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by talles 11y ago
Off-topic: anyone else find the article picture really odd? (who uses a laptop that way?) http://s2.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160407&t=2&...
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by talles 11y ago
This new Microsoft is open sourcing everything, maybe this own underlying implementation is on the way to be opened (maybe it's open somewhere already).
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> The Signal Protocol library used by WhatsApp is Open Source, available here: https://github.com/whispersystems/libsignal-protocol-java/ https://www.whatsapp.com/security/WhatsApp-Security
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Maybe triggering an action just by hovering was a bad idea (what about who's on mobile by the way?), but don't you think that you're overreacting a bit?
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> We’re focused on making it easier than ever to send and receive money with Google Wallet. Keep an eye out for new features and a fresh design in the coming months. Who's gonna "keep an eye out" for "new features and
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by talles 11y ago
Chrome -> Chromium Firefox -> Firefox Developer Edition Safari -> Safari Technology Preview Am I getting that right? What about Edge?
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600 issues is a lot, I consider that a popular repository. I'm not against the feature, I think it's (for big repos) a necessary evil.
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Who is the King of Hacker News? https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/hacker-news#wh...
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The maintainer could see that, due to the nature of the issue, maybe the user OS would matter. Or maybe there's another version on the horizon that changes completely the functionally in topic. A hand crafted reply asking some curated
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by talles 11y ago
It's a nice feature for busy repos such as npm ( https://github.com/npm/npm/issues ) but I hope people with smaller repos stay away from it. I would hate an automatic reply for filling an issue for a small libr
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Jesus Christ, is that a real thing!? http://docs.spring.io/autorepo/docs/spring/2.5.x/api/org/spr...
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The expectation is bounded to the audience and the context of the text. Maybe Jason Edison would be more obvious than Thomas in a given setting. Maybe there's an Edison that spacecraft folks know and we don't.
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Why that would be considered cheating? I often google names from personalities that I know and get a footballer or a singer in the first results.
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I also felt the Wittgenstein references "thrown" away in the article. I guess the author tried to say that the word "life" has many meanings but in the physics "language game" its meaning is yet to be defined.
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Coining a term for some idea tells you something about that language+culture, don't you agree? Take wabi sabi for instance. The fact that they have a word for that is not a coincidence, it's a byproduct of their culture: https:
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I'm not 100% sure but I think much is due to its syntax. The idea is amazing though.
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> Is it not allowable to hurt others in self defense? Is it not allowable to hurt animals for food? I fail to see how such general and silly questions foster a debate. No one said or implied those. > has no bearing on the utilitarian
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- Drugs: Not designed to be harmful. Can be dangerous. - Guns: Designed to be harmful. Can be safe. I'm not saying that you can't argue that drugs are so dangerous that they should be prohibited or that guns can be safely used and
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by talles 11y ago
Pencils can be used to harm others. There's a big difference between "can be used to" and "is designed to".
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Von Neumann bottleneck(en.wikipedia.org)
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I think we're in this world I'd like to call guardrail programming. It's really sad. We're like "I can make change because I have tests". Who does that? Who drives their car around banging against the guardrai
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I guess the reason is that web service don't sound as glamorous.
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> This leads people to embed HTML directly in their Markdown I don't find that too bad.
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by talles 11y ago
Are physical light switches even a problem to be solved? Seriously, I fail to see the ROI of such endeavor.
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by talles 11y ago
Are those boxes in the picture Firefox OS phones? Is this an old picture?
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For anyone wondering about this comment: http://www.amazon.com/IBM-Holocaust-Strategic-Alliance-Corpo...
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> designed them for the cloud I guess I have a different understanding of designing for than you them.
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Having things modular have a myriad of benefits, fitting the cloud being just one of them. Making things modular is good design in my book way before the term "cloud" even existed.

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