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by okal 7y ago
Why should someone want/need to understand how the whole platform/significant portion of it works in detail? You just need to understand what happens at the boundaries of the systems you build or interact with. This works beautifu
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by okal 7y ago
Recording macros, I think.
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by okal 7y ago
I find this… interesting. I mean, yes, think about your problems up front, but a computer will always be a better computer than a programmer would. How do slow feedback cycles make one a better programmer? In what ways do you find that thes
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by okal 7y ago
Analogies are imperfect, but I think the intention was more like "If for some reason you cannot do that, here is a simple meal you can make in your own kitchen."
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by okal 8y ago
I suspect it's the fact that "free-range parenting" is "a thing" rather than the default.
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by okal 8y ago
[Citation Needed]?
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by okal 8y ago
Not true. The US is responsible for 14% of emissions, which is unconscionable for a country that only holds ~4.5% of the world's population. You're actually doing quite horribly on a per-capita basis. China is doing far better tha
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by okal 8y ago
This seems to happen quite a lot. I've heard similar criticism levelled at GraphQL (as a modern day SOAP). I wonder what the psychology behind this is. Perhaps they were ahead of their time, and top-down, not "community-driven&quo
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by okal 8y ago
I know how the principle works. My comment is addressing the ethics of it. I'm expressing my belief that if we're to choose this path, as a species, we should prioritise reducing the population of societies with a large per capita
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by okal 8y ago
I didn't downvote the GP, but my impulse to disagree with population control is due to the likelihood that, in my experience, it's not the population groups that have the largest adverse impact on the planet (highly industrialised
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by okal 8y ago
At my current workplace - as a deliberate design choice - and last one - organically "discovered", but deliberately maintained - we've tended towards building user facing products as collections of smaller apps sharing a back
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by okal 8y ago
Also possible that it'll just mean companies moving from eu-west to this new AZ...
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by okal 8y ago
Dark patterns aren't dark because they're "hidden". They're dark because they're misleading, or coercive.
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by okal 8y ago
I understand where you're coming from. Interesting times we live in, regardless of outcome. I enjoyed this discussion. Thank you.
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by okal 8y ago
> It would appear as though you're confusing relative weakness (i.e. their current inability to project their values upon the entire world) with virtue. Not quite. I think the idea I'm struggling to communicate is that China is
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by okal 8y ago
That's an oversimplification. Both the ROC, and the PRC lay claim to each other . I agree with you on Tibet. There's no defending that. I'm not a fan of Chinese foreign or domestic policy. I still think it's vastly pref
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by okal 8y ago
Absolutely. My own country's main sea port faces the same threat, because our government has been pigging out on easy Chinese credit, and I still believe that a Chinese global hegemony would be preferable (from a utilitarian standpoi
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by okal 8y ago
They don't treat other people better. Chinese foreign policy is generally indifferent to the politics of their trade partners. China doesn't intervene, for better or worse, in the running of other countries. There are no Chinese a
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by okal 8y ago
In many ways, yes. I think Americans tend to underestimate how incredibly damaging US foreign policy has been to massive chunks of the world. The same cannot be said of China. To grossly overgeneralize: China sucks for Chinese people. Ameri
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by okal 8y ago
1. Yeah. That doesn't make it any less true. If you go so far as to get one that has no Internet connection, an attacker would need have to be super committed (short of social engineering) to gain access, for very little benefit. 2. Se
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by okal 8y ago
1. Smaller attack surface, and fewer, less efficient means of egress. 2. The Joy of Missing Out™.
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by okal 8y ago
This is laughable. What would you consider a "personal" insult?
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Adventures in Python Static Analysis(journal.okal.me)
2 points by okal 9y ago|0 comments
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Root, a bank account for developers(root.co.za)
3 points by okal 10y ago|0 comments
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by okal 10y ago
Two-hour weekly commute.
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by okal 10y ago
I do something similar with a custom stylesheet for Twitter. It hides follower count, and since I use it almost exclusively on desktop, it works quite well at helping me avoid being biased for/against a potential follow because of thei
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by okal 10y ago
Pretty sure Akamai has a presence in Kenya that FB uses.
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by okal 11y ago
I've been using it from Kenya behind a VPN. It's now available, but the selection is pretty slim.
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by okal 11y ago
Oops! I missed that. I wasn't looking closely enough, so it seemed to me like they were all enclosed in a single form to begin with. Thanks.
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by okal 11y ago
#_ comments out the form it precedes. You do not need to surround it with an extra pair of parentheses. Didn't know about the difference in behaviour with regard to invalid code. Thanks for that. EDIT: Leaving this here for context. I

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