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by nfoz 12y ago
At least part of the problem is that we, as a society, have no idea how to fund the development of creative / digital works. We can't find good business models for this in general. I agree that ad-supported is terrible. But how
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by nfoz 12y ago
Describing Obamacare as liberal is a bit of a stretch. - a Canadian
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by nfoz 12y ago
Alternatively, we could keep :visited, and remove most of the expressive power of css/javascript that allow these exploits to exist. It would be like time-travelling back to the mid-90s, when visited-link-coloration was invented!
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by nfoz 12y ago
Yes but they don't all need to be exactly a single tool, a single process! Just like I really don't want a web browser in my file manager / operating system / text editor.... wait all of that already happened. sigh.
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by nfoz 12y ago
I expect a short-term boost in the number of girls in CS will lead to a long-term boost. But I guess that's the sort of thing a sociologist might study?
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by nfoz 12y ago
I don't use Sublime Text because it's not free software and it doesn't run in a terminal. I like vim, but I'm not "stuck in my ways" and would gladly switch to a better editor that meets those two requirements
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by nfoz 12y ago
> If Google was giving out a record of the addresses I've sent email to and received email from, I would consider it an invasion of my privacy. Yet you're sending this in cleartext over the internet...
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by nfoz 12y ago
I consider it a flaw in the web-browser to allow those keys to be overridden.
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by nfoz 12y ago
So does every language.
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by nfoz 12y ago
I never drink but have spent the vast majority of my free time for more than a year writing a programming language. lol :)
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by nfoz 12y ago
> Clients drive design 99.9% of the time. How does that happen?
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by nfoz 12y ago
The original exists, but the modified versions that are now prevalent are works that do not grant me my rights. I have contributed to the arsenal of my adversaries; my works have become part of the works that deny me rights that I conside
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by nfoz 12y ago
I've been wondering for many years why this isn't the standard behaviour of web browsers.
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by nfoz 12y ago
I really do value individual freedom. If I have access to some data, I want the freedom to share it. If I have some data, I want the freedom to not share it as well. "You must share the software" is not the world I want. Lega
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by nfoz 12y ago
BSD-ish licenses are "permissive", in that you can release modifications/derivatives of the work (in binary or source) that restrict how those modified versions are distributed. e.g. I write a BSD-licensed song, and someone
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by nfoz 12y ago
I believe that copyright law should be abolished. (Eventually, slowly, responsibly.) While I release some works as CC0 [1], I still use the GPLv3+ on much source code because it's the best way to protect freedom given the existing
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by nfoz 12y ago
"most people" are people that have grown up in a civilization that has some legal understanding of "intellectual property" and the economic effects thereof, so their intuition is already pretty skewed towards the status
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by nfoz 12y ago
> Please don't reply to this if you don't fully agree with my points. I agreed up until this, but I think it's meant as irony?
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by nfoz 12y ago
And RSS is great. What are you getting at?
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by nfoz 12y ago
> That was true in the late 90s, but these days a browser is actually a fully-fledged programming environment that also happens to have some incredibly sophisticated multimedia capabilities: text, images, video, audio, animations, 3d gra
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by nfoz 12y ago
Is there a good reason to assume this would only be used defensively?
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by nfoz 12y ago
Tabs should be a mechanism of the windowing system and not of the web-browser or other specific applications, IMO.
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by nfoz 12y ago
I see this "pyramid" across society in general, and I find it extremely troubling: - There is no effective monetization scheme to develop, maintain, improve, or redesign basic infrastructure that is critical and used by everybody
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by nfoz 12y ago
She moves in mysterious ways.
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by nfoz 13y ago
> Do you really think that having an "FDA" somehow alleviates all concern about the content/quality/integrity of the food you buy and eat? In countries with reasonably effective/trustworthy government agencies, i
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by nfoz 13y ago
I can't accept a message popping up over top of existing content, distracting the user to a different part of the screen, based on mouse-hover of all things (so it's sure to jump out all the time). They mitigate this a bit by a
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by nfoz 13y ago
They started following the Chrome screwed-up-statusbar a long time ago. It's like noone in the webdev space knows the basic usability adage, "Don't use popups!". The Chrome-style hover-status thing is a popup. Statusb
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by nfoz 13y ago
Some news organizations have funding models that don't rely, or don't rely heavily, on advertising. I rather prefer that.
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by nfoz 13y ago
Data scientist does not imply mathematical rigour or professionalism.
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by nfoz 13y ago
Though there would also be something tiresome about an article-aggregation site like HN that just links through to a bunch of paywalls. Sort of a different thing, then.

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