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by olifante 11y ago
I'm Portuguese and I completely disapprove this message. We are deluding ourselves if we think that our situation is qualitatively much different from the Greek one. Were it not for Greece, Portugal would be the scapegoat for the Euro
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by olifante 11y ago
yeah, let's not become like those damn proles from reddit. /sarcasm
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by olifante 11y ago
I wasn't a fake study, it was a dishonest one.
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by olifante 11y ago
Wait. I'm sure in a desperate moment you see no light ahead or way out, but this moment will pass and your urge will go away. Please talk to someone, look for help, professional or not. Just talk to someone about these feelings. "
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by olifante 11y ago
If you're escaping Catalan, you might want to know that many people in Valencia speak Valencian, a variant of Catalan. It's not as common as in Barcelona, though.
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by olifante 11y ago
I beg to disagree. As I wrote in another thread, Microsoft has not one but two Platform-as-a-Service offerings: - Azure Cloud Services (PaaS) - Azure Websites (PaaS light) Unfortunately, when I last looked at it four months ago, both of the
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by olifante 12y ago
Recently read: * “Disciplined Minds” by Jeff Schmidt. A mind-opening book that shows how both academia and business select for conformity. * “Go It Alone: The Streetwise Secrets of Self Employment” by Geoff Burch. Great read, witty and savv
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by olifante 12y ago
"Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity" by David W. Galenson touches on the same topic: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8019.html
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by olifante 12y ago
Rimbaud: “Jadis, si je me souviens bien, ma vie était un festin où s'ouvraient tous les coeurs, où tous les vins coulaient.”
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by olifante 12y ago
Aren't these the same ideas that Rich Hickey has been talking about since his seminal 2009 talk about values, identity and state? http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Value-Identity-State-Rich... Joe Armstrong'
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by olifante 12y ago
It is abundantly clear that the deep state will not accept losing these tools. Even if by some miracle someone was elected with a strong mandate to eliminate privacy abuses, the deep state would lie and obfuscate as much as needed to mainta
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by olifante 12y ago
because that's where the developers are, nowadays.
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by olifante 12y ago
If you want a more extended summary of ES6 features, Axel Rauschmayer's “Using ECMAScript 6 today” is pretty good: https://speakerdeck.com/rauschma/using-ecmascript-6-today
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by olifante 12y ago
Actually Microsoft has not one but two Platform-as-a-Service offerings: - Azure Cloud Services (PaaS) - Azure Websites (PaaS light) Unfortunately, when I last looked at it two months ago, both of them were quite unattractive, at least for P
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by olifante 12y ago
Of course it's too early to know for sure, but judging from the superb quality of Paul Hegarty's previous iOS programming courses, this course will probably become the best learning resource for wannabe iOS developers.
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by olifante 12y ago
I very much doubt that the arrow will gain any velocity going down that it didn't have when shot upwards. Remember that the arrow needs initial vertical velocity to reach any height.
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by olifante 12y ago
Berlin has excellent transit throughout most of its metropolitan area, and it's a large, low-density city.
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by olifante 12y ago
no laws are going to change the behaviour of the NSA or any other foreign agency with similar capabilities. Once they have it, they will lie, obfuscate and stall to make sure they never lose it. It's time to stop being angry at the NSA
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by olifante 12y ago
Perforce's P4Merge is already the best GUI tool for three-way merges, and works like a charm with git.
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by olifante 12y ago
1. The crimes of others do not excuse your own. 2. There is abundant proof that the US engaged in a deliberate, not occasional, policy of torture, whitewashed as "enhanced interrogation techniques". 3. There is so far no proof tha
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by olifante 12y ago
Marxist Pamphlet? What non-sense. It's a book written by an avowed defender of capitalism, worried about its excesses in the age of slowing growth. Piketty is a social-democrat from the mainstream of European politics, not a marxist in
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by olifante 12y ago
As for certificates, it is becoming increasingly obvious that the NSA controls several root certificates and can exert legal pressure if not outright control of many others. They can use this power to perform SSL Man-in-the-Middle attacks.
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by olifante 12y ago
Turns out the US has announced earlier this year that they intend to relinquish control of the DNS root zone file. However, this is a privilege that they used to steadfastly hold on to, so its hardly surprising that some people (including m
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by olifante 12y ago
UKUSA capabilities ARE far in excess of others. They are the only global adversary that happens to control DNS and the whole certificate stuff. Furthermore, all popular consumer operating systems (Windows, Mac OS X, Android and iOS) are cre
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by olifante 12y ago
No, the entire West is not working together on intel. Most Western countries are not part of the 5-eyes agreement. Of course most states secretly have no qualms about violating the privacy of their citizens, but this should in no way distra
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by olifante 12y ago
So if the invisible hand of the market "chooses" to create an Orwellian total surveillance society, that will be OK, because hey, consumers chose it.
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by olifante 12y ago
In 7 years on HN this is the first time I've wished I could downvote a comment. I dislike Orban's policies as much as anyone, but subverting the democratic process of another nation just because you don't agree with the resul
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by olifante 12y ago
that's a really cheap ad hominem. Your argumentation is horrible.
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by olifante 12y ago
I second the Diaspora recommendation, but I found Permutation City even more mind-expanding. It's not such a cohesive story as Diaspora, but the sheer amount of big ideas crammed into that little book is amazing.
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Meet Minilock, a powerful new encryption tool built on ChromeOS(theverge.com)
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