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by ysavir 6y ago
And when fewer and fewer people are exposed to the donation banners/buttons on Wikipedia because they stop at the Google results page, how will Wikipedia keep running? It might be a non-profit, but donation banners _are_ ads, and denyi
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by ysavir 6y ago
> I admire the police in my country (Finland). They are professional and courteous. This is a great point and one that needs to be heard more throughout this debate. Changing RuboCop's name due to BLM isn't just inserting polit
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by ysavir 6y ago
"Pay us or we share your information with law enforcement". Does this legally qualify as extortion?
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by ysavir 7y ago
Then why write a book? If there's no inherent reason to bind your ideas into a single package (which is done for purposes of selling a single item), how do your ideas benefit from having a book structure? Why not write and format as bl
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by ysavir 7y ago
I get what the argument is saying, but there might still be times where I want to find every mention of a variable within a 3-line block. If that variable is a single letter, and possibly a letter that's used 10-20 times in the code in
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by ysavir 7y ago
While that's definitely better than single letter variables everywhere, I still think an explicit variable name is better. In general, I follow a rule of "If I can't search the file for this variable and find it easily, it&#x
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by ysavir 7y ago
No need. HN has a practice of updating links when appropriate and an upvote system to determine which articles should (or shouldn't) make it to the front page. Banning a source outright because of how some people experience it or feel
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by ysavir 7y ago
> The question you're raising is broader: let's think how many times we send some personal data to our colleagues in Slack, how is it controlled now? are we okay with that? Emails, tokens, and so on. People's existing tend
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by ysavir 7y ago
Not at all. Vue's templating (and angular's) is essentially extended HTML--you're writing HTML _as HTML_, using HTML's native practices (element attributes) to hook into the JS. I disliked this when I first used Angular,
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by ysavir 7y ago
> I don't understand why so many large companies use platform abstractions. At a certain size you're big enough to have an iOS team that develops natively in Swift/ObjC and an Android team developing natively in Kotlin or
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by ysavir 7y ago
> I get the frustration but the only real "solution" to the network effect is to steal the "friend graph" from the other sites and give people an account without them asking for one. If this were true, then Facebook w
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by ysavir 7y ago
The very purpose of JavaScript is to be dynamic and changing. "Primitive" and "Basic" are not apt adjectives, especially when the page in question is entirely static.
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by ysavir 7y ago
I still keep a search bar separate from the address bar. I find it makes things much simpler. The address bar is where I can type in URLs and search through my bookmarks. The search bar is where I enter searches and can explore search histo
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by ysavir 7y ago
I just want to "second" this message. It's an attitude I've adopted and has been highly beneficial. It might seem like an uphill battle at first, with plenty of challenges, but ultimately has none of the challenges once
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by ysavir 7y ago
It was probably lying that got you in this situation in the first place.
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by ysavir 7y ago
Agreed. [A-Za-z] are all the icons I need.
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by ysavir 7y ago
I wouldn't say it's "easier", since random chance of failure isn't a difficulty level, it's a lack of difficulty: Your gameplay has no effect on the outcome. If anything, this is Minesweeper as it should have b
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by ysavir 7y ago
But we already have a solution for the problem: Anchor the dresser to the wall. But people don't, so these companies introduce measures "for safety" by compromising the UX for all their users (can't open multiple drawers
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by ysavir 7y ago
Thing is, "update" to me doesn't mean "update self to have newest content". Especially in the context of what Brew does: version manager for packages. By definition alone I expect it to be taking an action to update
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by ysavir 7y ago
Start writing tests the moment you have something to lose. Earlier if you like, but no later than that moment. Tests are about system integrity. If you risk losing something due to lack of integrity, tests are worth your while. Think of it
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by ysavir 7y ago
I fully agree. And I'm absolutely frightened of buying a car these days. For all I know, it has this sort of wifi-connection built in even if none of the marketing materials or promotional materials mention it. Would the rep I'm t
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by ysavir 7y ago
Do they need to know where they are at every given moment, and collect data on each customer in association with where they're coming from and where they're going? No, they just need to know where they are when: 1. They run a coll
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by ysavir 7y ago
> But Uber is offering a service that by its very nature requires that you expose the service provider to information you may wish to keep private. Uber's ride hailing service, sure. But the same is not true for the scooter and bike
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by ysavir 7y ago
>How on Earth this crap came to be regarded as a piece of "wisdom" is beyond me. It's fairly true on small-scale interpersonal relations. Still true _sometimes_ on large scale, but that shouldn't make it excusable or
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by ysavir 7y ago
* In app library, clear and upfront expectations of what permissions each app uses (as well as an explanation for each permission in the app creator's own words). * In app library, ability to filter apps by permissions required ......
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by ysavir 7y ago
It does, and that is _one_ way in which to export a single node--assuming we're all using this Indieweb blog software. But I have heavy doubts that such software will become the norm, or that it will be the expectation of whatever data
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by ysavir 7y ago
No one is saying we should bar all regulation. But we do need to be careful, and _very_ knowledgeable and intentful, when we pass legislation in this field.
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by ysavir 7y ago
> My blog (kickscondor.com) syndicates all the comments to every post What does this mean?
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by ysavir 7y ago
Yes, but the question is how to achieve portability without infringing on others' privacy rights. If I'm on facebook and want to export all my comments, that would require exporting all the status updates of the people who's
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by ysavir 7y ago
My thoughts exactly. If this becomes reality as described in the article, the only change we'll see is countless new social networks popping up, creating shadow profiles based off of the exported data, and spamming phones and/or e

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