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by oelmekki 9y ago
As a ruby and go dev, I'm a bit sad to see backward-compatibility going. Thinking I could write code with minimum dependencies and that would just work as is years later was really refreshing compared to the high level of maintenance n
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Wouldn't a HEAD give the size of the zipped content, and not the size of the content once decompressed?
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by oelmekki 9y ago
As a distribution user who is a developer for other things, I can totally relate, here. Nowadays, I use docker for basically every development I make, so that I don't have to rely on whatever state my host system is. This is not just t
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by oelmekki 9y ago
To be fair, people wanting to do that don't need author to have create a zip bomber, they can do it by themselves. Actually, I don't see how to defend this. Is there any way to ask a gzip file which size it will be once unzipped,
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by oelmekki 9y ago
That would mean locking in the amount you dedicated with very extremely low (lottery level) chance of any return. Most probably, you would not see that money ever again (provided you don't decide to remove your bid, obviously). Better
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by oelmekki 9y ago
> At least they're honest about it. Or, they expect legal action and they see it as a possible disclaimer.
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by oelmekki 9y ago
I hope this won't come out harsher than I intend to, but I'm so tired to hear this expression "not reinventing the wheel" to justify using third party code. This is not what it means. Note that there is not a single whee
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Not doing TDD does not mean not having tests, it just means writing them after writing the feature (this has been the usual way for a long time before TDD, although automated testing somewhat got very popular only a few years before TDD). I
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Oh, my bad, there was two links on HN homepage, that was the Forbes one which was blocking me. Any admin can delete my comment, please?
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Same story from a website that allows you to read content even with adblock : https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/27/15879480/petrwrap-virus-u...
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by oelmekki 9y ago
> Elliott Waves do not meet the scientific criteria to be considered a real theory. It can't be considered a real scientific theory. It doesn't try to either (although, in all fairness, it was indeed the initial intention of
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by oelmekki 9y ago
On the other hand, there is an obsession from humans to find a reason for everything. One of my hobbies is to read financial press to see them find reasons to explain the smallest moves (and these guys are really inventive). On the opposite
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Because it's already a mess, and because I don't want to take the risk of deleting sockets when I want a purge.
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Beside the usual `Images`, `Videos`, `code` directory, the single most important directory on my system is `~/flash` (as in : flash memory). This is where my browser downloads files and where I create "daily" files, which I q
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Which are traits you find just as is in a dictature. Do you have evidences supporting this claim?
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Love this. Catana and Daisy have different approaches, Daisy is distributing databases that can bootstrap an offline app, while Catana is truly a decentralized online database. Both are really interesting ideas, thanks for pointing it out!
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Thinking twice about it, there is something exciting here about the concept. Of all databases, sqlite has this special interest : it's the perfect tool to be embedded as local database in clients. Now, if we consider that blockchain is
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Indeed, it would make sense. "Content is not enforced" would mean "content data structure is up to block creator". Thanks!
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by oelmekki 9y ago
There is something I don't get about the databases distributed : they are read/write, and their data is not part of what is distributed in p2p, is that right? It seems to be what means "Block payloads are SQLite database file
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by oelmekki 9y ago
> When farmers are planting at different times, pests can move from one field to another, but when farmers plant in synchrony, pests drown and the pest load is reduced. The strategy is that if there are several fields planted for the sam
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Or they may declare their gains to IRS. Bitcoin is not just a tax evasion thing :) (and it's actually quite dumb to use it for tax evasion, given how the ledger is public and will always be there)
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by oelmekki 9y ago
> Of course it does. Bitcoin used to be at $1, now it's at $1,xxx. And you can bet those who bought at $1 sold all they had at $10 ("wow, it's like 10 times what I invested, this is insane, this probably won't go any
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by oelmekki 9y ago
I don't see why rich people are in this discussion. Certainly, should there be a collapse of classic finance, they would move away and just be as rich. This is hardly relevant anyway, because it's not rich people who drive classic
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by oelmekki 9y ago
I think that now, my favorite subversive street action will be to put mirrors in front of ads.
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by oelmekki 9y ago
> I'm surprised actually, I doubt brigading hacker news is going to have a lot of weight in the outcome of the french election... It's about all they have left :) There's a law in France saying that media can't discus
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by oelmekki 9y ago
> To me the grassroots part of alt-right is more a reaction than ideology; something born out of the financial crisis and its' aftermath. Indeed, there seems to be something of historical importance, here. Although, I think there _i
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Exactly. By the way, national socialism is exactly what lepen is doing : backing defense of the weak ones on nationalist views. I've had many discussions with people lately who were arguing that yes, it's nationalism, but it'
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by oelmekki 9y ago
As a side note, I'm always surprised when I see the word "alt-right". When did that happen? I still use the word "fascists", although I understand it can be too strong a word for many, but those can use "far ri
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Yeah, you're right. Obviously, most employees may not have the financial resources to do something big enough to be scary, but this may add up : if a company is public, it probably has a huge employee base. Employee may even not realiz
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Well, if you refuse to try to understand other points of view, that's your choice. Beware, though : in coming decade, you may find that the whole world "doesn't understand" and acts accordingly. Happy trading.

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