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by yunruse 7y ago
The standard argument against this is that it’s not very standardised. “wtde” will give you German Wiktionary no matter what browser you’re on. The cost of adding a code for every use case needed on every browser can get frustrating, wherea
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by yunruse 7y ago
This is dangerously dismissive. Cultural value is subjective, and in any case these articles provide an in-road to other articles, giving the opportunity to expand people’s knowledge further. I would, however, support Wikipedia having ads o
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by yunruse 7y ago
It’s a good tourist attraction, to be entirely fair, it’s just that the extended royal family quickly descends into situations like these. You could also make the argument that profits from royal-owned land – which is handed over to Parliam
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by yunruse 7y ago
There’s no need to quote mental. The idea that it’s “all in your mind” is exactly true, except that, arguably, mental health can at times be more important than physical health. A mentally unhealthy person may be more likely to make physica
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by yunruse 7y ago
Like they said, the two hard problems.
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by yunruse 7y ago
I like this idea, but many users would find it equally annoying to have to manage this. A machine-learning software which tracks usage would be more welcomed, backed up by favourite status / use of password managers to make a good heur
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by yunruse 7y ago
It’s amazing how useful a tool this is arising from a simple wrapper around a clever data structure. This is an absolutely brilliant example of how reducing a tool to its bare minimum can make it powerful without being difficult. Kudos!
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by yunruse 7y ago
If there’s one thing that always annoyed me about the Github commit display it’s that… well, it displays commits, and not a much better (if not perfect) metric such as LoC. Depending on the feature or volatility of the branch my own commits
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by yunruse 7y ago
Indeed. Many companies are affected by the environment, so this tax would serve to directly ensure a long-term cost is also a short-term cost, such that the market does not ignore it.
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by yunruse 7y ago
It wouldn’t, because, I would argue, a modern phone serves as an API to apps, and all of its “features” are a necessity to facilitate its main feature, the apps it serves up. Some must be integrated to provide those APIs effectively (eg sto
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by yunruse 7y ago
I mean… reddit’s app pretty clearly allows NSFW subreddits. You have to check a setting on the web to search for NSFW content, but that’s not actually in-app so it’s a-ok.
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by yunruse 7y ago
That they would even consider such a new technology as a “threat” is a laughable matter, and that they invoke children (i.e. by referencing content blockers) is pure alarmism. That DoH obsfucates DNS logs from the ISP is probably another re
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by yunruse 7y ago
That’s a very narrow view. Machine code is ran in one context – the CPU – with the compiler worrying about this one context. Meanwhile, HTML is parsed by much more than a browser. Like the article says, there is literally zero drawback to b
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by yunruse 8y ago
For those more familiar with elliptic curve cryptography: while this is a rather more generic case, does it have any implication or novelty for EEC?
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by yunruse 8y ago
The problem is and always will be that truth is tricky to define, and “blocking fake news” is immensely easy to exploit for nefarious purposes. Perhaps the better solution here is not to try to block the flood but to manipulate it by using
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by yunruse 8y ago
The problem I think GitHub has is that is has too many proprietary extensions onto the Git format that don’t have an equivalent in the Git format: issue tracking and versions, off the top of my head. I don’t to say blame GH for having an
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by yunruse 8y ago
I’ll bite. I use a VPN every day, and while I will admit freely that it helps for less copyright friendly ventures, it has probably saved my privacy quite a few times, as I am almost always on public networks. In addition, I imagine many us
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by yunruse 8y ago
When you think of money as “intermediary token of value”, this makes a lot of sense. If you have a love of money, you will naturally tend towards whatever has the highest money-in-to-value-out ratio. With Google, however, the user is the pr
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by yunruse 8y ago
Have you tried zxcvbn [1]? It’s a pretty good heuristic, with common names and character replacement built in, alongside the ability to provide a custom dictionary with heavy weighting (eg your user’s names, email, address). [1] https:&#x2
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by yunruse 9y ago
But it is in the EEA. I would imagine the barrier here isn’t legal policy or trade customs but simply currency difference. Since the price-cap charade a few years ago, the Franc has probably lost trust with quite a few businesses.
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by yunruse 9y ago
Which is the colour of all Kerbals in Kerbal Space Program, funnily enough :)
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by yunruse 9y ago
What happened to the EU? Is it not also made of 'non-island nations without border control'? Sure, it has external borders — but only around a whole continent.
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by yunruse 10y ago
Not necessarily. Python objects can declare a `__contains__` function (such that `x in y` corresponds to `x.__contains__(y)`): https://docs.python.org/3.5/reference/datamodel.html#object....
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by yunruse 10y ago
I just donated $100 to OLPC yesterday, so I might be swayed here, but I think laptops still fit the cheap-to-produce educational niche – the newer models have a tablet mode, but a flat tablet couldn't easily hold the wifi antennas need
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by yunruse 10y ago
That's a bit of a shame, in some way. In the same way Hy [0] wraps Lisp's notation style around Python, it would be quite powerful if there was a way to 'wrap' Mathematica around Haskell; being able to combine the two wo
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by yunruse 10y ago
The principle of sending whatever is important, but in reality most modern consumption literally follows the ethos of 'go fast'. Perhaps dropping Websockets helps out; it's a freedom of choice to pick speed over compatibili
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by yunruse 10y ago
If anything, acting arrogant helps maintain any habitual problems you have. If you teach someone something, you have to reword it - which teaches it back you you most of the time, and offers a good third-person view of your work habits.
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by yunruse 10y ago
Approaching problems with a calm (and positive!) mental attitude is a tough life skill, even more so when it's become a life-or-death skill. This is why I really dislike road rage - people take dangerous situations and make them worse,
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by yunruse 10y ago
Someone took "Go Forth and multiply" a little too literally, I would say. (And then the lead developer lived to the age of 184, and begat Unfinished Company Software Port, who caused a stir in the legal department...)
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by yunruse 10y ago
Facebook is not appealing the spam decision and, the spokesperson points out, it has won on hacking so far. The wording of 'won on hacking' is extremely worrying, if it is verbatim. Facebook seem to act here as if they can steam

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