Markdown is indeed pretty awesome, and beats the widely-available alternatives (raw HTML? word processor files?), but I think that org-mode is even more awesome.
Still, if everyone used Markdown, the world will be better.
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Still, if everyone used Markdown, the world will be better.
You're free to judge, as I wrote, but you're never free to silence.
The problem of 'cry-bullies' is that they wish not just to judge, but also to silence.
I don't think so: the difference is that the crybully wants to silence his opponent, while the one using the term wants his opponent to stop silencing him. I.e., one wants to suppress liberty and one wants to preserve it.
I have no problem with your right to say that I'm wrong, or odious, or that my speech is completely offensive and inimical (although of course I disagree): where I draw the line is if you attempt to silence me altogether.
Say what‽ Does Instagram just upload everything? Or do they start uploading a picture as one is editing the comments and such?
Pending further information, I suspect that it was someone in Raphel's camp who leaked those details. The best case situation for her was for this to be argued in the court of public opinion.
Sounds like the opposite of what a university should be for to me.
Lisp-the-mathematical-model, perhaps, but not Lisp-the-programming-language.
Conses are definitely a fundamental idea, and they're obviously how source code is written, and it's nice that they're around — but honestly for real work it's unlikely that most data will live in cons structures (unless of course the higher-level data structures actually are built from conses, which of course they could be).
Reading it was eye-opening. I had no idea up until that point that Lisp is a real, industrial-grade language (as opposed to a very interesting didactic tool).
Even if you don't have an intention of programming in Lisp, you should read PCL for an idea of how much better the language you're programming in could be. Hopefully, it'll inspire you to write some Lisp, but even if it doesn't you'll be a better programmer for it. You'll be able to understand why static languages like Java have such arcane ecosystems; you'll be able to see how very little new there is under the sun.
As an English speaker with a bit of German, that's how Dutch sounds to me: it sounds like English, only wrong somehow. I feel that if I just focused a bit harder, or they'd enunciate more clearly, I'd understand it.
Hooray for languages!
Dang it[1], I strenuously disagree. I didn't post some 'generic ideological tangent'; I just mentioned the first two things which leapt to mind as indicators that our industry is silly. I could have mentioned Adria Richards, Marco Ament or Jon Gruber, but those didn't come to mind first.
My point — and I think it's a serious one — is that our industry takes itself far too, and undeservedly, seriously. Choosing to shut down a well-operating group over the misbehaviour of the host site's CEO (and it is serious misbehaviour: my opinion is that he should resign or be fired) is, IMHO, among those silly things done from a sense of inflated seriousness.
[1] Couldn't resist the pun; I'm sure it's not original
The neutral pronoun in English is 'it,' and using it to refer to a human being is always wrong.
The use of singular they is in a few contexts correct, but in many more contexts incorrect. The use of 'he-or-she' is inelegant and incorrect, and the use of generic she is less incorrect than silly.
Seriously, this is remarkably silly. 'Girl' in German is a neutral word, but no-one would say that German girls think of themselves as genderless. 'He' in English is normally the correct word to use generically; no-one sane would say that English-speakers think everyone is male.
(for that matter, the English word 'man' actually is genderless: the English word for a male human being is 'were,' as in werewolf — it's cognate to Latin 'vir')
In the right contexts, sure — but singular they is not a drop-in replacement for generic he, and using them identically is incorrect.
What an exciting world we live in, when I have to give a stranger execute access on my computers in order to read his words. If only there were some way for him to send me text instead of a program.
Sure! It derives from the SDSI/SPKI work of the late 90s, which demonstrated how one can use petnames (i.e., local nicknames) for people, and then refer to a contact's petnames via one's petname for that contact.
So you might refer to a name (mom dad June).
Actually, it's possible to do even better that that: one can execute a private set intersection protocol so that you & each of your contacts can discover mutual contacts without revealing others.
Signal aren't required to store any personally identifying information: they choose to do so.
Of course, this means that if anyone ever does install a malicious certificate on my phone, I'll be none the wiser. Thanks Google!
I think signal:wtbob works just as well as tel:+15551212, if we want to continue to rely on OWS as a central identity provider.
I think that 'mom's dad's sister June' also works, if we want decentralised identity.
Be aware that if your Mozilla account password is not a fully-secure, unmemorable, random string then it is possible to break into Sync: unlike previously, the only thing securing your Sync data is your password.
Also be aware that at any time Mozilla can push a piece of targeted JavaScript to you alone, which would reveal your password to them.
The first issue is solvable by using an appropriately-secure password, e.g. apQzICxawJKkU0t7SNqnPd; the second issue is unsolvable unless you fully trust Mozilla the organisation, all its employees and every government which is able to compel its actions.
Both of those are really the same issue, and they boil down to 'only use a browser instance you own to use a secure site, and don't share ownership of browser instances.' That seems pretty reasonable to me: indeed, anyone who uses a shared browser for private communications has already lost, badly.
The upside of not logging out is never having to log in.
You're correct about the pain of managing certs across devices.
While we're at it, why don't we add a real Plan-9-style bind and use union mounts?
That sounds great if you want Apple to have all your data. But why do you?
Never mind that wires will always be better and more private than wireless.
More accurately, most of the web is broken, whether or not NoScript is installed — it's just that you can see that it's broken when NoScript is installed.
'I'm sorry, I scheduled this meeting so that we could have a conversation. Let's reschedule for when your email-checking schedule is clear.'