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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 g…

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 LO…

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,…

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 developmen…

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…

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 argume…

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 webs…

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) …

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…

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 bett…

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…

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 …

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 t…

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 a…

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 contem…

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 tellin…

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 …

> 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 …

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, authoritarian…

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 countr…

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 …

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 o…

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…

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 bl…