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Self-hosted developer bliss(blog.nootch.net)
2 points by zeveb 8y ago|0 comments
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by zeveb 8y ago
> The guys that wrote this piece have drunk the kool aid of Lisp. It seems to me that 'drunk the kool aid of Lisp' is just a rude way to say, 'I reject their experiences because they differ from my beliefs.'
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Its ability to self-modify creates programs that are almost impossible for people other than the author to understand. That's simply not true. I think the only reason that Lisp is unpopular is the syntax, which is unfortunate bec
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Efail: HTML Mails have no Security Concept and are to blame(blog.hboeck.de)
2 points by zeveb 8y ago|0 comments
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Radio AdBlock(blog.rekawek.eu)
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by zeveb 8y ago
I think it's nearly unarguable that the current market is irrational. The problem is the old adage that the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent, and thus simply shorting it can result in short-term bankruptc
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by zeveb 8y ago
Because interest-free student loans don't necessarily increase an educated workforce; they might also just line the pockets of the academic-industrial complex.
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by zeveb 8y ago
That's why I think what we actually need is domain certificates on the SPKI model, where k of n countries must agree that an entity has the right to use a domain. Anything that the U.S., U.K., Russia, China, Eritrea, Chile, Mexico, Ca
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by zeveb 8y ago
> To my understanding, ASCII basically only covers English and Italian well And German, too: while German does have ä, ö, ü & ß, they may correctly be written as ae, oe, ue & ss.
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Copyleft terms may become unenforceable in 11 countries due to the CPTPP(linuxjournal.com)
270 points by zeveb 8y ago|103 comments
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Why not have a legislature where every member is chosen based on a vote of the whole nation? Because then whichever party currently has the support of the majority of the country would win every seat. Yes, you could do things like sta
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by zeveb 8y ago
> People are already used that in dynamic languages (javascript, python, ruby), you can work with unknown structures in a performant way, and they will be mapped properly to the underlying data model. That's actually one of my conce
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by zeveb 8y ago
IMHO we really ought to repeal the 17th Amendment and return to state appointment of senators. The states need a voice in the federal government, and that voice is supposed to be the Senate. But then, I'd also like to see legislatures
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by zeveb 8y ago
I'll just note, once again, how verbose, unattractive & difficult to parse JSON is compared to S-expressions. Here are several of the examples in the spec in both formats, in order (I've rearranged the field so that required
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by zeveb 8y ago
Society is a large factor in one's upbringing. The vast majority of people attend public schools and consume the same entertainment (TV, movies & sports) as their peers.
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Commercial suicide: integration at the database level(dhickey.ie)
2 points by zeveb 8y ago|0 comments
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Use Emacs Org Mode and REST APIs for an up-to-date stock portfolio(sastibe.de)
121 points by zeveb 8y ago|21 comments
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by zeveb 8y ago
That's where Facebook really has done remarkably well: their users haven't moved on, like the users of AOL, MySpace &c. did. Why not? I don't really know. It could be that Facebook executes well, but it could also be
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Troubled time(os2museum.com)
1 points by zeveb 8y ago|0 comments
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Reading for programmers(codearsonist.com)
3 points by zeveb 8y ago|0 comments
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by zeveb 8y ago
Or S-expressions.
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What's new in Emacs 26.1?(masteringemacs.org)
2 points by zeveb 8y ago|0 comments
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by zeveb 8y ago
I was never terribly fond of GitHub either. I disliked how they somehow became synonymous with open source, and I dislike how people have focused on GitHub rather than software freedom. I also wasn't a fan when they decided to step i
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Thanks to software, the internet and artificial intelligence, the expenses that Coase identified can now be reduced just as well with tools from outside the company as they can from within it. Finding freelance workers via online marke
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Emacs is in a race, not against Vim, but against VS Code and Atom for which editor can be more easily customized. In the long run, it doesn't look good for Emacs. Emacs is extensible in Lisp; VS Code & Atom are extensible in J
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by zeveb 8y ago
> … my personal feeling is the less Javascript in my life the better. I couldn't agree more. But I also feel much the same way about GNOME; that's why I use StumpWM[0]. It doesn't do everything out of the box which GNOME
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Base ten is lit and doing everything in twelve feels so uncivilized … It's actually the reverse: base twelve is more elegant than base ten[0]. The only reason we think otherwise is that we're used to using base ten. 0: ½ in
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Robokiller, which promises incredible results catches 1-2 calls a week, but because the spammers are using SIP spoofing they never actually call from the same number, making it hard to compile a consistent and relevant blacklist. Note
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by zeveb 8y ago
> (c) delete it if asked, unless you have a legitimate reason to keep it. Deleting it if asked might be neither cheap nor possible, depending. What if he has an audit log in his system recording that foo@bar.example attempted registered
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by zeveb 8y ago
Yes, I find his previous 'the GDPR can't impose anything painful on you if you do things correctly' posts to be quite amusing in light of his most recent 'these folks are making things painful, even if you are doing what

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