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Will this be available on f-droid? Many people don't like having google play on their phone, especially those concerned with privacy and open-source. I know the user can always com…

> Don't want to use your real name? Don't join a site where the goal is to publicly connect with people you know." ironically, many people joined facebook with the names they used …

I would add for 2. that there are newer architectures, especially low power and various experimental parallel ones, that could use better optimizing compilers.

In addition to GCC, a bunch of other compilers including Intel and Visual Studio do profile based optimization, as well as many dynamic compilers, such as firfox javascript or Java…

as jessaustin remarked, "[RMS] is complaining about the specific implementation of mobile tech with which we're currently saddled." Listening to RMS would mean that if you do carry…

> I do use Facebook to plug my books and to hopefully drive traffic to my blog articles The trick is configuring your blog to autopost to facebook, for which I use https://wordpres…

:) It is not minutiae when someone phrases their posts in a manner that may imply they're taking credit for other people's work. I didn't mind spending a few minutes because I resp…

unvote would be nice due to misclicks, or fix misunderstandings when initially reading a comment (e.g. in cases delayed detection of sarcasm.)

If karma doesn't matter, then that is an argument for not having up votes for comments either.

It is possible to get by with a mobile device without cell service. Just need occasional email checks at open wireless spots. All the more reason to setup a router with EFF's open …

Yes, so what? So were many others. But you don't see everybody who created a wikipedia article make ego-boosting comments on HN whenever their article is mentioned. Nor do you see …

I've been hoping for things like this to start appearing. The difficulty with getting these things going is getting enough of a user base to prime the pump. Before major arbitratio…

I see that your website has a link to http://stani.sh/pratyeka , which is the same username as "Pratyeka" who created this 529 byte stub for bitcoin on 8 March 2009: Bitcoin is an …

nice. they forgot to mention Excel. http://www.felienne.com/archives/2974

Neat. I was also wondering if maybe it was possible to switch between two colors based on a certain ratio of frames, faster than the CRT phosphors to fully switch colors (or atleas…

> "Github and Bitbucket deserve the mention because those projects are well established." According to Wikipedia article, GitHub and Bitbucket were established in 2008, and GitLab …

Well if we're using "Responsiveness of the UI" as the metric, then I would argue that http://fossil-scm.org/ beats both GitLab and GitHub. Fossil is easily self hosted (just run on…

"There are many other hosting services like gitlab, what would make gitlab different so that it would deserve a pitch there?" Which is why I said the blogpost would be fairer to ju…

I'm sticking to self-hosted fossil-scm. Very simple, lightweight, C, but has full wiki and issue tracker and code trees. The one thing self-hosting lacks is the social network. Wha…

I think it is fair to for GitLab to pitch their service, considering that the google code blogspot post specifically mentioned both GitHub 8 times and Bitbucket 3 times, while GitL…

"We need some way to distribute open source projects so they're on at least two services simultaneously, synched." google "git sync mirror" and a bunch of solutions appear.

interestingly I wasn't able to run vi, but could run vim. I reported to the github issue tracker. This seems very neat. Definitely much less overhead than VirtualBox. Plus can writ…

great hack btw! I'm sure you had limited time to waste!

machine would just have to count '/t' tabs at beginning of each line to parse. Is that any slower than scanning every character for '<'?

interesting. Very clean looking.