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by veidr 8y ago
Well, here are a few sources (I think the first one might be where I originally read about it, and realized the situation there was worse than I knew): https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2017-in-review/the-year-ru..
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by veidr 8y ago
Apple already does ban apps on political grounds, even pretty innocuous just-the-facts type apps: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/538kan/apple-just... And yes, I think you are likely right: we will
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by veidr 8y ago
I don't think the US government has the desire or ability to do that. Also, I didn't mean to imply by omission that the United States government is not a bad actor. An evidence-based examination of the US government will reveal th
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by veidr 8y ago
Well, 100% conversion of the entire world to open-source software would indeed solve the issue I describe. But, I have only 57 more years to live[1], and I don't think I will likely see that happen in my remaining time on earth. Anothe
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by veidr 8y ago
You are right. That sounded more dismissive than I intended, and I agree on both counts; video games can be artistic masterpieces, and freedom of expression is a very important and fundamental human right. So censorship of games is bad, too
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by veidr 8y ago
This is a fundamental problem with the single DRM-enforced app store model that Apple innovated, and which has been widely copied and lauded. Once you implement that, you have to toady up to whatever governments exist, including oppressive&
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by veidr 8y ago
I don't think "documentation" has such a narrow definition. There are various forms of documentation, from terse READMEs to formal specs. Comments in the code are just one of the many forms documentation can take (in some cas
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by veidr 8y ago
I agree, and consider code without comments to be unfinished work, but writing code without comments is not the thrust of this article. It's just writing clearer code, structured to make more things utterly obvious (to the human, but i
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by veidr 8y ago
Well, you're not only making it easier for your colleagues in marketing to be able to make a code change (hey, it happens more than you might think!) but you're also making it easier for your future self to come back to the code b
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by veidr 8y ago
Well just FYI this guy himself produces nearly that; I have him in my RSS reader and he produces great articles like this on a weekly basis. There is also: https://swiftweekly.github.io
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by veidr 8y ago
> pretty darn good Compared to what? A cat? Siri is worst-of-class technology in terms of voice-based assistant. I carry both Apple's latest phone and Google's latest phone, and it would never occur to me to use Siri for a voic
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by veidr 8y ago
I get it, you don't like putting your kids to bed. That's fine, but most parents really don't find it to be a "huge nuisance", and certainly not when measured against the backdrop of all the other crap you have to d
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by veidr 8y ago
If 40% of people can't find $400 in a pinch, then it means at least some of those people self-reporting as "Doing OK" still can't find $400 in an emergency.
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by veidr 8y ago
Sorry, that's nuts. That might be why many Americans do it, but most of the world does it by choice, and virtually nobody regrets it. And once your children are beyond the infant stage where there is some (as TFA notes, sub-lightning
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by veidr 8y ago
> With a toddler, there is no good reason. Um, where are you getting that from? It makes the toddler happier and more comforted, and in this case (and probably most cases) the parent also. And, even though a toddler or young child won&
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by veidr 8y ago
So, give them bank accounts without checks. I haven't used a check in... maybe a decade? Despite being a citizen of America, one of the few places where check's are still a (marginal, fading) thing.
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by veidr 8y ago
Yeah; basically any calendar app. Every OS/device comes with one built in; they can sync across all your devices; they expose the database via SDK or API so you or others can augment them with additional tools (though I don't find
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by veidr 9y ago
No, in the first place, you shouldn't have a significant percentage of elected officials in the government who will fuck up any government in an effort to prove that government doesn't work. If you do have that, then it is highly
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by veidr 9y ago
Do you have an iPhone X? I'm not a big fan of Apple; I've been rooting for Android for years, and I carry two phones: a Google phone and an Apple phone. IMO the iPhone X opened up the widest lead for iPhone there's ever bee
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by veidr 9y ago
I don't know that, although I once tried hard to google it. What I do know, though, is that for me these orange-tinted blue-light-blocking safety glasses (which I learned about from somebody else on this very forum discussing this exac
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by veidr 9y ago
Here is the list: 1. LG UltraFine monitors THE END Sadly, recommendation notwithstanding, I bought 2 of these 5K monitors for my iMac Pro, but they have the same funky waking problems you describe, and sometimes one doesn't even come o
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by veidr 9y ago
> Basic landlines are still a thing Oh yeah, LOL, I quite honestly forgot about the existence of those haha
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by veidr 9y ago
SMS is still very widely used by parties who don't know each other. In theory, anybody with a phone number can receive an SMS (though not always in reality, because SMS is a bag of suck). So your pharmacy can SMS you when your prescrip
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by veidr 9y ago
Just curious: can somebody shed light on how they got the 1.1.1.1 IP address?
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by veidr 9y ago
Tokyo, Japan: [mason@iMac-Pro-No-5 fubastardo (master)]$ ping 1.1.1.1 PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=56 time=2.310 ms 64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=2.287 ms
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by veidr 9y ago
Well, you are overlooking the language itself: how nice is it to code in, does it help you iterate more quickly, and how much does the awesome type system help you prevent errors, refactor code more easily, and promote stability over time?
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by veidr 9y ago
Swift on Linux, which is the key to "server side" swift, is really coming along. However, it still has several rough edges that, while they can be worked around, mar the experience and probably discourage a lot of casual tinkerers
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by veidr 9y ago
That analogy is flawed. YouTube and Facebook are like the local privately-owned shopping mall, not the street corner. They've both always had the equivalent of the security guard in the golf cart, who kicks people out for violating the
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by veidr 9y ago
Sadly, this is what that looks like on a phone (iPhone, in this case): https://www.dropbox.com/s/xw30t56w06xpbgp/hn.png?dl=0
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In Nafta Talks, U.S. Tries to Limit Junk Food Warning Labels(nytimes.com)
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