Jyaif

72 ms·

841.
by Jyaif 8y ago
"As we all know, connections to phone lines are illegal unless made through a data coupler supplied by TPC (The Phone Company)" Ah!
842.
by Jyaif 8y ago
My personal experience: I got 2 airports express for my parents. Both of them died within a year (permanent orange LED meaning the circuit was fried). Now they are on Google Wifi, and so far it works.
843.
by Jyaif 8y ago
The same thing could be said about wikipedia btw: In 2018 they received 104 million dollars (of which 2.3 went to pay for the servers), so if they wanted, they could actually get 100 million worth of content.
844.
by Jyaif 8y ago
I remember when I was a kid being quite proud of myself when I figured why there where 6 wheels on some shopping trolleys, so they've existed for at least 20 years. At best they re-invented the thing, but they certainly did not invente
845.
by Jyaif 8y ago
Closed source + anonymous source = recipe for malware. I recommend running this in a sandbox of some kind.
846.
by Jyaif 8y ago
Where did you get such a deal?
847.
by Jyaif 8y ago
What the... how can converting a svn repo to a git repo take that much memory? Can't you go through the svn commits one by one, and each time create a matching git commit??
848.
by Jyaif 8y ago
Robbers and burglers basically have immunity now because the police is busy with... I'm not sure what.
849.
by Jyaif 8y ago
If Knuth worked on a large code base (e.g. Windows), I'm sure he'd have the exact same workflow.
850.
by Jyaif 8y ago
MS could easily shell the bill, but there's 0 reason for them to do that; by leveraging Chromium they get 500 millions USD worth of development for free every year.
851.
by Jyaif 8y ago
"people who lose trust in one area of society should face restrictions in other areas." Sounds very reasonable to me.
852.
by Jyaif 8y ago
Find me a drone that flies from SF to Paris while going into space and I'll gladly agree that this product is useless.
853.
by Jyaif 8y ago
This is indeed weird; a 4 letter domain name that also happens to be an english word is worth a couple millions.
854.
by Jyaif 8y ago
How about not cutting out a key part of the sentence? "in one of the worse civil unrest ever seen in France"
855.
by Jyaif 8y ago
That's a rehash of the argument against the existence of proprietary tech (and patents). It also has the same limitations: If there's no competitive advantage to having proprietary data, then what's the point of developing th
856.
by Jyaif 8y ago
Planes require much more engineering to deal with than quadcopters, but they are way more efficient, and thus the right long term solution.
857.
by Jyaif 8y ago
Unless MS wants to work on the browser secretly for years (the reason for the Webkit fork) or Google refuses many contributions from MS (the reason for the Blink fork), there's no need for a fork.
858.
by Jyaif 8y ago
“In terms of sexiness, compilers are pretty much as boring as it gets,” That bit surprised me. For me it doesn't get much sexier than compilers.
859.
by Jyaif 8y ago
> Interesting that has not been Europe's solution so far Not all immigration is of equivalent "quality". The worsening IQ test results in europe is often credited to the african immigration. On the other end of the spectru
860.
by Jyaif 8y ago
You'd never see `v.resize(10, 42);` because 10 and 42 would be in self-documenting variables, e.g. ``` int kDefaultValue = 42; size_type kExpectedSize = 10; v.resize(kExpectedSize, kDefaultValue); ```
861.
by Jyaif 8y ago
If I release a GPL project, everybody that wants to commercialize something based on it needs to make it open source... except me? What happens if a 3rd party contributes to the project? Can I still commercialize closed-source versions of m
862.
by Jyaif 8y ago
Whether you like it or not, the fee is 0%. Regarding the other costs: > What about the overhead of hosting the site? Hosting a static bag of bytes (e.g. a mobile app) costs nearly nothing. Just the cost of apple developer program (99$&
863.
by Jyaif 8y ago
Like you said, your comparison is worthless. A better comparison is the web, where the fee is 0%.
864.
by Jyaif 8y ago
By that measure, FB is one of the biggest cloud provider in the world. That would be incredibly misleading. Do you have a source?
865.
by Jyaif 8y ago
The real benefit is that we'll use the web less because it's such a pain in the ass now.
866.
by Jyaif 8y ago
"making my web site less usable is the only way I can find to stop the Google from indexing infinite trees of it's own creation" So apparently not.
867.
by Jyaif 8y ago
GWT is 12 years old, Android is 10 years old, Go is 9 years old, Dart is 7 years old. I'd say their client platforms are OK.
868.
by Jyaif 8y ago
And how is this different from any society?
869.
by Jyaif 8y ago
Not if the output of the backdoor is encrypted.
870.
by Jyaif 8y ago
What annoys me the most is that they have the right ideas (Waves, Helpouts), but they lack conviction. The most ridicoulous example is when they introduced wireless charging, then removed it, and then added it back when Apple finally added

More ›