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by zeendo 12y ago
Forget the connotation 'horrific'. Are you asking why we should work to stop this behavior? Pardon me for assuming but here are my thoughts - Because it's literally systematically oppressive. This behavior makes an entire gen
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by zeendo 12y ago
Davmail was a lifesaver for me in the past. My current client however uses Office365 but authentication happens against the client's AD and that seems to prevent Davmail from being able to log in.... :/
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by zeendo 12y ago
Do specific experiences with ThoughtWorks or Accenture make you say this or are you just lumping them together because "consulting" ?
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by zeendo 12y ago
In the last 5.5 years I've been using git I haven't met one person who used a GUI when learning it. I've taught several people how to use git and seen many others learn on their own....all no-GUIs. This experience spanned a v
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by zeendo 12y ago
JRuby interops fine with Java. Any specific thing you might be curious about? One example is Rack applications are hosted by Java web containers Just Fine via a server -> Rack mapping. We use this in production for both a Sinatra app and
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by zeendo 12y ago
"wild assumptions" ? That's a bit hyperbolic, no?
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by zeendo 12y ago
The research priorities document should be read first... http://futureoflife.org/static/data/documents/research_prior... without that the open letter makes almost no sense. The open letter is really just a wa
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by zeendo 12y ago
If you read the linked research priorities document you can see that this isn't really about "general AI techniques"...it's about steady progression along the lines of things that exist but aren't necessarily to mar
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by zeendo 12y ago
That first issue isn't really generally fixable, is it? At least, not for a web-based proxy like this. SOME effort could be made to rewrite URLs found inside of Javascript but that might be a terrible idea in practice.
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by zeendo 12y ago
Agreed. Gavin's post didn't seem to acknowledge that this was a proposal and seemed to belittle the work put into it...but I found Brian's overly defensive (though I agree with his conclusion). Having seen Brian's stewar