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by vog 9y ago
> I see many lonely people in western big cities for instance Not true for Berlin, though. If you regularily visit some hackerspaces (or other meetups with like-minded people, such as various user groups such as Emacs user group, polit
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by vog 9y ago
This is a nice goal, especially if you need portability all the way down (... to IE 5.5 or something). However, for any larger web application, this increases the testing effort dramatically, as you need to test all possible sets of capabil
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by vog 9y ago
This is a true statement, but how is this relevant? What do localized search results have to do with manipulating uneducated users?
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by vog 9y ago
No, it had more than one downvote when I upvoted it, i.e. stayed grey after upvote. Moreover, I just saw it being black, then grey, then black. So it still receives a mix of downvotes and upvotes. Very strange.
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by vog 9y ago
To those who downvoted FRex's comment: Do you care to elaborate? I don't see anything wrong with it. (And it's definitely more insightful than the slightly older sibling comment, which apparently has not been downvoted.)
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by vog 9y ago
"Educating" users is not as profitable as serving users. Also, a system that adapts to its users is generally more successful than a system that requires users to adapt to it. Moreover, proper education across the whole population
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by vog 9y ago
> don't speak German? -> you'll receive bad service almost everywhere -> you won't get in to a lot of good clubs etc. > don't look like German? -> you'll get stares -> you'll be second rate
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by vog 9y ago
I also don't get it. Ever for smaller changes, it is very well known that you better contribute back to the Free Software project - because having your patch included and being maintained there is a lot less trouble than maintaining yo
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by vog 9y ago
That's simply not true: Case in point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15634089 (Unless, of course, you mean by "almost anything" everything of your personal interest.)
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by vog 9y ago
I haven't tried it yet, but I like the idea! Perhaps this should have been something that browser's provide directly in the first place. Or, at least via a browser extension. I see that a proxy is more portable, easier to write, a
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Miniwebproxy - A web without dickbars, scroll jacking, chum boxes, popup video(tedunangst.com)
2 points by vog 9y ago|2 comments
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by vog 9y ago
You might be interested in Ted Unangst's miniwebproxy: https://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/miniwebproxy
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by vog 9y ago
And of course: (all German language) - CRE Technik, Kultur, Gesellschaft https://cre.fm/ - Deutschlandfunk Nova - Eine Stunde History https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/eine-stunde-history - Methodisch Inko
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by vog 9y ago
> it is easy to become a hermit. Easy to over-work. Hard to draw the line between your work time and your personal time Not just that, but there's also the other side: Easy to procrastinate, easy to give false reports which then l
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by vog 9y ago
> I hear people have some success with Patronite these days Moreover, direct donations [1] are working quite well, at least for the popular podcasts. (But then, only the very popular podcasts make a fortune anyway.) Here in Germany, SE
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by vog 9y ago
> and the neither the presence of the ads themselves nor my decision to skip them degrades the experience of listening to the podcast I beg to differ. I see the ability to skip ads immediately, at any time, as a fundamental user right
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by vog 9y ago
This. Exactly this. I don't get why anyone would listen to a podcast with ads and/or bad information density. I mean, the whole point (and value) of podcasts is to remove the private radio station crap, not to replicate it. BTW, t
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by vog 9y ago
I fully agree that whitelisting is safer than blacklisting. But on the top of the article, the author explicitly recognzied this and explained why they went down that route: > I wanted specifically to find a minimal set of restrictions
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by vog 9y ago
Are you the same person who wrote the other comments about the e-mail address? (both heavily downvoted, one flagged and disappeared). What do you want to achieve by repeating that ever and ever again?
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by vog 9y ago
Wait, what?! How could changing the income stream of a corporation ever be the "quickest fix"? Almost from the very beginning their business model was designed to sell ads. How could anyone change that with reasonable effort, in
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by vog 9y ago
This reminds of an old project of myself and a friend around 2001-2003 (yes, it is still hosted on SourceForge): DAVIS - Dj's and Volker's IRC-Script http://davis.sourceforge.net Of course, our language was specific to
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by vog 9y ago
This submission appears to be a reaction to the following submission: "Why Most Unit Testing Is Waste" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15591190 (just for the record, i.e. for future readers)
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by vog 9y ago
I'd love to submit this document to HN, so it has a chance to get a wider audience than provided by this sub thread. However, the title "Seque" is completely unspecific and hence totally useless. Given that title, I don&#x27
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by vog 9y ago
It's strange that this article does not appear in the RSS/Atom feed: https://danluu.com/atom.xml Is that feed broken? I was quite surprised finding this via my secondary news sources (HN, etc.) rather than my prim
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by vog 9y ago
Exactly. And since that piece is missing, I wouldn't describe that team "great", but at most "good" or "promising". Maybe "promising but incomplete" is the best description. As a team leader (or
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by vog 9y ago
> the body of the article is truthful to the title With all due respect, I don't see how the article backs up this utterly exaggerated claim. Unless, of course, you're using the word "dying" in the sense that everyb
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by vog 9y ago
Please change the title to something more descriptive and less click-baity. Also, the original paper is worth a read: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.01357
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by vog 9y ago
Not now, but what about the 10th update? In general, I don't think it works that way. If you want people to install your code in a privileged position (such as a browser extension), you need to appear trustworthy. You essentially ask y
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by vog 9y ago
> There is no company that tries to fix the internet in the profound way eyeo does Which issue is fixed by "acceptable ads" in a better way than a plain ad blocker that has no exceptions? The former tries to "mediate&quo
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by vog 9y ago
Nice! Python has doctests which serve a similar purpose: https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/doctest.html

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