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by r0muald 12y ago
> Over my dead body. > Well, maybe not literally---I’m not ready to be a martyr quite yet So, in short he's written 8 years ago that in principle he was totally against backdoors. Times have changed so much that a statement of
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An insight into the relationship between Spatialite and SQLite and its future(bugzilla.redhat.com)
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by r0muald 12y ago
Other thread here < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7805532>
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Ooni – tracking Internet censorship in the world(github.com)
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by r0muald 12y ago
The feature is going to be opt-in, and only available when an user is composing an update, not always-on. Audio recognition is apparently done in-app and only fingerprints are sent to Facebook (but this is less clear from the linked piece a
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by r0muald 12y ago
That's a widespread fear among Uber detractors, as seen in action outside of US in the past few weeks. I think without a third-party assessment of reliable data on the market every opinion on the subject is based on FUD. Unfortunately,
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The Winnower(thewinnower.com)
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by r0muald 12y ago
Ironically, I think that links to Scribd content on HN follow the same [idiom].
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by r0muald 12y ago
I just want to point out that Academia.edu is not much different from the two examples brought by the OP
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Let's make things better(pvanhoof.be)
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How keep Python 3 moving forward(nothingbutsnark.svbtle.com)
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by r0muald 12y ago
The comments on that review at typographica point out that Fira's quality for non-Latin scripts is less than perfect. Butterick generally ignores this part of the Unicode spectrum, to the point where his own fonts completely miss non-L
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Wikidata Game(tools.wmflabs.org)
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by r0muald 12y ago
Printable URLs are a good use case, but printed material has the annoying characteristic of lasting longer than your average web service, including URL shorteners. For printed stuff QR codes are still the most practical option IMHO.
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LazyCoin officially patented(lav.io)
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Source Serif Pro(adobe.github.io)
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Application/vnd.geo+json(iana.org)
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by r0muald 12y ago
This has to be a clever relative of https://identi.ca/x11r5
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by r0muald 12y ago
Not really. According to Wikipedia you are not an authoritative source on yourself, e.g. Philip Roth < http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/07/philip-roth-wikiped... and < https://en.wikipedia
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by r0muald 12y ago
D-Wave was covered a few months ago by Lev Grossman < http://time.com/4802/quantum-leap/> in a much more balanced piece.
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by r0muald 12y ago
A better title would be "Syncthing, an open source Dropbox replacement written in Go". But seriously, it seems promising.
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by r0muald 13y ago
Proposition 8 has nothing to do with Mozilla except for those who decided it was OK to go witch-hunting against the new CEO (as if Brendan Eich was not already in a very powerful position from the very beginning).
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by r0muald 13y ago
mk-configure is a "lightweight" autotools replacement < http://sourceforge.net/projects/mk-configure/>
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by r0muald 13y ago
> Jay Sullivan, our acting CEO during the executive search from < https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/03/24/mozilla-leadership-...
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by r0muald 13y ago
I think that would require an authority deciding whether bitcoins were truly stolen. Otherwise, couldn't anyone could just claim a transaction was a theft?
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by r0muald 13y ago
I don't know much about Turkish ISPs but the path they have taken seems even worse than a global internet blackout. After all those who only need to do their business can ignore the blockage. Of course 8.8.8.8 was a bad shortcut: exact
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by r0muald 13y ago
Actually, announcements have since become less cliché - or from another perspective they are now based on a IMHO silly we-are-a-happy-company cliché (including GIFs).
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by r0muald 13y ago
Apparently they were as excited to have her onboard as with any other new hire at the time: https://github.com/blog/1082-julie-ann-horvath-is-a-githubbe...
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by r0muald 13y ago
http://www.logicalfallacies.info/relevance/appeals/appeal-to...
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by r0muald 13y ago
More useful than a raw download page, an example of new features: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/ipython/ipython/blob/mast...

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