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by spb 10y ago
That wording is no less syntactically ambiguous.
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by spb 10y ago
The worst trait I see when domain experts try to write "introductory" material is a depressingly-common amnesia toward what it was like to not already know their subject matter. This article is so badly written, so overly and ne
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by spb 10y ago
I think you're missing the part where a non-upgraded connection will be treated by the client as insecure and untrustable.
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by spb 10y ago
It sounds like you're confusing what the author is describing with GNU "Change Logs" ( https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Change-Logs.htm... ), which track every source file change and
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by spb 10y ago
I found mine from a referral through an email to the author of an article on Psychology Today about issues similar to what I was going through, describing the kind of qualities I was looking for (specifically, I asked if they knew someone w
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by spb 10y ago
When I pull it up, your profile looks blank.
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by spb 10y ago
So, while we're on the subject of major tech players who had a negative interaction with the police and posted about it publically, and now that it's been a little over half a year, did we ever find out what the full story was wit
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by spb 10y ago
I think what they're saying is that it used to be CouchDB -> Addon -> Lucene, where it's now just CouchDB -> Lucene. It still requires a separate component in Lucene; it just doesn't require maintaining another sep
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by spb 10y ago
I prefer the [Web Platform Incubator Community Group forums]( https://discourse.wicg.io/ ) - doing this via Discourse lets people reply directly to the bad ideas, letting them sink to the bottom, unlike this page where they a
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by spb 10y ago
It's a Subsystem of Windows for Linux execution.
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by spb 10y ago
You say that like it's impossible to decentralize curation.
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by spb 10y ago
That's not really what OP is talking about - it's just a single pre-assembled kitchen scene containing only a few Ikea items.
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by spb 10y ago
There's way more to VR than the fact that presentation is stereoscopic. Writing off VR on the basis that 3D has been over-hyped before is like writing off the Macintosh for not being the first device capable of raster presentation.
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by spb 10y ago
For reference: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_Ultimate_Computer_(ep...
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by spb 10y ago
I remember reading an article a while back (couldn't find it through Google) that talked about how people with abusive tendencies (which this kind of tortured diatribe seems adjacent to) have an accompanying tendency to psychologically
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by spb 10y ago
In the Hillary Clinton case, it's not because she changed her opinion - it's because she only changed her opinion once it was clear she'd face more backlash for holding it than abandoning it (indeed, the opposite appears to
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by spb 10y ago
Well, this is missing the point, in both cases. Opponents of neither Hillary Clinton nor Oculus are opposing them for the sole reason "they used to have this opinion". In Oculus's case, this DRM was only the most obscene ma
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by spb 10y ago
Any scenario where the SVG's shapes are rendered with anti-aliasing, and the edges of both overlapping shapes are mid-pixel: the edge of the top shape would be rendered with partial alpha, and then beneath that, the edge of the differe
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by spb 10y ago
Hacker News in a nutshell: "We should be congratulating the ones who are manipulating the means by which we mean to be informed, as they were doing it for capitalist gain."
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by spb 10y ago
To be honest, I'm not surprised to hear a statement like this from Scott Hanselman. Learning to code is hard... when you have to do it inside Microsoft's byzantine, arbitrary .NET ecosystem, with its mandatory thousand-button GU
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by spb 10y ago
Oh man, excellent. I've wanted this feature in my [Plushu][] project for years: this will make my code significantly simpler. [Plushu]: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/253...
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by spb 10y ago
I don't understand why Git can't just make the [histogram algorithm][1] default, which has better performance than the base Myers algorithm, and is already built to integrate this type of heuristics (without the bugs that caused t
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by spb 10y ago
What exactly is ctags? That README and the accompanying docs seem to only describe how the project has changed from an unseen progenitor on SourceForge.
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by spb 10y ago
I was hoping to see people on Hacker News rebut this article, or at least comment on it.
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by spb 10y ago
I think the point is not so much to present a purely logical viewpoint as it is to present a culturally removed viewpoint that still comprehends engineering fundamentals , since any hypothetical human on Earth with such a comprehensi
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by spb 10y ago
It took me like five minutes to parse what you were asking about "replicating" the cloud experience locally - the way you phrase it, you're inherently assuming that a local development environment would be superior in a few f
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by spb 10y ago
I know, right? The skepticism people are putting up toward something that's right there in front of them in the world right now, the amount of back-and-forth that's being treated as justified, is kind of mind-blowing. (I've
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by spb 10y ago
Here's a video of people using the Vive for two and a half hours with no motion sickness, one of several put out by the developers of Fantastic Contraption, every week: https://www.twitch.tv/colinnorthway/v/61
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by spb 10y ago
The IG's report is basically just ass-covering by the Department of State, iterating her violations of protocol so that it doesn't look like they were completely incapable of recognizing things that the FBI is about to bring to li
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by spb 10y ago
Department of State employees are supposed to treat any material that even could be classified as extremely sensitive, and not to leave the building. On top of the flagrant disregard for security procedure detailed in this commentary, C

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