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by lstamour 6y ago
Personally I think the problem starts at “shared understanding” and I think the most promising solution lies within combining ontologies (such as ones based on BFO, perhaps) with Abstract Syntax Trees or Concrete Syntax Trees. I suspect fut
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by lstamour 6y ago
I’m also surprised — it feels both like a long time and yet not that long at all. SQLite felt like it had been around forever when Rails adopted it to make development environments simpler, and I remember finding it easy to use when writing
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by lstamour 6y ago
The explanation I heard was that E4X died at the time because (a) JSON developed by the early/mid 2000s to compete with XML and (b) XHTML would so easily break in strict browsers that the web was pushed in the direction of HTML5 instea
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by lstamour 6y ago
If Microsoft can sustain so many teams working on To-Do apps https://twitter.com/4Lou/status/1265723231396417536?s=20 that they need a chart to illustrate how your To-Dos will move between apps, I think Microsoft
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by lstamour 6y ago
Windows is good, yes. Especially for compatibility with standard desktop apps and new form factors like pen, handwriting, etc. But iPad with touchpad now is also good—better, perhaps, than the Pencil’s OS integration. Presumably the standar
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by lstamour 6y ago
At least it would be self-descriptive! :D
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by lstamour 6y ago
Part of the problem is a number of networks use public IPs including IPv6. NAT isn’t always required. Where it is used though, one could block DNS reflection at the DNS forwarder or locally, and use an application-specific firewall to block
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by lstamour 6y ago
It might not be localhost or a local IP if users use a different hostname, common for some environments, at which point it would have to be configurable. But yes, that could also work, if all browsers send Origin headers as expected.
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by lstamour 6y ago
I particularly like the “websites can reject unknown host header” solution as an extra form of protection against this. But we go back to the web socket server needing to inspect the URL and host headers it’s given. Also: https:/&#x2F
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by lstamour 6y ago
That won’t help if someone sets up public DNS to point to localhost or 127.0.0.1 though. Unless you check after DNS is resolved? It’s also possible someone might bind to an IPv6 address. Better to rely on fixes mentioned elsewhere for web s
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by lstamour 6y ago
That’s exactly the solution I was thinking of. No end-user visible changes required, just change websocket to require a secret on initial connection. An easy way of doing this might be to use the web socket URL path or a query variable. Not
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by lstamour 6y ago
Podcast apps commonly host indexes for the same reason Google or Bing or another search engine ships with most browsers. Users don’t know, and don’t care, about URLs, especially RSS feed URLs. They (we) just want to type in something and ta
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by lstamour 6y ago
I don’t know, the code itself is shorter and easier to read than the readme initially was. And maybe this will dissuade folks from installing and using this if they’re not committed to maintaining it as part of their dependencies. Dependenc
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by lstamour 6y ago
You can use Quick Actions (formerly Services) to trigger Mac automations, with customized Keyboard Shortcuts and text input replacements but it’s all scattered across a dozen apps and it’s kind of clunky to piece a workflow together from al
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by lstamour 6y ago
That’s not how prices work at Whole Foods, and that wasn’t my personal experience at the same store in January this year. Most items had e-ink price displays next to them so they could update but they were slow to update and so price update
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by lstamour 6y ago
To clarify, it’s the farmer or resource producer shorting or selling the future to protect against the price falling (where the short will make money) while the buyer of a future (processing industries, farmers needing feed, etc.) does so t
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by lstamour 6y ago
There was an interview reported Wednesday evening in a story published yesterday, but I only found this after lots of Googling and transcript searching, and it did not mention the “Tim Bray” story: https://www.nytimes.com/20
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by lstamour 6y ago
In my case I have a dynamic IP but I use a Linux box as a router and set up Google DNS record sets for my domains and after every reconnect to Internet (or PPP connection in this case), a shell script checks to see if the IP address changed
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by lstamour 6y ago
I was going to suggest that ?x-private-*= or ?s= URL query parameters could not be copied/pasted /s ;-) I imagine the page would need to also use some sort of dictionary-based compression for efficient transfer of the page if it h
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by lstamour 6y ago
Preferring only POST form submissions vs GET links might have helped some, with proxies perhaps, while previous implementations of “disabled cookies” functionality in early forum software would tie the session ID to other information known
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by lstamour 6y ago
You can also compile your own open source software from outside the Apple App Store, there are some limitations to long-term use that might require a $99/year developer account, but it’s still possible. And the $99/year is not per
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by lstamour 6y ago
Edit: I misunderstood your comment as about Azure generally and not Azure DevOps specifically. I see Azure DevOps as the “full service” version of GitHub’s slightly more “DIY” approach. DevOps can also be customized and sold by partners, co
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by lstamour 6y ago
I’m probably not the best target audience as yes, I have. I use an RSS reader and manually curate a list of blogs to follow and podcasts to listen to, in addition to, yes, YouTube playlists I subscribe to as well. I even support content aut
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by lstamour 6y ago
If I'm interested in content not on HN, I'll find it elsewhere. Why is it any different for YouTube? Now, if you'd said to me that Google doesn't prioritize other content, I'd argue that those wanting to talk about
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by lstamour 6y ago
Could be worse, try to run a C++ project next time! But yeah, the same applies to Ruby, Node, even C# (msbuild or CSX) and PowerShell modules. You have to know enough to know enough to get started. About the only thing that reliably works b
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by lstamour 6y ago
Outside of OS distro packaging, most Qt apps actually copy dynamically linked Qt binaries to the same app folder for re-distribution to end users within some form of installer or disk image. The same probably applies to Gtk apps too, as I t
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by lstamour 7y ago
Though tax is on charged separately in Canada, so probably closer to 8 EUR. I’ll admit, in Canada, assuming you’re in a busy part of town, I’ve gotten used to the idea that a fulfilling meal out costs $15-25. The only way I’ve been able to
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by lstamour 7y ago
Sort of. The only issue with merges in GitHub tends to be that merge or squashed commit itself isn’t tested before being committed. It’s always possible, though in practice this should be quite rare, that the merge or squash commit produces
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by lstamour 7y ago
Thanks for your reply. I ended up looking for a bit more on continuations from the perspective of JS Promises and found https://dev.to/homam/composability-from-callbacks-to-categor... which was a pretty easy to follow
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by lstamour 7y ago
True. Good distinctions. To re-iterate the above, the approximation to AWS Lambda would require dynamic AWS Lambda functions -- as in code that creates a Lambda with specific state embedded in it -- then tracks each of those by their unique

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