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by niftich 9y ago
I'm reading the paper, but the example on the webpage is pretty contrived. Yes, the resulting "nice looking" districts are mathematically simple to specify, but narrow triangle-shaped wedges won't pass the smell test for
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by niftich 9y ago
Obligatory point that Flash didn't fail in the marketplace. Rather, it was wildly popular, so much so that Microsoft eventually felt the need to develop a comparable tech -- Silverlight. Flash on the web faltered rapidly after many yea
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by niftich 9y ago
Completely agree. Declarative approaches define the palette of available options ahead of time, but if wish to do something out-of-scope, it's back to the drawing board. Imperative approaches instead give you a low-level computation en
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by niftich 9y ago
It's unfortunate, I agree; but it's the principle of the matter. This was the company who extolls privacy, openness, and attracts (among others) the sort of people who are uneasy at competing browsers shipped by advertising compan
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by niftich 9y ago
There is no rule in HTTP that mandates the user-agent must navigate away from what it's currently displaying to show you the payload of an HTTP error. It simply says [1] that the error "SHOULD" (in the RFC 2219 meaning of SHO
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by niftich 9y ago
> You'd have way no indicate that your upvote succeeded Sure you do. 204 No Content for success, 4xx for an error that you (or your browser) can fix, and 5xx for an error that only the server can fix.
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by niftich 9y ago
"a decent(ralised) secure gossip platform" [1], also referenced in the article. [1] https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/
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by niftich 9y ago
Accident site: just west of the Mounts Rd, Old Nisqually exit on southbound I-5 [1] and streetview [2]. Some additional facts, without speculating about cause: the derailment occurred in a left-hand curve -- running timetable southbound, ma
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by niftich 9y ago
> Something like Google search could possibly work in a decentralized fashion. How? Let's suppose I trust Google to crawl the Web and present a plausibly-accurate result to my query. This works because I communicate with Google us
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by niftich 9y ago
Accident site: just west of the Mounts Rd, Old Nisqually exit on southbound I-5 [1] and streetview [2]. Some additional facts, without speculating about cause: the derailment occurred in a left-hand curve -- running timetable southbound, ma
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by niftich 9y ago
> protocol-level technologies for preserving historic data, for search, for offline use, for authoring and publishing It does [1][2][3]. It's not the most elegant, it's not without flaws, but it's there, and enough to bu
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by niftich 9y ago
Content-addressed overlay networks work pretty well over the Internet, and they could work equally well on mesh networks (as the article posits), if not two rather awkward problems: storage at rest, and liveliness of a storage node. These t
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by niftich 9y ago
The IPv4 perspective is a red herring. NATting was indeed necessitated by IP address scarcity, but a domestic installation that does NAT comes with ancillary benefits, like giving you, the home user, a single place to control access to your
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by niftich 9y ago
This is a quip that misses the parent's point. SQL isn't very composable, because its syntax requires infix notation, position-dependent phrases, separators, and the like. The abstract syntax tree of SQL is much more valuable than
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by niftich 9y ago
For what it's worth, Unicode's CLDR names Unicode characters in multiple languages [1], although this work is done in phases, and usually the English names are ready before others. Unicode also maintains an informative emoji chart
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by niftich 9y ago
See the 'Richardson Maturity Model' levels [1], and contrast level 2 with 3. Level 3, satisfying the HATEOAS constraint, has hyperlinks leading to other resources, and the relationship between the origin and destination resource i
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by niftich 9y ago
You mention Keybase as one of those accounts, but isn't this one of the goals of Keybase? See: https://keybase.io/docs/command_line
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by niftich 9y ago
If you're interested in timestamps of comments, the HN API has this [1]. Here's the API request for that post [2], and yours [3]. [1] https://github.com/HackerNews/API [2] https://hacker-news.fireb
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by niftich 9y ago
The benefits of that nice house (and the neighborhood, schools, etc.) are ostensibly more so for the benefit of the family than the long-commuting employee themselves -- whether misguided or accurate. When one is single and (relatively) una
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by niftich 9y ago
For the most part, they can't, because a new standards body will spin up. The history of WHATWG [1] is illuminating; WHATWG being the community -- of largely browser-makers -- behind HTML5 and other specs that moved the web forward fro
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by niftich 9y ago
I googled from incognito Mobile Firefox a specific brand's specific mattress cover, and visited its listing on the websites of various retailers. Since nobody had it in stock locally, the next day I ended up ordering the item from Amaz
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by niftich 9y ago
A GET request's body has no defined semantics, so your server is firmly in the realm of "nonstandard implementation detail" if you choose to take into account the body in your decision-making.
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by niftich 9y ago
I author REST APIs and try to do them properly, with mediatypes, link relations, and all the good hypermedia stuff most people avoid. Nonetheless, the author's post reflects the sort of rant I've had to coworkers at the watercoole
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by niftich 9y ago
People are lazy. The ASCII C0 separators -- FS, GS, RS, US -- are non-printable (by design), but this impacts their usability by laypeople, because they don't show up as obvious symbols in a plaintext editor, and most critically, they
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by niftich 9y ago
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of doors suddenly slammed shut, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
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MIME was hugely influential. Besides the bulk of all email being in MIME format, it also popularized: * MIME types, now called media types; a compound identifier for formats of data interchange. Media types are officially maintained by the
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by niftich 9y ago
The FCC voted in 2015 to preempt state restrictions in Tennessee and North Carolina against municipal broadband [1][2], in response to a petition brought by the cities of Chattanooga, TN and Wilson, NC. This was struck down by the Sixth Cir
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by niftich 9y ago
This. Facebook is going to have to make efforts to present a better UI/UX if it wants to be a content portal for videos. Their entire UX is based around the algorithmic feed, which obfuscates the true quantity of actual content on the
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by niftich 9y ago
Pai says he is "helping consumers and promoting competition". Unfortunately, half of the states have laws and regulations that hamper efforts of local governments to build out municipal broadband [1] to take their own broadband ac
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by niftich 9y ago
Just one day prior, I wrote that people's mental model of the benefits that EV certs confer is broken [1]: "an EV cert asserts that the domain name is controlled by a legal entity in some jurisdiction. This is a very distinct noti

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