john4532452

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by john4532452 5y ago
> I agree that Stallman is probably not the best PR person for the FSF, but that's not what this is about. I truly don't understand this. I am neither autistic or even a 10x programmer. RMS is such a genius dude who can match a
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by john4532452 5y ago
Compile time is the only reason i moved to reactnative. It has some issues, but its well worth to have the fast build cycle.
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by john4532452 5y ago
One source i can show is from his blog post https://web.archive.org/web/20210202083240/https://www.ribbo... > As thoughtless teenagers, we made crude SC/ST jokes. Here’s one: at a urinal in a go
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by john4532452 5y ago
Its important to emphasis one thing about Ribbonfarm. The author wholly supports for Hindu caste system. This is where his arguments come from.
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by john4532452 6y ago
If there anything that Audactity can do which blender can not ? I plan to learn video editing using blender and don't want to learn another tool if blender can do everything Audactiy does.
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by john4532452 6y ago
It reminds me of the quote from SICP whenever i a domain specific languages frameworks etc "Establishing new languages is a powerful strategy for control-ling complexity in engineering design; we can often enhance ourability to deal wi
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by john4532452 6y ago
Mass protests has always overthrown governments. CCP's time is near
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by john4532452 6y ago
Sounds logical. I don't understand the downvotes.
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by john4532452 6y ago
Guns enforce civility. Physically stronger person can not bully a weaker person. The power is balanced. Thanks to technology.
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by john4532452 6y ago
I find it very hard to believe. Could you please provide any citations.
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by john4532452 6y ago
> I think a technocratic single-party system (however terrible for liberty) would have never worked in India. True. Not for the reason of colonialism. In china majority(98% plus) believe they are descendants of the Han dynasty. This unif
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by john4532452 6y ago
This is not even remotely "first world problem". This is a problem that deals with democracy, anti authoritarian and such. > The reason why this product doesn't existing on the market is because because NOBODY (except the
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by john4532452 6y ago
What is this startup about? The company page is dead.
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by john4532452 6y ago
Also, conversely whom Emacs is attracting these days. One interesting data point i came across is this philosophy dude protesilaos.com/ . Amazing youtube videos on Emacs and he has unique view from the point of philosopher for Emacs.
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by john4532452 6y ago
Whats the spec of M1 Mac GPU ?
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by john4532452 6y ago
What special about NT kernel that's not in linux kernel ?
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by john4532452 6y ago
Will the user be able to replace custom BIOS, that is a killer feature no notebook or laptop offers ?
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by john4532452 6y ago
This is really cool. What does 1.5mm keyboard mean ? Does it mean 15mm, because 1.5 mm is too small to feel at the fingers.
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by john4532452 6y ago
Beautifully written. But you mislead. You start by criticizing the Chinese education system and then you say there is no way to verify the story of CCP, so CCP may not be the bad people. That the impression you provide in this post and in r
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by john4532452 6y ago
Thanks for this post. Every support or opposition towards authority boils down to economic incentives. Glad to hear from some one from the inside.
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by john4532452 6y ago
Why foxnews, isn't it very biased ?
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by john4532452 6y ago
This seems cool. Is there an equivalent feature in emacs ?
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by john4532452 6y ago
As an outsider, i wonder what makes people accept the Queen's position in a democracy. Someone said its because in England everybody is related by blood, so the sentiment of a blood line is what makes people accept the Royal Family. Ho
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by john4532452 6y ago
The only way i am aware of to assure no unwanted program is running(virus or not) is using the top "ps -e" command to monitor cpu activity. What if the virus modifies the ps command to hide the malicious process in the output ? Ho
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by john4532452 6y ago
On the bright side due to covid remote work has taken off and it definitely helps to fight ageism. I am merely 40 and have been rejected in the past due to not culturally fit(meaning i am old). Due to covid i have switched jobs remotely, al
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by john4532452 6y ago
VLC is Awesome. Wish the plugin framework has support to capture all the keybindings. For example writing a plugin to delete the currently playing video file using del key is not possible without changing the frontend c++ qt code.
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by john4532452 6y ago
Email is the only practical hope to having a federated communication over internet. Unfortunately gmail and outlook has disproportionate share of email communication which is a threat to the open standards. It is possible to built a federat
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by john4532452 6y ago
Closed source software will not attract talented developers unless a lot of money is poured in to it. It is okay to have closed source, but its not okay to take the contributions of the open source and then later make it closed source.
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by john4532452 6y ago
> It's possible for there to be no good guys in a fight Without Amazon for this would have end up like Qt software .In this case Amazon clearly are the good guys. Although they do it in their self interest, i am glad it happened.
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by john4532452 6y ago
May be you should rethink about being tech lead. Even if they pay you more which would be about at max 20% of individual developer tech lead is not worth it. It limits your future prospects as a developer. As an IC you have far more opportu

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