majika

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by majika 11y ago
My reasons are made clear in the README. I don't want to contribute to nonfree software. It's pretty simple. Businesses who want to use my work in nonfree software are welcome to get in touch to negotiate such a license. IMHO, for
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by majika 11y ago
My solution is to write Jinja templates of C source files: https://github.com/mcinglis/libarray Libarray (and my other C libraries; Libvec etc) have served me very well on a 20k LOC project. With ~150 source files, the
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by majika 11y ago
I would suggest working on how to improve your Python tooling; Vim with Jedi, or PyCharm are both great options. I think Python's module semantics are harder to use and understand, but when you know how to wield them (or reading the co
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by majika 11y ago
To me, this sounds like a failure of your tooling rather than the code you're reading. Vim with Jedi, PyCharm and PyDev can all jump straight to definitions. What's your development environment? I'll use `from <module>
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by majika 11y ago
If we accept: - that there's only one class of "humanic" intelligence; - that we can approximately represent instances in this class of intelligence as vectors of {memory, learning speed, computation speed, communication spee
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by majika 11y ago
This is really cool (I've been wondering how to do a string-switch for a while now), but I don't think getopt is a great use case, because getopt still results in imperative argument parsing and this always results in pain. I&#x27
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by majika 11y ago
What the web is increasingly unable to do today: provide text content without requiring a code execution environment. This site is another example of that. All non-application websites should provide all their content in semantic HTML at
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by majika 12y ago
To read this without JavaScript, you can get the post text from the (current) top of the RSS feed: http://blog.achernya.com/feeds/posts/default The source code of the (unfinished) shell is at: https://g
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by majika 12y ago
I didn't find this video helpful at all. You have to skip 10 minutes ahead to get to the actual talk. The talk is stunted and, as always with Rust documentation, dwells only on the basics. Audio isn't clear, but neither is the spe
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by majika 12y ago
I used Thunderbird and Enigmail for a year or so. I later moved to Evolution for the better GPG experience (no flickering on opening the message as there is with Enigmail) and better GNOME integration. I used Evolution for another year, but
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by majika 12y ago
Your electricity usage patterns are enough to determine your schedule, especially if you have electric water heating. Browse through some systems at PVOutput.org until you find one that publishes power usage data; you can usually see when t
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by majika 12y ago
For some reason, the author disallows people from viewing pages on his site without running scripts from his domain and from jquery.com. You can get around this by opening up your web inspector, and disabling the `hidden: true` rule on the
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by majika 12y ago
Aside your abstract commentary here is a defense of your argument that the web will lose something valuable if more sites stop directing their visitors' browsers to send requests to advertizing companies and CDNs for resources. I think
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by majika 12y ago
I've found ABP's filters to be sporadic in their effectiveness. Open up the network inspector tab and browse to theguardian.com and others - look through what cross-site requests are still getting through. I detail what I use in t
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by majika 12y ago
My first sentence does not imply that he's speaking for Google, or other Google employees. cromwellian is an employee of Google, and I would regard his opinion here as being contemptuous of privacy. Edit: okay, I see the implication no
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by majika 12y ago
And here we see the contempt for privacy that some employees of Google hold. What would you regard as private, pray tell, if it's not being able to access a web page without telling Google (and other advertizing companies) that you&#x2
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by majika 12y ago
I use NoScript and Policeman on Firefox, with conservative settings (disallow all active content (scripts, fonts, WebGL), whitelist-only cross-site requests). I've also configured Firefox to block cookies by default; only permitted sit
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by majika 12y ago
> This kind of censorship has nothing to do with being a nanny state. ... Is China a nanny state? North Korea? Saudi Arabia? Eritrea? What about the continent-spreading empires of the last century that were run by mustachioed gentlemen,
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by majika 12y ago
Can I publish a link to this page on my website? Or is this link now illegal in Australia? What about a link to this HN submission? This is ridiculous. Unfortunately, authoritarianism is the norm in Australia; we are the quintessential nann
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by majika 12y ago
Sorry to hear that; that's terrible :-( I'm from Brisbane, but am currently overseas (I'm going home soon!). My only contact who could (maybe) hire someone has just left the country for a few weeks. What experience do they ha
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by majika 12y ago
This is terribly antithetical to the principles of the Internet, but... the interlacing is very clever, even though it doesn't look right on my browser (shimmering black). I could solve the invisible wall demo trivially (Inspector >
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by majika 12y ago
If you look at the projects from IndieWebCamp people, you'll see they're about much more than just static HTML sites. They're working on tools that enable social networking based on simple standards-based websites - similar t
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by majika 12y ago
The web is a decentralized social network; everyone should have their own website, owning their data and content. Feeds (authenticated and public) can replicate the explicit social graphs of Twitter, Facebook et al. Regrettably, setting up
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by majika 12y ago
I don't use Twitter because I don't want to support centralized social networks, but I publish to my website much the same as others use Twitter - short links, notes, occasional blog posts: http://minglis.id.au/ I
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The OpenAustralia Foundation(openaustraliafoundation.org.au)
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by majika 12y ago
The "Try It" section doesn't load without cookies/localStorage enabled. Having run-time state should be fine for tracking where someone is up to on the tutorial; persistent state shouldn't be necessary.
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by majika 12y ago
> 1. Inconsistent laws in a small geographical area. Having different window tinting laws is a good example of the kind of baseless legal inconsistency that could harm a region's competitiveness. If the states of a region could not
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by majika 12y ago
Yup, very true. I just wrote this in a comment down another branch: > The key point for smaller states, in my opinion, is that their constituents care. I feel like people are more apathetic in larger states, because they have less power
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by majika 12y ago
> Several highly lucrative drugs came from bio research conducted in the rainforest. That research was probably conducted in rainforests protected as a national park, right? At least, I highly doubt that the pharmaceutical companies actu
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by majika 12y ago
I apologize: I was using libertarianism in the modern American sense to refer to anarcho-capitalism.

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