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by vadfa 5y ago
The EU loves wasting money on things like these. Obviously they never gain any traction (since this depends on millions of people moving to another platform that is worse), but since public money belongs to nobody...
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by vadfa 5y ago
What is so special about that port? Is it the default of a framework?
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by vadfa 5y ago
Idea: a script for Thunderbird, mutt, etc. that automatically replies to all stale bot notification emails so the issues get reopened.
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by vadfa 5y ago
>Tools like Tor or a web browser are not equivalent to a screwdriver or a knife. Only that they are. Tor is a software project that allows you to stay anonymous. You can use it to buy drugs, you can use it to whistleblow, you can use it
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by vadfa 5y ago
The Tor project took a political stance a few years ago for no discernible reason at all. To me, Tor is a software project that runs a network that allows users to be anonymous. Period. That anonimity can be used for good or evil, and eve
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by vadfa 5y ago
What do you think the average Windows laptop and Android phone look like?
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by vadfa 5y ago
Isn't a non-leaky abstraction a given too? All these requirements are like saying "having a good experience using this app requires an app that doesn't crash all the time". Well, duh?
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by vadfa 5y ago
Yes, if you don't write a native app for every platform the result will be rubbish. That's not a "good architecture decision", that is common sense. If they don't do it that way it's to save money, because as w
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by vadfa 5y ago
I don't see how this is related. Server-side you write and expose an API. Then you have 1-3 developers for each platform that write code that consumes that API. Those developers don't need to know anything about the internals of t
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by vadfa 5y ago
Whatsapp only had a subscription fee for android users, and I don't know anybody who ever paid for it. They would keep giving you more and more free time; free subscription time would never run out. I imagine it ran out for some users,
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by vadfa 5y ago
>19B messages in & 40B out per day whatsapp being a closed system I don't understand how this disparity is possible.
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by vadfa 5y ago
Most of those, in my experience, effortlessly transliterate what they say into the Latin alphabet when they need to use a medium that requires it.
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by vadfa 5y ago
First, you edited your comment and removed all references to "law"/"illegal" you had made. Also, I'm saying that your sense of ethics is not universal.
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by vadfa 5y ago
What you are saying is that morals and laws are the same thing, which they are not. Laws can very well be immoral, and sense of morality depends entirely on each one of us.
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by vadfa 5y ago
I miss the days of quirky title bar "animations".
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by vadfa 5y ago
Imagine imagining everybody shares your morals and values.
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by vadfa 5y ago
It's pathetic all they did to Gab and it shows how biased the open source community at large is.
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by vadfa 5y ago
Why would anybody want to install Windows on a Nintendo Wii?
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by vadfa 5y ago
People are used to Windows where literally all hardware works. So that statement is not that evident.
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by vadfa 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7971573 Also: http://web.archive.org/web/19981202000844/http://www.hackern...
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by vadfa 5y ago
Animals are... animals.
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by vadfa 5y ago
I think we can keep out immigrants who do not want to fit in without having to resort to genocide.
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by vadfa 5y ago
The former obviously. The latter are the ones who want to restrict the freedoms of others.
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by vadfa 5y ago
Striving for keeping the homogeneous culture that has existed for centuries and ejecting those who do not accept it is a reasonable alternative.
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by vadfa 5y ago
Because letting people do whatever they want is not even on the radar of these bureaucrats.
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by vadfa 5y ago
>especially in the early years, it teaches students how to think critically Is this a thing only in the US? I went to university in Europe and there were 0 subjects that were unrelated to the (STEM) degree I chose. It was all 100% techni
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by vadfa 5y ago
One has to start wondering why things don't work so well for Muslims anywhere in the world.
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by vadfa 5y ago
Like any other tool in the arsenal of a programming language: when it best suits the task.
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by vadfa 5y ago
Okay? I don't see how that changes anything. Twitter can do whatever they want, but it's still unacceptable.

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