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by ourcat 7y ago
This is very much akin to the "weapons-grade" tools used by the likes of Cambridge Analytica and AIQ to manipulate the minds of Trump and Brexit voters, using ill-gotten Facebook data to work out exactly what pushes people'
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by ourcat 7y ago
Typos on various pages : "How does it works?" fix to > "How does it work?"
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by ourcat 7y ago
The ability of the drivers helps too. Maybe they should swap cars and do it again?
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by ourcat 7y ago
I'm just curious how the averages change in life. And in communities. Particularly pseudo-anonymous ones like this.
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Ask HN: How Old Are You?
4 points by ourcat 7y ago|9 comments
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by ourcat 7y ago
It's getting far too predictable here...
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by ourcat 7y ago
I also note that the title of this post has changed since I posted my first comment. To something slightly more egregious to people of faith.
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by ourcat 7y ago
Due to the amount of money involved in these ventures, the phase in the future will be 'Moon Branding'.
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by ourcat 7y ago
It really does depend whose intellect is being satisfied. This little thread of mine is an intellectual discussion. However, I'm fully aware that many in this community deem fit to vote me down for having it. Curious, indeed.
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by ourcat 7y ago
'Tech' is fine. A bit of philosophy is ok. In a way. (Though religion and politics can fall in to that category and start fires) But recently I've seen quite a bit of 'non-tech' stuff. Just an observation. Also: I
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by ourcat 7y ago
Though if interested in learning more, I recommend watching this 4-part debate on the subject from 1979. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ni559bHXDg
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by ourcat 7y ago
All interesting stuff. But scratching my head as to why things like this end up on Hacker News? Seems to happen a lot these days.
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by ourcat 7y ago
Home pages are fine, but most linked pages are throwing 500 errors. I haven't seen it this bad before.
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Bbc.co.uk site article page errors(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by ourcat 7y ago|2 comments
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by ourcat 7y ago
"Founder passion" is everything. And nothing you ever do will be as successful as something you're passionate about.
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by ourcat 7y ago
We use this at work alongside Gitlab. Works perfectly. 'Bot' scripts can also be added to do things like tell a channel when a repo has been pushed etc. Very handy.
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by ourcat 7y ago
Mattermost is a fantastic open source alternative to Slack, nicely integrated with Gitlab. We used Slack on a few projects, but the thought of using a third-party to host corporate development discussion was an absolute no-no in the long ru
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by ourcat 7y ago
Am I alone in finding it amusing that this article is on Medium, a site designed for reading, yet decides to cover valuable screen space with fixed headers and footers?
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by ourcat 7y ago
Q: If, as a developer, you were asked to implement something like this, would you? Piracy issues aside, this would be a no-no for me on moral grounds.
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by ourcat 7y ago
The most chilling thing about this is that any stores even have facial-recognition systems in place. If I'm going to walk into any physical store with that technology inside, I want to know that BEFORE walking in.
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by ourcat 8y ago
Ahah. I'd never heard of Monaco. Thanks!
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by ourcat 8y ago
Interesting. Only recently I came across https://stackblitz.com which is more or less VS Code in the browser. Very useful.
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by ourcat 8y ago
I agree with the ever-growing sense of increasing meaninglessness of many of the things that some of us have been working on in technology for over twenty years. It leaves you wondering : "why am I doing this?", "Is this who
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by ourcat 8y ago
Well, there's that ;) Between 50Mb and 80Mb for the installer. Over 100Mb installed, depending on what is used.
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by ourcat 8y ago
That's right. Once you've got the equivalent commands for each platform, it should be possible to build and package for all of them (Mac/Win/Linux). I've just done a tri-platform Electron app which handles quite a f
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by ourcat 8y ago
If there is a dark pattern to create, you can be sure they've tried it.
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by ourcat 8y ago
Very tempting. I recently saw this project for processing 3d 'vr180' stereoscopic vision with a Pi Compute module, called StereoPi. http://stereopi.com/
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by ourcat 8y ago
Naturally, many of us here in HN might be able to rent and administer our 'own' dedicated servers and run whatever we want on them. And some just can't (or choose not to). But to the main point: "self-hosted" means
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by ourcat 8y ago
Oh, I completely agree that market exists. Along with all the business models and data collection value that goes along with them, in order to make them sustainable. But look where that's got us ;) The tools/software just need to
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by ourcat 8y ago
The are millions of Wordpress blogs/sites out there doing fine? What I also mean is that any complaints go to the host/owner of the self-hosted system. Not to the people writing and supporting the software they run.

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