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krisdol··on How poverty changes your mindset
I’m not sure how it would be considered communist today. It’s ruled by a “communist” party but its economic system is nowhere near communist.
krisdol··on Building a Lightroom PC
It’s also a popup that comes up several times every week or even day on windows. Really wish it was easier for apps on windows to run in user mode only and stick to it, but it seems like everything needs UAC on a regular basis for one reason or another.
krisdol··on Mobile Device Management invades privacy
Just don't agree to it. Or remove the policy and state your concerns to your employer.
krisdol··on How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking”
Even if they do cross, they have the right of way. Outside of maybe the autobahn, you should never be driving a car fast enough to where you cannot see a pedestrian in time to stop for them. It's pretty unlikely that the pedestrian is ever found at fault for an accident in Germany.
krisdol··on Google Memory Loss
You now have to go into Search Settings -> Verbatim. Unfortunately you’d have to do this for each search session as it doesn’t persist.
krisdol··on Macchiato – A way to build Node web applications using ClojureScript
JVM is slow as heck to start, but an awesome runtim. In an ideal world I'll never have to restart my application or my repl, but in the real world I do it all the time. It's much faster than node.js/V8 when executing heavy tasks.

One reason I might be interested in running clojurescript on node.js is because most web technologies nowadays are written for node.js/javascript first and ported as an afterthought. GraphQL servers on Clojure/Java, for example, are like 3rd class citizens compared to node.js. Google provides nice wrappers to their APIs as long as you're not using clojure. I end up writing things in-house a lot more often than I would with node where I just npm install the package I want and I get something that is maintained by the official author.

krisdol··on Google Maps' Moat
I switched as well, for different reasons. Some things I found that I liked about apple maps: its navigation has speed limit information and I much prefer its design. It seems less busy, and it gets out of my way. Something about google maps just felt really cramped. I know that sounds really subjective, but I enjoyed using one more than the other.

That said, google has better directions and estimates. And maybe that should trump all. It hasn’t been enough of an issue to convince me to reinstall.

krisdol··on Starbucks cafe's wi-fi made computers mine crypto-currency
This was isolated to one cafe in Argentina.
krisdol··on Facebook wants your children's mind
In 2009 maybe. If anything it's "trendy" now to quit social media.
krisdol··on Tumblr CEO David Karp is stepping down from the company
Exploring tumblr today is like exploring myspace pages in 2006. No matter how powerful your PC, it's a miserably slow site to browse and, in my opinion, difficult to mentally ingest content from.
krisdol··on Telerik gets Fiddler unlisted from Chocolatey
If software vendors are making publically available a url from which to download packages, then as far as I'm concerned they can pound sand. What does it matter if I fetch its contents via a shell script or a browser?

Providing a script to download binaries from the site is a completely different thing from re-hosting and redistributing binaries without permission. I don't use chocolatey and have no idea what the background is to this story, so don't take this as a defense of their actions.

krisdol··on Telerik gets Fiddler unlisted from Chocolatey
This is similar to how a lot of the homebrew cask packages work on OS X. Ninite appears to be more end-user/consumer focused while chocolatey aims for a wider swath of developer packages as well.

Personally, I use neither because neither is open source. Instead, I use scoop: http://scoop.sh/

krisdol··on Show HN: LogoFox – fast logo maker
Only if your contract specifically states that the artist will check your logo against registered trademarks for potential infringement. Usually that requires two people, an IP lawyer and a logo designer.
krisdol··on Show HN: LogoFox – fast logo maker
Third party resources? The problem isn't the stock images or shapes the generator uses, the problem is you could create a logo for "Disney" here or accidentally make something too close to Blogspot's logo because your company name has the same initials and you like the rounded square shape that gets generated.
krisdol··on Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will
For anyone interested in further study of media's relationship to psychology and sociology, I cannot recommend enough Marshall Macluhan's writings and lectures. He may have been the first to argue that media is an extension of the human brain. Specifically, look up "The medium is the message" for videos of his central argument, or read "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man".
krisdol··on How Politics and Bad Decisions Starved New York’s Subways
NYC’s subway system doesn’t see improvement because upstaters are conservative and aren’t going to benefit from it. The wealthy boomer republican districts believe that expanding public transportation into their towns will bring in the undesirable poors, and also oppose allocating funds to projects that don’t benefit them directly.
krisdol··on Apple Begins High Sierra Automatic Rollout
I mean if I had devices side by side of different OSes, I’m confident I could measure it. Time to open applications, like the phone dialer and messages, is noticeably slower than ever before for me. Another issue is that now when I open my recent calls, it shows a cached image of its last state for a few seconds before it refreshes with the most recent state. Unfortunately, in those few seconds, I usually already clicked the contact I wanted to call back, only to see the screen refresh after my click and find out I’m calling someone I did not mean to call. This is the same annoying way that Safari treats the back button, but I’m sad to see that pattern creep into other apps. I’d rather see a loading screen than a false view.
krisdol··on Show HN: Node.js node_modules file pruning
It really is not too hard to separate these things in npm, but very few packages do.
krisdol··on Apple Begins High Sierra Automatic Rollout
I have a 6s and regret upgrading to 11. Slow and unstable. Frankly I don’t do enough sketchy crap on the phone to care about security updates as much as I’m supposed to.
krisdol··on Voters say “yes” to city-run broadband in Colorado
You can't simultaneously advocate for superior free-market solutions and then complain when the government outcompetes the private sector.
krisdol··on Google is shutting down the QPX Express API for airfare data
I think inflammable (or flammable) applies. I think the user is saying the trust is likely to go up in flames.
krisdol··on Migrating Slack's Desktop App to BrowserView
Spotify, Slack, and Atom work fine for me, though slack is probably the most annoying one on all platforms. Atom is far from fluff in terms of functionality, but it's fine if you don't use it.
krisdol··on Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator
I’ve been having the same experience with iOS 11. I often open the phone app to call someone I recently talked to, see their name at the top, click it to call them, only for the phone to call someone else. What’s happening is that someone else had called me in the meantime and iOS showed me the cached image of the screen but registered my touch on the “real”/live view of the screen. Safari does the same thing on both iOS and OSX when you swipe back and interact with the page, and I’m sad to be seeing that behavior leak elsewhere. Super frustrating.

Also, the amount of lag when loading basic apps has increased significantly with this update (I have an iPhone 6s).

krisdol··on Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator
So what do you use instead? FYI you can reduce animation in the accessibility menu of both iOS and OSX
krisdol··on Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark released
No kind of death at this point would be considered quick for python2
krisdol··on Clojure/Conj 2017 – Opening Keynote by Rich Hickey [video]
Adding to that, there are a few forks of popular projects that were quite successful: io.js, libreoffice, mariadb.
krisdol··on The End of the DreamHost vs. DOJ privacy case
I wasn’t aware they had a constitutional right to a domain name. Nothing is stopping them from hosting their own website.
krisdol··on The End of the DreamHost vs. DOJ privacy case
Again, this just sounds like the cost of doing business. You’re not always going to be able to have everyone working on the ideal goals. Sometimes a developer will have to be working with auditors (be they from the private or public sector) or lawyers on something other than their typical project.

I also don’t think a search protocol would be a part of this request, as much as a dump of redacted data.

krisdol··on Why did science fiction stop moving forward?
for what it's worth, I was poking fun at the knucklehead I was responding to, because they said this in a branch of the same thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15332975
krisdol··on Why did science fiction stop moving forward?
for what it's worth, I was poking fun at the knucklehead I was responding to, because they said this in a branch of the same thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15332975
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