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by Nginx487 5y ago
And "I have nothing to hide!" type comments, from few voyeurists.
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by Nginx487 5y ago
"Deeply concerned" (c)
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by Nginx487 5y ago
I gave up battling with half-baked GPU drivers, buggy desktop environments, zero backward compatibility in 2012, when I switched from Linux to Mac, and all my problems vanished at once. Remarkably, MacOS is POSIX-compliant, so basically a w
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by Nginx487 5y ago
Not to talk about a bunch of virtual machines, especially if virtual machines is what you develop.
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by Nginx487 5y ago
EPAM culture of working with authoritarian and totalitarian states pays back
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by Nginx487 5y ago
Russia is on the way to turn into North Korea, they will block YouTube sooner or later.
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by Nginx487 5y ago
RT is the synonym of misinformation
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by Nginx487 5y ago
When you work for fascist regime, don't be surprised being swallowed by it one nice morning.
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by Nginx487 5y ago
$17278 inflation-adjusted, compared to 1975 (not sure what year this ad was published) https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
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by Nginx487 5y ago
I can easily name several usecases, when increased code size leads to better performance (compile-time evaluation, architecture-specific optimizations)
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by Nginx487 5y ago
There are plenty of people who choose to work from office, around 20% of total staff of major software companies as far as I remember. I worked from home about 5 years (remote-only company), long before COVID, and I strongly disliked it. I&
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by Nginx487 5y ago
For discussing his article and disproving his claims.
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by Nginx487 5y ago
If you don't like it, you can use Protonmail instead of Gmail, and Mega instead of Google Drive, and still being able use Android device. But I totally understand frustration of users, whose smartphone suddenly turned into spyware.
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by Nginx487 5y ago
So we should sit still and wait while CCTV in every room would be a normal preventive measure against child abuse? No thanks, we will tear down this initiative, and will keep doing that in future. However, you can keep sending your private
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by Nginx487 5y ago
Don't see any difference. In both cases your private property forcibly accessed without any reason to suspect you, but rather out of preventive reasons.
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by Nginx487 5y ago
You can volunteer installing CCTV in all your rooms, including toilet, and regularly send the footage to the police station. However, let us, normal people, to be excluded from this dystopian madness.
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by Nginx487 5y ago
Brave is well-know unethical crypto-enterprise, practicing totally scammer techniques, which seems twice as absurd given their fake "pro-privacy" image. For me, nothing could save their reputation anymore. https://www.
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The comprehensive catalog of C++ books(github.com)
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by Nginx487 5y ago
I would say, it's rather primitive than just simple language. Lack of absolutely necessary features like generics, not to tell about memory and thread unsafety by design. There's zero sense to start a new project in C in 2021
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by Nginx487 6y ago
Totalitarian regimes can't work with computers properly
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by Nginx487 6y ago
How it "doesn't have developers"? Who develop Windows itself and all products for Windows, aliens?
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by Nginx487 6y ago
I totally hate Facebook, never had an account and will never have. However, why the first media resource administrator of banned page reached, was Russian propagandist outlet Sputnik? Their style is disgusting Goebbels-style propaganda, coo
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by Nginx487 6y ago
Hate to see how easily monopolistic services like YouTube give up basic human rights, in order to please tyrants, who's in solo charge of accessing to the market, which YouTube does not want to lose. I witnessed multiple shutdowns of a
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by Nginx487 6y ago
Sad to say, but HN is also targeted by government-sponsored troll factories, at least from Russia and China. I can assume, they have "guidelines" to support "in a phony mode" anti-Western authoritarian and totalitarian r
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by Nginx487 6y ago
It is. Hope, after new administration takes office, "hell sanctions" package would be approved, as well as closing Russian embassies and increasing military pressure to its borders. Sanctions already work, and Russian regime does
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by Nginx487 6y ago
Chinese (Russian, Venezuelan) constitution does not worth paper it has been printed on. Authoritarian regime has any tools to override any statement of constitution, and face no consequences. Rights are for party bosses, responsibilities fo
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by Nginx487 6y ago
Needless to say, the code itself should be beautiful.
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by Nginx487 6y ago
Anti-stalling software system was an artificial patch of an outdated planer, which could not cope with changes in aerodynamics with new engines. Boeing basically made a terribly unsafe plane and put a watchdog to prevent it from crashing to
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by Nginx487 6y ago
Study in countries where it's free. Concept of paying for the education seems crazy to me, if you have brain, you won't spend for your education a cent. I have two master degrees, graduated in different countries and never knew w
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by Nginx487 6y ago
"Git submodule". Did not even read further, author does not have an idea how to manage VCS

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