Xelbair

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by Xelbair 4y ago
I found that it is very useful in spatial domain. For example you have a list of points that define a linestring, and have to make sure that no two points are further apart than some value. It's really simple to iterate over linked li
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by Xelbair 4y ago
and in any sane legal system you are innocent until proven guilty.
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by Xelbair 4y ago
As someone who worked with Oracle DB for a quite some time. Stay as far away form it as possible. It only exists to milk already 'captured' companies, and all competitive niche advantages it had were slowly taken over by postgres.
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by Xelbair 4y ago
As i said, as previous poster was generalizing, so was I. Microsoft, at least with vscode, is open about that - but what about other products?
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by Xelbair 4y ago
>not adding malware >adding telemetry Pick one and only one. Any form of telemetry should be clearly documented - what it does gather, when, and in what events, and disabled by default(opt-in model). And module gathering it should be
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by Xelbair 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act this is what happens when major profitable works hit the public domain deadline.
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by Xelbair 4y ago
>anyone with a brain knew the cards weren’t going to gamers. you answered this yourself.
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by Xelbair 4y ago
IF you go that far then you can even call fora a social media sites. the social media in context were obviously sites akin to twitter, facebook and others. but alas HN incorrecting strikes again.
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by Xelbair 4y ago
I don't use social media, never did, nor watch TV - and i have the same outlook - because that's what's happening. And i had the same outlook when i was a teen too. Increased divide between rich and poor, lack of middle class
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by Xelbair 4y ago
Over here they are mostly bought up as an investment, usually before they are even officially sold.
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by Xelbair 5y ago
yes it is. I come from country where intellectual property was treated as a western joke. Children younger than 10 learned how to pirate - by themselves, without knowing even English. A lot of people still can do that, and it's quite
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by Xelbair 5y ago
same.
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by Xelbair 5y ago
it was a too big mental shortcut, i meant bad APIs. i'll update parent post. EDIT: oh well too late to do that.
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by Xelbair 5y ago
maybe they are able to create good docs, and good guidelines, because they burned themselves in the past creating godawful ones?
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by Xelbair 5y ago
It's not the counting that's hard. it's that others will merge in front of you constantly.
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by Xelbair 5y ago
>I personally prefer a company where everyone's on site. I want to be able to quickly resolve any issues in person, not over voice call or slack, and I think that an environment where someone can tap me on the shoulder when they nee
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by Xelbair 5y ago
Did you really play those games? Because what you say sounds like a second hand opinion. You do need to pay attention to bosses patterns, but overall mechanics aren't demanding.. and most importantly - they are reused. You have a dodge
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by Xelbair 5y ago
>But the IKEA hate seems mostly based on snobbery and/or brand awareness. what? Ikea was always the cheap brand, not expensive one, nor premium one - there is no snobbery attached to it.
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by Xelbair 5y ago
Yes, because they do use cookies in a way that requires them to inform you about it. It's clean, readable, and devoid of dark patterns that are so prevalent. >Third-party cookies >Some of our pages display content hosted by contr
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by Xelbair 5y ago
It was also around that time that i think the Blizzard's internal policy changed. Before to that they were creating a game, and balancing it in vacuum. Afterwards they went for designing metagame - picking how player should play. It wa
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by Xelbair 5y ago
Comply with the law, don't gather unnecessary PII and poof - no need for popups.
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by Xelbair 5y ago
if any of frontend devs messes with scrolling know this: if your page does it - I'm leaving. no exceptions.
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by Xelbair 5y ago
or USA could just.. stop having such ridiculous law in place.
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by Xelbair 5y ago
I don't care for underlying motives as long as the results are aligned with mine. The end result is that landscape is better for the customer. I seriously do not get why people think that companies do 'good' for any other rea
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by Xelbair 5y ago
And i as an user utterly do not care about their roadmap. I care about my experience. That still does not excuse them for requiring access to those data sources, as they can still degrade service when user does not give consent. Also there
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by Xelbair 5y ago
But to solve that we could for example regulate companies instead of creating sham feelgood campaigns about reducing 'personal footprint'.
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by Xelbair 5y ago
>So you are well versed in multipath reflection and why it makes unassisted GPS in urban environments with tall buildings close together almost completely unusable? Yes, a common problem even for static measurements. Yet it worked with &
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by Xelbair 5y ago
No need for that if they just complied with GDPR. Consent must be given consciously in informed way - therefore NOTHING can be pre-checked by any dialog to make it comply with GDPR. They just need to somehow ban dark patters, or standardize
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by Xelbair 5y ago
>But it is essential. Google (and Apple) maps provide lane specific navigation directions, which are really only possible with assisted GPS. In theory GPS has the accuracy, but remember you are in a big metal box filled with electrical w
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by Xelbair 5y ago
And one of use cases is writing queries which it helps immensely. Best of both worlds would allow both orders. Just automatically transform the query to the usual form after it's execution.

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