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by vemv 8y ago
That's super interesting. Imagine that as a cljs developer, Cycle and re-frame were exactly as easy to use (i.e., skip the fact that Cycle is written in a different language). In that case which one would you prefer / why?
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by vemv 8y ago
Go for remote jobs, then chances are you will be at least technically a freelancer. Then as you gain experience you'll be able to transition from pseudo-employee to actual freelancer.
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by vemv 8y ago
Not sure if a portal is any better. Can't an email point to a fake portal?
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by vemv 8y ago
I seem to still have it given I use G Suite.
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by vemv 8y ago
I hope they're not removing the revert option for Classic UI :( Having an API unable to support two clients (Classic and New) would be embarassing from an engineering POV. And from an UX POV, it really lacks empathy (or realism) to ass
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by vemv 8y ago
I've always held my phone with one hand, and typed with the index of the other. Granny style. I doubt the thumb finger evolved to perform high-precision tasks. The index finger did. Anyway today's huge smartphone screens would for
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by vemv 8y ago
Presumably some of those features will be relevant to you as you scale. Also, ignoring a feature seems far cheaper than forking a project and renouncing to updates for desired features? e.g: feat A is desired, feat B is not, a new upstream
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by vemv 8y ago
I guess they changed the algorithm or tweaked its parameters. One specific thing I recall is that more false negatives started popping up - which is bad over UX (vs. no matches at all). The change was (perceivedly) strong enough for me to s
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by vemv 8y ago
I hope this kills (or helps killing) the 100+ thread count I have always seen in macOS. It surpasses any other thread count from far more important/sophisticated processes. I'd say that's a waste (if not abuse) of the system&
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by vemv 8y ago
Although Shazam is a black box to us consumers, I'm pretty sure its recognition quality dropped drastically in the last 2 years.
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by vemv 8y ago
- Many dependencies of dev projects are simply source files which will be compiled on-the-fly. Or at least that's the case in the languages I normally work with. - Some blobs are more trustworthy than others.
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by vemv 8y ago
I should admit that my procedures are only marginally better than an average developer's. Sadly I have no arbitrarily deep audit in place. I just try to pick solid projects, and assume / quickly check that their dependencies don&#
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by vemv 8y ago
Aren't you forgetting the fact that binaries aren't provided by the project itself? They come from contributors (in the project's words: 'anyone'). That's wildly different from the typical CI-built binary.
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by vemv 8y ago
Generally as a software developer I can assess which projects' source to trust, else I wouldn't be running thousands of transitive dependencies in my machine. Binaries which are unofficial to even ungoogled-chromium itself surpass
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by vemv 8y ago
Chromium updates are blobs and tend to have close ties with Google.
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by vemv 8y ago
Coincidentally I had found out this one today and compiled it myself after a frustrating experience with `brew install chromium` (videos wouldn't play; inputs would blink). I guess this has more flags set up by default, and it makes it
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by vemv 8y ago
Seems a more than respectable POV. My remark wasn't particularly aimed at you, simply it followed OP's (and also my) observation that "Org mode meta-blogging" is a category by itself :)
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by vemv 8y ago
Well I can spend my personal time in addressing edge cases for a tiny/occasional audience, or not. That was the point rather than defending the benefits of a specific platform.
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by vemv 8y ago
Emacs/Org aren't a trap per se, but if you find yourself using Org to blog about how you use Org for your blog, that seems a) funnily meta, and b) and indicator that you may have fallen in the 'trap' of investing far too
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by vemv 8y ago
Was thinking the same. Probably it doesn't make a particularly good image of Emacs/Lisp users. I happen to tweak Emacs and write Clojure for a living, but thankfully I left the 'meta' trap behind years ago. My blog in on
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by vemv 8y ago
A typical tendency in distasteful projects: couple everything, remove choice. Make it one-size-fits-all. Switching to Chromium.
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by vemv 8y ago
Now Google can (potentially) associate your browsing history with your identity, whereas before, any read of one's history would be anonymous.
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by vemv 8y ago
Fair observation, thanks for sharing. I'll start looking into https://github.com/browserpass/browserpass/ .
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by vemv 8y ago
Wasn't fully aware of this. I think most 'hacker-friendly' password managers (like password-store), that are unix-y, can be persisted to git, don't depend on megacorps, etc lack these capabilities? i.e. very few password
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by vemv 8y ago
What's a correct workflow then? (I genuinely don't know) Say a password manager wants to let me know that my password for Gmail is d78658b8f207c4256370d3e018e0f3d544607849aa5f6bd8, what should it do then? It seems to me, either th
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by vemv 8y ago
You can read the clipboard continuously.
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by vemv 8y ago
It's reasonably easy (or at least feasible) to sneak runnable code as an indirect dependency of a development project (node.js, rails, etc), or of a Homebrew formula. No pwning needed - at least as commonly conceived. Presumably, runni
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by vemv 8y ago
Password managers seem to have the essential flaw of using the clipboard. What prevents a random npm/rubygems/... dependency from running `pbcopy` every second, storing interesting-looking results and relaying them to some server
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by vemv 8y ago
And derivable.
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by vemv 8y ago
Essentially, this article gets written every year.

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