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by muraiki 11y ago
I also greatly liked the Slashdot moderation system. But I left slash for HN because I was sick of editorializing in the summary, along with completely inaccurate summaries unchecked by the editors. Sometimes I wish HN had support for small
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I downvoted you because I think this is an uncharitable reading of the parent comment. Furthermore, one could argue that Microsoft alone is not responsible for the creation of an opt-out privacy-hostile software ecosystem, so perhaps your s
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by muraiki 11y ago
Other comments have mentioned that Hangouts is not the only possible attack vector, but I'll be honest in saying that I don't really understand all this. :)
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A recent Consumer Reports article says: You may be able to cut your exposure to inorganic arsenic in any type of rice by rinsing raw rice thoroughly before cooking, using a ratio of 6 cups water to 1 cup rice, and draining the excess water
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by muraiki 11y ago
Although my self-teaching of programming began in Python it ended up veering through Racket and Smalltalk. I almost regret learning Smalltalk after experiencing what a joy it is to program in. Writing a webapp in Seaside, with all of its gr
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by muraiki 11y ago
Downvoted because ToS concerns have indeed been queried about repeatedly on various public forums.
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Or you know, somebody could have a legitimate condition like a vestibular disorder. :(
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Mozilla is receiving no monetary compensation from Pocket's inclusion. See also my comment re: Pocket's TOS applying by virtue of installation, not usage. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9885795
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by muraiki 11y ago
You currently cannot point Firefox to your own Pocket-compatible service. The Firefox integration uses non-public parts of the Pocket API. A Mozilla employee opened a bug for this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?i
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Has there been any clarification on how the Pocket TOS applies to users of Firefox who aren't actively using Pocket? Because the wording seems to indicate that mere installation of "Pocket Technologies" constitutes acceptance
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You can use a saw to cut a stick in half, but you can also use it to create joinery. Learning something as complex as joinery -- and doing it well -- is necessarily going to take some time... even though you could probably teach an ape to u
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From the Rust book intro: "After reading this introduction, you’ll want to dive into either ‘Learn Rust’ or ‘Syntax and Semantics’, depending on your preference: ‘Learn Rust’ if you want to dive in with a project, or ‘Syntax and Semant
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by muraiki 11y ago
Yeah, you can see in the js file that the API endpoint /firefox/save is used, which is not covered in the public api documentation. A Mozilla employee opened a ticket for this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug
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by muraiki 11y ago
I thought the API used was undocumented and custom to Firefox? I don't know where exactly I found the Google groups discussion going on between various Mozilla people and the community, but this was a point made a number of times. IIRC
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Docker comes to FreeBSD(freebsdnews.com)
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There are some libraries you can use to abstract away differences between VPS providers: https://jclouds.apache.org/ https://libcloud.apache.org/ https://developer.rackspace.com/blog/go
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by muraiki 11y ago
I admit to not fully understanding the async PEP (partially since I don't do much Python programming anymore). Are there any downsides to having to explicitly mark an async function using the "async def" syntax? I'm thin
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Yeah, I remember wanting to do a fan-out pattern in Go and reading the Go Pipelines and Cancellation article[0]. I saw the function merge() in the article and thought, "Great, here's what I need!" I then proceeded to read fur
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Smalltalk also drops you into a debugger on an error, letting you inspect the state of the system, correct your code, and resume. Check out Pharo Smalltalk.
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Wow, I checked out your ichi.moe app. It's awesome! I'm definitely going to use this as I work on re-learning the Japanese I've forgotten over the years. I've done some Racket and Clojure but never done CL... I'll h
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by muraiki 11y ago
Summary: The author reexamines his assertion that covariance and contravariance can coexist through recent advances in (sub-)typing theory by "explaining sophisticated type theoretic concepts, in simple terms and by examples, to underg
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Covariance and Contravariance: a fresh look at an old issue [pdf](pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr)
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The Hendo hoverboard uses similar technology to MagLev. People can not only stand on it hovering over a flat surface, but can ride it over a half pipe: http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/21/we-rode-a-hoverboard&#
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by muraiki 11y ago
I would be extremely interested in an article contrasting the approaches of Docker and Nix/Guix. Is there anything like this available? A cursory search returned mostly information on using the two together...
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Sorry, I accidentally downvoted you with a misclick :(
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You characterize certain language features as objectively better. Indeed, those who do not use the particular approach you advocate (FP) or the feature you desire are "haters who refuse to understand". Is this really a charitable
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I appreciate your sharing your experiences. But don't give up just because you struggle with Clojure. That's certainly not a sign that you're not good enough for this profession, especially if you have 15 years of C++ experie
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"Do you have any internal libraries or systems or platforms at your company? Do you think no one else has ever had the same idea and built the same thing?" Isn't this one of the reasons behind the FOSS movement? That we as pr
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I sing Byzantine Chant using Byzantine notation. I was initially reluctant to learn the traditional notation and instead used western notation. However, I eventually decided to learn it and was able to pick it up surprisingly quickly. I now
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Well, I think that perhaps what makes Go different is not only interfaces, but interfaces as part of a larger package -- meaning the "not quite OO" approach it brings, in contrast to a language like Java's interfaces and gene

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