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   by yoran 8y ago

   We migrated from Sendinblue to Sendy like everyone, to save costs. We've sent two newsletters now with Sendy. It works well. However, I dug into the code just out of curiosity and it looks pretty horrible. This doesn't give me too
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   EU rules and regulations that the US doesn't like(twitter.com)

   5 points by yoran 9y ago|0 comments
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   by yoran 9y ago

   I surely hope for them that we don't see a repeat of Segway. Millions and millions in funding to eventually end up being only used by Segway tours for tourists and the odd policeman.
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   by yoran 9y ago

   Just out of curiosity, how does KDE compare to XFCE feature-wise? I am using XFCE for it being lightweight. However, I'd be willing to give KDE a shot if it has some nice features that can enhance my productivity while remaining lightw
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   by yoran 9y ago

   For z-indexes, we're using a slightly an approach that I find a bit clearer: $some-element-z-index: 1 + max( $other-element-z-index, $should-be-below-z-index ); This way the relationship between elements that should be
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   by yoran 9y ago

   There is an [interesting paper]( http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/formal-methods-amazon.p... ) about how they use TLA+ at AWS to find bugs in their algorithms, and eventually prove correctness. So if you use AWS and
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   by yoran 9y ago

   This shows again that the vast majority of corporations are non-ethical entities and only seek profit. Only when their profits are endangered, e.g. backlash from the general public, do they act "ethically".
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   by yoran 9y ago

   This takes me back to the days when I was an embedded software engineer. One day I had to write a Linux driver for a custom piece of hardware the company had developed. I just couldn't get it to work. While trying to understand what wa
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   by yoran 9y ago

   I have to say that this blog has become one of my favorite. It's a great way to stay up-to-date with advancements in the field or to know about interesting things from the past. If you ever read this Adrian, please don't stop!
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    by yoran 9y ago

    I've always wondered why something like BlaBlaCar does not exist in the US. Or why BlaBlaCar does not expand to the US. True, people are more used to taking domestic flights because of distances but I can think of routes, such as betwe
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    by yoran 9y ago

    Looking at you Reddit...
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    by yoran 9y ago

    Thanks for this project! If not for this, I probably wouldn't have read The Communist Manifesto. I wonder, if the translation of a book is in the US public domain, does that imply that the original is also in the US public domain? I&#x
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    by yoran 9y ago

    > That’s why we recently pledged $1 million toward research to better understand the relationship between media technologies, youth development and well-being. Funny that they do their research _after_ they launched Messenger Kids. I wou
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    by yoran 9y ago

    I think this phenomenon is the fundamental problem of any two-party system and is one of the issues in American politics. The "us vs them" feeling is a lot less strong when there are multiple parties. This feeling leads to more di
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    by yoran 9y ago

    True that. I feel like we've really gone backwards on that aspect concerning TV. I remember a time where I could turn on the TV and be 3 channels further all within the space of 2 seconds. Now my "smart" TV takes 5 seconds ju
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    by yoran 9y ago

    I think the link is wrong. It should be https://reporters.io/r/ICO (Cryptocurrency != ICO).
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    by yoran 9y ago

    ...and the company is now taking steps to end the practice after being contacted by Quartz. Classic example of Google's "ask for forgiveness, not permission" mode of operation.
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    by yoran 9y ago

    One example of this is the popular version control system (VCS) called git. Developers could have written this software to work on Windows, but they didn't. They wrote it to work on the command line for Linux because it was the ecosys
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    by yoran 9y ago

    I'm surprised no one has mentioned "the morning paper" ( https://blog.acolyer.org/ ) yet. Some papers are more advanced but a lot I found are definitely approachable. You can subscribe to the mailing list and g
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    'Way too little, way too late': Facebook's factcheckers say effort is failing(theguardian.com)

    3 points by yoran 9y ago|0 comments
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    Glimmer.js Progress Report(emberjs.com)

    5 points by yoran 9y ago|0 comments
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    by yoran 9y ago

    I do. I feel like Mozilla is the only organization that I can trust to provide neutral, unbiased documentation about all the standardized web APIs out there. Plus with GitHub single sign-on it's actually very easy to contribute to or e
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    by yoran 9y ago

    Related to this, this an interesting paper that clarifies how the Great Firewall discovers Tor nodes by doing active probing: https://nymity.ch/active-probing/imc2015.pdf . No deep packet inspection is necessary when yo
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    by yoran 9y ago

    I see your point, and I see I misunderstood the OP's point too. Thanks!
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    by yoran 9y ago

    I see now that I misunderstood his point.
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    by yoran 9y ago

    * I can buy a new Dell laptop with Bitcoin ( https://blog.dell.com/en-us/we-re-now-accepting-bitcoin-on-d... ). * For that laptop I can buy Windows with Bitcoin ( https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/h
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    by yoran 9y ago

    Thanks for this answer!
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    by yoran 9y ago

    Dangerously approaching 2,147,483,647. Let's hope their user ID's are not 32-bit integers :-)
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    by yoran 9y ago

    You poor man, living in a socialist country... (sarcastic of course)
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    by yoran 10y ago

    I wonder why Twitter is doing this? What is their incentive for deleting negative tweets about another unrelated corporation? It's not like Twitter has a stake in United. And would they do it just for money? I know they are turning at