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by zeveb 8y ago
> What could they possibly be doing that makes not abusing a handful of user's privacy an insurmountable issue? Storing their HTTP logs on archived CD-ROMS would be a violation of the GDPR, unless that same mom-and-pop operation off
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Some low-cost Android phones shipped with malware built in(techcrunch.com)
2 points by zeveb 8y ago|0 comments
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by zeveb 8y ago
You know what the world really needs? A way to share text & optionally images with users across the net, without requiring them to execute untrusted & possibly-broken code. /s
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Given that Apple - as a private company - is the owner of iOS, no one can blame them for what they wish to include/exclude from their ecosystem. Apple may own their property, but iOS-device owners own their devices, and Apple have
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How much would I have to pay you to quit Facebook?(timharford.com)
1 points by zeveb 8y ago|0 comments
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by zeveb 8y ago
> That sounds similar to what we have now (with their cable channel, accompanying website, app, Twitter, etc) but the technical details and delivery mechanisms ended up being totally different. I think the really key thing here is that g
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by zeveb 8y ago
> The trouble had started in 1986, when General Motors announced it would close seven plants in the area, starting a depression.Thousands of workers were laid off, and families began to flee the area in search of jobs. In 1987, Money mag
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by zeveb 8y ago
I think using all-caps is ugly-as-hell: (DEFUN hello-world () (FORMAT T "Hello, world!~%"))
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by zeveb 8y ago
scsh was definitely awesome, and it's not really practical in Common Lisp[0], due to Lisp's unfortunate choice to upcase all symbols. Made sense at the time, but in retrospect I think it was a mistake. It's a real pity that
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by zeveb 8y ago
I disagree — security is a sina qua non for a functioning system. Leaking information between different processes is simply incorrect, even on a single-use system.
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Peach-Melpa.org, a showcase for emacs themes(peach-melpa.org)
2 points by zeveb 8y ago|1 comments
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Implementing Python's f-strings in elisp(kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu)
1 points by zeveb 8y ago|0 comments
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by zeveb 8y ago
Waterfall was a strawman, used in a paper as an ideally-bad project management strategy. The name was chosen on purpose to describe its fatal flaw. Our industry being rather foolish, people read the paper and thought, 'hey, this sound
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by zeveb 8y ago
As a webmaster, I have an absolute right to carve '192.0.2.7 requested /foo.html from me' into stone and store it for posterity. The GDPR prohibits me from doing that, and in fact requires that I have the ability to rewrite h
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Personally when I see a boxing match and see somebody hit in the face it hurts me. I think that's called empathy. It's also empathy to see someone hit someone well and feel the flush of success. I'm not athletic, and hav
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Not one southern city industrialized. There's also the climate of the South to consider — until the invention of air-conditioning, factory work in the South would have been at a significant disadvantage. Malaria, too, was an issu
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by zeveb 8y ago
The trouble is that Europe isn't great either: many European countries recognise the rights to free speech & arms-bearing in limited ways, and their governments don't necessarily do a great job with respect to privacy, either.
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by zeveb 8y ago
In the future, I believe that we're going to consider using Electron to create pseudo-native applications a code smell.
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Rich or poor, holy or not, food changed according to the season. Tha's true. > Vegetables were only available at certain times of the year. The rest of the time it would be a combination of bread (grain) and meat. That's n
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You may not need WebSockets(sipsandbits.com)
3 points by zeveb 8y ago|0 comments
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by zeveb 8y ago
I was serious about using a decentralised version-control system & structured text files. I was semi-serious, semi-joking about how wonderful it'd be for everyone on a team to use emacs. It really is the best editor in existence,
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by zeveb 8y ago
> I always failed to use it when collaborating with others without finding myself with a huge amount of duplication with JIRA, Trello, or whatever collaborating tool is being used. You could always try to convince everyone else to use or
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by zeveb 8y ago
> It's classic Tragedy Of The Commons. It's not a tragedy of the commons unless something artificially prevents banks from charging a profitable rate for loans. If no other bank is doing business there, and if any bank which
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It's the future (for databases)(citusdata.com)
3 points by zeveb 8y ago|0 comments
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by zeveb 8y ago
While it's true folks argue that it doesn't really matter (evidence: the section 'Arguments why it doesn't matter' on that page), I'll counter-argue that they're wrong. Scheme simply isn't the same
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by zeveb 8y ago
> I've always got the impression that micro-services are a bad idea most of the time, apart from sometimes where they're not. I'll argue that if you're building something, you should probably build it as a monolith,
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by zeveb 8y ago
WebAssembly isn't a higher risk than JavaScript — what's a higher risk is increasing the use of JavaScript and/or WebAssembly. I fear that in the not-too-distant future web pages will simply be blobs of WebAssembly which pa
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Basically, he started a political project that produces software furthering his political views. A political software project that produces software furthering his political views about software . > You like the software, but dis
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by zeveb 8y ago
It's wonderful to use in emacs, and back before I started using emacs ISTR that pinfo was a great way to read info. I used to hate how GNU manpages would point me at the info docs, but honestly nowadays I prefer info. It really is nic
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by zeveb 8y ago
> These companies are marketing companies and marketing drives everything. This is a huge problem with our society. Marketing is important, but when it takes over it destroys companies, people and eventually society itself. We see it

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