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by whent 4mo ago
Where's the hit counter? Mind pointing me to it. Can't find it anywhere at TFA.
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Lisp in Vim (2019)(susam.net)
88 points by whent 4mo ago|7 comments
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Hardening the Browser (2018)(gleech.org)
1 points by whent 1y ago|0 comments
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by whent 3y ago
> The title is misleading, the emotional "It's crazy how much Transport for London can learn about us from our mobile data" The title: What Transport for London can learn about us from our mobile data I don't see what
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by whent 3y ago
After Brexit, is GDPR relevant to London transport anymore? I'd guess that UK now probably has their own version of GDPR?
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by whent 4y ago
I am making no such assumption. I am only expressing my gripe against those commenters who are not happy that this grant is like 1 month's salary. So I am only making the point that it may not be one company's responsibility to pa
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by whent 4y ago
Of course, I don't get to decide it. That's exactly my point! You seem to be restating my point. Each company is free to decide for themselves how much they want to contribute.
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Bloomberg Launches FOSS Fund to Support Free and Open Source Projects(bloomberg.com)
51 points by whent 4y ago|4 comments
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by whent 4y ago
> Hooray. That'll pay for one developer for one month. If 20 more companies did this, then it would pay for one developer for one year, don't you think?
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by whent 4y ago
This! What all these ungrateful nerds seem to disregard is whether one company should take the responsibility of paying the curl author enough to match a year's worth of salary? Or should more companies (and there are many that make mu
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The most important snippet in my Emacs init file(old.reddit.com)
1 points by whent 4y ago|0 comments
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by whent 4y ago
I remember Twitter in early days. Developers loved its REST APIs. They were already building integrations for custom dashboards, email, Yahoo chat, IRC and what not! Users could choose where they want to read the tweets using one of these i
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by whent 4y ago
Are function tables really all that cleaner? Honest question. If I can offer a counterpoint a function table requires us to code some function dispatch routine that looks at the intention (keywords in function table), then looks up the func
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by whent 4y ago
> everyone can see it on issue tracker I don't think this is necessarily true. If an engineer is blocked on a difficult problem for a day they don't have time update issue tracker to say they are blocked.
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by whent 4y ago
For me Lisp enlightenment was when I realized everything is lambda all the way down (except of course for lists and atoms). I mean we don't really need all the various fancy let, let*, defun expressions to do programming. let, defun ar