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by prance 10y ago
> IF you have to be safe because you're e.g. in Germany and you can't just change other peoples contracts after they signed up. Isn't it the very nature of contracts that you cannot change them unilaterally? I'd be ve
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by prance 10y ago
The previous post[1] to this has been baselessly flagged, so I'm reposting it. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13836588
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Working While Female(medium.com)
5 points by prance 10y ago|1 comments
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by prance 10y ago
The fact that this is flagged gives strong evidence of the truth in this article.
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by prance 10y ago
It could be entirely my fault. However, your comment struck me as odd. You presented the issues seemingly from a moral high ground and overly black and white. It's somehow always the other's fault. I get the impression that you&#x
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Group of cybercriminals targeting Kenyan banks and institutions arrested(mobile.nation.co.ke)
1 points by prance 10y ago|0 comments
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by prance 10y ago
Well, maybe I was indeed too optimistic about a field that's both open source and has the word "crypto" in it :(
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by prance 10y ago
I'm not too familiar with cryptocurrency or generally blockchain implementations, so I wonder: shouldn't it be normal that at least the reference clients of any such protocol should be proven correct, and follow a rigorous scheme
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by prance 10y ago
> You still run afoul of countless computer security laws Only if you're citizen of/doing it in a country with such laws.
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by prance 10y ago
My point is that as long as I have to choose non-mainstream OSs for secure communication, the tradeoff will not be worth it for me. As will be the case for 99% of "normal" users (most of whom don't even know that they can ins
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by prance 10y ago
This attitude of "either you really need the security, so make do with whatever inconvenient method is necessary, or just forget about it" is what keeps secure methods out of the mainstream, and thereby from widespread usage. This
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by prance 10y ago
This discussion reminds of this question/answer on quora: https://www.quora.com/Since-programming-can-be-self-taught-w...
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by prance 10y ago
"at least in much of the USA, and certainly in NYC" Here in Kenya, and much of the developing world, things are quite different. Traditionally, people would save known and trusted drivers in their phonebook, and call them when nee
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by prance 10y ago
I agree, but even Uncle Bob advocated TDD not as a religion of itself, but as a means to achieve the underlying goal - test your code. In one of his articles he mentioned that there are very few cases where he deems it acceptable to not wri
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by prance 10y ago
I agree to almost every point, but note that in the MVC definition, each of the M, V and C are components, not classes. A component may be composed of several classes. So there's nothing inherently wrong with Rails' approach. I ju
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Kenya's digital revolution continues to exclude women(nation.co.ke)
1 points by prance 10y ago|0 comments
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by prance 10y ago
Personally I also find such domain names just childish (and therefore will be slightly negatively biased when first looking at them). However I would never share them on FB, Twitter etc., as here locally (Kenya), swear words are much less a
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by prance 10y ago
At this point I think we need to define what it means to "learn git properly". The assumption in this discussion is that it is more than learn a few concrete commands for specific tasks in a few minutes. You say 3 hours is suffici
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by prance 10y ago
I agree that it's worth it learning git properly, but sometimes you're thrown into the deep end and don't have the time to get up to speed the "right way". I think git is complicated enough to warrant some simplifie
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by prance 10y ago
The reason would be that they announced a speakers list which they then changed. Of course this happens all the time at conferences without refunds offered, so I guess it's very fair from them to do this.
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by prance 10y ago
Your arguments only make sense if you assume that the people refusing to speak if Crockford is there are the bullies, while they and the organisers seem to say that Crockford is the bully. Who is right? We cannot know from the available fac
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by prance 10y ago
I meant "owe" more like as in "you owe me one". If contractual obligations for ticket holders exist, I guess they'd have to offer a refund. Regarding the other meaning, I could only repeat myself: they state that so
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by prance 10y ago
This article is based on the assumption that those two statements from Rockford were the actual reason for his disinvitation - because that's "everything [the author's] been able to find". Which is not the case according
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by prance 10y ago
No, absolutely reasonable. They say that multiple other speakers have stated that Crockford's "presence would make some speakers uncomfortable to the point where they refused to attend or speak." So they chose to prioritise t
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Facebook’s Africa PR offensive masks quest for profits after rejection in India(nation.co.ke)
4 points by prance 10y ago|0 comments
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by prance 10y ago
pmen is right. We considered crowd investments for our own startup, and concluded it's too much work, hassle and inflexibility. Republic's model seems to mitigate this somewhat, but (probably?) only works in the US and even they s
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by prance 10y ago
Actually, both Apple and Orange are public companies :D
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by prance 10y ago
Why is this down voted? It is the truth.
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by prance 10y ago
Actually it's not exactly the same: he added a README.
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by prance 10y ago
I want to believe!

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