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by zeveb 8y ago
> The vaunted free market that so enamours Silicon Valley and digital utopianists cannot avoid corrupting these companies’ moral cores, apparently. I don't think it was the free market which corrupted their moral cores; it was their
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> Whatever your personal take, it just seems like an all downside and no upside for conferences to continue doing this. I prefer to be addressed as 'Mr. Lastname,' not as 'Yo, Firstname!'; a mechanism for me to indica
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Protecting user accounts when usability matters(littlemaninmyhead.wordpress.com)
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> Labeling people as illegals is merely meant to dehumanize them. No more than labelling those who commit crimes as criminals. Subjects of foreign states — i.e. aliens — who are present illegally are illegal aliens. That's what the
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Considering that Midgley Jr. is (indirectly) responsible for the suffering and potentially death of many humans and other beings Poettering is directly responsible for the suffering of many human beings, as indicated by threads like th
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by zeveb 8y ago
> What you are actually trying to do is to FORCE It's a rule: if you're advocating systemd, you don't get to accuse anyone else of forcing anything.
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After awhile, anyone who deals with Lennart just starts yelling, because he is impossible to reason with. He's very intelligent, and absolutely convinced that his is the One True Correct Right Way. It doesn't matter than hundred
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by zeveb 8y ago
Nuclear war could come (and honestly probably will, someday), and it wouldn't destroy everyone , just many, many people. And of course, if we weren't prepared for it, then anyone who did prepare for it could do as he pleased
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Cooke’s story, about an 8-year-old heroin addict, created an instant sensation—the 1980s equivalent of “going viral”—reprinted around the country and around the world. As DC Mayor Marion Barry and city health and police officials hustl
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The Web is made of edge cases(codepen.io)
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This is something Common Lisp does with its reader macros. There's a global variable FEATURES , which is populated by one's implementation (and so might indicate OS, implementation &c.). When one reads in a file of code, th
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by zeveb 8y ago
Note that raphlinus is … the creator of Inconsolata ( https://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html )! FWIW, I really like Source Code Pro — it's my default font everywhere. Inconsolata is nice, too, but I
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Touch screens in cars are also a huge step backwards in usability from the buttons and knobs they replaced. I'm not sure why the switch happened. Because 'ooh, shiny!' That's my best guess, anyway. Although there
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> About an hour-and-a-half passed, and although I didn't know it at the time the attackers had by now killed almost everyone in the lobby, the restaurant, and on the first and second floors of the hotel. They had rushed through the
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Everyone hates open-plan offices. why they still exist(fastcompany.com)
5 points by zeveb 8y ago|2 comments
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That is the traditional EU approach, c.f. the Constitution of Europe, Treaty of Lisbon and so forth.
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The fact that the SEC can't secure this sort of information is an excellent argument against key escrow and government backdoors into crypto systems: it's completely impossible to prevent leakage or theft of that sort of incredi
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The Fridge Company(fmind.me)
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> Require party primaries to be as open and competitive as general elections. This is the traditional American approach, and for all of its own the failure modes that we've seen since 2013, you can't say that the problem has be
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by zeveb 8y ago
> There are legitimate technical grievances with Electron, but how many time must those be expressed? Every time until it's no longer used. JavaScript delenda est: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11447851 >
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by zeveb 8y ago
> I agree, there is a loud minority who religiously criticize Electron while most desktop apps get written in it. Current GUI programs running on my computers: - StumpWM :: not Electron - emacs :: not Electron - Firefox :: not Electron -
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by zeveb 8y ago
> It's super annoying when you are trying to create a desktop app and you get issues (multiple of them) essentially going "Why are you using Electron? it eats up my RAM, please use X framework and you should be fine" It&#x
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by zeveb 8y ago
> I find this list a little funny, because we do have generic functions, packages, and the ability to extend the reader. But those are all non-standard, right? At least, I quickly skimmed through R7RS & don't see them in there.
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by zeveb 8y ago
I don't mind that Scheme exists, but I do mind that enthusiasts naively use it to build production systems, because they end up wasting time & energy re-implementing things the Common Lisp standard already specifies rather than spe
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Right, so 'open' Gentoo would get forked into a hundred locked down, obfuscated, proprietary flavours with all the same problems. That's the beauty of the GPL: one can't lock down a GPLed distro that way. > In
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by zeveb 8y ago
> And apps that don’t fit those use cases - what are they doing with your device? What I, the owner of my device, have directed them to do. Apple's approach makes easy things difficult (because one must use their APIs) and difficult
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by zeveb 8y ago
Libraries & tools are not aspects of a language's power, but rather of an ecosystem's. A language can make it easier or harder to write libraries & tools, but libraries, properly speaking, postdate the language itself.
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Seems to me, then, that this law punishes the poor who may want easy access to a specific breed, while still allowing the wealthy to do whatever they want. That strikes me as regressive.
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> Any complicated enough monorepo requires complex CI/build tools Any complicated multi-repo setup requires tooling, processes, procedures, cross-repo PRs & issue tracking, &c. &c. &c. The question is: which requires
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Oddly enough, you could s/mono/multi in your post and that would exactly align with my own experience. I'm not kidding: everything from engendering reliance on weird homegrown tooling, CI & build pipelines to the pain

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