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decentrality··on Ask HN: What equivalents of Erlang/OTP exist for other languages?
Celluloid: http://celluloid.io
decentrality··on Ask HN: What equivalents of Erlang/OTP exist for other languages?
Can you expound on this?
decentrality··on End of General Purpose Languages: Rubinius 3.0 and the Next 10M Programs
Seems like Ruby may have a fork in the road. @brixen has been unhappy with the Ruby Language Design Process for a long time, and these thoughts seem to break the camel's back on what Ruby itself can support ( socially and philosophically mostly ) without forking the language and making Rubinius the first Language Platform for a forked language.
decentrality··on Ask HN: Best 4K IPS monitor for an array of three displays?
That's what that is! Thanks for mentioning this. With Linux also, when I turn my monitor off, it does seem to treat it as though the display was removed. That's interesting. Glad to know it's not an OS thing.
decentrality··on Ask HN: Best 4K IPS monitor for an array of three displays?
Thanks for your thoughts...

Right now I have an Acer 4K TN as my primary screen and it's extremely difficult to work with. And keeping the three HD displays I have around it is also problematic... the resolution difference always destroys the illusion of working on one seamless desktop... and the viewing angle has me need to turn the HD displays around and rotate their output so I'm "viewing them from above" ..

What's a "good TN" in your experience?

decentrality··on Ask HN: Best 4K IPS monitor for an array of three displays?
I'm happy to hear this. This is the display I've actually been considering if I don't stay with Acer. The coating on the screen and general sense of quality is attractive. Any drawbacks you've seen?
decentrality··on Ask HN: Best 4K IPS monitor for an array of three displays?
With the Acer displays, it takes one DP port per monitor. So I got a multi-headed graphics card... 3xDP, 1xDVI, 1xHDMI2 ... expecting to use the DP ports for 4K displays, and the HDMI for a TV... all without daisy chaining.
decentrality··on Ask HN: Best 4K IPS monitor for an array of three displays?
Here's the best I've come up with so far, not focusing on pricing, but capabilities:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Productcompare.aspx?Submit=ENE...

I'm considering moving from an Acer B286HK to a B276HK. Very curious if anyone has recommendations of different displays. Any suggestions are very much appreciated. I'm thinking in terms of which display I can buy three of and not regret it.

decentrality··on GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub
That this implementation being uncomfortable for me is my subjective feeling, I've mentioned several times. That I don't want to depend on JavaScript is clear. I don't want to depend on JavaScript. Using the word centralize the way I have, I can't see otherwise. But I'm not defaming anyone. I'm not attacking anything. I'm very motivated to help the standard advance, but I would never for a moment install this implementation. Stupid of me? Sure, maybe. But it's not an attack.

What I wanted I already got, confirmation by the OP that this is in fact a reference implementation and not the all-end-all.

Were that clear to start with, I wouldn't have commented other than to say, awesome! This is extremely exciting to me.

decentrality··on GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub
This is awesome, but it centralizes on JavaScript.

It is an implementation of a standard without the standard being defined so other implementations can spring up.

Git, one could argue, is language centralized also, which is technically true. That I don't have an answer for. But I don't believe handing off so much dependence to a JavaScript application fits for me.

A C/C++ application like Git I can overlook, at least for a decade or so, but JavaScript feels like a perpetual beta/prototype only. Granted, that's my subjective feeling.

Raised issue: https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent/issues/12

decentrality··on Ask HN: Why do I have to struggle with everything?
"belief is the source and solution of all problems" I believe Plato said that. I believe he also said that of alcohol.

Rather than the age old "either X exists or it doesn't" your entire thing unraveled right here:

"I am not strong enough to be an atheist"

Anything from that point on had a 'motivating circumstance' behind it, a bias, a solution being sought.

Now, the concept of 'pray once a day' will be accepted, because a certain belief is already had: that belief is the issue, not a certain state or mode of being. A certain "strength" -- I believe you hit that on the head. There is a certain quality of person, called atheism.

Some of the "best" religious people I know, while having a "faith" are what I could also call atheist, in the purest sense: not just in an ideological sense, but in an active one: did they do that "all by themselves" or were they rubbing the magic rabbit foot all the way there? When they wanted to reach out for help, did they do it? Or did they endure?

The thing that is changing is a different mode of being taking root: one of operating on belief, rather than on your own. The answer when you cannot cope is not to find a mechanism to cope, a crutch, but to just endure or execute the thing. It is about strength. Sometimes it's about accepting things without a reason: what if one of your twins died? Exactly why is that "bad" per se? It feels like shit, yes, but all you can really say is that you currently do not want that. Petitioning someone for your desire is pure and simple. Making it into "I couldn't take it anymore so I felt too weak to be atheist" is just covering over the fact that you really really wanted your wife and kids to be ok.

That is your religion then. It's strong enough of a source of desire that you'd reach outside yourself to manipulate the universe itself if you had to, to cause the outcome you wanted. It could be said that is what the deity concept is. It's a mutable global variable ( which is not threadsafe ) designed to circumvent your own individuality and provide a hack to route-around the system as it is, allowing you to not learn or grow, just have what you want. Confusingly, some people have a deathwish or a sense of inferiority, so they get what they want so much easier.

decentrality··on Ask HN: Looking for female developers. Is this ok?
Well, what kind of code are you looking to have written?

i.e. what languages, frameworks, libraries, etc.

decentrality··on Ask HN: Looking for female developers. Is this ok?
Make an alliance with a coder school catering to women specifically, and work with the founders of that organization.
decentrality··on Ask HN: Looking for female developers. Is this ok?
Then change where you publish your ads! :)
decentrality··on Ask HN: Looking for female developers. Is this ok?
Mentioning this in the job description is probably not a good idea, but only hiring female developers is your prerogative.

Specifically requesting female developers in your ad will undoubtedly get the opposite of your intention. People who are good developers who happen to be women, will not come to a company looking for female developers because they would want to be hired on merit. Those who do come with a "looking for female developers" caveat, will be subpar very likely, and/or more trouble than they are worth.

Think of it from the other side. The ad says "looking for male developers" -- what kind of men would reply to that?

decentrality··on Show HN: DigitalOcean Releases IPv6 and Private Networking in SF1
From newsletter to droplet holders:

"Announcing IPv6 and Private Networking In SFO1

With our San Francisco region fully migrated to version 1.5 of our code base, we are excited to announce that both IPv6 support and private networking are now available for all Droplets in SFO1."

No blog post announced at the writing of this, otherwise I'd have linked that.

decentrality··on I Quit: What really goes on at Apple
I've been seeing a lot of edits to the article. It seems that for now, one global network of feedback and peer review ( Apple ) is being exchanged for another ( HN ). Not good or bad, just "is" --

As with any "break up" this phase of WOOHOO+rage will crest, then the community dynamic ( refactored/lost ) will echo as loudly in the mind if not louder than the perceived freedom gained... to go work with other people, but still always people.

Draconian tendencies aside, no one will ultimately satisfy as a peer or network. So, OP, enjoy the rush. High-profile exits from large names is thrilling, but then you're without a scapegoat, if there is one at all. Tomorrow will be a reality check unless self critique is harsher than pointing fingers.

The whole "tell the entire world how much X company sucks" trend is pretty much played out, even/especially if the company left does suck. It's a form of therapy to do it, probably, but a lot of it feels like marketing for the next leg of a career regardless.

decentrality··on Massive, Illicit Bust of Edward Snowden Stuck to a War Monument in Brooklyn
I think he's saying that if it weren't handled as a political statement, there's no realistic defense against trash being brought into the park. It's the responsibility of the maintainers to notice - not people to prevent the natural flow of life from happening.

People leave cool stuff places. It happens. I mean how many times have cell phones been left somewhere on accident say, which if it was on purpose doesn't matter either -- OH NO, PARK BENCH SSL CERT MITM ATTACKED, PURGE YOUR LUNCHBOXES

No, it's an object left/put there. So unput it there. That's what parks & recreation does all the rest of the time. Now it's a rad piece of art, not a cell phone, not an umbrella, etc.

decentrality··on Do Not Learn Frameworks – Learn the Architecture
Wondering where jQuery fits in the author's mind right about now.

Yes, it's a "library" but come on, all the framework versus principles narrative applies with that too.

Directly interacting with the DOM without abstraction seems way too risky, in exchange for some bloat.

decentrality··on The Tyranny of the Minimum Viable Product
This person misunderstood 'viable' entirely. It's viable in that it has an audience who feels like buying. It's not talking about the quality at all.
decentrality··on Stop using tail -f (mostly)
Passing -Pw without a prompt at least gets that down to "... (interrupt to abort)"
decentrality··on Stop using tail -f (mostly)
It would be awesome to remove the "Waiting for data... (interrupt to abort)" message.
decentrality··on Stop using tail -f (mostly)
SOLVED: less +F -R <file>

Interprets color codes as RAW, relaying them to the screen as-is.

decentrality··on Stop using tail -f (mostly)
Doesn't read ANSI color codes! Looking through manual for that.
decentrality··on How do I install an application on a Linux system from a zip file?
Usually this is to `unzip <file>`, then if it's source code ( C or C++ in particular ) enter the folder where the contents extracted to, and run `make` and then run `make install` if there are no errors.

This is very general. There are many things you can usually configure first, but that is the usual generic procedure for most applications. If it's JAVA or another language though, it will be different.

If it's not source code but it's a binary file, just unzip it, make sure the binary is executable, then execute it.

Obviously, be sure the executable is trustworthy.

decentrality··on Ask HN: How to value domain for private purchase?
Go with what you can afford. If they've been holding it for 9 years and not using it, eventually whatever you can afford ( within reason ) will be better than continuing to make nothing off it.

UNLESS they are getting click-through advertising revenue on it, or funneling traffic to another domain of theirs which advertises, or has direct sales on it; then you need to factor that in.

But it's best to be a human being and level with them. Remember, they're people. Really opportunistic people. And, if you can, just give up and get another TLD of the same basic name.

decentrality··on Afterglow: Dark Theme for Sublime
Solved this by NOT using Colorsublime, but using the Afterglow theme directly available from the Package Manager. I believe the one in Colorsublime is not 1.2.8 or newer.
decentrality··on Afterglow: Dark Theme for Sublime
This is a known issue -- be advised:

https://github.com/YabataDesign/afterglow-theme/issues/23

decentrality··on Afterglow: Dark Theme for Sublime
Tried clearing the Cache, etc. Still extremely distorted. Have had to revert back to Soda Dark until I can see why this is happening.
decentrality··on Afterglow: Dark Theme for Sublime
Before this I was using Soda Dark 3 -- also a theme which changes tabs, etc.

After installing Afterglow, my tabs and sidebar are badly distorted and garbled after restarting SublimeText3 with the configuration lines added.

Am I missing something, or do I need to clear something?

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