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Ask HN: Do you get a blank LinkedIn feed when the browser tab isn't focused?
1 points by tripu 6y ago|0 comments
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by tripu 6y ago
Rubber duck debugging is extremely useful to unblock. I very rarely use an inanimate object, though — for me, the real help is the first or second (apparently very basic) question that the other person poses to me. That key question usually
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by tripu 6y ago
Shared this mostly to express surprise and uncertainty about it, and to gather others' views. Compare with criticism: https://medium.com/@indica/in-the-nytimes-only-white-leaders...
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The New York Times: “In a Crisis, True Leaders Stand Out”(nytimes.com)
1 points by tripu 6y ago|1 comments
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by tripu 6y ago
As much as I, as a general principle, loathe the tech giants dictating what is and isn't true for the world, in this case I feel some sympathy for companies temporarily banning potentially dangerous advice from their platforms. Yes, it
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by tripu 7y ago
The first 26 books here (the ones I've given ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in Goodreads): https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/64930929-tripu?utf8=%E...
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by tripu 7y ago
http://www.pgbovine.net/python-tutor-ten-years.htm seems dead already, in fact.
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40M answers worldwide to the “trolley problem” (MIT Technology Review)(technologyreview.com)
12 points by tripu 8y ago|1 comments
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W3C Blog: “Strategic Highlights, what W3C has done – and where we’re heading”(w3.org)
2 points by tripu 8y ago|0 comments
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CommitBeat: “Generate small sequence of music from commit SHA”(github.com)
3 points by tripu 8y ago|1 comments
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by tripu 9y ago
“The source of this vulnerability is Facebook’s search function. […] Users have to opt into it, via an option that lets their names come up in searches. The security settings have this option on by default.” That is opt-out ! Seriously,
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“Most of Facebook’s 2B users should assume data has been compromised”(thenextweb.com)
2 points by tripu 9y ago|1 comments
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by tripu 9y ago
“The lack of oversight on such communication platforms could be harmful. In India, where Facebook-owned WhatsApp counts more than 200 million users on its encrypted messaging service, fake news, political propaganda, and other forms of mis
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The Next Web: “Facebook confirms it spies on your Messenger conversations”(thenextweb.com)
1 points by tripu 9y ago|1 comments
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by tripu 9y ago
To me, Torvald's nasty attitude usually nullifies his (unquestionable) technical merits. There's no excuse to SHOUT, curse, and treat others as imbeciles on e-mail; even less so on fora as public and prominent as the linux kernel&
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W3C: HTML 5.2 is done, HTML 5.3 is coming(w3.org)
2 points by tripu 9y ago|0 comments
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by tripu 9y ago
> The piece goes so far as to call the physical response justified. I wrote that article a few days before the fake referendum. In no way was I defending violent repression by the police. I had no idea that we would witness what finall
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by tripu 9y ago
How so? I tried to debunk all those facile arguments in favour of the "referendum". #11: do you think then that the "referendum" was properly organised, with enough accountability and transparency, and no meddling? Do yo
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by tripu 9y ago
I don't think the "referendum" was "overwhelmingly wanted by catalans"; what is your source? "Just about moving borders" makes it sound as if that were a trivial change. It would be huge for Spain.
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by tripu 9y ago
They mention "measures restricting free and open access to the Internet", which is a gross exaggeration. The TLD .cat has "over 100 thousand active domain names" [1], but Spanish judges have decreed the shutdown of 10 sp
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by tripu 9y ago
They mention "measures restricting free and open access to the Internet", which is a gross exaggeration. The TLD .cat has "over 100 thousand active domain names" [1], but Spanish judges have decreed the shutdown of 10 sp
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by tripu 9y ago
They mention "measures restricting free and open access to the Internet", which is a gross exaggeration. The TLD .cat has "over 100 thousand active domain names" [1], but Spanish judges have decreed the shutdown of 10 sp
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by tripu 9y ago
Thanks :)
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by tripu 9y ago
I offer this post of mine to those outside Spain who are being confused (or misled) by Assange, Snowden, and the international press in general: "Catalonia: debunking dishonest arguments in favour of the bogus referendum" https:&
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“Natural” is overrated – or, why Soylent is a Good Thing(medium.com)
3 points by tripu 9y ago|0 comments
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by tripu 9y ago
How can a government force a researcher to make their results public? Isn't that reaching too far? I feel there is a reasonable, decent case for private, for-profit scientific research, is there not?
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by tripu 9y ago
Not enough. We techies have a moral duty to choose wisely, and to educate users.
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by tripu 9y ago
Oh, and don't waste your time with “How to Win Friends and Influence People”; it is definitely overrated! The whole book would fit in a sheet of paper if you took out unscientific anecdotes, redundancy, and obvious instances of common
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by tripu 9y ago
• “On Liberty” (John Stuart Mill) for political enlightenment and an impeccable defence of [classical!] liberalism. It's packed with simple but enormously powerful ideas that are also timeless, thus applicable today and to so many aspe
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by tripu 9y ago
“You know all those birthdays you forget? And when you last called your grandmother? When you last had coffee with that ex-colleague? Who did you lend that book to again?” I solve all these (first-world) problems easily with Remember The

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