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by pferde 8y ago
I'm envious a little bit - the "nebula puffs" were awesome to watch even just on the webcast, I can't imagine how beautiful it must have been seeing them with one's own eyes right above you. :)
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by pferde 8y ago
From the article: "For quite some time I’ve wanted to record a new video talking about code comments for my "writing system software" series on YouTube. However, after giving it some thought, I realized that the topic was bet
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by pferde 8y ago
> Here is a comparison of the newer (in the US) and older versions: https://www.caranddriver.com/features/how-to-adjust-your-mir... . "Sorry, this content is not available in your region." Wow, I didn'
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by pferde 8y ago
I once found a lost cellphone, and after its owner called it, we arranged to meet and I returned the phone. The owner's reaction was very similar to what you describe. I refused any reward - it seems natural to me to just return it - b
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by pferde 8y ago
> XMPP is pretty awful for practical communications these days. It can, with enough extensions and clients, do all the things other protocols do, but by and large weird stuff is broken. So why not just fix the broken parts, instead of in
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by pferde 8y ago
If you have to write this down and formalize it, you have already lost.
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A former Telltale employee files a class-action suit against the studio(rockpapershotgun.com)
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by pferde 8y ago
Would you enjoy always wondering whether e.g. people in your team are listening to you because what you're saying is worth saying, or if they are merely humoring you and tolerate you in their team on account of orders from above? Somet
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by pferde 8y ago
It's more like: you're in a certain group, you get hired, and you know that the company that hired you has this policy of prioritizing hiring from your group. You spend your days in that company wondering whether you got are there
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by pferde 8y ago
So they are more interested in being politically correct than in recruiting the best talent available? My respect for them just went down. This is not a way to fight gender discrimination, but rather to perpetuate it.
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by pferde 8y ago
This is what bugs me most about GnuPG - there's no real API, just an executable program with sometimes unreliable output. I mean, there is the GPGME library which wraps the executable calls in a C API (plus few other language bindings
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by pferde 8y ago
Now, that is exactly what an NSA agent would say at this point in this conversation, to further dissuade people from using PGP! Tinfoil hats at the ready! :)
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by pferde 8y ago
Do you know what helps? Trying it out yourself and trusting your own judgement. To too many people nowadays, this is the first thing they abandon, while it should always be the last thing to be abandoned.
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by pferde 8y ago
No, someone please do tell Alex Jones about Mastodon. The sooner a problem is encountered, the sooner a solution is found. The alternative is to bump into that problem farther down the line, where solving it will be much costlier. And if
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by pferde 8y ago
Meanwhile, nobody will force this 30% limit on pirates, who will, yet again, provide what consumers actually want.
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by pferde 8y ago
Thanks for the info, but the link I pasted was taken by just going to www.amazon.com front page, and copying the link for the "Deal of the day" product I saw there. So it's the link all customers see when they click on the pr
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by pferde 8y ago
There's not much room for improvement there. However, the page I am writing this reply on could - it's: < https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=17913014&goto=item%3Fi... , which is getting ugly. The prime can
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by pferde 8y ago
> But over time, URLs have gotten more and more difficult to read and understand. As web functionality has expanded, URLs have increasingly become unintelligible strings of gibberish combining components from third-parties or being maske
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by pferde 8y ago
This is what I see the as greatest value that Tesla brings to the world. Not their cars themselves, but the fact that they made the incumbents get off their lazy asses and actually innovate, after many years of wasting time perfecting the c
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by pferde 8y ago
Same here, IDSPISPOPD will probably never leave my brain. By the way, a few years back, I was considering writing a POP3 server implementation, just so that I could name it that. :)
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by pferde 8y ago
Hopefully it would be better than the related Black Mirror episode (Nosedive), which started with an interesting premise, but handled it in a very crass and immature way, more reminiscent of stupid Hollywood teen comedies (e.g. American Pie
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by pferde 8y ago
On the other hand, having easy (just a click away instead of having to reboot) access to games requires greater discipline, in order to avoid procrastinating. :)
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by pferde 8y ago
Any today's technology, if you care about having your bases covered. Many people don't as I gathered (with great surprise, too) from this subthread.
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by pferde 8y ago
You can usually search for hashtags that interest you, and take it from there, engaging people talking about them.
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by pferde 8y ago
I wonder how many of those bully-inducing UI features are also present in software like Mastodon or Diaspora, and are therefore disasters-in-waiting, to be triggered once critical mass of users is reached.
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by pferde 8y ago
The point is not that the deps are problematic to track - that is to be expected with any larger project. The point is actually doing the tracking, and being aware when the deps change, new one gets added, etc., and being able to determine
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by pferde 8y ago
There are grocery stores which specialize in being able to tell the customer exactly where their produce comes from. They've been quite in vogue these past years. :)
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by pferde 8y ago
No, if anything, I think anyone working in your field is not being paid enough for working with something as bonkers crazy. :) But seriously, I haven't said that you have to be able to recite the dependencies when woken up at night, ju
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by pferde 8y ago
If they're running that business, they are either paying people who can tell them the dependencies (if not, those people are being paid too much), or they are responsible for the code themselves (small co. or early startup), and should
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by pferde 8y ago
You mean you do not already know your software dependencies? A bit careless for running a business, if you ask me.

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