Drakim

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by Drakim 12y ago
Nobody contests that Apple products are iconic. The trouble, a lot of people seem to think that since Apple popularized something, they "own" it now and any other company that enters the market (or was in the market before Apple!)
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by Drakim 12y ago
If humanity lives to a point where entropy becomes a problem, I'm pretty sure our lives would be the first to go, not our "ability to perform experiments".
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by Drakim 12y ago
Really? So if there was no minimum wage laws, a charity aimed at bringing people out of poverty should be paying their employees a cent an hour?
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by Drakim 12y ago
Well, he set up a camera in that location with the intention of taking pictures. Pretty big finger in the pie of circumstance there, if you ask me.
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by Drakim 12y ago
I've used a magstripe a lot before getting a new card that uses a chip. But even when using a magstripe, I still had to input my pin. Just allowing the card to be used freely on it's own seems reckless, it means that if I drop my
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by Drakim 12y ago
Survival can be a result of intelligence, but good survival abilities does not imply intelligence in itself. Tons of things survive without much intelligence at all, such as bacteria, or jellyfish. In short, survival skills are not a good m
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by Drakim 12y ago
I'm pretty confused over that even an idiot would try to argue this case. It's something that has "coins" in it's name, and is touted as "the internet money of the future" and that is being used in substit
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by Drakim 12y ago
It depends, if the thing you were doing net you profits above $9 billion then it's not so painful.
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by Drakim 12y ago
I will be sure to inform these private SWAT teams that I do not wish to engage business with them when they bust down my door.
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by Drakim 12y ago
More and more I've started seeing "8-bit" being used as a synonym for "retro". I don't know how to feel about that.
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by Drakim 12y ago
Yeah, I see it too. Very annoying.
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by Drakim 12y ago
Wikipedia gives a pretty good breakdown of the two terms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_tracing_(graphics) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_casting
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by Drakim 12y ago
I've started doing WebGL some weeks back, and although it was complete voodoo to me at first, things "clicked" for me by simply reading up a lot about what all the terms means and how they work together.
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by Drakim 12y ago
If Netflix just started taking money from German customers while providing them with a terrible service, we would be angry at that. It makes sense that they might have to get local servers, or at least test the waters before opening the flo
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by Drakim 12y ago
Removing the ad from the DOM might cause JavaScript errors that fudges up the site. By making the element invisible it's still "there".
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by Drakim 12y ago
Maybe irrelevant today, but maybe not irrelevant tomorrow. JavaScript is what the web "runs on", and if Firefox might in the future provide the fastest way to run JavaScript. Obviously for most cases that isn't going to be th
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by Drakim 12y ago
I don't see why it's not a fair comparison? V8 doesn't have any specific optimizations for asm.js, opting instead to focus on optimizing JavaScript as a whole (which asm.js also benefits from). That's their choice, and t
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by Drakim 13y ago
I keep reaching the conclusion that frameworks are evil and libraries are awesome. Frameworks promise to organize your code and keep things structured, but the inherent verbose nature of JS frameworks ends up harming more than the structure
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by Drakim 13y ago
I would be careful in using the terminology "JavaScript-free". What you mean by that is obviously that the user of the library doesn't need to write JavaScript to use your library. But when it comes to web design, here is act
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by Drakim 13y ago
On the flipside, imagine US companies licensing necessary patents (such as those for colored shapes or round buttons) from foreign companies that are made extremely expensive because the licensing is heavily taxed and full of fees by foreig
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by Drakim 13y ago
People who are opposed to homosexuality and gay marriage can simply not be homosexual and not get a gay marriage. They can literally throw their hands up in the air and say "I don't want any part of this topic" and go on with
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by Drakim 13y ago
If a resource fails to load, do you not care about that also?
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by Drakim 13y ago
Neither Google nor Microsoft has outright hurt me with their privacy policies in any way I can personally detect. When it comes to this discussion, for me it's a matter of principles. The principles are being equally violated here, it
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by Drakim 13y ago
It needs to be stressed that they did not just check the Hotmail of the leaker, but also the Hotmail the one the leaker emailed. So for my Hotmail account to be opened and read by Microsoft's personnel without a warrant, all I need to
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by Drakim 13y ago
Your summary is missing the most vital part of the puzzle, after the leak happened Microsoft invaded the hotmail account of the journalist who received the info, not the leaker.
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by Drakim 13y ago
I don't know, but Microsoft made a big deal out of saying they were better than Google with their "Scroogled" campaign.
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by Drakim 13y ago
But the enemy here isn't necessarily the console, it's the social attack against the console. Making it harder for the user to screw himself over is a worthwhile endeavor, and not merely "security by obscurity".
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by Drakim 13y ago
A very nifty trick! But it requires that the value is hardcoded inside the function. If it was given to an unreachable scope by some async action (like an ajax request) this trick wouldn't work. One could possibly also wrap the functio
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by Drakim 13y ago
Not necessarily, because you can limit how certain values can be accessed due to your scope. For JavaScript, if a key is saved in a variable inside an anonymous function, it's inaccessible for somebody who has a console that sits at th
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by Drakim 13y ago
Sure, that's another case entirely, and I wouldn't mark that as spam. I was referring only to the cases where you sign up for X and you get newsletters and whatnot that's not really related to your use of X.

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