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by Udo 10y ago
> I still believe that macOS is the best machine for me to develop on. I'm inclined to agree, but we're starting to hit the zone where I feel I'm using a tool of questionable qualities because of lock-in and the absence
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by Udo 10y ago
> PiP looks great. For me at least, there is no way to look at that screenshot of a space-wasting yet partially occluded fullscreen app with an awkwardly-placed naked video component on top of it and say it "looks great". &g
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by Udo 10y ago
> wouldn't you expect the design to merge It depends on what we're talking about. I would expect UI design elements to merge where the capabilities of devices are converging. That's not happening from the desktop since A
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by Udo 10y ago
> macOS is not becoming iOS ever I wish I had your confidence, but even if they keep the Mac line and name, the only UI improvements they have been championing lately are tablet-mode activities.
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by Udo 10y ago
I've been a Mac-only user for about 15 years now, and I'm teetering on the edge of abandoning the platform. A lot of technically-minded people I know are considering the same. The hardware is outdated, underperforming, and overpri
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by Udo 10y ago
I sort-of agree with you about user convenience, that's what I meant by discoverability issues, but I'm a bit more optimistic that it could be overcome. Absolutely, when people go and have fun coding 70% of FB until the software i
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by Udo 10y ago
As someone who in the past tried very unsuccessfully to get a distributed social network off the ground, I'm frustrated by the utter lack of interest in the silo dilemma. Even when a high profile case of someone getting screwed makes i
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by Udo 10y ago
It doesn't really matter whether Google was "in the right" or what the backstory of this case is. It's also not a question of bringing this to the attention of the "right" people at Google. This is an issue inh
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by Udo 10y ago
They're certainly sufficient but not necessary. There's no reason why single celled organisms couldn't do that. Maybe not at 20% but close.
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by Udo 10y ago
> 200 million years before the first known multicellular fossils This is a weird angle for the article to pursue. We have a monocellular fossil record that dates back 4.1 billion years, and I don't think anyone is proposing that w
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by Udo 10y ago
> But anyway, I think you missed where I wrote, "treating the output as objects would be an improvement" We already agree about that part (at least sort of). Instead I wanted to address the part where you declared my example
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by Udo 10y ago
I was afraid someone might come in and declare this a non-problem, or school me on the example I chose in an effort to invalidate my overall argument. For every example I could conceivably come up with, there is a locally optimal arcane way
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by Udo 10y ago
I'm not a Windows user, so I'm not familiar with it. And "just move to Windows" isn't exactly the kind of solution I was hoping for, if I'm being honest. Some day someone in the vast Linux/Unix ecosystem h
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by Udo 10y ago
My primary complaint about Unix CLI is that the commands try to do two disparate things simultaneously: outputting text for humans and generating data for consumption by other commands. In a properly designed command line ecosystem (it&#x27
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by Udo 10y ago
> Why not only hire people 10x better than everyone else? It’s such a simple idea, it seems deceptively obvious. This trope is unadulterated bullshit. The whole article sometimes seems to border on a parody of the worst premises and sh
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by Udo 10y ago
Germany doesn't have a command economy either, it's a combination of government incentives, private enterprise, and (semi-)public utilities all going in this direction.
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by Udo 10y ago
I assume it's a habit to make sure you communicate to the type checker: "I expect this expression to be boolean".
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by Udo 10y ago
There is no need for sarcasm. Of course nobody knows the terms already, but I'm talking about the rhetoric that was used to promote the Brexit. And "getting the foreigners out of the country" was a big one. All signs point to
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by Udo 10y ago
> Indeed, every time Trump or Le Pen are dismissed as "crazies", our resolve only gets stronger. Of course, that's entirely expected. I doubt this is a criticism meant to weaken your resolve. Like most political posturin
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by Udo 10y ago
> How is this on Hacker News? It's not very different from dossiers that (intelligence, financial, political) analysts write about different scenarios all the time. While the text does contain more emotional imagery and blog-style
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by Udo 10y ago
If you're originally from Germany, you will be forced to leave the UK anyway. In a sense, getting people like you out of the country was a big part of the whole Brexit proposition...
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by Udo 10y ago
It seems that's a very expensive exercise with very predictable results. And "human control" is a very malleable concept, too. Obviously, there are humans in control of Ethereum somewhere, and obviously the DAO was set up by
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by Udo 10y ago
As an outsider, this is stunning to me: why isn't there a contract revokation mechanism? Considering these things are programmable, it could be something as simple as a killswitch hash sitting in a lawyer's safe somewhere, right?
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by Udo 10y ago
Does the child DAO inherit the parent's code? If so, the money could be drained right back.
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by Udo 10y ago
As far as attacks go, this seems to fall more within the "for the lolz" category, than an actual attempt to draw money. If they had kept it reasonable, say a couple of hundred thousands worth, this would probably have gone unnotic
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Microsoft acknowledges permission problems with MS16-072 patches(infoworld.com)
25 points by Udo 10y ago|9 comments
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by Udo 10y ago
4Coder might be worth checking out: https://4coder.handmade.network/ It's still relatively early in development, but it's both no-nonsense minimalistic and crazy customizable.
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by Udo 10y ago
It's true that so far every step of the way we have found environmental factors that are generally in favor of life. However, there are still many factors we don't know anything about. Somewhere between the possibility of one of t
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by Udo 10y ago
Seconded. All my internet traffic has been going through NordVPN for more than a year now. In the beginning, servers would go down often and you'd need to try a couple of server until you found one that actually worked. But that's
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by Udo 10y ago
Yes, it's anecdotal, that's why I had prefaced the entire paragraph with a huge disclaimer . But I see how complementing a string of google-able facts with some personal impressions and experiences might be perceived as gratuitou

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