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by wladimir 15y ago
The problem is that many governments, also in Europe, still see the USA as a shining example which to follow. Or are somehow bribed/manipulated into adopting similar laws (see also ACTA). So if the USA falls to this low, I have little hope
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by wladimir 15y ago
I agree. The new gmail looks great on high-resolution, large screens. But on my laptop, it's terrible by default too much empty space; luckily they allow configuring the spacing.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Companies like this are turning the world further into a Kafkaesque nightmare every day. In this case there isn't even a labyrinth of bureaucracy to navigate as last resort, it is a permanent action and they're unable to even tell you why.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Well if you don't like red, with a 256-color terminal emulator you could change it into a nice shade of purple instead: static const char PURPLE[] = "\x1b[38;5;129m" #define STDERR_COLOR PURPLE Or something more sane: http
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by wladimir 15y ago
What, you're trying to start a GUI versus command-line argument? On hacker news? In 2011?
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by wladimir 15y ago
100% agreed. I know it isn't for everyone, but I can't wait for the "office" stigma to go away and being able to work together with people through the internet on (paid) projects, like I'm used to with OSS. Communicate through IRC, Skype an
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by wladimir 15y ago
But being maladapted in other ways might well be part of being "prophetic". Prescience, it appears, has a price. Too bad people are shallow enough to regard matters of hygiene and mannerisms on the same level as having the uncanny ability t
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by wladimir 15y ago
It is difficult to argue with the sums of money thrown around in the USA. I remember your original post was kind of condescending to talented people from other parts of the world, implying that the rest of the world only shuffles around a s
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by wladimir 15y ago
I had the same WTF. White particles on a white background, making parts of the text disappear. Site owners, please don't pull these kind of tacky javascript tricks, especially not if we're meant to read the (difficult) text.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Cut it with the crazy US exceptionalism. You might be surprised how many technically sophisticated projects are worked on outside the US. It's not as if the rest of the world still lives in the stone age.
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by wladimir 15y ago
"People must have the right to control the software running on devices they own," said SFLC counsel Aaron Williamson. "That right is essential to the continued development of free and open source software and is foundational to our privacy
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by wladimir 15y ago
It always reminds me of Nozick's "experience machine" thought experiment.
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by wladimir 15y ago
This was also the last straw for me. It's just not worth the risk anymore of the extra attack surface it exposes. I've uninstalled flash from all my machines and disabled it in chrome.
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by wladimir 15y ago
You could use ipython, which is a python-based shell that doesn't need explicitly calling the subprocess module to launch commands (and a lot more goodies).
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Microsoft: We can remotely delete Windows 8 apps(computerworld.com)
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by wladimir 15y ago
Exactly, using higher level languages is a matter of DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) and normalization (specify things in one place, have them change everywhere consistently). Especially for CSS this is really useful as in itself is a crude, lo
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by wladimir 15y ago
On the other hand, if it has only one very narrow communication channel with the world, how would it even go about replicating me and all my experiences ? I would probably regard it as a hollow treat in that case. If it had access to many m
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by wladimir 15y ago
Yes I think the biggest risk in that case is that the verification contains a bug, which the AI discovers while reasoning at a much higher level (which we cannot even conceive). How secure can we really make things?
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by wladimir 15y ago
But as more and more new features are being added to 3.x and not to 2.x (and assuming 3.x won't break compatibility with itself), won't there automatically be a point in which the features are worth the pain? Even if not, the python devs ar
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by wladimir 15y ago
Yes, a backward compatibility mode that could re-add those things would be nice (which could be enabled by adding a pragma "from __past__ import old_unicode_literals", for example). It would allow for a more gradual transition.
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by wladimir 15y ago
I am certainly not denying that there are issues or saying that his issues don't need to be addressed. However I'm a big proponent of 'breaking with the past' once in a while, to fix issues that have snuck into the language/library/system,
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by wladimir 15y ago
"JavaScript is becoming more and more an ubiquitous scripting language that challenges Python"... The Python dev team cannot change these conditions; even if they came up with the perfect programming language tomorrow. Python3 has some nice
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by wladimir 15y ago
6 digits is indeed too easy to brute force as a password replacement (though it depends on the setting). I guess it could be used as a replacement for passwords if the keys were longer, longer sequences or maybe groups of words like S/KEY.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Google Authenticator works pretty well already. I don't know the exact algorithm used, but I think it's public/private-key based?
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by wladimir 15y ago
Completely agreed. Software engineering is not mature yet itself, so pretending to be all-mature about it by sticking to 30-year old rigid "best practices" can be counter-productive at best. People sometimes forget that new techniques might
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by wladimir 15y ago
shouldn't , I heartily agree, but the hard reality of the matter seems to be that it is currently necessary. If you don't control root on your own device, you don't know (and can't find out) who else does.
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by wladimir 15y ago
You're getting downvoted because you get it wrong. The problem isn't individual tracking of criminals/spies. This is not about fear of individual tracking, if "they" want to do that they could just as well post a stake-out van in front of y
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by wladimir 15y ago
Yes its here: https://github.com/unconed/TermKit I still think the idea is great. This guys should work together instead of making yet another competing project.
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by wladimir 15y ago
HN isn't that bad because you can read articles on how to improve your coding skills, learn about libraries that can help you be more productive by not reinventing the wheel, and so on. As long as it doesn't get in the way of work that has
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by wladimir 15y ago
That's terrible! :-) He could make a high-fidelity version that uses xterm256 colors 32..255, at least those are independent of the color scheme. There are some negligible differences between different terminal emulators, but close enough..

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