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timlyo··on Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur
Finding the oldest image would probably work for most cases, as long as you found every instance of the image on the internet.

It might work ok for some of the larger comics/image producers.

timlyo··on Two-hundred-terabyte math proof is largest ever
And then if we get enough monkeys/children in a room tapping away, eventually they'll write enough programs to solve every problem. That's it, maths is solved.
timlyo··on NotABug.org: Free code hosting
What do you do differently to Gitlab/Github?
timlyo··on The Elixir of concurrency
I wasn't going to mentions this, but now you've commented.

>Neither developers don't want their code to crash nor Elixir promotes writing bad code.

Is this a double negative?

    Not(x nor y) = (not x) or (y)
Ok, I'm done, I'll go and sit in the corner with the other pedants now.
timlyo··on Netflix Will Be the Exclusive US TV Home of Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Pixar
At best that's going to create a monopoly.
timlyo··on ‘Brexit’: The Vote That Could Sink Britain's Economy
> currently there's no information that backs a brexit being a good idea. Plenty against it however.

What are these points against it? I have no idea how to vote so far.

timlyo··on Browsix – A Unix-Like Operating System for the Browser
ls /usr/bin gives me:

  cp
  cat
  cpu-intensive-program
  curl
  dot
  echo
  exec
  fork_test
  go-bench
  grep
  head
  hello
  hello-socket
  http-example
  lat_syscall
  ls
  mkdir
  nice
  node
  pipeline-example
  priority-test
  rm
  rmdir
  sh
  sha1sum
  socket-example
  sort
  stat
  tail
  tee
  touch
  wc
  xargs
Doesn't seem to be cd, but ls does work. Chromium on Arch.
timlyo··on Face recognition app taking Russia by storm may bring end to public anonymity
Or in other words, something that only people with good enough lawyers could use.
timlyo··on Show HN: Klart – Capture Anything (Pocket for Screenshots)
What sort of features do you have for developers?
timlyo··on Save Firefox
I've got chromium working for Netflix on Linux, haven't tried on windows though.
timlyo··on Save Firefox
I used to make an effort to use FF, but it gradually got slower, froze up more often, had problems with content I was viewing.

The final straw was when they had a big update. Instead of fixing any of these issues, they gave me the ability to call people with service I don't use by clicking a link :/

timlyo··on A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing
I'm thinking from the government's perspective. It's still money that is being removed from the treasury that they have to factor into the budgets.
timlyo··on A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing
I think the article is talking more about the difference from the current system.

> But by excluding 45 million retirees who already receive a basic income through Social Security, the cost falls to $2.7 trillion.

These retirees can be excluded from the calculation because they are already being paid, they wouldn't add any additional cost to the system.

timlyo··on Windows 10 will no longer let you Google search from Cortana
So now that they have the critical mass of win10 users, they can start to lock them into using ms products?

Maybe I'm being cynical, anyone got any other thoughts?

timlyo··on Steam now accepts Bitcoin for purchases
I've also bought some TF2 hats with bitcoin. Now we just need some things that are less addictive :/
timlyo··on Show HN: passgo, a command line password manager written in go
I'm still on the fence about password managers. I always worry that I'll end up on a computer without my passwords and not be able to logon.
timlyo··on Show HN: FIND – an indoor positioning system for smartphones and laptops
It's accurate over 1 metre squared. I don't think the placement is too large of an issue.
timlyo··on What It’s Like to ‘Wake Up’ from Autism After Magnetic Stimulation
I think op means that he doesn't realise he's being disciplined.
timlyo··on The truth comes out: Microsoft needs Linux
As a die hard Linux fan, I'll admit that it'd be nice if ctrl+left/right worked the same everywhere.

On most editors it moves me one word, on the command line it inserts the control characters.

Same story for ctrl+backspace and ctrl+a.

timlyo··on Qpm: A package manager for Qt
By adding a dependency to do a one line task?
timlyo··on Qpm: A package manager for Qt
How else would we pad our strings?
timlyo··on Show HN: Popper.js, a 3KB library to manage tooltips and popovers
Make a button that says "click me" that displays the first one. Then people know what they're looking for and have their attention drawn to it.
timlyo··on Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outgoing FTC Commissioner
An animated ad, that blocks the page and plays music as well.
timlyo··on Apricity OS: A Beautiful Arch Linux Distro
I use antergos. It has everything I want from Arch (up to date packages, systemd, AUR) but I don't have to spend all the time configuring Arch.
timlyo··on April Fool's day links
> You say potato, I say potato

Amazing

timlyo··on Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and Top and Bottom Bar API
I find it's slow for opening large files, but not so far behind other editors. Other than that it's fine.
timlyo··on Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and Top and Bottom Bar API
Atom has something to help with that:

https://github.com/atom/timecop

timlyo··on Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and Top and Bottom Bar API
I feel like it could have been a relevant response to most of the comments in this thread.
timlyo··on Proselint
Going through the example, it comes up with:

> Get that off of me before I catch on fire! > Needless variant. 'catch fire' is the preferred form

I don't think I've ever heard anyone say "catch fire" rather than "catch on fire".

From the UK if that changes anything.

timlyo··on Microsoft Acquires Xamarin
There's a difference between a news site full of nerds being interested in something shiny, and a company dropping an old product for something shiny.
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