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by prance 8y ago
I agree with your reasoning. Also, particularly > software freedom, which in turn is a tool to protect user freedom is AFAIK an assumption, or has this ever been proven? I mean, isn't it entirely possible that helping software start
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by prance 8y ago
Well, I care, to some extent. Like many other things, it can be used as a filter. At the least, lacking other demonstrable evidence (such as open source or industry experience which can be confirmed by referrals), a finished master or PhD s
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How blockchain can grow small business by Ndemo, head of KE Taskforce on BC+AI(businessdailyafrica.com)
1 points by prance 8y ago|0 comments
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by prance 9y ago
The thing you're missing is that in order to achieve scaling, Lightning Network sacrifices one of Bitcoin's main advantages, decentralization: https://medium.com/@jonaldfyookball/mathematical-proof-that-...
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Maramoja has a different take on the ride-hailing market in Africa(techcrunch.com)
2 points by prance 9y ago|0 comments
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by prance 9y ago
The big difference is that jpeg creation with default parameters works fine for probably > 99.9% of use cases. A jpeg encoding the picture of a car will be just as fine as that of a cat. This is not at all the case with the current state
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by prance 9y ago
Incidentally, I also installed Opera Mini on my iPhone, living in Nairobi. However not because of data concerns, but because it allows me to access Facebook private messages without having to install any of the Facebook apps.
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Profiling Internet Users in Africa: Insights from the Google Play Store(afridigest.com)
35 points by prance 9y ago|2 comments
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The Macroeconomics of Venture Capital(hackernoon.com)
2 points by prance 9y ago|0 comments
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by prance 9y ago
> Patterns do fit stereotypes perfectly. No they don't. "Stereotype" is a psychological concept, and therefore by definition incorporates human subjectivity. There are various conflicting definitions, but most include the
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Kenya’s newest tech hubs are sprouting outside its “Silicon Savannah” in Nairobi(qz.com)
2 points by prance 9y ago|0 comments
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by prance 9y ago
> accents and other similar markings changes the pronunciation and meaning of words Yes. In some languages those are actually not "markings" but denote proper letters, like in German ä,ö,ü and ß. But even if not, like in French
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by prance 9y ago
This reasoning is probably behind some the OP's cases...
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by prance 9y ago
> One is with macros, which you can change the definition of when necessary. I concur on this. In my phd thesis, I defined macros for all frequently used mathematical terms and expressions. This way, many places got almost as readable as
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by prance 9y ago
I don't agree with the view that a component doesn't need a prop "itself" if it "only" passes it on to a child component. That child component is a part of the parent. If one decided that e.g. the child is too
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Apache Foundation bans use of Facebook BSD+Patents licensed libs like React(react.jsnews.io)
4 points by prance 9y ago|0 comments
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by prance 9y ago
Thank you for giving your perspective on this, I for one appreciate it. I also don't see how you've violated the guidelines (which btw. are called "guidelines" and not "rules", but that's another issue). W
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by prance 9y ago
> instead of returning something semantically like a function, std::bind returns something that might be better described as a partial syntax tree that happens to be something you can call as a function Indeed. std::bind seems to work mo
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by prance 9y ago
> Well, let’s look at that. People who work in schools, higher ed, public institutions of education — they are government employees.” And they represent almost half of the 24 million, his data shows. > “And you say, O.K., what are the
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by prance 9y ago
Problem with the skeumorphic design is that it's only approachable by people who are already familiar with the hardware, as dperfect already said. I share their frustration with such interfaces. Also, non-skeumorphic doesn't have
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by prance 9y ago
> Unfortunately, Sun decided that almost all Java errors must be recoverable, which results in lazy error handling like the above. Not quite: Java insists that all (checked) Exceptions be handled or passed up explicitly. One can argue th
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by prance 9y ago
>The set of all possible assembly instructions is bigger than the set of all possible assembly instructions that haskell can compile to. No it's not. The Haskell compiler is free to use whatever assembly instructions that it sees fi
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by prance 9y ago
I would go further: is "Axioms exist" true? You don't find them lying around in nature. They exist only in people's minds. I would argue that this is an inherent metaphysical question. The scientismist's (?) standpo
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by prance 9y ago
I guess "not applicable" because the op's list is clearly referring to the US only. You'd need a whole new list for those licenses as applicable in the EU or other places.
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by prance 9y ago
In German we have "Fachidiot", which is not pronounced like the Dutch 'vakidioot' at all, but many English speakers would do so nevertheless. You're free to rescind your own abomination of that word :D
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by prance 9y ago
> That could lead to overcrowding in the federal court in Delaware, he said, given the large numbers of corporations incorporated in the state. Wouldn't that actually be fair? As it is now, it seems that Delaware can give all those
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by prance 10y ago
> Except you cannot have static signs from one direction, where the other directions have traffic signals. I don't know about such a rule. There are some intersections in Germany where there are red and orange lights, but no green f
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by prance 10y ago
> Haskell is actually less expressive. It is a functional abstraction on top of what is essentially a procedural machine and with all abstractions placed on top of lower layers you can only lose functionality as you go up rather than gai
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by prance 10y ago
As a researcher in multiagent systems, I know this problem very well. Which is, I believe, exactly the point the article makes. But it goes on to say that this might be possible to overcome by embodiment and developmental psychology. Not n
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by prance 10y ago
That light is totally redundant. The white-on-blue right arrow as well as the solid line in the middle of the street already mandate that only right turning is allowed there.

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