apotheon

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by apotheon 4y ago
That was the beginning of what I came here to say (to be followed by some other stuff that already got said). step 2 of any analysis: project forward You did this well.
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by apotheon 4y ago
This also seems like a great way to get everyone to leave. If what I wanted was a B2B platform, I wouldn't choose one with a history of suddenly changing its policies and only giving one week to catch up. In fact, it's often much
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by apotheon 5y ago
Okay, solution: teach the person to use a computer first
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by apotheon 5y ago
I've had great experiences with pair programming (and also bad experiences, but this is assuming a great experience), and I'd still want code review. The benefits can actually stack, if not compound, often enough.
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by apotheon 5y ago
EPUB would beat the shit out of PDF for that. (EPUB is basically a subset of HTML with client-oriented context.)
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by apotheon 5y ago
Turning PDFs into the replacement for HTML would change the incentives around PDF authoring, and PDFs would then acquire the same problems identified with HTML. The solution to the identified problems is not to switch to PDFs. Stop reshuff
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by apotheon 5y ago
You can write HTML pages to be self-contained and offline-friendly. You can write PDFs to include resources that are not part of a single, self-contained file, and to be quite unfriendly with offline use.
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by apotheon 5y ago
> why not have the option for something static You have the same option with either HTML or PDF: - PDF files can be dynamic or static, depending on how you write them. - HTML files can be dynamic or static, depending on how you write the
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by apotheon 5y ago
PDFs are capable of the same issues.
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by apotheon 5y ago
It's possible to write PDFs that don't "work" (for some useful definition of "work" similar to the case with HTML) offline. Please stop pretending that's not true. The reason offline utility tends to be t
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by apotheon 5y ago
Why does it seem like almost everyone doesn't realize that PDFs can easily be made to support all the horrors we see in HTML? No, it's fucking well not impossible -- or even notably difficult -- to jam some malicious dynamic code
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by apotheon 5y ago
I actually dislike HTML per se, but the only two benefits I see for PDFs in the general case are: - In my experience, it's a little harder and rarer to make PDFs utterly incompatible with different means of viewing them, and it general
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by apotheon 5y ago
> > Sure, you can write good HTML. A key here is that it's easier to write good HTML docs than good PDF docs, and much harder to deal with the harmful aspects of PDF docs given present technology. > Which is interesting! Do yo
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by apotheon 5y ago
"A bad remedy to a genuine problem does not yield a solved problem."
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by apotheon 5y ago
Those points can be trivially met with static HTML and something like IPFS, and you can still download HTML for local storage and viewing. You can even print to PDF if you really want to do so. Meanwhile, PDFs also allow dynamic files,
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by apotheon 5y ago
It seems to have been 2017 (hopefully I recall the year correctly), by transfer of legally owned/registered assets (all that comes to mind immediately that was under non-volunteer ownership is a couple of servers and a domain name or t
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by apotheon 5y ago
I guess that makes her closer in time and space .
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by apotheon 5y ago
Just for the sake of those who might misunderstand this comment: She wasn't a "Civil War widow" per se. She was not widowed by the death of her husband in the Civil War. She was seventeen years old in 1936, and married a ni
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by apotheon 5y ago
From some of the discussions I've seen, it looks like part of the MobileCoin strategy is to shit-talk Monero as a way to build hype for MobileCoin, and claim all prior art came directly from CryptoNote while ignoring the fact it's
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by apotheon 5y ago
I'm pretty sure that's just a buzzword for "revenue model", which is to say a plan for how it will make money. The charitable interpretation in this case would be "how to keep devs on the job and not homeless&quot
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by apotheon 5y ago
Ideas, protocols, and (except perhaps in the post-Oracle-Java world) interfaces can still be copied. A lot of open source software actually does exactly that with ideas, protocols, and interfaces from closed source software. What makes ope
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by apotheon 5y ago
The real complaint from the surveillance police state is that people use encryption for privacy -- whether it's basic communications privacy (end-to-end encrypted text and voice) or basic financial privacy (cryptocurrencies that aren&#
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by apotheon 5y ago
That's exactly what GNU did. GNU can take changes from software produced by others under copyfree licenses and wrap it in a copyleft license, then the projects from which it borrowed can't borrow-back the GNU changes because of l
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by apotheon 6y ago
How about "copyfree"? https://copyfree.org https://copyfree.org/standard (I also consider anything that fits the Open Source Definition to be "open source" and differentiate things actually a
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by apotheon 6y ago
> It isn't clear neither What?
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by apotheon 6y ago
Open source? Where's the license?
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by apotheon 6y ago
That's an interesting interpretations. I was under the impression the Kansas reference was basically an insult both to the direction of society and Kansas, but then I wasn't sure how that fit in with the claims about what sciences
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by apotheon 6y ago
. . . and yet, if you wanted to improve your ability to make such predictions about society, social sciences would be a better bet than chemistry. Prediction, absent supernatural aid, requires understanding.
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by apotheon 6y ago
Finance? WTF? I'm guessing you had one of those "what's the word, uh . . . not finance, but that'll do" moments. We all have those. Just to ensure we're all clear here, though: Finance is about navigating t
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by apotheon 6y ago
I get a 403 error. While I'm here, I'll just point out that the "G" in RPG stands for "game".

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