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541.
by zeveb 8y ago
It's not a fee: you get it back just for showing up to court, whether you're guilty or innocent.
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by zeveb 8y ago
If I leave work for a month, even at full pay, my team will suffer for my absence. Am I willing to burn that social capital? Maybe, maybe not.
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by zeveb 8y ago
Hey, what about the childless? Do folks without kids get to take long-term leave too?
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by zeveb 8y ago
I've found that prelude, at least, isn't too bad, as long as it's not running on my phone. I really like spacemacs (I'd love to get back to using vi keybindings in emacs), but man is it slow. Awfully cool, though.
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by zeveb 8y ago
It'd probably be more common to jump, e.g. using ace-jump or plain old interactive search.
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by zeveb 8y ago
I use eww to browse simple web pages when programming, and notmuch-el to read my email. For git I use Magit, and for Slack I use emacs-slack. As you might imagine, that all runs within emacs rather than vim. In my own case, emacs is runni
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by zeveb 8y ago
Emacs runs on Windows as well as Linux (& on macOS, too). It works fine on the terminal in Android, but you'll want a keyboard, too. In principle you could add special Android bindings for emacs which would make using it without a
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by zeveb 8y ago
I would call that tolerant, as opposed to accepting or celebratory.
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by zeveb 8y ago
I don't think that you're a hypocrite; I think that you're honest about your intolerance. But you're not the only one, and I think that you are an example of our current Zeitgeist, which is — I believe — one of remark
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by zeveb 8y ago
I dislike JSON, but it's a step in the right direction from XML. XML is an inelegant, verbose, over-specified mess, a relic of 90s thinking. JSON is definitely an improvement. HTPP's fine, I guess. It's certainly available
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A Billionaire, a Scandal and What They Say about Power in America(economist.com)
3 points by zeveb 8y ago|0 comments
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Determining which firms "contribute the most total value to the system" is just too hard to be a useful strategy. Yes, it is — which is why we have a free market instead of a central authority trying to determine who contribu
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by zeveb 8y ago
> OK but what does this have to do with the original point? There are plenty of reasons why Apple might want to prevent pirated app stores from being used on their devices: legal, ethical and sure, financial. That was my whole point: onc
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by zeveb 8y ago
> If you consider the hens in the analogy to be companies (rather than people) I think it holds. If you consider a fern to be an alligator then it's an example of a deadly reptile. > We select for companies that can outcompete ot
555.
by zeveb 8y ago
Once someone has bought an iPhone from Apple, it's no longer Apple's phone. Apple no longer owns it. If the owner of the phone (who is, again, not Apple) wishes to trust only Apple-approved software, that is 100% his choice.
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by zeveb 8y ago
> For instance, #3 blinding lights, is easily mitigated by #2 non-ambient/thermal vision. No, because you need to use your susceptible-to-blinding eyes to use the thermal-vision system. Also, of course, the fact that I have blindi
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by zeveb 8y ago
> If you add your CA to the trust store then you can sign your localhost certs. Not necessarily. Google have decided that Android users can't be trusted to install their own certificates. I don't know if Apple will permit it,
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by zeveb 8y ago
It's really not the equivalent of a void pointer, because interface{} is still typed, and you can still interrogate its type, and the runtime prevents you from using it as any type other what it actually is. So it's far safer tha
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by zeveb 8y ago
People always go on about type safety, but in practice it normally doesn't matter. I have an instance of a data structure; I put in items of type Foo; I remove items of type interface{} and immediately cast them to type Foo, and life
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by zeveb 8y ago
It's fascinating to read that article: > Page wanted to know how long it would take to scan more than a hundred-million books, so he started with one that was lying around. Using the metronome to keep a steady pace, he and Mayer pag
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by zeveb 8y ago
That's the problem with autarky. It sounds really awesome: we make everything we use! The problem is that what it really means is that we're not free to choose the best available , but rather must use the best we make .
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by zeveb 8y ago
It's important to note here that Linux's behaviour is broken, plain and simple: /dev/random blocks even if properly seeded, and /dev/urandom doesn't block even if improperly seeded. The Real Solution™ is t
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by zeveb 8y ago
Not to mention that it doesn't work without JavaScript enabled on the client (unless he's generating CSS in server-side JavaScript). That's fine for a true web app (and web apps do have their place), but it's complete
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by zeveb 8y ago
> 170k(170k - 1)(170k - 2) Which is 4,912,913,300,340,000 ≈ 2^52. Fifty-two bits of entropy is pretty horrible for anything that you really care about: you want at least 128.
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by zeveb 8y ago
> If you own a domain and have a webserver running ssl you can distribute your public key in a secure manner. That means that I'd be trusting GUANG DONG CERTIFICATE AUTHORITY and every other CA not to issue a fraudulent certificate
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Sharp tools (2016)(schneems.com)
2 points by zeveb 8y ago|0 comments
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by zeveb 8y ago
> The state and federal government had spent millions of dollars to protect a fish stocking operation that costs Missouri $100,000 a year. Seems like they could have just increased the cost of fishing licenses (or some similar fund-raise
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by zeveb 8y ago
> To generalize, the title can be "What It’s Like to Work Inside Company X's subcontractor." Not just as a subcontractor. I used to work for a very large company, and it was just as bad as a full-time employee (and even w
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by zeveb 8y ago
Back in the day, we had multiple windows on the screen at one time, so this wasn't a problem. I think it was Windows which defaulted to full-screen, and led to the plague of sites assuming that the browser would be full-width on a la
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by zeveb 8y ago
It was, I think, correct until relatively recently. Certainly, the countries of Western Europe of the 80s were, for the most part, each very homogeneous. It's no longer the case (I read today that 1 in 4 Swedish schoolchidren wasn&#x2

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