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Chi: Advanced HTTP Router for Go(github.com)
2 points by omeid2 8y ago|0 comments
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by omeid2 8y ago
Misusing a sensitive topic to push your agenda is never fair. And not to defend the guy, but the quote is a bit misleading and guilty of the same sin: using compassion for children as a leverage.
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by omeid2 8y ago
"font-weight: 400;"> is proofreading not a thing anymore?
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by omeid2 8y ago
Please add an option to pay with Paypal or Stripe Checkout. I don't think I am the only person who is uncomfortable typing in my credit card details on various website, even if you're using Strip APIs.
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by omeid2 8y ago
I think you have got that backwards. A digital signal is inherently lossy as it takes only finite number of values because digital is discrete (0 and 1), whereas analog is continuous and in theory it can encode an infinite number of values,
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by omeid2 8y ago
I think it basically boils down to the prominence of what I call Universal User Experience, which is basically an attempt to give users a similar experience across different device and form factors. I believe this UUX is the powerhouse behi
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by omeid2 8y ago
Sure, but you could say that just about any specific rule and regulation. It is the whole system that matters.
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by omeid2 8y ago
Possibly, but the opposite of heavy regulation isn't wild west.
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[video] A History of Ideas(youtube.com)
1 points by omeid2 8y ago|0 comments
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by omeid2 8y ago
Perhaps this will shed some light: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/feb/15/sonia-kennebeck...
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by omeid2 8y ago
I only know of two group of people, either incompetent or just plain dishonest. Because they either argue that it is hard to design a database that allows deleting or anonymization, or it is that they're in the business of selling data
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by omeid2 8y ago
Yup, here is a good example of that in the wild: https://github.com/mholt/PapaParse/issues/495
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by omeid2 8y ago
I don't buy the assertion that Wikipedia gives a higher weight to source requirements than their internal politics and bureaucracy. Things like this original story are sadly very common. And to add an anecdote to this, in multiple occa
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by omeid2 8y ago
That is not a fair comparison. Linux patches generally gets accepted based on technical merit, some politics aside; But it seems like most Wikipedia contributions are subject to the inside political considerations and bureaucracy.
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by omeid2 8y ago
They both have four wheels and transport atoms. Why do you think it is helpful to be unambiguous between atoms that make up a human or atoms of any goods in the back of a truck? /s
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In Praise of Idleness(harpers.org)
11 points by omeid2 8y ago|0 comments
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by omeid2 8y ago
"Hobbyist Operating System, just for the heck of it". Some people really get a good kick out of doing hard things for the heck of it. I did a fair share of it in my day, it is good fun. :)
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by omeid2 8y ago
It implies that someone owes an apology or at least an apology is fitting but the author is willing to forgo it.
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by omeid2 8y ago
As someone who is using Linux as my main OS for over a decade, I totally appreciate initiatives like LVFS that makes using Linux more seamless. Running Linux on MacBook Pro has also exposed me to the struggle of firmware updates and all tha
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Photopea: Photoshop in your browser(photopea.com)
5 points by omeid2 8y ago|0 comments
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by omeid2 8y ago
Doesn't always work. :(
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by omeid2 8y ago
Or ability to paste into an empty text box.
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by omeid2 8y ago
The tide is shifting, I thought Microsoft would never endorser Linux, but here we are with at least two three version of Microsoft Linux.
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by omeid2 8y ago
As already pointed out, the whole FOSS movement and so GNU project is a political enterprise, technology is only the means to an end. In fact, it could be argued that the core principal and objective of FOSS and GNU project is reinforcement
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by omeid2 8y ago
It absolutely does matter. The notion that making mockery of law that prohibits one's freedom of choice being the same as mockery of the said choice itself is astoundingly absurd. The first, mockery of law-- specially one that imposes
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by omeid2 8y ago
I think the problem is that our intuition is more or less based on a mechanical world in which the concept of a side-effect free or ineffective input is foreign.
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by omeid2 8y ago
I learned a lot about electronics like that, the only difference is that I ended up with lots of dead parts :P
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by omeid2 8y ago
It is called Information Asymmetry[0] in Contract Theory. NSA, KGB, FBI, Google, Facebook, any institution with access to large-scale privileged information– you name it, has at least one case to support the use of this advantage. Perhaps N
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by omeid2 8y ago
Tangentially related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_asymmetry
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by omeid2 8y ago
Will, that didn't pan out well for you.

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