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by polemic 11y ago
Minor point: "open source" is not open source because you have the source. It's open source because it's licensed that way . Adding a public domain or cc-0 license to the page would achieve the same effect.
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OpenCart users, switch to OpenCart-CE immediately(openwall.com)
13 points by polemic 11y ago|0 comments
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by polemic 11y ago
Bitcoin forking is generally considered an Extremely Bad Thing To Happen.
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by polemic 11y ago
Heh, the last sentence is debatable (as demonstrated). But to debate it misses the wider point of the first sentence: > "The folly of BitCoin is to believe that technical problems are somehow orthogonal to social problems." T
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Thenmap: A repository for historical borders to create historical maps(thenmap.net)
15 points by polemic 11y ago|1 comments
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by polemic 11y ago
Hey this is great - something I've been looking for. A small thing: could you please support https, especially for logins?
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by polemic 11y ago
100% agree. I've seen the same outside of the US too. I've worked with a number of outstanding ex-military consultants on government/agency contracts and it was a uniformly excellent experience. They come from a culture of do
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by polemic 11y ago
Definitely. Wine too ;)
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by polemic 11y ago
Challenge accepted. Seriously.
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by polemic 11y ago
This is vs. Australia but it's probably a fair point. It can be a small place (less so in Auckland) and retaining experience is an issue. If you've got exposure to scale outside of New Zealand and good experience, you should be in
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by polemic 11y ago
VC / Angel scene is a big issue at the moment, but improving. Capital is tight. That said, if you have a bit of track-record, the 'smallness' of NZ means you can often raise small amounts off the back of reputation. Then you
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by polemic 11y ago
Hey Australia, why not consider moving to NZ? 1. You can already move / live / work here without any immigration hassle. 2. We have an actual UFB fibre to the home network rolling out now that actually works. 3. Local and central
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by polemic 11y ago
Of course, technology gives capital a way to replace labour, which I assume is PG's fundamental point. At some point, the value of labour will have to be decoupled from remuneration almost entirely. As a society need to re-adjust our t
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Help categorise images to fight Varroa destructor (bee parasite)(varroa.vision)
4 points by polemic 11y ago|2 comments
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by polemic 11y ago
Much better here (android). Some things: 1. Possibly too much whitespace left/right of content. 2. Are the rank numbers necessary, or could they be moved to the meta-detail? 3. Bigger upvote and comment targets would be nice.
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by polemic 11y ago
It sounds like rather than modules, OP wants a vocabulary . That could be interesting but it seems like the inevitable conclusion is function names that are so long and explicit that they're as long or longer than the composition func
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by polemic 11y ago
I don't find many of these wat-worthy. In python 2.x you could redefine True and False, and this is fun: >>> object() < object() True >>> object() < object() False >>> object() &lt
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by polemic 11y ago
Some more background: http://www.dragonfly.co.nz/news/2015-09-28-douglas-bagnall-a...
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Recur – Multimedia Recurrent Neural Networks Tools(github.com)
6 points by polemic 11y ago|1 comments
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NZ Flag Referendum – Pseudorandom Numbers in Legislation(notstatschat.tumblr.com)
70 points by polemic 11y ago|19 comments
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NZ Flag Referendum pseudorandom numbers(notstatschat.tumblr.com)
1 points by polemic 11y ago|0 comments
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by polemic 11y ago
Incidentally, from 2009: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576944-the-goto-decorato... And presented at KiwiPycon 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdU8I09BGsU
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by polemic 11y ago
Yes, of course if your live machine is owned you lose. However, this means you can potentially recover vaults from unattended / stolen / lost / unwiped hard drives, phones etc.
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by polemic 11y ago
What does it mean if I can't see them while logged in?
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Lenovo used a hidden Windows feature to ensure its software could not be deleted(thenextweb.com)
7 points by polemic 11y ago|0 comments
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by polemic 11y ago
> "Most scientific computing is not "serious"" Stopped reading after this.
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by polemic 11y ago
You can read the Act in full here: http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2015/0063/latest/w...
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by polemic 11y ago
Can someone explain why, exactly, EFF is getting a payment as part of this settlement? Was it a stipulation of the settlement made by the defendants?
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“Systemd should not default to using time{1,2,3,4}.google.com”(github.com)
369 points by polemic 11y ago|342 comments
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by polemic 11y ago
> ...(even though its contract is something quite atrocious) Headline of the year.

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