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by ewolf 2y ago
I have almost the same problem. With Poetry, I managed to work around it using this technique, involving a combination of groups and extras: https://github.com/lucaspar/poetry-torch It's a hacky workaround, but it
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by ewolf 10y ago
> I currently hold a position in an academic lab, where we blend design, research and engineering to study social sciences-related question within large data sets. That sounds very interesting! Care to elaborate?
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by ewolf 10y ago
I strongly agree. Nonetheless, many places aspire to be a second Silicon Valley, and it's certainly worthwhile pointing out how close or far away they are from that goal. In particular, those behind Station F probably want their projec
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by ewolf 10y ago
However, as long as you are not directly affected by any of those, e.g. you are not LBGTQ, you might consider staying to defend LGBTQ rights and thereby have a more meaningful impact. Even if you're not a politician, voting, educating
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by ewolf 12y ago
What ethnicities/races are you talking about here in particular? I suppose African-Americans will probably experience less animosity in Japan than in the US. But I think the ones subject to severe racism in Japan are rather other Asian
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IFind – The World's First Battery-Free Item Locating Tag(kickstarter.com)
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by ewolf 13y ago
Are there any downsides to these free certs? Do they work in all browsers; is there anything that could be better security-wise? If not, than this is exactly what we need to establish HTTPS as the new standard.
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by ewolf 13y ago
> I'd add that though we've adapted to the look of a cursor, the designer in me cringes at the thought of outlined text (though I'm willing to allow that there are probably applications of this that work elegantly; I just
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by ewolf 13y ago
That's strange — I've always had the impression that the battery usage of GPS was the main obstacle for location tracking services, so that any way to sidestep expensive polling would be a greatly welcomed remedy. I can't ima
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by ewolf 13y ago
I haven't used G+' location features a lot so far, but if they are anything like Facebook's, they certainly don't replace Latitude. This comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6019298 ) seems to af
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by ewolf 13y ago
I hope this will give rise to some replacement services; Latitude was actually pretty useful. I'm still wondering why they didn't implement "asking" for locations via push? That would save a lot of battery compared to up
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by ewolf 13y ago
Text in a carousel is a no-go; pausing when hovering is a neat idea, but not possible on touch screens, nor easily discoverable by the average user. Even if the timing is long enough, I still feel stressed out by the fact that I know the te
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by ewolf 13y ago
Not everything that is legal and non-misleading is necessarily moral.
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by ewolf 13y ago
Why wouldn't it be safe? Nuclear bombs don't just explode by accident or when they are hit by something, they need to be deliberately triggered, so I wouldn't estimate the danger of this to be very big. Furthermore, nuclear weapons have bee
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by ewolf 14y ago
There never was any official Google Reader API. Every developer was aware of the risk he was taking when using an unoffical and undocumented API.
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by ewolf 14y ago
The "gaining real traction" part is exactly the issue. Of course, we'd all love our governments to force everyone to learn Dvorak or something similar, but usually, no authority worries about our keyboard layouts, and people just use what o
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by ewolf 14y ago
How is that? Somebody who doesn't know how to touch type is usually having a pretty hard time locating the keys on a QWERTY keyboard. Tactile typing (I just made that name up) doesn't require exact knowledge of the key placement as you need
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by ewolf 14y ago
"Someone smarter than you" perhaps is a bit too bold of a statement, but generally, it is true that using available code should usually be preferred over writing one's own code. It allows you to focus on your main task and spend less time i
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by ewolf 14y ago
Sure, but that will require users to get used to a different layout. Dvorak ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard ) does this. It isn't very popular though, as it's few people want to spend time relearning how to touch t
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by ewolf 14y ago
I just skimmed through the project description, but it seems like they're hiring a developer and don't code it themselves. If you're hiring somebody to build this with great attention to details, I can imagine those 100k being quite reasona
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by ewolf 14y ago
I don't even think so. It's just QWERTY without Y axis, after all. I guess that you'll be accustomed to it after a couple of minutes of typing. What's hard is adapting to entirely different layouts such as Dvorak (which, by the way, could p
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by ewolf 14y ago
Alright, that sounds feasible, albeit being on an entirely different scale.
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by ewolf 14y ago
See my edit regarding the "dark side". You are generally right, but there is at least one example that turned out well despite occasionally taking advantage of illicit maneuvers.
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by ewolf 14y ago
I fantasize about doing that sometimes, but usually, you can't get into politics without being a citizen — either due to legislation or because you won't be accepted as a representative by the population, for obvious reasons. But assuming y
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by ewolf 14y ago
My thoughts exactly. I'm hoping for it to spread to impoverished countries or slums. If the price of production is indeed low, this could be a great chance for them. Then let's hope it doesn't get associated too much with homeless people's
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by ewolf 14y ago
Nope, no installer script. If a program needs installer script (to install drivers etc.), you get a package installer (like on Windows), however, they are rather rare and I've never seen any crapware in those so far.
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by ewolf 14y ago
I think this highly depends on the what you consider "news". Aaron mentioned things you find on the front page — those usually are short pieces of the latest information without much context or in-depth analysis. I don't think he wanted to
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by ewolf 14y ago
"4-week RoR bootcamp in South Lake Union, Seattle." "You do not need to know Ruby or Rails, but it helps if you're familiar with basic programming concepts and tools, like running terminal commands and using a text editor." Admittedly, the
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by ewolf 14y ago
There's Blueseed ( http://blueseed.co/ ) and recently, I read about a planned kind of entrepreneur cruise (I can't find that one right now, perhaps it's organised by Blueseed as well). Neither is intended for families, but in the long run,
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by ewolf 14y ago
He definitely is incredibly good. Did you ever try to fluently speak gibberish? It's pretty hard to come up with something without repeating yourself, not to mention something resembling an existing language.

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