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by na85 6y ago
Why are you so eager to trust an organization that has so often demonstrated it's not worthy of trust? This is Facebook , for pete's sake. The same company that conducted psychological experiments with zero clinical/ethical
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by na85 6y ago
That's... not how military aviation works. The people flying the plane (Lieutenant-Colonels) are junior/subordinate to the people making the rules (usually 1- and 2-star Generals).
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by na85 6y ago
>but why Emacs? Because the author could, of course. Where's your hacker spirit?
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by na85 6y ago
>That's a misnomer, what if they don't know you exist? That's what sales and marketing are for, to inform people that could benefit from your product that it exists, essentially. This is a fiction that salespeople tell the
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by na85 6y ago
I don't have a vendetta. I used to work in sales. My first job out of school was cold-calling and I saw first hand what types of people tend to rise to the top in that environment. I quit that job as soon as I could because I was sick
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by na85 6y ago
>I get it, sales people can be annoying but it really only hurts your business (in this hypothetical case) if you have a user retention problems and are actively fighting against people trying to help you solve that problem with a mutual
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by na85 6y ago
>HN guidelines The comment to which I'm responding explicitly argues that the phrase, verbatim, is a good sales tactic.
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by na85 6y ago
Aerospace engineer who dabbles in code here: I've seen a lot of these articles and they always miss what I feel is the central tenet of engineering, which is the ethical piece. I've said it before on HN and I'll say it again
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by na85 6y ago
>If you're on a sales call selling a product that increases user retention and someone says "no we don't need that", you would often reply with "So you have perfect user retention then?" to probe them and re
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by na85 6y ago
I played around with this a bit last year when I first got my HackRF. It's got quite the learning curve if you, like me, are not already knowledgeable about RF and SDR. First step for your desired use case would be, I think, to acquir
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by na85 6y ago
>one has exactly as much power in it as anyone on the dev team Technically, perhaps, but not politically. In that respect everyone who is not a core maintainer is an outsider. The latter is more relevant when trying to get the project
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by na85 6y ago
Whether intentionally or not you seem to have directly reinforced the argument I was making. >Why from the outside? You're, quite literally, one command away from being on the inside: "M-x ielm" I have no idea what point y
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by na85 6y ago
>When you finally learn to master and config Emacs, Should be "if" and not "when", in my opinion. It's so incredibly frustrating to watch emacs from the outside. Maybe they don't want emacs to become popula
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by na85 6y ago
> The latency is too high for truly real-time communication If you want real-time communication you really ought to be using VOIP. > There is no cryptographic verification of the sender's identity (this problem is also shared wit
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by na85 6y ago
What I mean is they can't lock me out of my emails and contacts without recourse because (unless I use gmail or similar) my contacts are stored on my local device, and potentially so is my mail.
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by na85 6y ago
Olympus is so wide you can't see the summit from the base. Because the summit is past the horizon.
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by na85 6y ago
And the problems you listed with email aren't actually problems with the technology so much as problems with the way people at your company (and others) misuse the technology. They're completely orthogonal to email itself.
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by na85 6y ago
>Email sucks Email is great. I can choose between umpteen providers or run my own mail server, it's a standard protocol with many different clients to suit one's needs, I can't get banned by a faceless FAANG corporation fo
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by na85 6y ago
Doesn't swap adversely impact the longevity of one's solid state drive?
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by na85 6y ago
The trackpoint/nipple was awful. It's fetishized now because of anti-apple counterculture but it's a truly horrid pointing device that was only ever popular because early trackpads were that much worse.
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by na85 6y ago
>Why would anyone use a pirated/cracked version? Doesn't even have to be pirated or cracked. ESEA put surreptitious bitcoin miners into their installer/client software back in 2013. Greed talks.
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by na85 6y ago
I'm not a software engineer, nor a comp sci grad, nor a professional coder. I've ranted on HN about bad documentation in programming before (Lisp being a notable target of my ire recently), and I'm by no means an expert. Bu
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by na85 6y ago
Also: http://cyberadio.pw
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by na85 6y ago
>Why can't I have an entirely offline driven system? Because that's less profitable for the corporate data barons.
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by na85 6y ago
IRC with federated login and proper roaming support.
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by na85 6y ago
Depends on which test you get but I've seen people who work for me get both same-day results and results within 72 hours.
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by na85 6y ago
This is a weird flex, to choose to dig your heels in on this particular image/issue.
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by na85 6y ago
Of course we could, but it's a thought exercise.
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by na85 6y ago
Tcl is pretty cool as a historical curio but boy, every time I go back and look at old tcl code, even stuff that I wrote, it takes forever to wrap my head around the syntax. I'm not sure why I'd reach for Tcl today when lua exists
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by na85 6y ago
In the context of powering an entire continent, it's still small.

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