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by sedev 6y ago
Strongly agree with this. However, I also believe that there is no existing service that does both well.
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by sedev 6y ago
Using Telegram is a rational decision if you want a service that's good at fun conversations. Signal's value proposition is _secure conversations_ and it does that much better than other services. "Fun" is not part of Si
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by sedev 6y ago
No, they're not. Holding a static, private archive is not the same thing as hosting a live, public site.
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by sedev 6y ago
Friend, the amount of work that the modal model does is _far_ more than that. Unless you mean the amount of work OF is doing?
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by sedev 9y ago
Ah, I see it's time to deploy https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt again. I'm always sad that that document has aged so well.
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by sedev 9y ago
Unicode normalization/equivalence is half of what you want and UCAPI is probably the other half. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence https://www.casaba.com/products/UCAPI/
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by sedev 9y ago
I'm glad whenever this article shows up — it's so much more _pragmatic_ than a lot of things in its genre. What it talks about is actionable, and makes communities better. Forcefully ejecting Nazis, fascists, Gamergaters, and thei
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by sedev 9y ago
• akd is the AuthKit daemon, which among other things authenticates you to the App Store and to iCloud. • captiveagent detects when you're on a captive-portal network, it does this by checking for known-content domains apple controls •
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Why it's hard to use a decade-old SQLite feature in 2016 Python code(stronglyemergent.com)
2 points by sedev 10y ago|0 comments
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by sedev 10y ago
This has also been my experience of RST: it adds a huge headache of complexity. I've also found its documentation and tooling to be very poor. Tastes may vary, but my experience was that almost every feature ended up with an obtuse nam
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by sedev 11y ago
That "[employers] want few things more in life than for their engineers to remain really, really smart at developing distributed databases and really, really stupid at salary negotiation" is one of the most valuable career-enhanci
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by sedev 11y ago
Well, that's kind of the point. Slack has built a moat. IRC is libre and free, but also can get far more arcane than the RFC suggests and to get something like Slack's feature set, you have to either build or strap together a lot
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by sedev 11y ago
Mr. McKenzie lived in Gifu for many years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gifu_City#Industry Gifu is about half the size of San Francisco, and presumably the members of various trades in that city are just as much a sma
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by sedev 11y ago
The crafts that I spend all my time on are about text, and for me that means that they flow through keyboards. I'm absolutely thrilled to see someone taking on the project of making a fundamental tool like the keyboard so much better;
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by sedev 11y ago
Steam is hugely important in this regard because it shows how catastrophically wrong the old guard in games, video, music, and other media are. By default, people accept that paying for things is right. The challenge is to make paying for t
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by sedev 12y ago
I think I'm gonna start looking at it that way, since that's much more actionable than what I said.
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by sedev 12y ago
I wince a little when I read the section titled "Low iOS revenue." The iOS App Store's race to the bottom on pricing (and the parallel problem in Androidville) are very hard on developers. Panic reports that their unit sales
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by sedev 12y ago
The embedded video does have some footage of an actual plant glowing, but it's tiny. :(
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by sedev 12y ago
"Markdown is two things: (1) a plain text formatting syntax; and (2) a software tool… that converts the plain text formatting to HTML. […] The overriding design goal for Markdown’s formatting syntax is to make it as readable as possibl
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“I am no longer allowed to be a Google user”(reddit.com)
16 points by sedev 12y ago|1 comments
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by sedev 12y ago
Can't emphasize this stuff enough. What problems does it solve for the user? It's described in very general terms, which I'm going to assume is because it's a general-purpose tool that can solve many problems. Show some
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by sedev 12y ago
While those are all suggestions that open up good things, I'd like to suggest that you take a minute to think about those from an attacker's perspective. Most of what you suggest comes at a significant cost. Paying that cost might
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by sedev 12y ago
If you're thinking of Alec Baldwin's "Coffee's for closers" speech when you say "a huge Glen Gary speech," I hope you're aware that most people view that speech as "this is what an abusive boss l
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Sorry About Your Startup(tracks.ranea.org)
18 points by sedev 12y ago|2 comments
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by sedev 12y ago
The market is that because the numbers say that's where the market is. What's wrong with selling your book at Wal-Mart is that the numbers say you will not sell enough to make a living. As for "what barrier," well, consi
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by sedev 12y ago
Yes, they do. The `c0 = d3.hsl(d0 % 360, 1, .5).rgb();` line (IIUC) is doing a modulo-360 operation, so the colors cycle.
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by sedev 12y ago
To my great sadness, TTYtter is currently unmaintained (I sent in a bug report and that's what the dude told me). So I expect it to stop working at some point. Until then, best desktop Twitter client for me by a mile. I wish Twitter, I
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by sedev 12y ago
It seems that they're saying that marijuana legalization is like a gold rush, not that Rust is --- i.e. marijuana legalization, Rust, and VR, are all manifestations of Living In The Future, and additionally, marijuana legalization is
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by sedev 13y ago
That's only an argument that there are some cases where DMS is inappropriate, not that it's inappropriate for all cases. Considering that in general, setting up a robust Nagios install, configuring it, and maintaining it, cost
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by sedev 13y ago
I was an Impressionable Teen when this article was published, and by howdy it made an impression.

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