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by zeveb 8y ago
> By that argument, children shouldn't be writing their documents in Word, nor their presentations in powerpoint, nor using computers that contain proprietary intel micro-code in any classes. Actually, I don't think that's
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Instead, there are 51 different state policies. That would be truly remarkable, given that there are only 50 states (the District of Columbia is not a state). I don't know if each U.S. federal polity is governed by different ti
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by zeveb 8y ago
Pity — it works great on Firefox on Android.
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> As for what to move to... That's definitely an open question. Is it really? I find that Linux is an excellent development platform, and also an excellent home-computer OS. I've been using it exclusively in a professional so
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by zeveb 8y ago
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock This is an excellent ad-blocker, available for Firefox, Chrome, Edge & macOS Safari. It's well worth using; the only time I see clickbait is when I use someone else's co
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by zeveb 8y ago
> For me on personal level such unabsolvable deed is killing. By extension I think that army won't be moral untill each soldier comming back from the war is ready to be tried and sentenced for each life he took. We are probably clos
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Authoritarian gambling laws, at least.
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by zeveb 8y ago
> They will if they're all methods of the class (as I said: "along with their callees"). And arguably, all the functions that care about these variables should be methods of a single class. I don't think so: the entir
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by zeveb 8y ago
Reading https://norvig.com/python-lisp.html this morning, it appears that my conjecture is correct: Norvig uses 'object model' to mean something like 'everything is an object,' 'objects have type, v
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by zeveb 8y ago
No need to except Common Lisp here. I typically find it quite easy to understand other programmers' Common Lisp. It's not a difficult-to-understand language, and neither are macros, properly used (and they are indeed rarely im
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Also, he writes 'Python's object model is the same as Lisp's' which makes me think either he doesn't understand object models (really, really unlikely) or that he & I understand the phrase 'object model&#x2
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> The better way to do something like your example is to make 'set-up-request' etc. methods of a class, along with their callees. Then instead of dynamically binding some variables, you instantiate your class with the desired v
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by zeveb 8y ago
Dynamic scoping by default is a bit insane (although not as much as you may think), but optional dynamic scoping is amazing, as it can be used to customise behaviour within a call. E.g. in Lisp one can do something like: (let ((*req
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by zeveb 8y ago
> The only real way to do that is to store the session variable in the URL. And that comes with its own host of issues. There are also cookies, which have their own host of issues. As does JavaScript, as does anything else, really.
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by zeveb 8y ago
You can buy things online just fine without JavaScript. Forms have been around for ages, and require no client-side code (they do require server-side smarts, and for security they require encryption).
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by zeveb 8y ago
The web works perfectly well without JavaScript: HTML still displays text & images fine, links still work properly &c.. Now, a whole host of things which aren't the web will break, but honestly that's okay.
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by zeveb 8y ago
> It doesnt work, with a per-year failure rate of at least 10%. That's on par with condoms, which per Planned Parenthood have an effective annual failure rate of 15%[0]. Oddly, folks don't eye talk of condoms with suspicion. 0
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Two years with Emacs as a CEO (and now CTO)(blog.fugue.co)
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The new Indium (a JavaScript development environment)(emacs.cafe)
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by zeveb 8y ago
I think that the real advantage of something like this is that it provides a minimal template to follow if one wants to start writing a window manager in one's language of choice (assuming that language already has some X bindings). O
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by zeveb 8y ago
> So are MacBooks. I wouldn't consider a MacBook competition for one of these, because a MacBook doesn't cleanly run Linux. Maybe something from Purism?
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by zeveb 8y ago
Chris Wellons wrote elfeed and has a day job; I think he's making progress enough. There's absolutely nothing wrong with having a hobby.
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by zeveb 8y ago
That doesn't really sound far-right or populist to me: he was in favour of immigration, and naturalising the descendants of immigrants, which was a particularly progressive idea back when nationality and ethnicity were so tightly bound
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by zeveb 8y ago
> All of the big resorts in Las Vegas are going through a period of change regarding security. It's been a very traumatic 10 months for that industry in that location. The thing is, they don't need to be going through a change.
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by zeveb 8y ago
> I think most tech companies severely overestimate the cost of false positives, particularly in the USA where it’s trivially easy to fire someone who turns out to be a dud. I don't think that's actually true. People who are n
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Apple has had iCloud backup for some time now, including cloud camera rolls. I believe Apple have the ability to read any data in an iCloud backup. The data on my phone include my password file, encrypted with an easy-to-type-on-a-scr
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by zeveb 8y ago
Sounds very appealing, but combine Intel ME with the fact that the laptop is made by a Chinese firm and the fact that Lenovo has previously snuck spyware onto its machines — I don't think one can really trust it to be secure, even ru
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by zeveb 8y ago
I think it really does boil down to the license: Apple absolutely hate copyleft, so they poured money into Clang. It's sad, really — look how old the bash & emacs are in macOS these days. And I really don't think that copylef
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Can you give recent examples of prior administrations doing this in the executive branch? From https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2017/08/03/un... > Jeffrey R. Brown and Jiekun Huang
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by zeveb 8y ago
And, indeed, much of the article's solid evidence is from Mr. Obama's administration. That's not to excuse the appearance of self-dealing in President Trump's administration, of course.

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