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by thosakwe 7y ago
Is there a specific reason that WeWork comes up so much on HN? I've never heard of it otherwise, but I see at least one story on it hit the front page a week.
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by thosakwe 7y ago
They’ve had this for months; it’s called “Add to Bookmarks” in the popup options on a given Tweet.
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by thosakwe 7y ago
Twitter is not an “echo chamber.” A site that big simply has way too many conflicting opinions for that to be true.
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by thosakwe 7y ago
The same reason there aren’t browser competitors - it would take forever to write and test one, and even then, on a new OS, you’d have to write tremendous amounts of user software to even be usable, let alone competitive.
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by thosakwe 7y ago
Seems like the sign up flow is broken.
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by thosakwe 7y ago
I just got into Scheme this past month, but I started with GNU Guile, and really like it.
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by thosakwe 7y ago
It's not about censorship, so much about it just being that there's nothing appealing about a government social media site. At all. The majority of conversations that happen on sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Snapchat would just
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by thosakwe 7y ago
> I think the most important aspect of social media to most people is that it allows for people who are friends "in real life" to share text / media with a circle of friends in a semi-private forum. I agree with this. In a
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by thosakwe 7y ago
It's been a while since I've found myself disagreeing with something so strongly. I think that the absolute last thing we need is government-funded social media. If YouTube "spreads propaganda," what do you expect from a
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by thosakwe 7y ago
I would argue that a so-called "new era" has already begun, regardless of whether Stallman is physically the chair of any organization. So much time has passed since the formation of the FSF, and (though HN likes to pretend otherw
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by thosakwe 7y ago
Major kudos to the Feathers team on the release. FeathersJS was my first introduction to open source, and sets a very high standard in terms of documentation quality. Congrats, and looking forward to more to come!
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by thosakwe 7y ago
For those who downvoted this, I’m pretty sure GP is referring to the “nice” command line tool, used to give a task a certain priority: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_(Unix)
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by thosakwe 7y ago
I have no idea how, but Docker for Mac was taking up a whopping 65GB of space in one of the cache folders in ~/Library, although I had uninstalled it months ago. I wish I had taken a screenshot, but I was honestly dumbfounded. I had us
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Ask HN: C/C++ AST generation tools?
1 points by thosakwe 7y ago|0 comments
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by thosakwe 7y ago
To be fair, I think you can get the “competition” phenomenon anywhere. I always read people’s blogs about programming and internships and feel like no matter how much I do, I’ll always be behind. So it’s possible that it’s not a social medi
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by thosakwe 7y ago
Genuine question here: if you’re already going to be shipping native code, why would you need WebAssembly in the mix, especially if you’re not targeting a browser?
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by thosakwe 7y ago
The fullPage.js model IMO is the best way to fund an open source project, if you’re not getting paid by an employer specifically to maintain that project. Make a free option available for copyleft-compatible cases, and then charge in cases
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by thosakwe 7y ago
I said something similar on a previous post, but more and more, it’s becoming more clear to that “open source” and “profit” are not very compatible. The truth is simple: if you use a permissive license like MIT, you will probably never see
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by thosakwe 7y ago
I don’t even buy the reasoning that the recommendations are somehow “personalized,” because they don’t seem to be... At all. I have never watched a political video on YouTube, or really anything unrelated to music or computer science, yet
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by thosakwe 7y ago
Might be due to a lack of practical experience (or the low audio quality in the video), but I found it difficult to understand what the human speakers were saying in some parts. As for Parol, though, it was clear as day, and very easy to un
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by thosakwe 7y ago
In my own view, as an open source maintainer, aiming to gain revenue from open-source is kind of a fool’s errand, as it’s not really compatible with FOSS. It’s just not. At the end of the day, the best way for a single developer to extract
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by thosakwe 7y ago
A workplace where candidates get auto-rejected because their resume is in a different format, or because of a LinkedIn profile picture, is probably not where the person in the article might want to work. For many people, part of whether som
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by thosakwe 7y ago
What I dislike about conversations like this on HN, is that comments like the above don’t get downvoted because they are detrimental to the conversation, or because they are in some way a rules violation, but rather because people just don’
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by thosakwe 7y ago
Thanks!!!
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Ask HN: Best design course(s) for people who already know programming?
1 points by thosakwe 7y ago|2 comments
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Open Redirect Vulnerability in Hangouts(thosakwe.com)
1 points by thosakwe 7y ago|0 comments
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by thosakwe 7y ago
There is definitely a set of topics and themes that are particularly popular on HN, ex. privacy, de-Googling, write-it-in-Rust, Plan 9, etc. If your product fits into this niche (or better, you can create a product specifically for the nich
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by thosakwe 7y ago
This is a pretty un-charitable/misleading reading of the original Tweet. The journalist in question did not say that CloudFlare was responsible for the shooting (that would be a pretty outrageous claim), but that 8chan is able to still
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Ask HN: Is a JIT Necessary for a JavaScript Runtime?
4 points by thosakwe 7y ago|2 comments
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by thosakwe 7y ago
What do you mean by that? It’s completely open source.

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