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by bluefox 5y ago
Not everyone has an email address associated with their account, or want one. Anyway, since such requests are apparently ignored here, my password is "bluewave". Have fun.
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by bluefox 5y ago
Indeed, it's common nowadays to label things (ideas, people, etc.) in order to frame them in a way that's convenient to the labeler and helps him advance his agenda. I think given the global situation, some people become more sens
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by bluefox 5y ago
So you're saying he also had to document his code? Maybe make a pull request. Every developer is responsible for what goes into his project, including dependencies. When a developer wants to update a dependency, he is responsible for
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by bluefox 5y ago
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by bluefox 5y ago
Yeah, I was a GitHub user in 2008. Though it obviously had a social aspect, it wasn't considered a "social network" type of site. Its ongoing transformation into one is a result of the acquisition by Microsoft.
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by bluefox 5y ago
I take it you've never read a virus magazine like, say, 40Hex or 29A? What is "malicious code" anyway? Maybe Microsoft Windows is malicious. It does contain code to format your disk.
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by bluefox 5y ago
You are saying "scary", but I think "alarming" is more appropriate. It's an alarm that should be buzzing through sleepy programmer skulls. It should alert them to the fact that it's no longer the small company
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by bluefox 5y ago
This sounds good, but what about discoverability? There should probably be a way to merge project lists on various forges into a potentially huge index that can be browsed and searched, independently of each particular forge. Maybe it alre
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by bluefox 5y ago
1. thaumasiotes is __________. 2. everyone likes being __________, but... 3. ... not everyone likes criticism, even when it's __________. 4. therefore, often HN comments are downvoted despite being __________.
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by bluefox 5y ago
ICANN is a fat American corporate body. At some point ISLANNDs (Internet Small Local Authority for Name and Number Designations) could override it. That way, you could link to http://google.lol/posts/39-put-google-in-t
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by bluefox 5y ago
http://www.lotgd.net/
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by bluefox 5y ago
It doesn't mean everyone is making a request to a website every minute. I use http://gwene.org/ for example. To me RSS or Atom are a major success, as the blogs I want to read almost always seem to have them. Those
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by bluefox 5y ago
Solutions involving companies paying directly to the people whose code they use miss the point. The reason is that software shared with the world is often shared out of passion and idealism. If only code that's useful to some companie
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by bluefox 5y ago
I could've predicted that. Maybe because I am living in the future (without manipulation).
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by bluefox 5y ago
I clicked "Yes" and it does nothing. Maybe because I have JavaScript disabled.
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by bluefox 5y ago
Maybe businesses should pay a tax that goes into paying a respectable universal basic income. That would make it easier to develop and maintain such software, and it would make it easier for people doing other things besides software develo
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by bluefox 5y ago
You can also write useful software without getting paid. Simply don't share it. Indeed, that's one way to spend your time when you're not seeking employment.
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by bluefox 5y ago
This is very cool stuff, thanks!
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by bluefox 5y ago
Yes, I know. I thought about it after I posted. I wanted to emphasize that "web" can be a small part of Internet use, so a browser's importance is placed in a wider perspective. The rest of my comment talks about its impor
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by bluefox 5y ago
The article says that if you care about the web, you should care about Firefox. I disagree, because my "web" is probably not Batsov's "web". What is "the web" for me? Well, I'd say it's IRC, to
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by bluefox 5y ago
Sounds like a new Soviet Union.
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by bluefox 5y ago
You told sushsjsuauahab that he/she is a small minority of people. I'm sure that makes sushsjsuauahab and others who have their own (gasp) reasons not to get the vaccine feel better... See, it's this one-size-fits-all dictum
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by bluefox 5y ago
You can't outlaw math, but you can make outlaws of people learning, using, or teaching math. You are saying the Clipper chip "didn't work", and that's true, but it wasn't "last time". Since then, man
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by bluefox 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Erikson#Erikson's_theory_... Welcome to stage 7. (Don't mind the age ranges, which shift with time and place.)
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by bluefox 5y ago
It's not just science, but also technology and other areas of research. Bigco throws money at some technological choices (think programming languages, or methods of machine learning, or fields like distributed computing, cryptography)
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by bluefox 5y ago
Right, though I'm not sure it's easy to infer an ordinary function's return type from this kind of declaration. Speaking of return types, do you have any idea if any implementation takes a generic function's return type
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by bluefox 5y ago
If you want to declare that the function takes a fixnum and returns a fixnum, you can use a function type declaration: (declaim (ftype (function (fixnum) (values fixnum &optional)) foo)) Of course, if you pass a fixnum and the re
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by bluefox 5y ago
Thanks. > Since then, the npm security team has removed all the compromised coa and rc versions to prevent developers from accidentally infecting themselves. Removing all trace of evidence is not something "security teams" sho
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by bluefox 5y ago
Is the advisory genuine? It links to the github repo, where the latest commit is from 2018 for version 1.2.8. It links to npmjs page, that shows 48 versions, where the latest version is 1.2.8 from "3 years ago". Yet it has 1.2.9&#
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by bluefox 5y ago
BitTorrent existed since 2001. Get on with the times.

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