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my_ghola

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    Comment #16925424

    I think that the large percentage of JS developers the GP is talking about is people for whom JS is probably their first or second programming language (and then the first is somet…

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    Comment #16816547

    Can you really trust the company? What about each and every one of the employees that touch the code? Can you trust their Government not to have asked them for a backdoor? I don't …

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    Comment #16749187

    You say this, but there's people recording video and posting on twitter/snapchat. It's not only the journalists. And I think the word you are looking for is morbidity.

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    Comment #16749073

    If you have a gun and shoot at the active shooter, you become the active shooter.

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    Comment #16748977

    > this is a killer feature Too soon.

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    Comment #16568903

    Is there an open source IRC/XMPP (or Matrix) client with features similar to Slack (side-threads, pinned messages) and preferably not using electron?

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    Comment #16552872

    Php gets away with making many things warnings instead of errors. So it seems to have been made with the same mentality as html and css.

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    Comment #16442042

    Does yarn run npm behind the scenes? Or does it even replicate the bugs in its attempt to be fully compatible? I used yarn to install global packages and see the packages in `/usr/…

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    Comment #16441077

    I just looked at my /usr/lib/node_modules directory and it's No man's land in there and I'm on npm 5.6.0. How could this go unnoticed for so long?

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    Comment #16439643

    Mobile has react-native. What about desktop? I see this: https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows for Windows. I wonder if something like that could be done for Qt?

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    Comment #16368835

    > As an industry we've got to stop discounting vulnerabilities as not serious because they require user interaction which involves clicking through security warnings. Maybe give it…

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    Comment #16332440

    I think you just described flattr or patreon.

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    Comment #16234145

    Just make the whole theater a Faraday cage.

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    Comment #16217842

    Then maybe something that can translate math notation to pseudocode and back?

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    Comment #16214414

    Firefox bypasses right-click blocking when you press shift. What it doesn't bypass is websites placing transparent things on top of what you wish to right-click on (for example ima…

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    Comment #15845442

    Part of the popularity of GIFs is that editing them is easier. You can edit them in photoshop or gimp or other image editors, which allow you to use skills learned for editing imag…

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    Comment #15845369

    Well GIF was encumbered by patents for 23 years [0]. Perhaps they were trying to recreate the same "feature". [0] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html

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    Comment #15844897

    > and if there are biometric sensors that make > sharing login information impossible (but that > would annoy people more, not help them). Just add 2-factor-authentication tied to …

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    Comment #15824432

    Alternatively you could take the decision to die earlier. I'm not suicidal but I don't think it a crazy idea to choose not to become senile.

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    Comment #15496946

    Here's it in the photographer's website: http://www.brentstirton.com/rhino-wars-mk-ii/d5qb7cq22hzwdnn...

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    Comment #15469790

    This is (was?) called the Java Trap: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html If some of a program's dependencies are nonfree, this means that all or part of the program is un…

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    Comment #15393701

    You can update the javascript parts without having to deploy a new version of the app, which takes time on the store's end to approve.

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    Comment #15376640

    It's simpler than that.

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    Comment #15376557

    #29 gives me numbers 188, 144, 152, 150, 139, 144, 223, 154, 141, 152, 144, 223, 140, 138, 293. What next?

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    Comment #15376550

    So the final question will be P=NP? It will truly be a never completed game.