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Re:90% of American public schools now hold mass shooting drills for st...
on Friday February 16, 2018 @04:08PM (#16396287)
There are now similar drills ("armed intruder" drills) in french schools since the attacks of late 2015. I think it would have been unthinkable before.
Re:Teaching my 10-year-old daughter to program
on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @06:57AM (#15173995)
> From the looks of it, Scratch requires Flash...
Snap may be a good flash-free alternative: http://snap.berkeley.edu
Re:AdNauseam β Clicking Ads So You Don't Have To
on Sunday August 27, 2017 @05:50AM (#15110006)
> most ad-blockers don't actually block ads; they just block cross-domain, spying widgets. Nothing is preventing you from showing a self-hosted, untracked image that's actually an ad.
Most ad-blockers I know of use cosmetic filters, which can hide any element from a page, including self-hosted and non-tracking ads (see https://www.troyhunt.com/ad-blockers-are-part-of-the-problem...). Sadly, showing ads that are respectful to the user is not that easy...
Re:No, itβs not you: Google maps really did get crappy
on Sunday May 29, 2016 @06:39PM (#11798555)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11604387
Re:Ask HN: Hobbies sans screen?
on Monday May 23, 2016 @03:37PM (#11756283)
If you're into music you could learn to play an instrument. It can be pretty expensive, especially if you take lessons (which I would recommend at first), and if you don't have time to practice regularly it's probably not the best idea. But it will give you a good reason to spend some time away from any screen, and it can be very rewarding.
Re:Ask HN: Why is it still so hard to host your own email/calendar tha...
on Sunday May 22, 2016 @08:20AM (#11748298)
As far as self hosting calendars and contacts are concerned, I'd recommend using a caldav/carddav server, I personally like Baikal [1], and Radicale [2] seems to be another good lightweight option. Contrary to Owncloud these two servers do not provide a web interface to check your calendar/contacts, but there are clients available for most platforms, including web clients if you need one.
Re:The promise of static typing
on Friday May 20, 2016 @05:48AM (#11736606)
I'm not saying that this metric measures language popularity, but that language popularity seems to have a big influence on it. I may be wrong, but that's what caught my eye when I read the article. There are plenty of other factors that aren't accounted for, some of which have been pointed out by other commenters.
Re:The promise of static typing
on Thursday May 19, 2016 @07:43PM (#11734731)
This analysis fails to take into account the popularity of a language. The repository of a library is likely to have more users if it's written in a popular language, and these users will probably report more bugs and feature requests.
Considering this I'm not surprised at all to see that Java, Python and C++ repositories have a higher "bug density" than Clojure, Go or Erlang ones.