Argorak

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by Argorak 12y ago
If you buy a new car, are you okay to have to bring it to another shop immediately? If yes, did you factor in that cost? Do you know that you have to? How do you, with no software skills at all, evaluate whether the second person you bring
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by Argorak 12y ago
Yahoo uses "Yahoo" outside of their logo. So, usually, yes.
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by Argorak 12y ago
I'm talking Firmware-tampering, which is rather risk-free and firmware patches are not unusual.
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by Argorak 12y ago
I'm very hesitant to use this word, but this is a very privileged position. Many customers don't have the skills to even see the technical problem while expecting that not to happen. The same goes for reinstalling the machine (or
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by Argorak 12y ago
"Point to the supplier" is a standard tactic, but also wrong. They did put their customers up to harm, for no other reason then trying to squeeze another buck out of them. They provide no additional benefit to the customer. OpenSS
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by Argorak 12y ago
Do you trust a hardware vendor that installs MITM stuff on your machine per default to keep the firmware untampered? There is almost no machine out there running openly auditable code on all components.
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by Argorak 12y ago
Rust takes a completely different approach to this. If you behave badly, you're out. Even on IRC. It also keeps discussions direct and accusal-free most of the times. It's one of the reasons I chose Rust as the next community to w
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by Argorak 12y ago
I'm just using Vagrant VMs for that :). (I work on databases, though)
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by Argorak 12y ago
We are in the weird situation where even most web application developers run their dev environment on beefier machines than the VMs they are hosting it on.
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by Argorak 12y ago
I'm not missing it, I'm ignoring it. I'd be fully okay with iTunes dropping all that stuff or using something different - if there were another alternative.
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by Argorak 12y ago
Jein. (Thats a very german cross between yes and no) iTunes has a fast search through my large library and it is very easy to reach the thing you want. I don't create playlists, but from time to time return to my player, search for som
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by Argorak 12y ago
Ruby's development started in 1993 (February 24, to be exact). First full release was 1995 (December 21, that one I had to look up :)). This is very interesting in my opinion: whenever someone asks why one of those languages doesn&#x27
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by Argorak 12y ago
This is the perfect place for my "schönfinkeln?"-Shirt :).
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by Argorak 12y ago
Upvoted. For explaining your downvote instead of just throwing it out there and mentioning a perfectly valid sentiment, even if I don't fully agree.
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by Argorak 12y ago
Because they are addressed to the customer and for most of them, the aren't inspirational, because they are not entrepreneurs. For what happens to the service, 2 paragraphs in my inbox is quite enough.
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by Argorak 12y ago
Because it's often of no interest for the customer. At all. It's like a star at the Oscars saying thanks to all the fans that supported them, except that there is no film, no Oscar and no fans. From a customers perspective, it&#x2
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by Argorak 12y ago
> And drivers actually follow the signs. As an American driver it's an amazing thing to see. Speed control flashes are a common sight :).
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by Argorak 12y ago
Considering that it is a hyperspecific instruction manual and not a blog article, that's probably a good thing. It mentions all the topics.
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by Argorak 12y ago
The concept you are talking about is the threshold of originality and it is indeed depending on country and a moving target: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality As an example: if I use a seed to creat
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by Argorak 12y ago
In doubt: people rooting for them, which comes down to "PR" (for the definition that most hackers use).
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by Argorak 12y ago
>> Then we convinced the Fedora Technical Committee to adopt it, and then Red Hat internal management accepted it for RHEL, and we managed to convince every committee that mattered, bit by bit. > So there was, in fact, a PR campaig
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by Argorak 12y ago
My comment starts with "I (don't) think". Feel free to think otherwise, but my statement has truth - I know what I think.
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by Argorak 12y ago
I don't think he got "thrown under the bus" - he moved to a position were others did not want to defend him or even just keep on. Unsurprisingly, I would add, he should know the other people. Still, the inclusion shows that n
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by Argorak 12y ago
> We ought to recognize the use cases, as much as humanly possible, for all languages or frameworks or platforms (etc.) and simply use the best tools for any given job. Well, isn't that a bit of the point the parent makes? It is not
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by Argorak 12y ago
I'd really like to see a reputable source for this statement. All I can find are people attributing that quote to Peter Norvig. What I can find, is this: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AreDesignPatternsMissingLanguageFeatu
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by Argorak 12y ago
No. Press releases always had to goal to pre-write things for journalists and - in the best case - not do too much fact-checking. They are a PR invention and never had the goal to be too rooted in reality.
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by Argorak 12y ago
I disagree, the link is also interesting, but as I said further down: the video holds an interesting discussion of his views on encryption, especially end-to-end, something the parent explicitly discussed.
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by Argorak 12y ago
PHK discusses a lot of these point here: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/HTTP-Performance (especially his views on encryption) (sorry for the repost, this wasn't posted when I posted the other one)
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by Argorak 12y ago
I can also recommend this one, which - strangely - turns into a privacy/security discussion for the second part of the talk. http://www.infoq.com/presentations/HTTP-Performance
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by Argorak 12y ago
Of course it does: https://github.com/r0nk/ward/blob/master/hello.bf https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/... Just not in Ace (their

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