crazy idea that&#x2
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by leppr 10y ago
Are you okay with the whole world, every person you meet on the street, your boss, your parents, your ex, the guy who serves you coffee, that thug you bumped into in the subway, the guys who work at your company's competitors, the guys
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by leppr 10y ago
>I've come to a hypothesis that technology's purpose is to gently erode the concept of "self" Centralized corporate-style internet services may achieve that, but many other kind of technologies strive for and achiev
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by leppr 10y ago
Facebook is very privileged by Apple, for instance see React Native which somehow is allowed to circumvent the usual "no download of code". It's the exception that proves the rule.
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by leppr 10y ago
It's neither flexible nor semantic. Flexibility is what allowed webpages to be "responsive" before media-queries even existed, and semantics is what allows accessibility, search engines, and other html parsing tools ("re
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by leppr 10y ago
>In France, freedom of speech is limited for terrorism, hate speech, hating religions e.g. For example, encouraging racism, lauding Hitler or ISIS, or extreme versions of islam or christianism which limit women's rights etc. Relat
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by leppr 10y ago
> I support Mark on that: it's better to have limited Facebook in China than not to have Facebook in China at all. Better for whom? For humanity in general, don't you fear giving people the illusion of a free platform for spe
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by leppr 10y ago
There are a lot of people just on the verge of being convinced, who consume mainstream media and probably know a little about Snowden and look up to him as an authority figure on the same level as any other "tech/science" per

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