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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-torc…

> 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…

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 partic…

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 impa…

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 s…

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 establ…

> 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 applica…

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 wo…

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…

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 wo…

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 enou…

Not everything that is legal and non-misleading is necessarily moral.

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 o…

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.

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 wo…

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) does…

"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…

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 …

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 attent…

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 …

Alright, that sounds feasible, albeit being on an entirely different scale.

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.

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 represent…

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 hop…