LaRakel

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by LaRakel 8y ago
It's more that there a lot more factors than quality, like there being no competing projects or it being useful to a lot of people. Writing a quality project only gives it better odds than if the same thing was written shoddily.
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by LaRakel 14y ago
They'll be using chromium to some extend, that doesn't mean it's going to be a chromium browser that's exactly like Chrome, Yandex, Torch, SRWare and what have you. That is what you seem to imply. As you probably know "some stuff on top of
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by LaRakel 14y ago
You're right. Still I can compare doing web development using ruby on rails with doing it in php without a framework. I've done both, rails was much more pleasurable. See? I just compared the overall experience of a language with that of a
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by LaRakel 14y ago
You can't skim over audio recordings
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by LaRakel 14y ago
The benefit is that the electricity bill goes to the owners of the infected computers. What does a botnet cost?
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by LaRakel 14y ago
There are bitcoin exchanges using various methods, for example by SEPA bank transfer. I think many people without credit cards can use Paypal but don't want to.
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by LaRakel 14y ago
Whether or not you keep using a service, it's good to voice your opinion on bad policy, because every so often a company listens to its users. Besides marketshare, bad press has an impact as well. Leaving a service is NOT the only way of pr
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by LaRakel 14y ago
I do interpret what you wrote as a slightly less sensitive version of "If you don't like it, then leave," type of comment. That type of comment is doesn't say anything, there's no real argument in it. It's simply dismissing criticism. You c
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by LaRakel 14y ago
I get loads of "opportunities", by HR people from employment agencies that never even had contact with the company they'll be presenting me to. By comparison, companies doing the same thing isn't that bad.
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by LaRakel 14y ago
Pseudonymity for everyone helps the ones who do need it, because then they don't stand out. If you're not part of any minority or have no radical politics, yeah you might not need it. But even then, you would want the comfort of the adverti
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by LaRakel 14y ago
Don't go to work and abandon your family! That book won't write itself. Think positive!
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by LaRakel 14y ago
According to that same TOS, users outside the US and Canada are giving their data to Facebook Europe in Ireland. So they have to follow Irish law, which they don't. Europe's Data Directive applies to all users outside of the US and Canada.
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by LaRakel 14y ago
html5? how irrelevant. The only thing html5 about this is the doctype, a header and a footer tag. The maps are svg not canvas.
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by LaRakel 14y ago
>"doesn't know what it wants to be" You could just as well say that about smartphones.
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by LaRakel 14y ago
Yeah, that's the basic idea behind both permaculture and aquaponics: Build a tiny ecosystem that can sustain itself with as little input as possible (and like all agriculture, obviously with useful output like food as well).
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by LaRakel 14y ago
Europe is doing it's best to weaken social security as well, they can't afford to take care of people who have no job. "flexicurity" is an eupheumism invented by the EU for the central neoliberal tenet "you are now a product". It's not only
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by LaRakel 14y ago
That's patent nonsense in Belgium as well, true some companies do care. But I've often seen the opposite, they don't care at all what degree you have. They care if you can pass _their_ test. Because obviously they're better at testing peopl
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by LaRakel 14y ago
There's no personality cult around any CEO like there was around the Steve.
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by LaRakel 14y ago
>More troubling for American officials is their belief that these vessels could be used by terrorists to transport attackers or weapons, though they emphasize that no use of submersibles by militants has been detected. When in doubt, te
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by LaRakel 14y ago
Tags in comments already exist, most common are probably TODO, FIXME and NOTE.
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by LaRakel 14y ago
It's not theft, they just found it on the floor and used it.
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by LaRakel 14y ago
Because clearly, they lie about what their products can do.
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by LaRakel 14y ago
Those are two keys. Key codes are not character codes. Keycodes don't change if you switch to another keyboard layout. Key combinations don't have separate codes. In code you could listen for keydown on the code for shift, and then for the
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by LaRakel 14y ago
Really? I found it rather easy to use compared to say, GIS.
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by LaRakel 14y ago
Creating tests usually feels like a waste of time as well.
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by LaRakel 14y ago
When there's obviously no neonazi intentions there's nothing wrong with swastikas. Red black and white are pretty basic colours, you can't suggest that either. There's something wrong with the people who'd make such conclusion, and not self
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by LaRakel 14y ago
Also .aq and a few islands that are part of bigger countries. Those little exceptions don't invalidate the rule, and the request won't get accepted.
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by LaRakel 14y ago
Aren't two letter domains reserved for countries?