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by wtbob 10y ago
Speaking of scrolling & performance degradation, there's something wrong with Medium pages: with JavaScript turned off, and in Firefox on Linux, they scroll agonisingly slowly.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> What's idiotic about the right to be forgotten? Snarky answer: the right to be forgotten part. Serious answer: the so-called 'right to be forgotten' is really a 'right to force others to delete true statements,&#x2
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by wtbob 10y ago
Compared to the U.S., things go off the wall in Europe, and — as you say — Asia is just another planet entirely.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> The more people from any single European country travel across Europe, the more they figure out that there are almost zero cultural differences between their countries. Have you actually travelled in Europe? Germany is radically diffe
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by wtbob 10y ago
> My 94 year old grandfather flew a spitfire in WW2 and voted in he said precisely because he remembers the mess the UK was in before joining the union - the British economy and infrastructure was in a sorry state in the 70s. That was du
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by wtbob 10y ago
> I don't agree with that, the EU has a very strong cultural union that was created by the enunciation of the French Revolution principles. It's not by accident that, for example, there is no state in EU with death penalty. The
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Vim vs. emacs – minus the religion(feoh.org)
2 points by wtbob 10y ago|1 comments
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by wtbob 10y ago
If Apple announced that they are adding a new steel-spike-through-the-eye feature, John Gruber would be there to patiently explain how this could be really useful, and how it doesn't kill you unless you actually use it. If Apple announ
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by wtbob 10y ago
I'll be another voice for prelude. It really is a nearly-perfect emacs setup (other than guru-mode, which I find annoying, and having to set up a few projectile/helm related things by hand). I've grown to love the zenburn t
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by wtbob 10y ago
For me it's when I'm in Firefox and hit C-s to search and it pops up a save dialogue …
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Taking the headphone jack off phones is user-hostile and stupid(theverge.com)
144 points by wtbob 10y ago|215 comments
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Nano is no longer a GNU project(nano-editor.org)
151 points by wtbob 10y ago|229 comments
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by wtbob 10y ago
> If you flipped this and asked all these people arguing that it's never ok to quit on the spot if it's fine to fire someone on the spot, do you think a single one would say no? With or without two weeks of pay? I don't t
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by wtbob 10y ago
I wonder what you think so far. In particular, I liked the tuple-calculus they define; it can be extended to support just about any permission I can think of (although it does require reversing DNS names, which is slightly ugly). I have a s
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by wtbob 10y ago
There's always Debian! I honestly don't know why someone would run Ubuntu on the server rather than Debian. I did kinda like Ubuntu once upon a time for end-user computing (e.g. laptops & desktops), although eventually I gave
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by wtbob 10y ago
> My former employer was on 365, my new employer is on Google Apps. It's like I've been thrown back into the stone age. Oddly enough, we had exactly the opposite experience when a previous employer went from 365 to Google. The
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Yeah, it's funny how many people look at a country that went from agrarian society to first spacefaring society & 2nd most powerful nation in ~40 years and go "obviously their economic system was an abject failure".
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by wtbob 10y ago
The Red Scare wasn't pure paranoia: it was in reaction to a legitimate threat. The COMINTERN really did want to overthrow the governments of all other countries, and the members thereof really did work towards that goal. https:/
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by wtbob 10y ago
> At the time of the October Revolution, Russia was a largely agrarian society, which henceforth industrialised and developed remarkably quickly under Stalinist Five-Year-Plans, in the midst of the Great Depression. However, it was still
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Yeah, Sam Thayer's comments about racism with respect to eating native plants are what made me want to post this. I hadn't heard that before. They were interesting, but I wasn't convinced. I think it's not so much
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by wtbob 10y ago
> SPKI was deprecated for SDSI No, it's the other way around: SDSI was deprecated for SPKI, which took a lot of its ideas about naming from SDSI. > both of which AFAIK haven't been touched in ~20 years (which is fine by me,
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by wtbob 10y ago
There are practical limits, but lightweight JWTs won't run up against them. Heavyweight ones would, of course.
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by wtbob 10y ago
Ummm, every browser for decades has supported URL parameters. I can't believe that IE breaks with them. Yes, large URLs are an issue, but not with search engines & access tokens, since search engines shouldn't ever see access
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by wtbob 10y ago
What a fascinating article! I wonder if the reaction to it is simply a latex reaction?
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by wtbob 10y ago
I'm excited to see another player in the market for easy, free certificates. I do wonder, though, why StartSSL seems to care so much about ownership of the free certificate market. What value do they derive from it?
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The management myth (2006)(theatlantic.com)
240 points by wtbob 10y ago|155 comments
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by wtbob 10y ago
This … this is awesome. Thanks for sharing!
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by wtbob 10y ago
> There's standard ways to include the JWT in the request body, like form encoding, but that doesn't work for GET requests, so in practice everyone uses the Authorization header. You can include a JWT as an access_token URL par
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by wtbob 10y ago
Yes, it'd be better if JWTs were full-fledged certificates, where ultimate authority could be confined to some offline key, who delegates authority for strictly delimited period to online keys. Or ultimate authority could belong to k
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Yes, I know it wasn't officially decided in an ecumenical council until Trent in 1545 Trent was hardly ecumenical, given that the Eastern half of the œkumene wasn't present:-)

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