phaylon

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by phaylon 13y ago
I only extensively used it from Perl and Vala, but with GObject-Introspection I tend to more often look at the original library documentation than something language specific. This can be a disadvantage at first, but for me it turned out mo
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by phaylon 13y ago
What about people who want to dual-boot?
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by phaylon 13y ago
The cookie variant didn't work at first for me either. I had to delete the cookies, refresh the page, and then try to login. Then it worked for me.
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by phaylon 14y ago
Just wanted to ask if you know about MetaCPAN[1]? It has a nice list of modules people "upvoted"[2] :) [1] https://metacpan.org/ [2] https://metacpan.org/favorite/leaderboard
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by phaylon 14y ago
You'd certainly need something that can install a new Perl runtime and install the CPAN dependencies to a separate directory from the ones used by the system. Otherwise you're tying your platform and your applications unnecessarily together
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by phaylon 14y ago
I think you mean this one: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=105666
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by phaylon 14y ago
I think that is actually his point. If you don't have to turn your head to the side to look back, at your speed, etc., the road ahead stays at least in your peripheral vision, at most an eye movement away. I mean, have you seen how some peo
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by phaylon 14y ago
It works on my German keyboard layout (Ctrl + Shift + 7, that is).
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by phaylon 14y ago
For something less trivial, one of my thoughts for Google Glass was that it could help people who can't recognize faces themselves.
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by phaylon 14y ago
I can't really comment on that, I'm in the Perl 5 category myself :) My first assumption is they're trying to get some of the JavaScript crowd to do Gnome application development by connecting the communities. In this case, by actively work
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by phaylon 14y ago
It does that, but that's not the important point. The fun part comes with the GIR files, that abstractly describe the classes, functions, members, constants and what have you in XML. Which means your language bindings are inflated from that
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by phaylon 14y ago
There is a trend in Germany right now, where police ask whole neighborhoods for voluntary DNA testing when they are looking for someone. The problem is that you'll get a visit and asked why you didn't volunteer if you don't go. And it looks
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by phaylon 14y ago
I agree, it's a problem of a larger scope. But do you think it has to be like that because of biology or any such reason, or do you think it's a result of historical and social factors? Some people think it might be worth to sacrifice a lit
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by phaylon 14y ago
You say women aren't interested in computing per se. Can you elaborate on what you believe the reasons for this to be?
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by phaylon 14y ago
That's exactly my point. A larger pool means more talent. So what's speaking against working towards women having an easier time becoming part of the community and exercising their talent?
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by phaylon 14y ago
Sure, there are lots of factors. But "It is what it is, and we shall not touch the natural order of things" is not a productive part of the discussion, at least to me. Don't you think an IT community more friendly towards the female part of
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by phaylon 14y ago
Not only that, but in the long run 50 males + 50 females will have a larger amount of talent than 50 males + 1 female. That's a direct plus for the communities. If everyone waits for the rest of society to change, it never will. Note that I
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by phaylon 14y ago
Because it greatly simplifies the issue. It's basically saying "there would be more women in tech if they wanted to". And it completely ignores the issues of "Why don't they want to be part of these communities?" And if that question is ask
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by phaylon 14y ago
Can you elaborate on why you think invalid API parameters should be silently ignored? I can see arguments for both sides, but none of them would make the API "broken" in my mind.
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by phaylon 14y ago
There are seven comments here. One says "There's no point getting your feathers all ruffled over something like this" and two(!) say "Get over it". That's the reason I keep upvoting these things here. HN seems to be one of the places that r
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by phaylon 14y ago
From the book author's blog it seems more that his account was flagged because he linked to his book on The Pirate Bay and Demonoid.
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by phaylon 14y ago
Because it interests people, so they vote it up?
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by phaylon 14y ago
I think you mean the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon[1], which I always find funny, since I learned about it the day after I watched the movie. [1]: Listed on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
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by phaylon 14y ago
Ah, thanks. It seems to be in the same league, but in a different context. Gotta remember that they're different for the future.
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by phaylon 14y ago
I'm not a Python developer, but in general metaclasses are classes represented as objects. You can also have objects for methods, attributes, and whatever else your object system provides. These objects of course also have classes that you
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by phaylon 14y ago
I'm using RequestPolicy, which I'd assume also hinders tracking even without being somehow explictely blocked. No idea how wide-spread those extensions are though.
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by phaylon 14y ago
I have 396 tabs in FF right now. That would be impossible to handle for Chromium on my laptop. It starts heavily sweating at 25. Does Chrom(e|ium) do lazy loading of tabs these days? That'd be the main point that makes Firefox much more us
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by phaylon 14y ago
Well, in people's minds it's not only "past" behavior, but also the quite current Android/Oracle/Java argument. These things (just like the Microsoft UEFI topic) are discussions about very fundamental issues that could have impact on the fr
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by phaylon 14y ago
I don't think labeling people who distrust Oracle as religious fanatics will turn the discussion into a constructive direction.
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by phaylon 14y ago
From looking it up on Wikipedia I found out that I would've remembered it, but it was around 15 years ago that I last wrote one myself. So I would've had to ask if it was the one where you iterate over the values and keep the largest, then

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