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by nxrabl 7y ago
Your feelings are valid, and understandable for a piece of software which is so intimately integrated into your daily life. However, allowing those feelings to influence the way you discuss this software seems unwise, especially if you inte
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by nxrabl 7y ago
(2009)
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by nxrabl 7y ago
Ursula Vernon is the author of Digger [0], a graphic novel which won a Hugo in 2012. If anyone feels moved by this to support an independent artist, I can vouch for it as a great read. [0] http://diggercomic.com/
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by nxrabl 7y ago
“Google-free” in that the name is impossible to google? /s I had not heard of Qwant before this. How does it compare to other privacy-focused search engines e.g. Duck Duck Go?
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by nxrabl 7y ago
It uses the authors' own Revery [0] framework, based on ReasonML and GLFW. So there's Javascript in the stack, but no Chromium. [0] https://github.com/revery-ui/revery
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by nxrabl 7y ago
While I sympathize with the prescriptivist impulse, I can't help but feel that your conscientiousness is misspent on protecting the branding of one of the world's richest corporations.
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by nxrabl 7y ago
I respect that Rakudo is still under development, but it's no myth that, as it is today, Perl 6 is pretty slow. I did some benchmarking [0] comparing the time for various interpreted languages to start up, print "Hello world"
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by nxrabl 7y ago
Which makes for an interesting dynamic, since it's the people with the most experience for whom the chat is least ephemeral, and the people who would benefit most from having scrollback who are least likely to have it set up properly.
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by nxrabl 7y ago
I don't want to put words in GP's mouth, but they seem to be making the argument that "ability" comprises multiple considerations, one of which is the meta-consideration that employees should have a range of talents and
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by nxrabl 7y ago
Fortunately, the second example does throw warnings for each line of the block but the last: Useless use of constant string "¿Cómo estás mi amigo?" in sink context
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by nxrabl 7y ago
I would guess not, given how the article notes later on that "cp" has no recursion flag: > Imagine how many separate Unix commands have the TreeWalking built into them... RefactorMercilessly. And suggests the following shell sc
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by nxrabl 7y ago
"Letting neural networks be weird" is the name of the blog; this article's title is "This neural net would like to deliver these petitions"
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by nxrabl 7y ago
What you seem to be arguing for is the scarcity of artists, rather than of art.
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by nxrabl 7y ago
(2017), and original source is located at https://www.huffpost.com/entry/standardized-tests-are-so-bad...
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by nxrabl 8y ago
(2017) Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14798211
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by nxrabl 8y ago
So according to this [0] it runs in Internet Explorer on Windows and WebKit on MacOS (which explains why there's so much JQuery in the examples), but here [1] it talks about writing plugins in Typescript with no transpilation step. So
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by nxrabl 8y ago
I've dabbled in PowerShell before, but I've always found the objects you get from cmdlets to be so much more opaque than the plain text you get from Unix output, which makes it harder to use the iterative approach to development t
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by nxrabl 8y ago
The title of the talk is a bit misleading, since it's really all about teaching young people in a classroom setting with assignments and credit. Which happens to be very relevant to me personally right now, but doesn't at all help
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by nxrabl 8y ago
Windows support! That's a surprise. Chocolatey is... ok. It works, mostly, but it's a common occurrence for upgrades to fail because the package maintainer forgot to update the hash, or the program's built-in autoupdater alre
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LGPL violation in games exported with Game Maker(reddit.com)
11 points by nxrabl 8y ago|0 comments
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by nxrabl 8y ago
Sage2 [0] is one open source option with support for both the remote collaboration and whiteboard components, although it's more focused on larger arrays of average resolution screens. I've used it and it's quite functional,
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by nxrabl 9y ago
> Personally I don't like treating Windows users like how I treated Linux/macOS users. You chose Windows, you chose the hard way, you have to figure it out on you own. I dunno if you're trolling here (and if so, well done)
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by nxrabl 9y ago
They link to a demo video near the bottom of the page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcA9YG9yJgs
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by nxrabl 9y ago
"Rails" is in the title, but there isn't really anything in the article about what the advantages of using Rails for a Slack bot are. What have been people's experience using Rails for this kind of app?
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by nxrabl 9y ago
Footnote video with slightly more detailed info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvWpdrfoEv0
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CGP Grey: How Do Machines Learn?(youtube.com)
2 points by nxrabl 9y ago|1 comments
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by nxrabl 9y ago
The pixel art doesn't show up for me in Firefox or Edge. (Looks like they're there, just with a height of 0px?) Also, my motion-sensitive lizard brain thanks you for the gif toggle button.
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by nxrabl 9y ago
That's a promising move by Facebook. Maybe they're finally going to start cracking down on the rampant freebooting that dominates their platform.
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by nxrabl 9y ago
My favorite tool for finding software alternatives is alternativeto.net, which returns these alternatives for Zapier: https://alternativeto.net/software/zapier/ Most promising on that list is Huginn ( https:/
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by nxrabl 9y ago
More immoral to silence bigotry than to be a bigot? I find that hard to accept. At the legal level, sure, no one should be prosecuted for being a dick. But that isn't what we're discussing here, we're talking about setting th

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