mrighele

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by mrighele 10y ago
I am not saying that the service is not useful. It certainly is . What I am arguing is that it requires the users to do some amount of work and so it is not free for them, and I am of the opinion that Google benefit from it much more than I
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by mrighele 10y ago
It is "free work" since I'm helping training Google's algorithms and I don't get money back. Note that the service is free for the site owner, but not for the end user, which has to invest his/her own time.
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by mrighele 10y ago
Having to do free work for Google is more than weird for me. For this reason unless the page is really important I end up closing the tab. If it was for open service (such as OpenStreetMap) it would be a different matter though.
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by mrighele 10y ago
As strange as it may sound, yes. It took some time to get used to it, but now I find the code easier to read. There are a number instances where the missing vertical alignment is a drawback, for example ASCII art, boxed comments or comment
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by mrighele 10y ago
Note that if you use a variable width font (and so you don't care much if >= has different width than ≥ ) you can simply use font-lock-add-keywords and map what you need. For example in JS you could use (font-lock-add-keywords
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by mrighele 10y ago
> ...because an email server is backed by a database and doing database backups right is hard if that is not your day-job. I store my email on dovecot with Maildir storage. For a single or just a few accounts is perfectly fine and you ca
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by mrighele 10y ago
True, but I was thinking more about the part where they sell music streaming services (Google Play Music, YouTube Red). Maybe I am wrong since they are not producers, but I considered this as being part of the media industry.
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by mrighele 10y ago
Google _is_ part of the media industry.
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by mrighele 10y ago
We could even fill those pods with burritos [1] ! (Sorry, couldn't resist) [1] http://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_t...
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by mrighele 10y ago
Is this different from other forms of violence ? For example I have been shooting enemies in videogames for more than 20 years, yet I don't feel the urge to shoot anybody in real life.
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by mrighele 10y ago
The HTTP issue I guess can be easily solved. In fact if I try to manually download the same package over HTTPS (I mean packages with url from beta.quicklisp.org) it works so maybe th e solution is very simple
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by mrighele 10y ago
While I agree with most of the issues you report, what are thea alternatives ? I think Quicklisp is the lesser evil.
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by mrighele 10y ago
As others have pointed out, New Vegas has a better main story. In fact not only the story of Fallout 3 is a bit "meh", but if you stick to the main quest, you can finish the game pretty quickly. And tunnels. Lot of metro tunnels
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by mrighele 10y ago
Yes. This makes ddg useful as a default search engine even if you decide that you always want to use Google Search, because that you can use all the other bangs. Being able to search "on the fly" wikipedia, youtube, google maps et
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by mrighele 10y ago
While not as much as I'd like, open source _is_ used in the healthcare sector, though usually not in safety-critical fields (an example that comes to my mind for example is HL7 messaging). The main issue for more OSS is that for pure
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by mrighele 10y ago
> But then I imagine Dune 2 players saying the same about C&C! In Dune 2 you could wall-in your repair center (or build other buildings around it); if you did so transport aircraft would come and get damaged vehicles from the battlef
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by mrighele 10y ago
> This quickly stops making sense when you're making an application, as you want that button to go "up" rather than back. Did you try to use the history API [1] for this ? Not straightforward but with either replaceState o
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by mrighele 10y ago
> A bit weird, once the article loaded it automatically scrolled me to the end for some reason. It's because the link has the #comments anchor. The submitter probably didn't realize this.
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by mrighele 10y ago
> There are key things that are missing such as 'object.observe': 'not planned' or 'RTC data channels': 'under consideration'. Object.observe() is already obsolete [1] (I guess you're supposed
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by mrighele 10y ago
> It's more like the ability to plug your phone into a monitor and carry on working. Do I really need a phone to do this ? As long as I can reach the same data I don't really care if I'm on the same device where I started
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by mrighele 10y ago
He's probably referring to "Windows Subsystem for Linux" which is a compatibility layer for Windows 10 that allows you to run unmodified Ubuntu binaries. It is also called "Ubuntu on Windows" since the userspace par
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by mrighele 10y ago
While in general it is less problematic, it happens with Linux too. I have a laptop with integrated Intel GPU. Not powerful but good enough to play a few simple games from time to time. After updating from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 most games w
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by mrighele 10y ago
I feel ashamed answering after more than two days, but I never notice when people answer to me on HN. Anyway, you can find a description of the puzzle on Wikipedia [1]. It is almost 50 years old! [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x
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by mrighele 10y ago
I never heard about "Cheryl's Birthday" puzzle until today, but back when I was at the university I heard about a different (and in my opinion, more elegant) version: Instead of day and month the two person involved must gues
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by mrighele 10y ago
How is this different from European governments buying Greek bonds held by German banks [1] ? (Banks from French and Italy got similar treatment, but German banks where the biggest lenders) [1] http://www.bloomberg.com/view&
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by mrighele 10y ago
The main issue is that the prevailing trend in web development changes every six months. I wonder how many developers that know grunt you will find in 3 years.
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by mrighele 10y ago
The author complains about DVCS in general but in fact it highlights what are mostly issues with the git+github combination. For example, if git blame is slow as hell, I'm not sure that it would be much different if it was running on a
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by mrighele 10y ago
Backspace used to go up one level up to Windows XP, if I remember correctly. Now you can go up one level with Alt+Up Arrow [1] [1] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/keyboard-shortcut...
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by mrighele 11y ago
We have been using for some time js-beautify [1] together with a pre-commit hook to enforce the style of our JS code. This doesn't seem much different, am I missing something ? [1] https://github.com/beautify-web/j
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by mrighele 11y ago
For the part regarding database migrations, you can find here [1] an interesting podcast about SQL database (schema) evolution. Among the other things they talk about how to have multiple schema revision coexisting at the same time. While

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