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by oelmekki 8y ago
I'm surprised we're not discussing what seems to be the core problem from Elon Musk's point of view : financial aggressivity. While his tweet doesn't say why he wants to go private, this article makes it pretty clear : h
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by oelmekki 8y ago
(please guys, don't punish/downvote someone for asking a question) Domain Squatting is border line extortion. It's not your usual business because there is no competition possible : there is only one person that can own the d
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by oelmekki 8y ago
Hi, thanks for reply. I see your point ; I think there is actual and genuine interest in privacy and decentralization from what I see within my friends circle, but I may be biased because I'm active around ssb myself (and my friends ma
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by oelmekki 8y ago
That was a great read, thanks to the author for making sense of entangled history between decentralization and file sharing. I don't see why they seem to conclude that decentralization can only exist to circumvent the law, though : it&
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by oelmekki 8y ago
Did you try it recently? This was my usual experience as well. But a few months ago, I started using tor-browser for laptop and orfox browser for mobile (equivalent of tor-browser, but for android) as my main browsers and couldn't use
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by oelmekki 8y ago
> Federation is cool. I don't want to undermine the hard work of other people, but for the sake of completeness, know that federation has its critics on the decentralization scene. I discovered that around the ssb community a couple
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by oelmekki 8y ago
This sounds interesting. Does it mean an AP server could exist that would not be based on the federation model? Or to make my question more precise : would the gossip model be used only for data distribution and we would still have to regis
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by oelmekki 8y ago
Or maybe not. As Oliver was mentioning, China is shifting from self focus to expansion. This is already something I thought when I saw the China sea quarrels. If it's the case, it's not just only their population opinion that matt
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by oelmekki 8y ago
I think it's safe until we mention Winnie the Pooh. Woops. Context: in his China segment, Oliver asserts that China has banned Winnie the Pooh from the internet because it was used to mock the president. And then he (Oliver) used tons
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by oelmekki 8y ago
I've switched to firefox last year for privacy reasons, but soon realized it was way not enough. I used different profile to do what sandboxing is doing for facebook. Both methods are very good at isolating cookies, but it's still
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by oelmekki 8y ago
There are a few things I wonder about this article, but it sadly hasn't a comment section. In case anyone from Purism is reading this: Does this mean PureOS (and thus librem 5) will be on purpose biased toward 100% free software system
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What is PureOS and how is it built?(puri.sm)
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by oelmekki 8y ago
Thanks for sharing. I was discussing trackerless p2p social network with offline publishing and syncing when close to a friend a few months ago, I'm amazed how Scuttlebutt seems to be exactly that. I was thinking of using high frequenc
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by oelmekki 8y ago
This may be true for most (non-tech) people, but there's a huge difference for us : we know that you can't refuse cookies and still be able to log in to an app (since cookies are used for session permanence). The GDPR is very diff
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by oelmekki 8y ago
Same here. I went up to the partner list, didn't get what the toggle buttons were supposed to mean (should I toggle them on or off?), closed the page. The title (on HN) will have to do, good job to them.
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by oelmekki 8y ago
I thought "strong typing" and "static typing" were interchangeable. I stand corrected, thanks.
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by oelmekki 8y ago
Oh, I see, given the interpreter is written in strongly typed language, allowing to go without static typing is a feature by itself, and allowing to test for methods presence allows to do duck typing, thus it allows to say that ruby impleme
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by oelmekki 8y ago
I've digged a bit on the subject (better late than never), it seems that duck typing is seen in ruby as a guideline, rather than a language feature. Basically, it's about recommending to use `#respond_to?` rather than `#is_a?`, `#
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by oelmekki 8y ago
Ruby has been my first professional language and I've sticked with it for a decade, but I never really understood duck typing before switching to Go, with its interfaces (a type implements an interface if it implements its methods, so
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by oelmekki 8y ago
Actually, I double checked (can't edit anymore), the total cost is the double of net salary, not brut salary. Employer taxes are 43% of the brut salary. Bottom line : a good dev salary of €45k costs about €65k, before any tax reduction
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by oelmekki 8y ago
Sorry to hear about your abusive firing, wish you success. > all startups I've seen quickly moved to London or Berlin in the moment they got VC funding Are you sure this was related to the cost of employees? As pointed in the articl
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by oelmekki 8y ago
As a french developer with a 10+ years career, I second that. I've also been a CTO, so I'm well aware of the employer point of view. I've seen many people worrying about not being able to fire people once hired. But what I&#x
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by oelmekki 8y ago
I've been using rss again for a few months, and it's been really nice. It's like twitter without the noise. The "wow" moment for me was when I discovered google alerts allows to get alerts as a rss feed (individuall
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by oelmekki 8y ago
I wonder what the doctype is supposed to mean: > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//Dow Jones//DTD DJ-HTML//EN"> What is supposed to be a copyright notice or something?
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by oelmekki 8y ago
Awesome, thanks for the info!
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by oelmekki 8y ago
Yes, that's what I read before deciding to try it :) But my question was more about what you were saying about the TI chip, what makes you say it will be a problem? (eg different architecture, known limitations, etc)
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by oelmekki 8y ago
Thanks for mentioning it, I don't care about waterproofing but I intended to attempt a port (I get a librem5 as soon as they're out so my android wear will be basically useless by then), so the chip thing may be a problem. Do you
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by oelmekki 8y ago
> Shame that most Wear OS watches don't come with pins for USB access. I thought I was out of luck with my moto360 1st gen, but I found this : https://www.rootjunky.com/moto-360-adapter-usb-cable/ Basically, th
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by oelmekki 8y ago
Even for HN, this discussion will probably be biased, anyway : if you use an underdog like DDG, you probably are more willing to let people know about that than if you use plain old google search. That being said, a discussion about searchi
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by oelmekki 8y ago
Regarding browser payment API, I had this in mind : https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/payments/ Credit card autofill never really worked for me (either on chrome or firefox). It happens on rare o

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